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I WONDER WHtr.E IS FAIRYLAND.
[ wonder where is F y < 1 ?
Somehow I’ve lost the way,
Although In I another knew it day. wet! enough
I "knew quite where
just the elfins played,
Or drank the dewdrop wine,
And Robin Goodfellow himself
Was then a friend of mine.
The Brownies P cd their tricks for me
There in that mystic land,
And Trixies laughed in hidden dells,
Or took me by, the hand;
And there were gi;:nts, very tall,
More tall than < eau tell;
And Jack the Killer, he was there;
I knew him very well.
And Cinderella- -v*
you may deem
She’s but a fabled lass, '
But, faith! I’ve met her oftentimes,
And seen her shoe of glass.
I wonder where is Fairyland?
I left it behind, »
once
And, though I seek it far and near,
No more its vales I find.
There was a Utile maid I knew
Who wandered there with me,
But, though I often call her name,
No more her form I see. /•
Mayhap—mayhap—I Beside sparkling do not rill, know—
some
Deep She’s hid and lost in Fairyland, still.
waiting for me
I wonder where is Fairyland?
Or near or far away.
For, oh, ’tis hard to know it well,
And then from it to stray.
The little maid, the Brownies all,
The elfins still at play—
Will some one tell me where they are?
For, oh, I’ve lost Alfred' t!>e way. J. Waterhouse.
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SZ*. LADYS laughed when
i G i t Grandma that the little Eunice silver told milk her
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^ from jug had France been brought than over
more a
century and a half ago. To
be sure, closer examination showed
ibat it bore a coat of arms, presumptive
evidence that it had once been beau
tiful and valued. But now how very
sad and shabby it seemed.
■ - All these dents and pinches make
it look like a little goblin with his nose
nskew!” Gladys said.
Then Grandma Eunice told her how
the silver milk jug had gained its scars
and become a souvenir of an experience
that few persons would care to un
dergo.
I was born in Y’ork state, but when I
was two years old father took the
Western fever, and there was nothing
to do but puli up stakes and go away
off to the northwest corner of Iowa—
lie and bis married brother and sister,
and my grandparents Decostei, the
owners of the milk jug.
They didn’t make much by moving,
but they “stuck it out” in Iowa for
six years. Then when I was eight
years old—that was along in the forties
—Uncle Zeruiali started the notion that
Kansas was the billy place for a
farmer. So off we all went again, this
time joined by two of our neighbors,
Mr. Tucker and Mr. Dakcs, and their
families.
"We traveled in a train of great
wagons, or “pfiairie- schooners.” Mr.
Dakes’ was drawn by a span of large
mules. Tucker’s folks had a pair of
horses; Uncle Zeruiah had an ox and
a horse hitched tandem, father had a
mule and a horse hitched together, and
Aunt Louisa’s husband had two big
spotted horses—beauties!
I 11 the wagons we t carried all the
household goods they would hold. To
the tail of almost every wagon a cow
was hitched. Aunt Louisa’s husband
bad a big bog named Peleg and a sheep
named Bouncer that be couldn't be
prevailed upon to part with, so be took
them along instead of a cow.
Our year’s wool was in canvas sacks
on the tops of the wagons. The sides
of the wagon were hung with copper
porringers, tin bakers, frying pans
brass kettles. '' I was an odd
car. van as ever was seen, I guess!
jL ii e milk jug went with us, but
among the kitchen ware. It
in an old sea chest, and that was
with the linen that mother had
and woven and the quilts and
fortables that we girls—even
helped to make.
We got over the ground very
Wo used to start early in the
and in the middle of the day we
always glad to find some water hole
a dried up creek, where we could
our stock and halt for dinner. It
dreadfully hot and dry. and on days
moonlight nights we made a long
ing and traveled very late.
Adventures? Who ever crossed
plains in the days before the
without having adventures?
One night we were attacked
wolves, which came pretty near
ing off Feleg. tho fat pig.
night our sentinel aroused us to
from a prairie fire that would
have overwhelmed us in the end
not the wind opportunely shifted.
was only two days after this that
had a narrower escape, that of
the silver milk jug is a reminder.
We had set out at dawn that
Ing, for it was growing hotter
day. That meant that it was
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too, and the difficulty of getting feed
and water for the animals was greater.
Even the water holes in some of the
creeks had now disappeared.
We had come upon a creek where
there was a hole containing a little
warm and muddy water. Near the
north bank of the creek we found a
few bunches of greasewood for our
campfire. A half-dozen scraggy cotton
woods promised us shade. Altogether
we thought we were fortunate, and we
concluded to make a long nooning and
get a good rest.
Greasewood was soon hacked off. a
fire was ligiited, and several prairie
hens which had been taken in the
morning were set to cook for dinner.
I remember I was playing with a home
made doll under the cottonwood trees
wL°n a low rumbling like deep, far
distant thunder attracted everyone’s
attention.
The sky was clear. There were no
indications of a shower approaching.
But the rumbling grew louder every
moment and soou the ground began to
tremble.
“It'S an earthquake! Tobias Tucker
shouted. Truly the continuous jarring
did suggest the approach of an earth
quake; but it seemed strange that it
came on so slowly.
The horses all stopped grazing and
gazed anxiously off in the direction
from which the sounds came. Then
they began to snort and* plunge and
strain at their halters.
• • Something is wrong, that’s sure,”
said Aunt Louisa's husband, gravely.
All at once, while we scanned the
plains a brown cloud rolled slowly up
from behind a swell of land a mile to
to the north of the creek. The next
moment a long line of dark objects
surged over tlie crest.
4 . It’s a buffalo run! Get to the
wagons, all of you!” Dales cried.
44 No! No! For your lives!” shouted
father and Together, <( On to the
horses, double, treble, anyhow, and
ride! Quick, or we’re lost!”
The men jumped for the horses, lifted
on the women and children, and swung
themselves up ahead.
The earth was shaking beneath us
as the black line of shaggy heads—a
mile wide, seemingly, and still pouring
over the ridge in couni less numbers—
bore down toward us, nearer, nearer, a
thirst maddened throng turning neither
to right nor left.
Before we could start the horses half
the distance between us had been cov
ered. It seemed a hopeless race, but
one we went, clinging for life, clatter
ing across the rocky creek bed,
a southwest and quartering course to
get out of range of the oncoming multi
tude.
Dismay filled every heart. The
women and children shrieked and
ered their heads, the men
hoarsely and spurred the
horses to their utmost speed.
The ground throbbed beneath us.
air -was filled with a horrible rumblin O) 1 r
the dust rolled over us in clouds.
O 11 we galloped, and on
the living mass behind. If our
could only hold on to take us
the line of death dealing hoofs!
Faster we urged the horses, and for
little time we kept the distance
then, jaded with the long journey,
heavily loaded, they began to fall
hind, and every moment we
to he blotted out forever.
Nothing could be heard above
roar of the advancing mass. The
clouds choked and blinded us.
could not see Tobias’ big roan,
lead we were to follow, and each stag
peered on for himself in the rush
life.
Now tlie usually sure-footed
horse on which I was seated
father stumbled into a gopher
We held our breath. He almost
down. Then gathering himself,
plunged forward again, I was
off my seat by the last sudden
but I hung on with a desperate
to father’s homespun jacket.
Then all in a moment we found
were out of reach, and the living
rent swept by us and went roaring
crashing on over the plains toward
Platte River, their goal of thirsty
sire, leaving us half dead with
terror of the flight.
After the air cleared wo pulled
selves together and retraced our
to the midday camp. A wagon
here, a bit of canvas there,
hoards and a few scraps of the
kettles marked the place. All else
been swept away.
The cows and Bouncer and poor
releg had either been borne off
in the thundering herd, or else
down and annihilated in a
space—a fate we ourselves had
ly escaped.
The sea chest had gone in the
wreck, of course, together with
linen and bedding it had taken us
long a time to get together. But
silver mik jug. hurled behind a
stone in the creek bed, had
lously escaped absolute ruin,
its beauty was gone forever.
Here was an overwhelming
ity! Not only were our
gone, but also the guns and
tion that might have procured
But it would not do to wait and
over our losses. We had to push
and find help.
This we did. and two days later
in with a Government surveying
From it we bought three
fortunately our men had carried
money on their persons—some
and provisions enough to starve along
with until we reached our destination.
Grandmother Decoster died the next
year. She had given me the battered
little milk jug with the old coat of
arms. “Keep it, my dear,” she said,
“to remind you of that day when God s
kind providence brought us all un
harmed out of threatened destruction.”
Youth’s Companion.
THE SIGNBOARD EYESORES.
How the Railroads Could Help Abate
the Nuisance.
The way in which the railroads may
help to abate the signboard nuisance is
pointed out by the Philadelphia Press.
They could do it by screening the un
sightly boards and thus defeating the
purpose of their erection.
Where a railroad owns or controls
its right of way it could plant quick
growing trees like poplars or maples
between the tracks and the signs. The
trees would obstruct the view, of
course, but their green and grace
would be more pleasing than a land
scape fretted with glarii T O* invitations
to buy soap and whisky. Along steam
railroads locust trees could be planted,
and these at their maturity would fur
nish first-class ties at little cost.
It is not probable that these wayside
signs are profitable to their misguid
ed promoters, as persons with any
sense of taste will not purchase arti
cles thus offensively brought to their
attention, but that advertisers are not
persuaded of this is evident from the
rapid growth of the nuisance. To hide
the signs would certainly make them
unprofitable and would soon discour
age the practice.
It is much to be feared, however,
that no railroad company will add to
the attractiveness of its route by
adopting the suggestion. Nevertheless
it is not wasted, as it furnishes a peg
on which to hang discussion of the bill
board evil, and thus to help create the
sentiment which alone will suppress it.
WISE WORDS.
It is not necessary to be irreverent
in order to be reasonable.
A man's reflections on others consti
tute a fair reflection of himself.
lie is a narrow-minded man who can
only entertain one idea at a time.
The more a man grows in God's sight
the smaller he becomes in his own.
It is impossible to think of His works
and our worries at the same time.
When the church becomes a market
it is ruled by the greed of the mob.
True prayer is more likely to trans
form our wills than to change God’s.
It is uo use fixing the eye on the com
pass if the hand is not on the wheel.
The light of success needs to
trimmed with the shears of humility.
When men have a patent on a creed
it is always one of their own invention.
God determines our own discipline
r >t by our deserts, but by Bis designs.
The man who sighs for the days of
the martyrs generally does it in an easy
chair.
It might endanger the existence of
the cold storage church if the Spirit
of fire entered there.
The old ways are the nest, provided
we keep on running in them instead of
sitting down as stumbling blocks.
The world measures men at their
death by the things they leave, the
Christian by the things they go to re
ceive.
It is no use calling a man “brother”
at the church door if you are not go
ing to look on him as a brother at your
own door.—Ram’s Hour.
The Army Automobile.
Officers of the Ordnance Department
have made several trips in the
of Washington on the now
battery wagon and forge recently
for the army. They have ridden
and down all the steep bills in that
cinity, and over the roughest
they could find, and are well
with the performances of the big
chine. It is provided with a winch
pull the wagon up particularly
grades, hut so far it lias not
found necessary to use it on any
the roads in that vicinity. A
demonstration of the portable
and machine shop was made at
cavalry post at Fort Myer a few
ago in the manufacture of
etc. It is intended to send the
with a battery of field artillery on
practice march into the country in
spring.
Boinlmfiling a Mountain.
Tlie curious spectacle of a battery
Italian artillery bombarding a
tain was witnessed in Savoy
At Notre Dame de Briancon there
a landslide which sent 10,000
yards of rock into the valley,
the highways and roadways.
an attempt was made to clear it
it was discovered that another
was imminent. It was decided first
use dynamite to dislodge the loose
about the mountain’s crest, 3000
above the valley. This seemed to
too hazardous, so two heavy guns
hauled to the top of another
2000 yards away, and began to
bard the offending summit with com
moil shell. Tlie practice was
lent and in two hours over 200
of rook were dislodged. The next
the job was finished with
melinite shells.
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I Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Hawkinsville Dispensary Profitable.
The manager of the dispensary at
Hawkinsville shows a net profit ot
over $17,000 for Tue city and county
in 1003. It has now been in operation
over two years and has proved to be
the best solution of the whiskey prob
lem for the city.
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Gas Plant for Valdosta.
G. W. Beckett, of Savannah, and
William B. Miller, superintendent of
the gas light company in Augusta, ap
peared before the Valdosta city council
and submitted a proposition for the
erection of a gas plant. The council
was favorably impressed with the
proposition and a franchise was grant
ed, providing tnat work shall begin on
same within thirty days.
Receiver fo r Car Works.
The Georgia Car and Manufacturing
Company, at Macon, has been placed
in the hands of a receiver. Merrill B.
Callaway, of Macon, was appointed re
ceiver by Judge Emory Speer of the
United States court.
The order taken before Judge Speer
provides that the receiver'take imme
diate possession of the company’s prop
rty and that he negotiate a loan of suf
ficient money to meet ail pressing
claims and pay employees.
It is asserted that all pending con
tracts will be carried out.
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State Board Issues Reply.
The state board of education held a
meeting in the office of Governor Ter
rell the past week and issued a state
ment concerning tne attacks which
have recently been made upon the
board by the Augusta Chronicle. The
statement denied all the charges
made by the Chronicle and goes into
detail concerning what the Chronicle
said. The statement of the Chronicle’s
that book companies contributed to
the campaign funds of two of the
state house officers was characterized
as too absurd to notice.
Course of Stuudy for Schools,
State School Commissioner W. B.
Merritt has made out an interesting
schedule of the work for the common
schools of Georgia in accordance with
the studies and bocks adopted under
the uniform text-book law. This he
has published in circular form and cop
ies will be sent to all of the county
superintendents! in the state.
In the circular issued by the state
school commissioner the studies are
all given under the respective heads
of reading, writing, arithemetic, etc.,
and these will be readily understood.
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Shops to Go to Hawkirsvilie.
The chops of the Hawkinsville and
Florida Southern railway, which
were burned at Pitts a few weeks ago,
will be rebuilt in Hawkinsville, the
management having decided to accept
A proposition made by t'& city to that
effect.
The shops will be located on the
lands owned by the railroad at the for
mer fair grounds.
The location of these shops in Haw
kinsville will add a great deal to the
city’s now large weekly payroll, and
will increase the population consider
ably, aa they employ a* large number
of hands at good wag rh.
Question cf General flordon’s Rank.
Since the death ofwGeneral' Gordon
his war record has )/een the theme of
universal comment,/which has given
rise to a question as to just what his
legal rank was at I* i.e fall of the
federacy. 1
This question is flntiwered by the
mented Gordon himself in a letter
wrote in 1899. This/ letter was as
lows: t,
“Mv Dear Major:—Yours of the ItTh
has been forwarded to cn my
ture tour.
“I was informed /by General war/^
ridge, secretary Petersburg, j of while
corps was at \that I
been made a lieutenant general.
“Like a great/many other\cases
that period or the war, my
never reached I me. I was,
accorded th d rank and assignment,
was waiting fo/r my commission to
last before sic/ning officially as*
ant general. J. B GORDON.
“MAJOR Si A. CUNNINGHAM,
u Editor/ Confederate Veterai).. »
Working pfirpose for Good Roads.
For the of investigating
discussing j the present conditions
der which! the roads are worked
Fulton coijnty and for suggesting
ter methiids of doing this work,
grand jurV held an open meeting in
lanta Saturday morning in the.*> 01 .
room of t.he criminal branch o! the
perior c#>urt.
All thfcse who were interested in
betterm ent of the roads were
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to attend, and a large number o
4 >le took part in the "discus f P3u
After fully icn.
discussing tin
the following resolutions were
posed and adopted:
“Resolved, That it is the « S2nse
this meeting that there is need fc.
an improvement in the man ner of J
pervision of road improvem ent and J
pairs, as conducted by the di strict m.]
commissioners; and,
“Resolved, That legislation t 10 m
end be secured from the state if p!
found necessary.’’
The discussion brought out tbs f a
that the present system of read w Cl
ing is absolutely inadequate a
not produce satisfactory results.
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Married Women Can Attend Schoc
According tc the construction of
Georgia school laws by State Sea
Commissioner Merritt, a married ®
man can attend the public schools
Georgia free of charge, provided si
is under eighteen years of age. Th
question was raised by a ool hoai
in Johnson county, where a
year-old married woman had
the public schools.
The school board was of the o mi
that a married woman had no auth
ity, and furthermore no business
attending the public schools of
gia, but when the young woman
tested and claimed that she had ai
much authority as anybody, the qua
ticn was submitted to State
Commissioner Merritt, and he
that if the young woman, whether
ried or single, was within the age
it she had a perfect right to be in
common schools free of charge.
This is two distinct victories for |
Georgia married woman within
- past week. Attorney General
had just rendered an opinion bold!
that a married woman could
school in Georgia, and new
sioner Merritt holds that a married i
man can attend the schools.
Both questions have caused a
of discussion among the capitol o
cfals, but the concensus of
seems to be that the married worn
has a right to teach and go to echo
too, provided she wants to do so.
Teachers Being Paid.
Checks for $600,000 of are Georgia being rj ;ij
out to the teachers
week. All the warrants have tej
prepared and Sll ned by Governor T
rell.
The money is for the last montl
work in 1903. Another payment J
likely be made to the pedagogues sol
time in February, provided, of couri
that the money is in the treasury til
All the tax collectors have not mad
their settlements as yet, and payments some j j
them will not finish their
the state until April.
Every effort will be made to pay Jj fj
teachers in February, however,
the work done in January. The sia
is generally late in paying the toacj it j
ers, but within the next year'
hoped to pay them for their closed. wort j
soon as their month is
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Prospective Merger of Roads. I
Negotiations for the consolidation railroi j
the Atlantic and Birmingham Birminghaj
and the Brunswick and
railroad are now ponding, it is said a
good authority, and it appears that ta
merger will take place in a very ska
time. I
This announcement will be tho 0 .
sion of considerable surprise in
lower part of the state, aknought
will also, doubtless, be much
tion, as the transaction means
railroad facilities and a general
provement in schedules.
From what has been loarned, it
pears that tho transaction
amounte to a purchase of the
wick and Birmingham by too
of the Atlantic and Birmingham,
object being to secure for the
road an extension into Brunswick aa
to the coast.
SFRliiE OF HEARSE DRIVERS RESUME
Chicago is Again Without Usual Means
Conducting Her Funerals,
The strike of livery drivers bsS
anew at Chicago Thursday, After
truce of fifteen days following the
quois fire, ninety-five per cent of
COO drivers of carriages and hear
are said to be out and once more 1
black undertakers'’ wagons wore ?
into service in lieu of hearse as at k
evafs, while mourners were obliged
resort again to the street cars jou'-i
ing to the cemeteries.
M1MISTER HER RAN SOON TO LEAVE l|
Columbia’s Representative Has Alto
Packed Up His “Juds” at Washington
Dr. Thomas Herran, charge d'
fa ires of the Colombian legation,
Washington, has decided to avail F
self of the leave of absence
him and will depart from the 1
States some time next month. Ah' e
the legation archives have been PW
ed and stored, Upon Dr. closed Herr^ a
leaving the legation will be
it 3 affairs* turned over to the Cole
consul general in New York.