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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 >00000000000000000000000 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 1 3 j 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. " « 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.