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HOW LIKE THE SEA.
How like the sea, tho myriad-minded deop, sea,
Is this large love of ours; so vast, so
80 full of mysteries! It, too, eau keep
Its secrots, lilcs tho oceau; and Is free,
Free as the boundless main. Now It may ho
Calm like the brow of some sweet child
. asleep, and leap
Again its seething billows surge
Apd break In fulness of their eostasy.
Each wave so like tho wave which came
before* the same! Imperative,
Yet never two
And then persuasive us the cooing dove;
Enoroaohlng ever on the yielding shore—
Heady to take, yet readier still to give—
How like the myrlad-mindod Wheeler sea is Wlleox. love!
—Ella
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Afl ILLOGICAL GHOST.
By V. H
CLEVER little
ghost story I had
'll] been reading to
Nell opened the
way for a homily
on ghosts which I
t. had lately thought
out, and I used
I, my opportunity
eagerly. We had
recently returned
from the ladies’
seminary, where I
was a teacher and
she a student, and
were sitting behind the vines which
screened the piazza of our village
home, paring apples. * It was time to
retire, but this fact stimulated, rather
than otherwise, a desire to display
my arguments and to enjoy the some
what restful triumph in which I was
confident they would result .
“To begin with,” I ojmned, “a
ghost from its very nature can never
bo apprehended by the senses so
called. It is of necessity a spiritual,
immaterial, incorporeal existence, if it
is anything. Clothe it with the merest
drapery of matter, so as to render it
vieiblo to the eye, and your ghost
ceases its existence, or rather bogius
an existence as a material object. Tho
subtlest luminous gas that the chemist
can geuerate, even if it were coaxed
into the semblance of some departed
friend, would not be a ghost, but a
material entity. The term wo are
using denotes a breath, which, strictly
speaking, no man ever saw. The
synonym apparation aids us to ob
serve also that ghosts are more ap
pearances or seemings born of the
imagination! We form our idea of
what a ghost should be and, lo, the
thing appears, fresh from our mental
workshoir and exactly as we made it.
People are always conjuring up
spirits, for instance, that are deathly
pale; but there’s no earthly reason
why these shouldn’t sometimes appear
in their gin blossoms and purple
noses.”
“It must be so, Plato; thou reason
est well,” iuterjected Nell rather pro
vokingly.
“Even if by some incredible feat of
magio a poor stalking ghost were
made visible to us,” I continued,
“wliy should we fear him? He
couldn’t do us the slightest harm.
We ought to pity him, condole with
him, warm him up, if necessary, and
not go off into hysterics like fools.
Why, did yon ever think that a thou
sand ghosts wouldn’t weigh us much
as tho tail of that little starved mouse
we caught the other day with a hand
kerchief? They wouldn’t turn the
scale, indeed, if placed opposite the
wing of this saucy June bug flying
about my head. Afraid of such things!
Fie on the thought!”
“How charming is divine phil
osophy,” quoted Nell, quite inappro
priately, as I thought, again indulging
her mania for using quotations.
“How unfortunate it is,” I went on
to say, “that no one has ever suc
ceeded in capturing a ghost. Once
get one imprisoned under a glass re
ceiver and your fortune would bo as
sured instanter. What a priceless
curiosity for a showman! Hundreds
would give their last cent to see it and
be enabled to say during the rest of
their lives: ‘I’ve always told you so.’
Talk about Egyptian mummies! There
are people who would go a thousand
miles to see a genuine spectre who
wouldn't cross a street to see the whole
eighteen Ptolemys of Egytian history
boxed up as mummies. Iu the way
of such a spirit exhibition, however,
there’s one obstiuate barrier. The
man who invented ghosts made them
of such flimsy material that they go j
where they will iu spite of men’s de
vices. If, therefore, a sprite should
dissent, it would be utterly useless to
bottle him, for he wouldn’t stay bot
led while you were corking him up.”
“It harrows me with fear and won
der,” Nell recited, but I disdained to
notice the interruption.
“For once, it is true, science is com
pletely battled. If the microscope or
test-tube could bo applied the matter
■would soon be cleared up. But the
instant these discover something—
presto! there’s no ghost. A spectre ter
rifies a whole oity, but when an in
quisitive bullet finally finds the objoct
of terror, behold! it’s no spectre. If
you find it yon lose it; if you have it
yon haven’t it; if you see it you don’t
see it at all, since you see something
else. Iu such a case there’s no refuge
but in common sense and cold logic.”
“Logic is logic, that’s all I say,”
chimed in my exasperating listener.
“Once more, if it were possible for
spirits to revisit the living in visible
form they would roam about the world
in legions. There’s old Tom Bottles
of the gin-mill—he’d have at his heels
a small army of bloated and blear-eyed
sots long gone hence and starved
widows and frozen children. Many a
man, too, who now holds his head ’way
above his neighbors would be haunted j
day and night by the wretches he has ;
ruined. Yes, it is a veritable disgrace j
to an age like ours to cherish this
moldy relic of superstition and ignor- 1
aace! Away with ghosts, say I."
This time Nell was not prepared wiih
a quotation. Her head was resting on
tho back of her chair and she was fast
asleep. Taking this to be proof that
I had set her mind at rest upon the
subject considered, I roused her and
we entered the house. Father’s busi
ness had called him from home, and
mother, who was a semi-invalid, had
gone to visit friends, prepared to spend
the night. Nell and I thought noth
ing of being left alone, as this Lad
often happened before, and after hav
ing closed the house and retired were
soon asleep. Theie was no reason for
fear, since onr neighbors could easily
be summoned in any emergency. It
is scarcely necessary to add that the
night passed quickly. it
When I opened my eyes was
early dawn. For a time I lay awake,
listening to the calls of the birds.
Then there gradually Btole over thought me a I
feeling of nervousness. I
detected movements in the adjoining
room. Turning my head I confronted
Nell’s staring eyes.
“What is it?” she whispered faintly.
Before I could answer there came a
light thump against the wall, then an
other and another.
“It’s mother’s ghost," said Nell,
and at tho same instant we bounded
from the bed.
Thump, thump, thump! came again
iu somewhat quicker and louder
strokes. Out of the room we flew and
down the stairs, pausing not until we
were out of . doors, , and ... then only . long ,
enough to catch a glimpse of a white
robed figure at an upper window.
Our flight down the street was re
SSS ‘STr.fuS’e We
refuge in tho first door that opened
and explained our conduct as soon as
we could recover sufficient breath. A
crowd soon collected, but when the
cause of our terror was understood not
one of those present was willing to
hazard his life iuthe home from which
we liad fled.
While the council was in progress a
frail figure clad in black was seen to
issue slowly from tho house. It en
tered the street aud moved straight
toward the gathering. Signs of un
easiness were apparent at first, but
these vanished quickly when the sup
posed apparition drew nigh.
“What is the matter with my run
away girls?” it asked in our mother’s
familiar voice. “What has possessed
them that they behave in this fash
ion?”
There was an outburst of lafigliter
and the matter was quickly under
stood. Mother had concluded to re
turn home the night before, and had
entered quietly just after we retired,
so as not to disturb us. In the'morn
ing she had rapped upon tlie wall to
awaken us, as she often did, and be
ing astonished by our inexcusable
flight, had gone to a front window to
observe its outcome.
Nell and I borrowed clothing and
went borne thoroughly disgraced. By
breakfast time our ghost story was
told from one end of tho village to the
other. It was weeks before interest
in the affair subsided, and we shall
never bear the last of it, probably,
unleas we migrate. “Logic is logic,”
is now Nell’s favorite quotation when
I attempt an argument. I still de
clarc, however, that there never was,
is or shall be such a thing as a ghost,
oven if I did for once forget the fact
and throw away a rare chance to ex
liibit the courage of my convictions.
Cooinjj to Their Ejyjjg.
The stormy petrels nest just above
the Atlantic surge on the islets near
Iona and the Hebrides. There above
the rock on certain islands in a black,
buttery soil, in which they burrow
like little winged mice, and in a nest
of spa pink lay one white egg. As
this desertion of the regions of light
and air by birds is something outside
the natmal course of their lives, it
lead to vaiious odd and unexpected
socual complications and domestic
problems. Among the latter is a seri
ous one, the difficulty ot keeping the
underground house clean or moderate
^cooh It is usually very hot. Sand
martins for instance, do not attempt
to ventilate their burrows as rabbits
aud rats do, neither do the kingfish
ers nor the stormy petrels when they
make their own burrows, and do not
creep into chinks between piles of
stones or rocks. Evideuoe of the
high temperature of this “hot cham
ber” where the young petrels are
hatched is seen in a very pretty popu
lir belief in the Outer Hebrides.
The people say that they hatch
their eggs, not by sitting on them, but
by sitting near thorn, at a distance of
six inches, between them and the
opening of the burrow'. Then the ,
petrels turn their heads toward the
eggs and “coo” at them day and
night, and so “hatch them with their
song.” This, which sounds like a
fable of the East Atlantic Islands, has
really a basis in fact. Mr. Davenport
Graham says that the aocount is "very
though I never heard the
cooing uoise by day, I often did in the
It is rather a purring noise.
When its nest is opened up the bird is
usually found cowering a few inches
away from its egg.” This hot and
atmosphere may aid tho hatch
of the eggs; but there is no doubt
thiK it brings into being other and
very undesirable forms of life. The
and burrows of sand martins
full of most unpleasant insects,
and those of the kingfisher are nearly
as bad.—The London Spectator.
Where He Found it.
He lost his collar button; he hunted
high and low. He oouldn’t find it no
how, aud so he let it go. He made
some frantic gestures, but that did
not avail; he had to wear his collar :
just fastened with a nail. But when
be went to breakfast, he gave his fork !
a dash, and there the pesky button
was nestling iu the hash.—Yonkers |
Statesman. j
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BARTOW MAN POSES JUST NOW AS
A PESSIMIST.
j
j PRESENT SITUATION TROUBLES HIM
j
Though it 1. Springtime, william Sees No
Cheer In Genial Sunshine and
Smiling Nature.
Bonus melior optimus—good, better,
best. Malus pejor pessimus—bad
worse, worst. I remember that much
Latin. Some days we are optimists
and look on the bright side and think
the war is about over and the milleni
um wiil begin with the new century.
Then again the news is bad,we are ob
liged to be pessimists until it changes.
I am a pessimist right now, for every
thing looks dark and gloomy abroad,
though the genial spring sun is shin
ing and everything is lovely at home.
What is all this about one hundred
thousand more men wanted to subdue
the Filipinos and our soldiers saying
they did not enlist to fight ne
groes; and what about the Samoans
ambushing our boys and cutting their
heads off and parading them through
, 1 the streets; and what about a rupture
. h Germ / while onr navy is all
f] ove tlieroin those far distant
Germany is fighting mad
better O p p0rtU nity does she want
: * .......« ”7 us
right now, and how do we know that
! Johnny Bull would help us?
j And then again there seems to be
110 real peace in Porto Rico, for one
of their late papers says, “We observe
; with sorrow' that tlie United States
j troops are a mass of base and shameless
people, a drunken multitude who daily
buffet and maltreat our suffering peo
ple. They rob our servants as they
gotomarket; theyenter our restaurants
and take what they want by force and
then break up the crockery; they rob
tlie peddlers and refuse to pay the
; cabmen and steal everything in sight;
they insult our women like savages,
and to complain to headquarters is
like barking at the moon, If this is
our destiny, would that we could sink
this fair island in the depths of-the
! sea.”
Another paper says: “Our people
are daily insulted by these ruffians,
and we have not the patience of Job
1 nor the meekness of the Alan of Calva
I ry ating. to bear these things without retali
j “We suffered
Another paper says:
much under the Spaniards, but our
new liberators are committing greater
offenses and oppressions than did our
former masters, and we cannot submit
quietly to this new tyranny. Never
beforehas there occurred in Ponce such
outrages as are happening today.
There is safety nowhere, and onr la
dies are at all times exposed to the in
suits of drunken soldiers,
How is that for the American sol
dier; the brave patriots whom we laud
in song and story? Nor do we have to
go to Porto Rico to find them. Only
a few days ago a New Jersey regiment
was mustered out at Greenville, S. C.,
J and immediately started their devil
ment, and their journey home was a
reign of terror. A negro writes to me
and wants to know wherein the colored
troops were worse than the whites.
YVhat is the matter with this gener
ation, white and black? What is the
matter at Pana, aud why can’t the two
raC es work together in peace? Wlmt
is the matter at Weatliersford, Conn.,
al j d yby won’t the white people there
let the negroes build a home for old
an invalid negroes? Carrie Steele, a
colored Good Samaritan, projected a
similar home for negro orphans in At
lanta and the whites bade her god
speed and subscribed liberally and
helped her, nnd it is doing good work
that is commended by all our people,
Have the yankees forgotten what they
fough t for, or £ pretended to fight us
fcr? And besi( 8 aU these things there
ftre more fires an(1 awful casualties and
drownings and suicides and murders
than ever before known in so brief a
time, and it is enough to make a hope
ful man almost despair of peace and
good will ever returning to this afflict
ed land. This is why I am a pessi
mist today, but I live in hope and
maybe I will be an optimist next week.
Hope is a blessed thing. The first
composition I ever heard read in
school was written by a tall, freckled
face, red-lieaded girl and it was on
“Hope,’ and the first sentence was:
“Hope is a good invention, and if it
were not for hope man would die and
woman would give up the ship. - Not
only so, but also,’ said Jim Alexau
der, and George Lester whispered a
part of his speech:
“Hope for a season hade the world fare
well,
And Freedom shrieked when Kosciusko
fell.”
Aud Reunely Butler quoted a line
from his speech: “Hope springs eter
ual in the human breast.” And I bad
to lift up my voice, of course, as I re
peated:
“ ’Twas ever thus in childhood’s hour,
“I've seen inv fondest hopes decay.”
We smart boys had power of fun
over that red-headed composition, and
it is still a proverb among us that
“Hope is a good invention. And so
' ve n °t utterly despair but .ive in
hope. I "worked m the garden yester
f° r 't w - as a blessed day. I have
been sick. My l ack ached and my
left kidney was on a boom and my legs
ou « strike and wouldn’t carry
one with alacrity, but work in the
garden got me all in a sweat of pers
piration and I feel better. My wife
said I would, and she knows. She
has got but two laws for me. One is,
I must work in the garden if I am
well, and the other is I must be well.
The war doesn’t bother me while I am
at work, but I hoe and dig and ponder
while I dig. I ant perplexed right
now about a very mysterious forc6 of
nature that I do not understand. It
is the lifting power of little tender
plants, have understood how it is
I never patch
that the pea or a bean or a potato cloddy
or an okra seed can crack 1he
ground and lift the clods and part
them and find a wav upward. These
little tender shoots that will bend and
break at the touch can lift a weight of
pounds, and I am satisfied that there
is some mysterious force that helps
them do—some electric influence that
emanates from the plant—some dyna
mic power. What farmer has not
wondered that a shooting grain of
corn coil Id upheave and split asunder
a clod that he could hardly break with
his horny hands. Then, again, what
a preservative is our mother earth.
How safely it keeps the roots of vege
tation from frosts and freezes and zero
cold. We had sixty-six rose bushes,
all of choice varieties, and have taken
a world of comfort in their beautiful
flowers, but this last winter they were
all killed—killed dead to the ground,
and I cut them down and found no
sign of life. It made us all sad and I
wrote about it, and a good man, Mr. a
florist, of Cliarnbersburg, Pa.,
William B. Reed, read my letter, and
surprised me by sending sixty-six new
plants of the best varieties, and I
planted them carefully between tlie
dead ones and they are springing behold, up
beautifully, and now, lo and
the old ones are sending up strong and
vigorous shoots from near the surface
and most of them are above the budded
joints. So if all of them live and
grow, there will be a wilderness of
roses, and we can take onr choice. I
am ready to certify that Mr. Reed is a
great big-hearted man. of
And now Mr. R. K. Robertson,
Cbickamauga, has sent me 300 straw
berry plants. Lady Thompson and
Louise and Gandy varieties. All are
fine, and the Gandy are especially
wanted, for they are a very late variety
and bear bountifully after all other
kinds have passed away for the season.
I’ll bet he is a good man, too, and my
wife makes it a rule to believe that
everybody is good who is good to us.
So now let the war go on. It is none
of my doings. For a good while I was
in hopes that McKinley –Co., who let
slip the dogs of war for jmlitical pur
poses, would see their mistake and
call off tlie dogs, but most of the
preachers tell them that it is God’s
will and manifest destiny and the
doors to the heathen must be opened
and be kept open. And so we com
mon folks can’t do anything. I beard
preachers talk that way for war thirty
seven years ago and we thought they
had the Urim and Chumtnin in their
breeches pockets, but they dident.
One thing is certain, this war has done
the nation no good morally or finan
cially, and it has lowered our respect
for the argiy and for military affairs in
general, and army beef in particular.
When our hoys once get out of it they
will be apt to stay out and if we have
to send 100,000 more troops to fight
niggers in the Philippines they will
not go from this part of the country—
certain.
P. S.—In my last I did not say that
the Virginia editor was hypocritical.
No, I would not be so disrespectful. I
wrote very plainly that he was hyper
critical. Your typo changed it. —Bill
Arp in Atlanla Constitution.
MONTGOMERY BIMETALLIC CLUB.
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Annual Mcetine Held and Officers for En
suing: Year Elected.
The Montgomery County (Ala.) Bi
metallic Club held its annual meeting
Friday night and elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: Gordon
McDonald, president; John W. A.
Sanford, Jr., vice-president; A. M.
Moner, secretary and treasurer. It is
understood the president will appoint
Hon. Pat McGonley to the chairman
ship) of th e executive committ ee.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY. — 16
Groceries.
Roasted coffee, Arbuekle and Levering
$11.30. Lion $10.80. fess 50c per 100 Ih
cases. Green coffee choice 11c: fair 9c; prime
Ui @8}£c. Sugar standard granulated, New
York 5.56. New Orleans 5.56.
New Orleans New white 5}^c; do yellow 5%c.
Syrup, Orleans open kettle 25@40c.
mixed 12}^@20o: sugar house 28@35e.
Teas, hlack 35@65e; green 30@G0c.
llice, head 7}^c; choice <%–!<'.: Salt, dai
ry sacks $1.25: do This, bulk $2.00: 100 3s
$2.75; ice cream $1.25; common 65@70c.
Cheese, full cream 13c. Matches,
65s 45c; 200s $1.30(5)1.75: 300s $2.75. Soda,
boxes 6c. Crackers, soda 5@6}<fc: cream
6c:gingersnnps Gc. Candy, common stick
6c: fancy 12@13e. Oysters, F. \Y. $ 1.85@
$1.75; L. W. $1.10.
Flour, Grain and Meal.
Flour, all wheat first patent, $4.85: second
patent, $4.35; straight, $3.95; extra fancy
$3.85; fancy. $3.70; extra family, $3.00.
Corn, white. 50c: mixed. 49c. Oats, white
40c; mixed 39c: Texas rustproof 49c. Rye,
Georgia 85c. Hay No. 1 timothy large bales
80c: small bales 75c: No. 2 timothy
small hales 70c. Meal, plain 50c; bolted
45c. Wheat bran. large sacks 82c:
small sacks 82c. Shorts 05e. Stock meal:
85c. Cotton seed meal SOc per 100 lbs: hulks
$4.00 per ton. Peas stock 75<®80c per bushel:
common white $1.15(5)1.25: Lady $1.25@
1.50. Grits $2.90 per bbl; $1.40 per bag.
Country Produce.
Eggs 10@10>£e. Butter, Tennessee western cream
ery, 18@20c; lancy 18(5 20c.
choieel2J£c; Georgia 27j/@S0c: 10@12J^c. Live poul
try, chickens, hens spring chick
ens, large 25@85c: small l8@22j.5C;
Bucks, puddle, 22J^@25c: Peking 27J$'@
30e. Irish potatoes, $1.00@$1.10 per
bushel. Sweet potatoes, 75@90c
per bu. Honey, strained 6@7c: in
the comb 9@10o: Onions, $1.25@
$1.50 nee bu.: $3.25@3.50 per bbl. Cabbage,
Florida 5@6c lb. Beeswax 22J<f(5 25.
Bried fruit, apples 7@8c: peaches ll@i$J^c.
Provisions.
Clear ribs boxed sides SJ^c: clear sides
5fgC: ice-cured bellies $J- 2 'c. Sugar-cured
bams 9@llc: California fij^o: breakfast
bacon 10@12 ! fc. Lard, best quality l Jc ; sec
ond quality 6%: compound 5c. I
Cotton. 5#-16.
Market closed steady: middling
COLORED PROFESSOR SPOKE.
Booker Washington Talked of HI* Race’s
Future Before Patrla Club.
Booker T. Washington was the guest
of the Patria Club at its annual meet
ing at New Ydrk Friday night aud in
the course of an address said:
“Object lessons that shall bring the
southern white man into daily, visible
tangible contact with tlie benefits of
negro education will go further in the
solution of political problems than all
of the mere abstract argument and
theories than can be evolved from the
human brain. In proportion as the
negro learns to do something as well
or better than a white man he will find
his place in our economic and political
life, and his place, like that of every
being possessing real worth, will be
that of a man, for it is not our duty to
set metes and bounds upon the aspi
rations and ambitions of any individ
ual or race, but it is our duty to see
that the foundation is wisely and firm
ly laid. A race that plants itself in
the ownership of the soil, the indus
tries, the dramatic arts of a country, the
in intelligence and religion and in
confidence of the people among whom
it lives, is the race that will win, re
gardless of all temporary makeshifts,
obstacles and discouragements.
“We in this generation of the south
must lay the foundation for those that
are to come. I would not advocate
that the end of every negro’s educa
tion should be the ownership of prop
erly, skill in agriculture, mechanical
and industrial arts, but I would, with
all the emphasis of my soul, remind
my race over and over again that if
we of this generation lay the founda
tion principles well in these, our
children and children’s children will
find through them the surest way to
recognition and success in arts, letters
and statesmanship. Then will the
sacred story repeat itself. ‘The 1 ain
descended, the floods came and the
winds blew and it fell not, for it was
founded upon a rock. J >>
OLD APPOINTEES TO RETURN.
Secretary of State Decides That Former
Consuls Will Go to Spain.
The secretary of state has decided
to return to their posts in Spain the
United States consuls w'ho were
obliged to leave on account of the war.
Two of these officers—Consul H.W.
Bowen at Barcelona and Richard M.
Bartleman at Malaga—are now in
New, York. The third—J. Howell
Carroll, consul at Cadiz—is now at
Gibraltar. The department has de
termined that they shall all be retained
in the consular service, there being no
evidence of any personal ill feeling
incurred by them.
The sub-consular officers mostly re
mained in Spain throughout the war
and were undisturbed, some even con
tinuing to discharge r part of their
official duties. They will also be con
tinued in the service.
SCHLEY’S NEW DUTIES.
Rear Admiral Has Been Assigned To Na
val Examining: Board.
Rear Admiral W. S. Schley, who
has been on waiting orders since re
lieved of the command of the flyiug
squadron, was on Friday assigned to
duty as a member of the naval exam
ining board in Washington.
He received his commission as rear
admiral at the same time. The com
missions of the other officers recently
appointed to the grade of rear admiral
have also been forwarded to them.
COLOMBIA GIVEN LIMIT.
Must Fay Italy the Cerruti Debts With
in Three Months.
A semi-official note issued at Rome
Friday states that at the request of
the government of the Republic of
Colombia, Italy has decided to grant a
further delay of three months in car
rying out the conditions of her ulti
matum, at the same time insisting that
during such interval Colombia must
provide for the complete execution of
President Cleveland’s award by the
payment of the Cerruti debts.
TEXAS IS AFTER TRUSTS.
A Bill Similar to Arkansas Measure is In
troduced in legislature.
The anti-pool trust or corporation
trust bill was introduced in the Texas
senate Friday morning by Senator
Davidson.
The bill follows the Akansas anti
trust law closely and will undoubted
ly be passed by the present legislature.
The bill is considered the most dras
tic ever introduced into a Texas legis
lature, but coming at the time it does
it will receive the heartiest support.
PROCLAMATION BENEFICIAL.
President of Philippine Commission Sends
McKinley ft Message.
President McKinley received a dis
patch Thursday from Dr. Scburman,
president of the Philippine commis
sion, now at Manila.
The message says that tho proclam
ation recently issued has done great
good and that the Filipinos are visit
ing the commissioners every dny to
express their satisfaction and desire
to become citizens of this country.
The message also stated that the
Filipinos coming into Manila declare
that Aguinaldo’s government is tyran
nical and that many natives are de
serting from his standards each day.
COLYAR TRIAL WENT OYER.
Tennesseean Charged With Kipnaping
Arraigned in New York Court.
The examination of A. S. Colyar,
Jr., charged with attempt to kidnap
Nicholas A. Heckman, the principal
witness for the state in the case against
Roland B. Molineaux, was commenced
in police court in New York Friday
and adjourned until Monday without
any result having been reached. Magis
trate Sims heard the testimony.
GEORGIA STATE NEWS.
Lieutenant Frank Z. Curry, charged
with the murder of Private Leo Reed,
appeared before Judge Robert Falli
gant in fbe superior court at Savannah
Saturday for bail. After hearing all
the statements made by the defend
ant’s counsel, Judge Falligant decided
to permit the defendant to give bond
in the sum of $2,500.
The Kincaid Manufacturing Compa
ny at Griffin has just completed their
magnificent annex, which makes it
not only the largest towel factory in
the country, but one of the completest
mills, the machinery being the largest
ever brought south, and in {lie lan
guage of Superintendent A. G. Mar
tin, as complete as can be made. The
Griffin Mills Company has just begun
work on a new $100,000 annex that
will be completed by September, aud
it will nearly double the capacity of
that mill.
Saturday evening about 7 o’clock
Sheriff C. H. Talley, of DeKnlb coun
ty, was overpowered at the jail in De
tur by four prisoners who, after as
saulting him and taking away his pis
tol, made their escape. An attempt
was made to murder the sheriff, but
he managed to keep behind an iron
door, and the desperate criminals de
cided to let him alone while they got
away. ’Flanagan, the noted double
murderer, was in the prison at the
time and might have escaped, but did
not do so.
After being out twenty-one hours,
the jury at Dalton in the case of the
state vs. Will and Guilford Cannon,
charged with assault with intent to
murder on the person of John L. Tapp,
rendered a verdict of guilty of shoot
ing at another, with a recommenda
tion to the mercy of the court. Sent
ence was passed by Judge Fite Satur
day afternoon. The penalty imposed
is a fine of $300 and three months in
the county jail in each case. The de
fendants will make a motion for a new
trial and there is much excitement
over the sentence.
Fitzgerald’s water and light carni
val was in every way a grand success.
More than forty floats were in line,
representing the various business in
terests of the city, and Col. Ray’s im
mune regiment band from Macon was
in attendance, and together vitli the
military band, furnished music for the
carnival. The streets were crowded
with thousands of visitors and special
excursions bringing many people.
Everything was done by the carnival
committee to make the visitors feel at
home and enjoy themselves, The
grand banquet, tendered by the Busi
ness League was held at the opera
house building, and the entire city
was in attendance.
The Coweta county prohibition elec
tion contest case, which was decided
adversely to the wet side at the last
term of the superior court, will be
carried to the supreme court for re
view. The questions whether or not
persons are qualified to vote who re
side in towns and districts where
liquor could not be sold under then
existing laws, and whether persons
were legally registered and qualified
to vote, who had not signed the oath
with the tax collector, or his author
ized clerk, will be decided by that
court. The disposition of the case
is of some concern to the taxpayers of
Newnan, inasmuch as they have been
cut off the $5,000 revenue derived
from the licensing of saloons. The
decision of the supreme court will be
awaited with interest by the people of
the county generally.
The Georgia monument commemor
ative of the Georgia officers and men
who took part in the historic battle of'
Chickamauga, December 19th and 20,
1863, will be unveiled at Chickamauga
National park ou May 4th. The at
tendant ceremonies will be extremely
interesting and large crowds from all
parts of the state are expected to be
present at the unveiling. The state
ment has been made that the monu
ment had been erected in memory of
the Confederate dead, and that the
cost of the shaft has been raised by
the members of the memorial board..
This statement is incorrect. In 1897
the general assembly passed an act
creating a state memorial board, to be
composed of five members, including
Adjutant General McIntosh Kell, who
is ex-officio chairman of the board.
With the passage of this act $25,000
■was appropriated for the purpose of
erecting a monument or monuments
commemorative of the Georgians who
took part in the battle of Chickamauga:
The business details of the session
of the Epworth Leaguers of Georgia
were wound up at. Columbus Satur
day. Sunday the exercises were de
votional in their character. Saturday
night the Leagners selected the fol
lowing officers for the new year: Pres
ident, W. P. Wallis, of Americas; first
vice president, J. Bailey Gordon, of
Rome; second vice president. Miss
Elmyre Taylor, of Macon; third vice
president, Miss Minnie L. Parker, of
Brunswick; secretary, Hatton Love
joy, of LaGrange; treasurer, J. Ber
rien, of Waynesboro; editor, Rev. Joel
T. Davis, of Atlanta. The conference
adopted a strong temperance and pro
hibition resolution unanimously, with
great enthusiasm. It was decided to
create a new' office of fourth vice pres
ident, this officer to have special oi
charge of the Junior League work
the state. A set of resolutions were
adopted thanking the people of' Co
lumbus for their hospitality, and the
state press and railroads for thei- 1
kindness.