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BILL ARP’S LETTER
Advent of April Brings Up Dis
cussion of All Fools" Day.
RlCflllN'TS IMilVinilil FIPFRIFNCFS
Mtii* Ones Try to r»oi ihs oi<i M»n. Uui
He Will On to Tlielr Hly On me
And Ketullated.
This month did not begin right,
April mean h to open, but it did not
open. It wan an April fool. Nothing
shows in my garden but the peas and
onions. The flowers make no
rasa. There is no sweet south wind
to breathe upon them—no sunshine. .
On Monday the grandchildren im
posed upon me with their Hindoo
pranks. They gave me a cup of
chocolate with whipped cream ou top,
and it was nothing but soapsuds. I
protended lo be fooled, but I wasent; |
1 paid them back in various ways.
The Hindoos started this childish cus- | I
tom away back in the ages, and it still
the children. And now Eas
ter day is at hand and that is another i I
name that came down from th* Pagans.
Ostera was their goddess of spring and
it was into Estera. '
How these old heathen names do
stick to us. The names of the days of
the week and of the months came from
them. So did the planets and the
constellations. Even the prophets and
Job had to take them from the Egyp
tians. But the Scotch people don’t
call it Easter. They say 1’ascha day,
or pussover day. They won’t pattern
after anybody but Jobu Knox, and be
said 1’ascha. But there is a reason
for calling it Easter, for the coming of
spring -the opening of the earth and
Ihe flowers is emblematical of the res
urreotioii the opening of the Savior’s
tomb and His return to bless and com
fort His people. This day eorres
ponds closely with the Jewish pass
over, und so they observe it.
Now T want the young people to
kuuw that Leut. is another word that
means spring. It is preceded by that
foolish festival called mardi gras—or
fat beef—and continues forty days in
remembrance of the Savior's long fast,
and it ends with Faster, and the com
munion aud other rejoicings. As the
old-time almunacs would say, “about
this time look for Easter haU and
flowers nod finery.” Christmas is
oilier festival day thut is common to
all Christian nations. There are many
other days dedicated to the saints, but
iu course of timo it was found that
there were not enough days in the
year to go round, and so the pope
stopped the saintuig of so many and
hud one day set apart ns All Saints
day. The next day utter that is All
Houls day, on which mass is said by
the Homan Catholics for the souls of
the dead who are iu purgatory.
It, seems that about 900 years ago a
pilgrim from the 1 oly land found a
hermit in Sicily who told him of an
opeuiug between the cliffs of the
mountains near by that communicated
with hades, where Pluto lived, and
that ho could see the sulphurous
smoke rising aud hear the groans of
the lost souls who weie being torment
ed iu bell and ho had known some of
them to escape through the prayers of
the priests and this made the devils
very mad and he could hear them
cursing tho priests with awful impre
cations. The pilgrim told all this
t,t the Abbots and monks, and they
had a day set apart to pray these lost
«, nils out of hell oi lmdes or purgatory
or whatever it is.
Besides these international days
there «re national days in every coun
try. Here we have the Fourth of
July-and Washington’s birthday and
Decoration Day aud some others.
Germany celebrates the birth of Cal
viii and Lather aud the kaiser. Scot
land that of Sir William Wallace und
Bruce and John Knox. Iu old England
they celebrate the queen’s birthday,
Magna Charter day, Waterloo day and
May day. Mayday is the happiest of
all Rud has been long remembered in
verse and song and iu dancing around
the
Tennyson wrote a sad, sweet poem
called the “May Queen.” Mexico cel
ebrates all the Roman Catholic days
and has one other that, the rahlde call
Judas Iscariot’s day. It is the next
duy after Easter. Ou tho beautiful
trees in the piazza or pirk they sus
pend pasteboard images of Judas Is
cariot—images as largo as life, with
little boles bored in them from head
to foot and iu every hole is fasteued a
cauuou cracker. At a given signal the
fuse in every cracker is lighted aud all
of them explode nearly at the same
time end sueh a terrific popping was
never heard outside of a battlefield,
aud poor old JudaR is torn aud rent
iuto thousand pieces. 1 his ... is just
a a
sigu of what they would do to him if
they bad him there alive, but 1 reckon
it is more for frolic than anything, for
they shout and laugh aud dance the
hornpipe aud make all the racket they
cau.
Ben Fraukliu said that man was a
bundle of habits. He might have
added “and superstitions,” for most
all people have some belief in super
natural things. Two hundred years
ago almost everybody believed iu
witches. Shakespeare wrote about
them in “Macbeth” and Burns iu
“Tam O’Shanter.” The Puritans
drowned inauy innocent women from
mere suspicion 1 of being witches. The
conceited , self-righteous rascals never
accused a man of being a wizard. It
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Ghosts' ii'i ry scarce in those days.
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I baven’t seen one in a long time. In
my early youth I wan the mill boy and
I remember that one evening in the
early twilight an I wbh astride my
i^orse and grist and going slowly home
f neared the country graveyard of
Fairview church and saw, or thought
I saw, a ghost ahead of me in the big
road. It hnd arms and legs, but had
no bead. It was white and going
slowly from me. I checked my horse
and wondered. I started on again
aud got a little closer. Htill the form
was headless. Broad shoulders and
arms akimbo. Nearer and nearer I
drew to it, but it made no sign.
My horse pricked up his ears as if
alarmed, toe road to; lieu no. im
ahead, and 1 had resolved that if the
ghost took one road I would take the
other, when suddenly an old man
stopped to cough und took the sack
from his shoulders and laid it upon
the ground. I knew him instantly
old Uncle Tom Wilson, the bunch
back-going home from ihe mill with
1)18 across Ins shoulders, and his
head bent forwatd so that. I couId not
** *" t * 10 dutky twilight. - Now it
both of us had icaolu-d 'tie forks ot
the road pod had senamted 1 should
always Lave believed I saw a ghost.
* * 111 m '’* road ll,,d church am
B ,av « J'“ ,d made lasting impressions
P u on< P on ^ me a,I< * ^ ttn< ^ ^ ie 80 H ( P 1( r \ * n fi»*^ oar< IIJl { ^ an< an< ) J 10
NV ^ ee ^ a,1< * ^ ie soothing sounds ot tue
wa ^ er 0Vl r the dam. We had
various adventures with the country
•'chool boys ou the way, for they did
ent like the town boys—aud they
dont yi t. I remember that it was on
April fool day that I saw in the road
i” 8 * beyond the school house a package
bone up in brown piper, atri as I had
met a man iu a buggy a little while be
hire, I supposed he had dropped it.
1 atopp-d my horse and got down.
‘’eking up the package 1. untied the
Btnn g a,ld took oft the wrapper aud
found another wrapper and another
8,r ‘ ,i K aml th < u another and another
u ‘‘‘* ut laKt t«'> h:g black bugs, whoso
°" or was familiar. 1 hat kind of hugs
advance backward, ami yon can t
*‘‘11 whether you meet ’em or overtake
’«“• **’«» a a «ore ot *»‘>y a jump
0,1 f,om * h< ’ hushes and yelled and
screamed “April Fool! I wus so mad
* could haruly mount my horse again,
I never spoke a word. I took it
, ” l * i ’B thinking aud hating. West
bazing wasent any worse, than
du**- April fool was to me. But boys
will he boys.—Bit.i, Am* in Atlanta
Constitution.
L*FNL,riE,LJ . VNf*HFn FOK? | US< j HI 1UKGLK IPHFI?
Youiijj White Man Swung Into
Eternity By Mob at Osceola,
Arkansas.
May Hearn, of Lnxora, Ark., was
taken from the county jail at Osceola
Saturday morning between 1 and 2
o’clock and lynched.
The victim of tho mob was a young
white man, the sou of J. B. Iloarn,
one of the most respectable farmers
living in the neighborhood of Lnxora,
and the crime for which lie was hang
ed was the shooting of Clyde King, of
Lnxora, on the uiaht, of March 81st.
The lynching was a very quiet affair,
as tho mob that participated in it, was
thoroughly organized. It seemed to be
made up largely of persons from
Luxora, as the members entered Osce
ola ou horseback and not over half a
dozen citizens of tho place were aware
that a lynching had taken place until
daylight dawned,
The mob, numbering shout, fifteen
persons, entered the city about mid
night. Seutries were posted along
the main streets aud a posse was sent
out to effect the capture of Deputy
Sheriff Lee Goodrich and Night Watch
man Shipworth. Roth officers were
found by tho posse and alter their cap
ture they were disarmed and compell
ed to accompany the lynchers.
Deputy Sheriff Goodrich lmd the
key to the jail iu his pockets, and
these were taken possession of by the
leaders of the mob. Arriving at the
jail the lynchers entered,
Hearn sank ou his knees and began
to pray. Although his sentences were
almost incoherent, he insisted that he
had not killed Kiag from malice, but
that the shooting was accidental. The
mob, however, was unmoved by his
prayers and petitions for mercy, and
placing a rope arouud Hearn’s neck,
they took him from the jail and hanged
him to a tree.
After it was found that Hearn was
dead, tho mob, in an organized body,
left the scene of tho tragedy and rode
out of the town.
The body was left dangling in tho
air until about 9 o’clock, when it was
cut down aud turned over to his
family.__
HONOR TO FONCE DE LEON.
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People of St. Augustine Celebrate the
Discovery of Florida.
At St. Augustine, Fla., Thursday
n ight several hundred citizens and
visitors celebrated iu Fort Marion the
339 (H anniversary of the laudiug of
j l0nc6 ,i e Leon aud the discovery of
iq or iJ a a salute of seventeen guns
wa8 fj re ,i j n honor of Ponce de Leon,
after which speeches were made. The
celebration closed with a display of
fi rewor k a .
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OOM PAUL’S OPINION.
Self-Exiled Boer President Thinks the
War Will Soon End.
Says the London correspondent of
^ ew York Tribune;
News from _ Brussels to the , 1
comes
effect that Mr. Kruger thinks that the
occupation of Zoutpansberg will final -1
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to be iu imminent danger as a result |
of Lord Kitchener’s uortheru campaign. ;
i j GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
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Interesting _ Happenings In the
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! Ample ftappiy of Doctor*.
The ranks of doctors will soon be
! increased all over the state. Eighty
two of them were candidates for li
cense before the eclectic and allopathic
state medical boards in session at At
lanta the past week, twelve standing
the eclectic examination and seventy
the allopathic.
The state board of allopathic medi
cal examiners had just seventy appli
cants before them iu the house of
representatives at the state capitol.
Of these three were negroes, but
there are generally one or two negroes
before this board at each examination,
The majority of the applicants were
tire recent graduates from the College
of Physicians aud Surgeons of Atlan
ta, but there were several from other
states, Maryland, New York, Missouri,
Alabama, Florida, North Carolina aud
South Carolina being represented.
To M«et lit AtlietiH fn lllny.
The annual convention of the conn
tv school commissioners of Georgia
will be held at Athens May 7th, 8 th
and !)th. The date and place were
settled upon at a recent meeting in
Atlanta by the executive committee of
the association.
More ,, than usual , interest ■ . .... is being
manifested in the convention this
year, it is said, and the outlook is that
the attendance will be large from every
section of the state.
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Special Tax Te»t Ch»«.
Proceedings have been instituted in
tp, e Atlanta city court to recover the
faxesn-ecently collected from the At
] tin f a packing establishments by Tax
Colloc'tor a. p. Stewart, under an act
• p asse a n f (he last, legislature, imposing
a special tax of §201) ou each place of
business in the state. T. E. Kehrrer.
who is connected with Nelson, Morris
– Co., is the plaintiff in the case, and
Collector Stewart is the defendant.
The amount sued for is §207.15, oi
which §2.65 is interest and $4.50 costs.
The tax was collected from all of the
concerns in Atlanta, blit this one ac
tion is to be a test case. The suit is of
a very important nature, as it will af
feet similar important establistments
throughout the entire state. There are
about seventeen of these establish
ments iu the state, and upon the out
come of the Atlanta case hinges the
validity of the tax act, as pertains to
them. The amount of money involved
is iu the neighborhood of $8,000. It
is learned that an agreement has been
reached between the attorneys in the
case aud Comptroller General Wright
successful to the effect he that will if the reftyV padding all of case the if
taxes collected from thtt concerns.
The tax was on'each
place of business, but t Ui e legislature
increased it to $200. The packing con
ceres iu Atlauta did not pay the tax,
and Collector Stewart issued li. fas.
against them. The tax was then paid
in under the filing protest of and the the suit. matter resulted j i
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Granted Under He»drie<tt Law*. ;
LTndertheheadrightlawsSecretu’y i
Q f State Phil Cook has granted 150
aC res of land in Camden county, neat |
fixe county line of Wayne ind Glynn, 1
to Matthew Daniels.
Railroad Charter Amended.
Secretary of State Phil Cook has
granted an amendment toithe charter
of the Dover and Statesbdro railroad,
which, in effect, gives itiill the cor
porate powers of the ralroads more
recently chartered. This road was
chartered many years agt aud, tech
nically speaking, the amendment gives
it the powers as defined ia chapter 2 ,
nrtiele 6 of the civil coc'e, some of
which it net, before possesj.
Power Company I**url Bond*.
The Columbus Power notifiil Company, of
Columbus, Ga., has Secretary
of State Phil Cook that it has issued
$500,000 of first mortgag. 5 per cent
bonds of the denomiuaticn of $1,000
each and due April 1,193. The in
terest is payable semi-anmally. The
certificate was recorded ii the
tary of state’s office.
Lawyer Glenn l)i*l>irred.
Judge Lumpkin has issted an order
in the Fulton superior coitt at Atlan
ta disbarring Attorney l J. Glenn,
which proceeding revokes the attor
ney’s license and prohibts him from
practicing law in the stateof Georgia.
The proceeding againstplenn grew
out of his conviction in ke criminal
superior court recently ofjthe charge
of forgery.
Steamer* For the Oeijulgee.
Macou merchants and lpsiness men
are growing anxious aboil navigation
ou the Ocmulgee. They ire weary of
paying such high freigh rates, and
have been taking some ndve steps to
remedy the trouble by putjng on aline
of boats between Macoiand Btuns
this subject for the past keuty years,
but it is at last assunjjng definite
shape, and there seemsdo be every j
reason to believe the desfed end is in !
sight. Some parties wit ample capi
tal have been investigati j the matter,
and they assure the mer lants that as
soon as the government vork ou the
chancel ' is completed Jiev ^ts will be
, lauuc-h several 1
rea y e ’
oaorti* rmit Cm 8 »r*. j
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tb ® Lrioustn^v j
there is no indication ofjferious injury j
to the fruit crop Horn the recent cold
weather, and he regards it as now out
of danger.
Hoard of Education Enjoined.
An injunction has been filed on the
county board of education prohibiting
the illegal disbursement of the public
school fund to the South Georgia col
legs at Mcfiae. Every county board
has appropriated annually a part of
the public school fund and say they
were authorized by the state school
commissioner to do so under a guise of
a lease from the annual conference,
The case will be watched throughout
the entire state, as it is said some
other schools are being conducted uu
der the same guise for the purpose of
getting the benefit of the fund appro
priated to the common public schools.
There are many denominational
schools all over the state that do not
get a dollar of the public fund, but
will if tko courts decide this one is en
titled to it.
Protest A^iiin.t Convict Goods.
It has developed that there is going
to be some opposition to the establish
merit of a manufactory for hollow ware
at the prison farm at Millegeville, a
subject now being carefully consider
ed by the prison commission, ltepire
sentatives aud employers of free skill
ed labor and other manufacturers are
opposed to the movement, and some of
them at least are going to enter a pro
test. The commission has never had
any intention of having stoves manu
factured at the prison farm, but only
hollowware and stove utensils, the
greater part of which is now mannfac
tured , conv i c t labor iu four or five
the states
open* Office in Jail,
jj_ q. Tindall, who is serving an in
definite sentence iu Bibb’s jail, at Ma
con, for contempt of court, in that he
is charged with violating an order of
court while acting as receiver for the
Macon Hareware company, has set up
an office in his cell at the jail, aud has
gone to work in earnest. He declares
that he will make enough money to
settle all of his troubles if he can just I
get bis work in shape. He has the
agency for a patent, aud is sending out
literature by the basket full. He is
also advertising his business quite ex
teusively in the newspapers,
Issues $100,000 Bonds.
The Interstate Cotton Oil company, !
of Augusta, has filed with Secretary of
State Phil Cook a certified statement
of an issue of $ 100,000 of 6 per cent
bonds to mature April 1, 1911.
Suit of Clothes For Convicts.
The State prison commission has
adopted a new and important rule re
lating to the government of misde
meanor convict camps. It is a rule
which will effect about 2,200 convicts
in Georgia.
Hereafter all misdemeanor convicts,
upon their discharge, must be furnish
ed with a suit of clothing to co^t npt
less than $5. All convicts wlio are
leased in counties other than those in
which they are convicted must be fur
nished with transportation back to the
county seat of the county from which
they were sent.
This will effect nearly every misde
meanor convict camp in Georgia,
None of the camps which now employ
n'isdemeanorconvictsfromothercoun
ties furnish them with transportation,
and only one county, Floyd, furnishes
its convicts with clothing ou discharge,
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Adjutant Sends Out Letters.
Adjutant General Kobertsou is en
gaged in sending out letters to the
members of the governor’s staff notify
ing them officially of the proposed
trip to Albany on April 23rd. Gover
nor Candler, Ad jutant General Robert
son and Attorney General Terrell have
already accepted invitations to visit
the ehautauqua, for which occasicm
the trip is planned.
Men Who Rose Jobs*
The four collectors who have lost
their positions as a result of a sweep
ing order from the internal revenue
; department at Washingtou calling for
a reduction iu the force in this district
are J. H. Griffin, of Atlanta; E. J.
Hinton, of Woodbury; R. S. Hender
son, of Jasper, and W r . E. Crockett,
of Marietta.
The reasons given for the reductions
iu the force here and elsewhere is that
the expense of the department is in
excess of the appropriation for the
current year and for the next fiscal
?. ear beginning . . July 1 the appropna
* 10wl1 1 be 8everal hundred thousand
do ars * , e8S
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PASSENGER IH-CORD SMASHED.
Steamer From Bremen Lands Over
$2,500 People at New York.
The steamship Rhein, which arrived
at New York Friday, from Bremen,
broke the record as a passenger car
rier. Besides her crew, which num
bered over 400, she had 2,502 passen
gers. Of the latter but 53 came in the
cabin. The 2,449 steerage passengers
were landed at Ellis island, and were
passed before the emigrant depot
closed for the day.
The highest number of pessengers
of the th ird clas8 which had previous
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ATTORNEY GENERAL KNOX.
President Announces to Cabinet Se
lection of Origg’s Successor,
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At . , the cabinet . . meeting .. Friday „ ., _
dent McKinley announced to the mem
bers that P. C. Knox, of Pittsburg,
advisers of their new colleague’s ac
ce pt 8 nce.
Georgia Southern and Florida Railway
Time Tables— In Effect February 8d, 1901.
Sia.'c;«ct to Cliane* "'TT’i.tlic-a.t STotic®.
N O. 5 NO. 3 NO. 1 SOUTHBOUND NO. 2 NO. 4 J
7.48 1:20 a m 1:42 p it m Lv 44 .. .Cordele.....Ar Arabi »» *r -B CO tC a m Tut! U Hj
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8:4 J “ ■Mcc *4 5: u 44 Tilton 44 ' a
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9 ; r> (4 JJ 44 44 ... Valdosta Sparks ... 44 *4 ......5 MM4>M ic
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Connects at l ' a,n ** <a A "* 111 ^Mversieamors J * – K ’ W and
and with St. John nd Ocklawalm Hlve steamo.s '’
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8:20 a rn 2: Ill a m jj ni p m am 1:03? 1=20
S:41 “ 2:31 •* jj 44 5 .. Vienna .. » • • 1 :*>- “
C. 44 j: 4k 2 Pinehurst, 77 “ 12:4o
CJ 44 2:52 44 co 44 ft ,. Unadilla. 77 “ 12:-4 r 12:3
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Q 55 ]> ? m 3:33 12:37a »’ m ” ** ..Chattanooga.. .Nashville.. ” .. m ” 10:53 3:30 ” 8:001 0:30
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0:52 a ill 7:24 p rn *’ ...StLouis.. 77 8:30 m lOjis
St. Trains Louis and 1 and Jacksonville, 2. and trains Fla. 3 and Trains 4 carry 3 and Pullman 1 also Buffet carry Sleeping local sleeper cars?^
AKicon and Palatka. Trains 6 and 0 are shoo-tty trains. U,
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Full iiifonnation from the undersigned. ,C. 1XHOE S, Macoi
V. G. HAT.!., T. 1*. \. B. Gen. Pass. Agt,
8 Kimball Douse, Atlanta, Ga.
HARRY BUNNS, F X’. A . Jacksonville, Fla.
WILLIAM CHKUKLEY SHAW, V r ice-I’resident, Macon, Ga
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COMPL^ETE SAW MILL OUTFITS A SPECIAL
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MALLARY BROS. MACHINERY CO.
Mention this paper MASON GEORGIA.
i Albany £c Northern Railwa
To Take Effect 5 A. M. Monday, June 19, 1899.
j Central Time Standard.
j _Between Albany and Cordele.
South Bound North Boniif
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21 II 17 Stations. 18 12 l
DaiJ Sun- Sun
Sund’y esc’] Pt day Daily Dally day
Mxd. Pas. only. Only
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8 40 o 04 to 50 Philema 12 41 T+t
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8 27 00 56 to 49 . Oakfield 12 49 -rti
8 07 00 40 to 38 Warwick 12 59 T+i
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7 15 OO 15 to 10 Lv .Cordele Ar 1 30 to
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J. S. CREWS, Gen’i. Manaj
Photographs,
Cofield’s Photograph Gallery,
Over Old National Bank, Cordele,
Is the plHCe to get the Very finest
pio + inn finich lin, Sn iihntrure-i in
oOUth Georgia. . Gall ,, While in the
city} See his samples and be CGQ
vinced *
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