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IN PASSING.
flow you nr© Ron© I cnn think of your face
Calmly; and what Is lta memory worth?
Ben call ft beautiful—sing of Its grace:
To me It is but of the earth!
It has smiles for them all in the rosy-sweet
It years— nothing but
has given me tears!
Now you nre gone you are known as you
are:
What are the words that vour red lips let
rail?
Men call them sweet—They are bitterer
far
To mv soul than the bitterest gall!
On those sweet lips the vaunted of crimson
I'hey appears— nothing but tears!
have given me
Now you are gone I cnn say of your trust—
Of the love that once saw me go forth in
the night:
“They were nothing but dust—they were
nothing but dust—
Only a dream that was bright!
Tour love with its hopes, and your love
with its fears—
It has given me nothing but tears !’”
flow you nre gone! * * * Ah, the whole
world is lone—
Never a star has a beautiful gleam;
The heart that was dearest of all to my
own
Has drifted away like a dream!
Can you pass unto pence down the vista
of years
Who have given me nothing but tears?
—F. L. 8., in Atlanta Constitution.
OOOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGOOO §
| A SWEETHEART BF LONG ABO.
OOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGOO
ICK, tick, tick!
“Naomi, will you
stop that clock? I
think it will drive
n*emad. It is with
in the range of the
probable, not to say
U the possible, that I
should go on con
struing irregular Latin verbs to the
strokes of that monster? I feel in
clined to adopt the modern pronuncia
tion of the immortal orator’s name
and say, Kik-er-o! O, beg your par
don, Naomi; was that your foot?
"Well, I’m going out. I promised to
run up and see Marie Leigham to
night. Perhaps when I come back
my tormentor will have grown weary
or run down. Let him run dowD,
Naomi! You don’t mind being left
for a little while alone dear?”
“Not at all, dear,” answered Naomi
Romer, cheerfully.
Naomi is always cheerful—too cheer
ful, golden-haired little Lilliard says
sometimes, petulantly. Bat then—
Naomi is thirty, and it is years that
“bring the philosophic mind.”
Eighteen years ago, when Naomi
was twelve, she had received baby
Lilliard, her newly born stepsister, as
the legacy from the hands of a “dying
mother mild,” who
Baid with accents undefiled,
"Child, be mother to this child.”
And Naomi has fulfilled that trust
well. When, ten years later, their
father, gay, debonair Ernest Romer,
laziest and most charming of men and
artists, had followed his wife, leaving
her two children utterly unprovided
for, Naomi had quietly and naturally
—everything Naomi does is quiet and
natural—slipped into the position of
bread winner and house provider.
Then had come a lover, too poor to
provide for both Naomi and Lilliard;
then he had gone away, to make a for
tune in distant lands, and for eight
years Naomi had never heard of him.
Now Lilliard is able to help Naomi
in her little school, and the two sis
ters are happy enough, only—Lilliard
is young and beautiful, and some
times she frets.
There comes a ring at the doorbell,
and little Alice Sparrow, Naomi’s maid
of all work, puts in her head to say,
“A gentleman for you, please, miss.”
Naomi rises in surprise as a tall,
well built man, with u sunburnt com
plexion and a head of tawny hair, en
ters, and, striding to her side, takes
her hand.
t t Naomi, have you forgotten me,
Martin Colquhoun?”
For a moment the room swims
round Naomi, but the next she has
recovered herself, and is saying quite
calmly—how it astonishes her to hear
her own voice:
“How do you do? I did not know
jcu were in Washington.”
“I only came yesterday,” he says,
eagerly, “so you see I have not lost
much .ime. I found out your address
in the directory—what a grand in
stitution it is! * * * Naomi, you
are net changed. Am I?”
She smiles a little. “I would know
you—but you are changed.”
“I shall tell you all by and by, he
says, and at that moment Lilliard
rushes in.
“Marie is out; is it not a shame?”
Then she pauses, blushing, and
Naomi introduces the two.
“So you are Lilliard?” says Martin
Colquhoun, smiling. “I remember
you as a tiny girl in short dresses,
who alwajB searched in my pockets
for chocolates. Are you as fond of
them yet?”
‘‘I believe I am,” says Lilliard,
laughing. Then Bhe sits down, and
so does Martin Colquhoun, and they
spend a pleasant, even gay, evening
together, Martin telling them all of
the dangers he has passed in the
search for a fortune—which it seems
he has found—and partaking of the
homely little supper Naomi orders
with great zest.
Martin Colquhoun calls again and
Again. He comes in the evenings,
when Naomi plays, and he and Lilliard
Bit in the window together. He calls
in the afternoon and takes them driv.
ing in the park and to Mount Vernon,
and he and Lilliard generally sit to
gether and do most of the talking,
and occasionally he takes them to a
concert. And every day Naomi feels
that the trial of her life is drawing
near.
Bat why should she grudge it?
She loves Lilliard. She loves—alas!
—Martin. She desires the happiness
of both. As for her, it only means
that her sky will grow a little grayer,
her life a little emptier; but at thirty,
she tells herself, one does not feel
the pain so keenly as at twenty.
One evening he calls. Lilliard is
out and Naomi alone. He looks
strangely nervous—for him—for Col
quhoun is one of those broad-minded,
healthy-souled men whose strong
masculine personality always soem to
bring an invigorating breeze into a
narrow, feminine household.
"I have called to tell yon I shall
have to say good-by,” he said ab
ruptly. "I am going away on Monday.”
away!” Naomi echoes
faintly.
“Yes, for four years. My business
requires me. And I have come to
night to—to say something that means
a great deal to me—that all my futare
happiness depends on, Miss Romer.’
Naomi’s heart is still. The blow
is coming, then.
“I think I can guess what it is,"
she says, wondering if her voice
sounds strange and unnatural. “Mr.
Colquhoun, I will do the most I can.
I desire yonr happiness as much as—
as Lilliard’s.”
He seized her hands.
“Then—you are willing? You have
—nave thought of it?” he asks, a lit
tle unsteadily.
“I have no rignt to be anything
else,” she answers, smilingly. “If
Lilliard is willing, that is all you can
require.”
He looks at her in bewilderment.
“Lilliard? I do not understand
yon, Naomi. What has Lilliard to do
with it? Don’t you understand, dear,
that I love von as much_nav 2? y ’, more »
a thosandfola more than ever? XT Na
omi, it was not my fault that I have
been silent all these years: mv letter
_the the last fast one_was one was returned, r«tnrrw»H marked mnrboJ
L3f.—no address. But I have never
ceased thinking of you, and now I
want yon J as my wife. Naomi- ” Naomi ivaorni,
after ti waiting t- all ii xv these years, am I to
be disappointed at the last?”
“Oh, stop!” Naomi cries, a little
?nn wildly. ZVaA “I— Lr. I thought it was Lilliard ® ™
you caieu ror, not me. ’•
“Lilliard! He grows bolder then,
and, drawing her within his arms w./t lavs
thft .Xn. sweet fnce nfminat “gainst his breast
Why, Jjiluard j and I are very good
friends, but she knows the truth,
Naomi. My darling, Ll is that whv you
have have boon been so sn cold enlrl In to me. I T have some
times thought the past was dead to
you—dead aud buried—you __ were so
cold. •ii*. But it is not so * Naomi V ", Yon
still ■ love me, my sweetheart of long
ago?’
And Naomi’s answer, though too
low low lor for any anv ears ears but but iiw hi* to tn W,- hear, la is
evidently neai u uy jiuruii v^uhjullOuii,
for he bends his head aud then and
American American t^ueen. Ouee^' 7 ki “ 3eS 1,er — Tie
A Military Bicycle.
A bicycle has been invented that is
a model of military usefulness. In ad
dition to enabling the soldier-wheel
man to cover ground quickly it affords
a temporary protection for two men in
case the skirmishing party is sur
prised, and also a refuge for them in
the night and during bad weather. In
front of the handle-bars is fitted a
hardened plate of nickel-steel, which
not , only , of , defense , ,
serves as a means
when the bicycle is thrown to the
ground, but a platform for carrying
equipments aud rations while on the
march. A similar . attachment
is
erected back of the saddle. On these
platforms outfits for two men can be
tions; transported where during roads military too bad opera- for
are
wheeling the soldier will find it much
e.„ier to push Beveoty-Sv. or a hna
tired pounds of baggage on awheel
than to carry it on his back. During
an attack these shields furnish con
siderable protection from rifle-fire at
a fair range. W hen the bicycle in
fantry comes to a halt for the night, an
ordinary tent may be rigged over the
machine which is kent P Y rio-id lrr g m J 7
ropes, this will give „• shelter n i for two
men. The rifles are carried under the
top bar of the diamond frame.—Worn
an’sHome Companion.
How to Save the Eyes.
Avoia reading in a dark room, in
the dusk of evening, or by a poor
light. Avoid reading during sickness
and after measles, scarlet fever and
any exhausting -S--a! disease Avoid read
ing -usi- while 1 lying down. mu- This is • an un
natural position, straining the eyes
and producing congestion. Avoid
reading in a stooped position, for this
interferes with the return circulation
and , congests the , eye and the brain,
Avoid rubbing the eyes with the hand
or or with with a a rough rrnnrk cloth, cloth hut but rather rather
bathe them in cold water twice a day.
Avoid prolonged use of the eyes for
near or ffine work; rest the eyes by
looking at objects at a distance. - Avoid a -j
dazzling lights and sudden changes,
and never use the eyes when every
thing appears hazy and the letters
blur, but obtain suitable glasses.
DR.TALM AGE’S SEltMON
The Eminent Divine’s Sunday
Discourse.
finbject: The Victor’s Shoot—The Joy
of Overcoming Difficulties—The Satis
faction Expressed by Christ ou the
Outcome of Uls Earthly Labors.
(Copyright 1WIU.1
Dr. Washington, Talmage D. C.—In this discourse
shows ia an unusual way the
antagonisms that Christ overcame and
llnds a balsam for all wounded hearts;
text, John xvil., 4, “I have finished the
work wbloh Thou gavest Me to do.”
coSetiiu a ora 0 n°v-hine IncUr
st-jr ufift
meet profitless Christ came to throw w^Hd un
mlgh?, a highway 7 on which W the whole W W H^
Hit cbose mount iato heaven
tempted To'Ve^d on^Him could"o°t ex*
work which Tbou K««r.st Mo
peculiar flower, and lie dreamed that that
plant was put upon bis wound and that
immediately it was cured. And Alexander,
waking from his dream, told this to the
physician, and the physician wandered out
until he found just the kind of plant which
the sick man had described, brought it to
him, and the wound was healed. Well, the
human race had been hurt with the ghast
Heat of all wounds-that of sin. It was
the business of Christ to bring a balm for
that wound—the balm of divine restora
tion. In carrying this business to a sue
cessful issue the difficulties were stupend
ous#
Iu many of our plans we have our friends
to help us; some to draw a sketch of the
plan, others to help us in the execution.
But Christ fought every inch of His circur/- way
against bitter hostility and amid
stances all calculated to depress and de
feat.
In the first place,His worldly occupbtlon
was against Him. I find that He earned His
livelihood by the carpenter’s trade, an oc
respected. cupntlon always to be highly regurded and
But you know as well as I do
that in order to succeed in any employ
meat one must give bis entire time to it,
and I have to declare that the fatigues of
carpentry were unfavorable to the execu
tion of a mission which required all men
tal and dry, physical faculties. Through high,
hard, husky, insensate Judaism to
bow a way for a new and glorious dispen
sa tion was a stupendous undertaking that
was enou 8b te demand all the concen
trated energies even of Christ. We have a
great many romantie stories about what
men with physical toil have accomplished
^ intellectual departments, but you know
|| la t after a man has been toiline ull dav
with adz and saw and hammer, plane and
ax, about all he can do is to rest. A weary
body is an unfavorable adjunct to a toiling
You ’ whose life in purely meehani
cal. if you were called to the upbuilding of
a kingdom, or the proclamation of a new
code of morals, or the starting of a revolu
Hon which should upturn all nations,
ccm,d get some idea of the incoherence of
Christ’s occupation with His heavenly
mission.
ln His father’s shop no more intercourse
wa ® necessary than is ordinarily necessary
,n , bargaining with men that have work to
do, yet Christ, with hands hard from use
of of tools tools of of trade, trade, was was called called forth forth to to be- be
come come a a public Public speaker, speaker, to to preach preach in in the the
* ace of mobs, while some wept, and some
shook their fists, and some gnashed upon
Him with their teeth, and manv wanted
out of tne way. To address orderly
and respectful assemblages is not so easy
as U seem ’ but 11 requires more
energy and more force and more concen
trillion to sddrcsg an exasperated mob.
Tne villagers of Nazareth beard the pound
"“o'he'ar tto.
C f jj i8 S pj r u ua i up-bullding.
So also His habits of dress and diet were
against Him. The mighty men of Christ’s
time did not appear in apparel without
trinkets and adornments. None of the
Caesars would have appeared in citizen’s
apparel. professed Yet king, here was a man, here was a
who always wore the same
coat. Indeed it was far from shabby, for
after He had worn It a long while the
gamblers thought It worth raffling about,
but still it was far from being an imperial
robe. It was a coat that any ordinnry
man might have worn on an ordinary oc
casion.
Neither was there any pretension ln His
diet. No cupbearer with golden chalice
brought Him wine to drink. On the sea
e!,oro He ate fish, first having broiled it
Himself. No one fetched Him water to
drink; but, bending over the well in
Samaria, He begged a drink. He sat at
only one banquet, and that not at all
9Um P tU0 h 9 . for to relieve the awkward
p Tpa?e r wffie^o^the company 8Ue9t8 had l °
Other kings ride In a chariot; He
Other kings, as they advance, have heralds
and a PP la u<Hog subjects behind;
Z'Z' Otber kings ."°p sleep
under embroidered canopy; this one on a
snelterioss hill, riding but once, as far as I
now ’*2?poverty romem ‘ ;,er i a coit, and that bor
was against Him. It re
quires money to build great enterprises,
Mua of means are afraid of a penniless
P ra i ector lest a loan be demanded. It ro
I 1 }..? mone y to print books, to build in
ftltutions, the wise men to pay of instructors. Christ’s time No laughed wonder at
this penniless Christ. “Why,” they said,
I 9 t0 pay for this new religion? Who
is to charter the ships to carry tbt mis
sionaries? Who is to pay the salaries of
the teachers? Shall wealthy, established
religion be discomfited by a penniless
Ca £ lst?
J b f < ; 0 “! e ?'l? nC0 was tbat m08t of
„ o v 1 , ,
Christ but he risked no social position in
9° tbut> Jt ,s always safe to bury a
m a11,
Zaccheus , risked , « no wealth or social posi
Hon in following Christ, but took a position
in a tree to look down as He passed.
Nicodemus, wealthy Nicodemus, risked
nothing of social position ini following
V. r be 8bulked by nlgfct to find Him.
All A 11 this was against Christ. So the fact
that He was not regularly graduated was
If a man °ome with diplo
mas of colleges and.achools , and theological
seminaries . and he has been through for
eign travel, the world is disposed to listen,
But e was a man who had graduated at
„ !!“ y b / or
*
amary means learned the ( alphabet of the
language He spoke, and yet He proposed to
talk, to Instruct in subjects which had con
toouded the mightiest intellects. John
fiSed*?^ wt,’ A,® Jews marveled, J^rTy, saying, How
itfgaJKS
that a man without a diploma may know
as much as a man whn one and that a col
lege cannot transform a sluggard into a
philosopher or a theological seminary teach
a fool to preach. An empty head, after the
laying on of bands of the presbytery.
Is empty still. But it shocked all existing
prejudices in those olden times for a man
with no scholastic pretensions and no
graduation from a learned institution to
set Himself up for a teaohor. It was against
Him.
So there have been men of wonderful
magnetism of person. But hear me while
I tell you of a poor young Man who came up
from Nazareth to produce a thrill which has
never been excited by any other. Napoleon
had around him the memories of Marengo
and Austerlltz and Jena, but here was a
Man who had (ought no battles, who wore
n0 *P nu,ftt9 ’ who brandished no sword. He
EE“ “
mos * delicate and solemn hour that oomes
^ a woman’s soul, she was obliged to lie
^rden 011 * dr,V ® r9 gr °° mmg tb ® benst "
Uo^n’Jls'Zb'li ‘T Tt*° ° Wan, f “:
tb<, Y had a
not to«jolniln His company all well,
w greeted with no
/ .iJh* 1 ’ h,) 6y wei jt a wny, they te f
°n lst turned nnd looked at
“ in f. I. S fin H m .... Dill l,n y °“®
’
6Ve f <nnntf take PUCb . 8n e nter P ri ® e amld
D ,t « ^barrassmenits K , aud by such
[ nodes ^ ^ . nd ? e * I am here to say it ended
complete triumph. Notwithstanding
?i!, i 9 |^ 0 fa»2 y ?5. H CU S P UD 111,0D Pr et ’ ® Bd,n ® ,s K P 0Te garb, rty, His the
fact that Wa He was schoolless, the fact that
He bad a brief IIfe, the fact that He was
f ? rganizft '
bilaration ! n D ^withstanding which shall all be that, prolonged in an ex- in
nTu e d Rred ’ 1 ? R J®
i tbe worl£ which M | T» Thou gavest Me
to d0.
Ia the e 7 a Infirmary flow many disease*
that delicate organ have been cured?
Dut J esa9 says to one blind, “Be open!”
und the light of heaven rushes through
ff ate9 that have never before been opened,
frost of an ax may kill a tree, but
J« fi us smites one dead with a word,
Chemistry may do many wonderful
things, but what chemist at a wedding,
when the wine gave out, could change a
P a h of water into a cask of wine? What
human voice could command a school of
flsh? Yet here 1. a voice that marshals
* be 8 ° al Jy triboa until, in a place where
the Y bad let down the net and pulled It
U P with no t,ib In it. they let it down
again, and the disciples lay hold and be
KR ? t0 P ul1 * when, by reason of the multi
tude of fish, the net broke. Nature is His
servant. The flowers—He twisted them in
to His sormons; the winds—they were His
lullaby when He slept in the boat; the rain
it hung glittering on the thiok foliage of the
parables; Christmas the star of Bethlehem—it sang
a carol over His birth; the rocks
—they beat a dirge at His death. Behold
His victory over the grave! The hinges of
tb® family vault become very rusty be
cause they are never opened except to take
mother in. There is a knob on the out
side of the door of the sepulcher, but none
on the mside. Here comes the Conqueror
Death. He enters that realm and says,
Daughter of Jairus, sit up!” aDd she sits
U P* To Lazarus, “Come forth!” and he
came forth. To the widow’s son He said,
‘‘Get up from that bier!” and he goes
home with his mother. Then Jesus
snatched np the keys of death and hung
them to His girdle and cried until all tne
graveyards of the earth heard Him: “O
death, I will be tby plague! 0 grave, I will
be thy destruction!”
No man could go through all the ob
stacles I have described, you say, without
having a nature supernatural. In that
arm, amid its muscles and nerves and
bones, were intertwisted the energies of
omnipotence. In the syllables of that
voice there was the emphasis of the
eternal God. That foot that walked the
deck of the ship in Gennesaret shall stamp
kingdoms of darkness into demolition.
This poverty struck Christ owned Augus
tus, owned the sanhedrin, owned Tiberias,
owned all the castles on its beach and all
the skies that looked down into its water_
owned all the earth and all the heavens.
To Him of the plain coat beloxged the
robes of celestial royalty. He who
walked the road to Emmaus the light
nings were the fire shod steeds of His
chariot. Yet there are those who look
on and see Christ turn water into wine,
and they say, “It was sleight of hand!”
And they see Christ raise the dead to life,
and they say: “Easily explained; not
really dead; playing dead!” the' And they see
Christ giving sight to blind man, and
they say, “Clairvoyant doctor!” Oh, what
shall they do on the day when Christ rises
up in judgment nnd the hills shall tock
and the trumpets shall call, peal on peal?
In the time o’ Theodosius the Great there
was a great assault made upon the divin
ity of Jesus Christ, and during that : time
Theodosius .
^ the Great called his own son to
sit on the throne with him and be a copart
nor „„ In the ... government B „v. rBra . M of the tM empire, „ am? nplr bowed' . 0Dd
one one day day the the old old bishop bishop came came and be
down before Theodosius, the emperor and
passed out of the room, and tho emperor
to my son, who shares with me in the gov
ernment?” Then the old bishop turned to
the young man and said, “The Lord bless
thee, my young man.” but still paid him no
such honor as he had paid tottae Emperor,
And the Emperor was still offended and
displeased when the old bishop turned to
Theodosius the Great and said to him,
You are offended with me because I don’t
pay the same honor to your son, whom you
made copartner in the government of
this empire, the same honor I pay to you
and yet you encourage multitudes of peo
P le ia y 0Br realm t0 den Y tb e Son of God
My subject also reassures us of the fact
that in all our struggles wo have a syrnpa
thizer. You cannot tell Christ anything
new about hardship. I do not think that
w'ide ages of eternity will take the scars
Horn His punctured side and His lacerated
temples and His sore hands. You will never
have a burden weighing so many pounds
as that burden Christ carried up the bloody
bW- You will never have any sufferinK
worse than He endured when, with tongue
hot and cracked and Inflamed and swollen,
He moaned, “I thirst.” You will never be
surrounded by worse hostility than that
which stood around Christ’s howling’down feet foaming
reviling, livid with rage, His
R rayer 9 '. lD d ? nuffln ? l, P the 8 ™H of blood.
O ye , faint » hearted. O ye troubled Ova
persecuted One, hero is a heart that can
sympathize with you!
Again, anil lastly, I Jearn from all that
Pas been said to-day that Christ was aw
SiSlS/SSSi. H?
back from it dipguated aud discouruged.
COMMISSION UPHELD
Express Company Must Pay War
Revenue Tax on Reoaipts.
COURT OF APPEALS SO DECIDES
Georgia State Railroad Comm Union Has
Clear Right to Regulate and
Limit Rate*.
The express company must pay the
revenue tax on every express receipt
in Georgia and not the shipper. This
is the decision of the United States
circuit court of appeals rendered Fri
day morning at New Orleans and un
der this decision, which came unex
pectedly, the power of the state rail
road commission remains undisturbed.
The opinion of the circuit court of
appeals—the court of last resort in
this case—means from a practical
standpoint that the burden of 842,000
annually, the amount paid in 1-cent
stamps for express packages sent with
in the state, must be borne by the ex
press company handling the packages
and not by the shipper.
This is the first decision of the kind
known to have been rendered any
where in the United States since the
war revenue act of congress became
effective, and while it does not con
flict with the decision of the United
States supreme court, it holds that,
regardless of the fact that the express
company has the right to pass the tax
on to the shipper, the state commis
sion’s right to regulate and limit rates
in Georgia is equally clear.
Almost two years ago the railroad
commission issued an order directing
the Southern Express Company to
discontinne the practice of requiring
shippers to pay the revenue tax. This
order, whic i has practically been held
in abeyance up to the present time, is
now in full force.
When the order of the commission
was issued on August 2d, 1898, W. D.
Dinsmore, of New York, and other
stockholders of the Southern Express
Company applied to the federal court
of the Southern district of Georgia
for an injunction prohibiting the rail
road commission from enforcing its
order and also preventing the company
from complying with it.
Judge Speer granted the injunction
on the ground that the railroad com
mission was acting beyond its prov
ince in ordering the express company
to pay the tax. Judge Speer refused
to go into the merits of the case, giv
ing as his reason that the commission
had gone beyond its depth. The case
was at once appealed to the circuit
court at New Orleans with the result
as above stated.
He saw you In a captivity from which He
was resolved to extricate you, though it
cost Him all sweat, all tears, all blood. Ho
came a great way to save you. Ho came
from Bethlehem here, through tho place
of skulls, through the charnel house,
through banishment. There was not
among all the ranks of celestials one
being who would do as much for you.
I lay His Let crushed heart at your feet to
day. it not be told in heaven that yon
deliberately put your foot cn it. While it
will take all the ages of eternity to cele
brate Christ’s triumph, I am here to make
the startling announcement that because
of the rejection of this mission ou the work part
of some of you all that magnificent
of garden and cross and grave is, so far
as you are concerned, a failure, Helena,
the Empress, went to tho Holy
Land to find the cross of Christ, Get
ting to the Holy Land, thero were three
crosses excavated, and the question
was which of the crosses was Christ’s
cross. Thov took a dead body, tradition
says, nnd put it upon one of the crosses,
and there was no life, and they took the
dead body and put it upon another cross,
and there was no life; but, tradition says,
when the dead body was put up against
the third cross it sprang into life. The
dead man lived again. Oh, that the life
giving power of the Son of God might dart
your dead soul into an eternal life, begin
ning this day! “Awake, thou sleepest, shall
and rise from the dead, and Christ
give thee life!” Live nowl And live for
ever!
RECEIVER SUSPECTS FRAUD.
Conditlon of Southern Agricultural Work*
Worse Than Statement Indicated.
According to the report of Haskins
Sells, the expert accountants, the
Southern Agricultural works at At
lanta lost 884,122.55 from July 1,1899
to April 19, 1900. The report indi
cates that this large sum was lost in
the ordinary course of business. expert
The estimate made by the ac
countants makes the company appear the
in much worse condition than
company’s statement, recently filed i Q
the bankruptcy court, would indicate.
In his report made Wednesday af
ternoon Receiver George Parrott stated
that he did not believe the loss of
884,000 waB sustained in a business
way. It was very difficult, however,
to secure the evidence of the gross^
frauds that he suspected.
Cuban “IrreguIariticR” Investigated.
The senate committee on relations
with Cuba held its first meeting
Wednesday under the resolution di
recting an investigation into the ir
regularities in Cuba, but took no ac
tion beyond the adoption of a number
of resolutions calling upon the vari
ous departments for information.