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tr l l i.'HHEWBav - "T T . 1 tc:?.? 1 viix 1 lt : was r 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. 31E3SSESSIZ2C1B j&j 111 •A & 1 &a ss r> gw* ■a ■ t ■ j ~'V ! SZ*. LADYS laughed when i G i t Grandma that the little Eunice silver told milk her o O ^ 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 i l 1 : a t rrrr --TTT vJg -»-ur j.n. u j ■ ■ 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. 1 -**.-• ■ T T gj ...'"-i i iWf i ,-i j ■a r jmx-vxg *r 4 . * -r T f 4 < £*-£--}-•1*4’d-'i- __ ’* 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. * * * 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. * * 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. #*...* 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 / 1 * 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. * * * 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 :5 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.