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OPPORTUNITY.
“] hit no St kill to lead,” he cried,
>>ii: see. the breach within the wall! i>
lie grasped a bugle at his side
And blew a battle-call.
They They followed where the bugle rang;
smote the crumbling wall to
Foremost ground— within
the breach he sprang,
The man the hour had found!
—Blanche Trennor Heath, in Lippincott’s.
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RILEY observed coutrite
-I A V ly, “Miss Diana, if I had
o G only respected your super
i K ior knowledge of wood
'“5*©$?' craft we’d be eating lun
cheon by this time. We’re lost and I
am miserable. 91
“Nonsense,” said Tolly Mason, cheer
fully, “don’t apologize and spoil the
whole adventure. I’m no pick-me-up
and-carry-me-or-I’ll-die, and a few
hours’ tramping won’t hurt me. Give
me a match.
He gave her a handful from the poc
.kot of his shooting coat.
“After this,” lie remarked, emphat
ically, “when Bob Markham dubs a
girl Diana I’ll follow her directions out
hunting.
“Do you think any normal man ever
•willingly admitted that a woman had a
bump of locality?” she questioned, set
ting fire to a pile of twigs and bark.
As tlie blaze increased, Ashley added
logs and underbrush. The warmth and
crackle of the fire were encouraging.
“Two weeks ought to have taught me
jour skill. What a pleasant time it has
been! • ’
“Yes, indeed,” said Polly, lightly.
“Try stripping some of the birds.
Perhaps we could cook them. Be
hind the trees, please. I don't want
to see.
Ashley was understood to be en
gaged to an Eastern girl, and Polly
objected even to an approach to sen
timent.
“I hope the Markhams won’t worry, I!
she continued. “He was miserable this
morning. Too bad they couldn’t come.”
“No wonder you are angry,” growled
Ashley from behind the tree, “you
wouldn’t be here if they had come.
Don’t rub it in. I’ve done my best.
Polly laughed and the woods echoed
pleasantly.
“Oh, it isn't so bad. You might have
been Abe,” she said. “He has only
three stories and runs a continuous
vaudeville with them. ii
But if I’d been Abe you wouldn’t
been here,” he protested. “There it is
again. I’m glad I’m not—at least, I
am glad Abe is not enjoying what I
am. •' He put the stripped birds
near
the fire and went to forage for fuel.
“You've all been so good about lug
ging me alon ■ >• • 11 she said when he re
turned; “girls are nuisances. *
“Some girls are,” he discriminated,
“but Diana is the stuff for a hunter. 99
She bowed mockingly.
“Recognition always comes to a
genius a little late. Who’ll take the
first bite of the birds. It's like the man
with the first oyster. 11
• ■ One, two, three,” counted Ashley.
They bit and laughed. “Would you
rather have starved?” he asked.
“Haven't yet decided. ii
“Try this,” he said, handing her a
cup of spring water. “Here’s a toast, ii
he continued, after she had taken a
drink. “Miss Diana, worthy success
or to the goddess of hunting, in wit, in
beauty, and in spirit. 11
“Thank you.” Polly reached uncer
emoniously for the cup.
>. Mr. Ashley, the great woodsman of
the Northwest! ‘He loves not man the
less, but nature more. 1 11
A flash of lightning and a clap of
thunder startled the cup from her hand.
In the thick of the woods the storm
had c%.e upon them suddenly.
“You see,” said Ashley, “the gods
are angry at your abuse of one of their
favorite mortals. 11
•4 I never liked Jupiter, anyway,” re
torted Polly.
A huge boulder tilted sharply to one
side furnished them with a slight shel
ter from the big drops. Despite her
protests Ashley wrapped her in his
coat.
“When the storm lessens we'll break
for somewhere. The belt of woods is
narrow, so Ave ought to find either the
lake or the cottage.” Then he add
ed. abruptly: “Bo you remember when
we first met?”
She did remember, but objected to
personalities. 1 %
4 • Why, let me see,” she hesitated.
. ■ At dinner at the Arthur’s last
May,” he supplied eagerly. “We dis
cussed the ethics of love. Every one
had a different story and a different
opinion.
* 4 Yes, it was very amusin < > 11 she
agreed.
“That was five months ago. I suppose
we might have lived in town for years
and never got beyond the ‘how-do-you
do-I’m-very-wcll-thank-you’ stage. It
has seemed different here. These tAvo
-weeks have meant much to me.”
“That's the fate of city life,” Polly
said slowly, “one has no time it*
friendship.”
She well remembered the dinner, the
sudden sympathy between them and
an indescribable feeling of loss when
Mrs. Markham had told her afterward
that Asblgy was engaged. She had a de
cided code in matters of that kind and
many times during the last few' w'eeks j
his interested eyes had troubled her.
“I had a little tale I wanted to tell, j j
but the man whom it concerned was
there.” How could she make him
stop? She did not like his words or j
his tone.
“This chap met a very pretty girl
while he was still in college. Almost
before lie knew it he was engaged to
her. They had a grain of sense, how
ever, for they agreed that either might
be released at the end of the • *
year.
“When the time was up the fellow
found incident that the in liis girl was only He a told pleas- her j
ant career.
so, gently enough, Should be but have plainly. made Was him- j j
lie a brute?
soijf care?”
"He did right, 11 Polly replied, her in- ;
terest sweeping away her fears, <.r This
talk of honor is rubbish. A woman is |
never satisfied with half a love. He I
couldn’t have deceived her forever, and j
the sharp present pang would have
been nothing to the later one. 11
u I am very glad,” he said, in a voice
that thrilled her; “it is my own story. >»
“Oh,” breathed Polly, a thousand
thoughts wheeling through her mind.
“Then you are not engaged? 91
<. You have thought I was?” he ques
tioned quickly.
a Mrs. Markham said so. 91
“I thought Bob knew it was broken.”
Then restlessly, “I’ve tried many times
to go back. She has never married and
her beauty’s gone. Twice I’ve been as
far as the train. It wasn’t the sacri
fice. It was living a lie. 91
“Poor girl,” murmured Polly.
Ashley was quiet, his hands clasped
tensely behind him. The storm had
reached its height, and the rain sound
ed like musketry among the trees.
Great oaks and pines groaned in the
wind, and blue lightning cleft the dark
ness. Thunder came in continuous
waves of sound. At one flash un
usually bright, Polly buried her head !
in her hands. When she lifted it a |
0 ( »’ iant tree was falling with a ripping
noise, dropping from one to another of
the smaller trees about it.
“It will soon be done,” Ashley said,
s oothingly. “You must hate me for
causing you this discomfort?”
“Possibly I do,” she smiled, “but I
couldn’t afford to own it. I can’t
stand thunder and lightning alone.
You might desert. --
.. And you would keep me even when
you knew I had been cruel to a wo
man?” Polly’s heart fluttered.
“It was not intentional cruelty.
There degrees. 1 '
are
Ashley handed her the photograph
of a girl, which he took from his
watch. i -*
“This is she,” he said.
.. How very pretty she is! til
4 4 She expected that to take the place
of ideas, education, character, He
tore the picture into bits.
“No, no!” she cried.
U Why not? My penance is (lone
Diana has judged me innocent.”
“But -why should I—I don't under
stand. •»
“Why should you be judge?” he fin
ished eagerly and tenderly, “because
I love you. J *
The report of a gun brought Polly to
her feet, half relieved, half regretful,
She sped away through the rain-laden
underbrush to meet the Markhams and
Abe, the guide.
“Why didn’t you run for the house?”
called Mrs. Markham. “It’s only a lit
tie way.
.. A little way!” echoed Polly, and
Ashley laughed.
4. We Avere lost,” he explained. I
didn’t trust Diana and we’ve walked
ten miles at least.
“To say nothing of being starved and
soaked and wasting your time,
mocked Mr. Markham.
4 . Don't say wasted, Bob, • • protested
Ashley.
• 4 No, indeed,” interrupted Mrs. Mark
ham, “they’ve probably settled the uni
verse by now. What’s the best way to
alleviate the wretched lot of man?”
“Did Ave get as far as that, Miss
Diana?” Somehow Ashley had man
aged to keep her behind the others and
grasp her hand in his.
All rosy red she raised her eyes to
bis and from them shot a glance thal
meant a Avorld of happiness to him.
. 4 No,” she replied. “Not quite os fai
as that.”—New York Commercial Ad
vertiser.
A Cranlty French Deputy.
There is in the Chamber of French
Deputies, says a writer in The Cen- !
tury, Hi an old deputy of Brittany,
versally regarded i i as „ a i„ harmless crank
Avliose speeches always arouse storms
of laughter. They consist merely ir
passionate outbursts of abuse against
the Republic, and in cries cf “Vive
Dol”—the President dismissing their
generally with a shrug of the shoul
ders, Avhile the Chamber receive.; there
with ironical applause. In spite of tin
foolish and useless role he plays, tin
Count Bandry d’Asson has been foi
nearly thirty years regularly re-elected
—Philadelphia Record.
The density of relatiA-e population o
Cuba is nearly the same as that of thi
United States.
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4 ^ GEORGIA. ;
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Brief Summary of Doings
Throughout the State.
Masons to Hold Festival.
Preparations are being rapidly com
pleted for the Masonic festival which
is to take place in Atlanta on Tuesday
evening, March 1.
Chairman William M. Slaton, of the
general committee having charge ot
the affair, is doing everything possibie
to make the occasion a marked event
in the local history of Free Masonry.
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Grand Jury Indicts Hunt.
The grand jury at Columbus indicted
Charles D. Hunt on the charge of mur
der after an investigation of the cir
cumstances attending the Killing of
George H. Fcntaine in the Muscogee
Club.
The grand jury also returned three
other indictments against three per
sons in connection with the case, and
it is understood that they were for
gambling.
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Widow of Ben Hill Dead.
Mrs. Benjamin H. Hill, Sr., the wid
ow of the late Senator Benjamin H.
Hill, and well known all over the Uni
ted States, died Sunday morning at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hen
rietta Hill Thompson, in Washington,
D. C.
Death came as the result of an at
tack of pneumonia. Mrs. Hill left At
lanta last December for Washington,
to pay a visit to her daugnter, Mrs.
Thompson.
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Both Counties Claim Taxes.
The most important case tried in
Walton superior court the past week
was that of the county of Morgan
against the county of Walton, involv
ing the county taxes of the High
Shoals cotton mills, situated on the
line of the two counties. This case
will" be far-reaching in its results.
The legislature of 1903 passed an
act requiring all manufacturing compa
nies to pay taxes in the county in
which is located the main buildings
containing machinery. The constitu
tionality of this act was attacked, and
it was held valid by Judge Russell.
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Mrs. Wood Asks for Clemency.
Mrs. Capitola Wood, who is under
sentence to serve two years in the
Georgia penitentiary for assault */ith
intent to murder upon her husband, W.
J. Wood, at Atlanta, has filed through
her attorneys, a petition for a commu
tation of her sentence imprisonment
in the county jail or the payment of a
fine.
If the prison commission is unable
to act upon the matter at once, an ef
fort will he made to get Governor Ter
rell to grant a respite of sentence un
til the prison commission can hear ihe
case.
Mrs. Wood states that she is willing
to go to jail or pay a fine, but that sne
is not physically able to do the work
; which will be required of her in the
j penitentiary.
Mrs. Wood’s petition recites the fact
s p e wag crue py treated by her
husband and that she shot him while
j | goaded to desperation.
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Contest Over School Office.
At a recent election for county
school commissioner in Banks county,
Strange was elected, but a con
test has been filed by Colonel Oscar
Brown and Professor H. P. Hewitt, al
leging fraud and irregularities during
| the examination, which implicate W.
H. Crunch, member of the board of
education, in assisting G. G. Strange,
one of the applicants in the absence
of the president and other members
of the board and other assistance ren
dered Strange.
On the trial the board decided
against the contestants and the case
goes on appeal to the state school
commissioner.
The people of the county are great
ly wrought up over the contest and
are anxious to have a fair, impartial
and thorough investigation d the ques
tionable conduct alleged.
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Trcopc Protected Prisoner.
Convicted of attempted criminal as
I sault and sentenced to twenty years
. , penitentiary, .. ,. Will TTT .„ TT Hudson, ,
m me y J an
•
18-year-old negro, came near losing his
life Avhile being escorted from the
court house in Columbus to the jail.
Martin R. Burton, the father of the
young girl upon whom the negro made
his brutal attack, tried to break
through the line of officers, and with
one hand grasping a pistol, was mak
ing a desperate effort to get at the
negro, with the presumable intention
of taking his life, when overpowered
by the officers.
The negro was *f.en hurried on to
jail, the riot alarm was sounded, the
: two local military companies assem-
bled at their armories and marched
quickly to the jail, which they protect
ed until the negro was sent from the
city to the Atlanta jail.
Troutman’s Peculations.
According to a report made to Gov
ernor Terrell by T. M. Swiit, of Eiber
ton, a member of the board of trustees
of the state sanitarium. C. R. Trout
man, the defaulting cashier of the
Merchants and Farmers’ bank of Mil
Tedgeville, and treasurer of the sanita
rium, who committed suicide, began
and completed his downfall within less
than one week.
Troutman's first draft on the funds
in his possession for purposes of specu
lation was drawn on February 13. He
committed suicide February i9.
February 10 Troutman's balance on
the books of the sanitarium account
was $24,144.22. On this the following
drafts were drawn: February 12
$759.42; February 13, $9,018.20; Feb
ruary 16, $6,015.39 and $832.01; Febru
ary 19, $7,027.75. His balance on Feb
ruary 19 was $491.25. ’
Part of the money drawn out Febru
°rv 12 was to pay bills for the sanita
rium; all the rest, including that of the
19th, was used for speculation. Trout
man’s total shortage was found to be
$23,040.07.
Fruit Growers Elect Officers.
At the closing meeting of the Geor
gia Fruit Growers’ Association in
Fort Valley, a committee was appoint
ed to meet the legislative committee
on appropriations to ask for an appro
priation of $1,500 for the State Board
of Entomology.
The executive committee was next
appointed, the- association deciding to
have the chairman appoint one mem
her from eacn congressional district
on this committee.
Another committee was appointed to
look into the railroads’ bills of lading
and if possible change tne form now
in use; also to try for a reduction in
express rates. After this the following
officers were elected tor the coming
year;
Dudley M. Hughes, president; H. A.
Mathews, first vice president; F. O.
Somarhouse, second vice president; F.
W. Hazlehurst, secretary anu treas
urer.
Unanimous votes of thanks were ten
dered the Georgia Fruit Package Co.
for their courtesy in giving the mem
bers of the association a delightful
drive over the local orchards, and to
the people of Fort Valley for their kind
j attentions and open hospitality.
! I It was decided to hold tne next meet
j ( ing at Marietta in April.
j The meeting has been of great bene
\ fit to all who attended and much was
said during the meetings that was of
value to those interested in the fruit
industry.
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Only the State is Short.
Two startling developments have
been made by the special legislative
investigating committee. The findings
of the committee have been kept as
quiet as possible in this instance, but.
the information has leaked out and no
end of a sensation has been created in
state circles by the discovery.
The committee has worked faithful
ly ad assiduously on the books of sev
eral institutions. There have been ru
mors and reports about some of the in
stitutions and the committee gave the
matter a very close investigation, go
ing over every detail and sitting facts
and figures wherever it was possible.
A Civic Duty.
An Englishman said to a prominent
American a few weeks ago: “I see
you educate toe people over here
well. 11 Not at all,” replied the Ameri
can. “We do not educate uie people.
We are the people and Ave educate our
selves.” This thought expresses the
dominant idea in education m Ameri
ca today. There was a time when
education was aristocratic, by the few
for the few. The inequality of wealth,
rank and position was made greater
by the inequality of education. It was
j not considered among the civic duties
j to deal with educational facilities. In
1830, the south sent only one student
out of every 7.232 persons to college,
i an( ^ H- eS( ? generally won prominence
' in their chosen work; not over 40 per
cent of the population remained illiter
ate. In 1870, in Georgia, only 6,600
pupils Avere enrolled in the more than
1.500 private schools—the only schools
then in the state. Last year 349,000
pupils were enrolled in the people’s
schools, and 3,400 students in the peo
ple’s higher institutions, Nearly a
hundred towns and cities in the state
then levied a local tax to support their
own schools.
Education by the people, for the peo
ple and of the people is fast becoming
the fundamental civic principle in this
state as it is in ail parts of our coun
try. In 1900, 92.27 per cent, of all el
ementary pupils in America was en
rolled in schools supported by the peo
ple; 73.75 per cent, of all those en
rolled in schools supported by taxes,
and 38 per cent, of college students
were in state institutions. In other
words nine-tenths of all pupils in all
grades from primary to the univ it
were in governmental schools ar. one
tenth in non-governmental schools. fco
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prevalent, so popular, so efficient hav
the graded public schools bec-om,
people moving to town ask, first of all
if there is a system of public schools
and they generally select the r nvn
having a local system. The bus
men of a town cannot afford to all ■7
their town schools to fall behind those
of their neighbors. The best money
spent by the town is on its schools.
Good schools fill vacant houses, .n
crease trade and advertise a town.
Such a school is not a charity, It is
the highest expression of civic duty
It is the education of all the children
by all the people, for the good of ail
the community. It is democratic edu
cation and offers equality of oppor
tunity regardless of condition. And
because it is democratic and efficient
no town or people that has ever adopt
ed local support of schools has ever
gone back, or ever agitated the ques
tion of going back, to the old system
of two or three private or sectarian
schools with their rivalry and strife.
There are not many towns in Geor
gia with a population of 1,500 without
a local system. No town with a popu
lation of a thousand or more need fear
to undertake this civic duty. Ir, has
nearly the civilized world for a suc
cessful precedent and not a record of
a failure.— J. S. STEWARi’, of Geor
gia University.
INSURGENTS SHELLED.
Domin cin Rebels Make an Attack
Upon Clyde Steamer and are
Promptly Called Down.
The Clyde line steamer New York
arrived at San Domingo Sunday morn
ing, February 14, convoyed by the Uni
ted States ccuiser Newark, and Minis
ter Powell instructed the captain ot
the vessel to discharge his cargo at the
wharf.
An agreement has been made by
Minister Powell and Commander Mil
ler with the insurgents and g -von
ment that neither party should fire
while the New York was at the wharf
discharging.
The government kept this agree
ment, but the insurgents fired on the
steamer and a launch from the cruis
er Columbia which was entering the
river. Eight rifle shots damaged the
New York’s wood work, endangering
the lives of passengers and crew.
The commander of the United States
warships then decided to shell Paja
rito (near San Domingo City), the
place occupied by the insurgents, and
to land 300 marines, with the object of
punishing the insurgents for insulting
the United States flag and damaging
an American steamer.
At 2:30 p. m., the Newark approach
ed and opened fire, discharging ten
shells. The insurgents fired upon the
marines while they were landing,
wounding some of them. The marines
returned the fire and the insurgents
ran away.
The marines landed, were divided
into two columns and searched the
houses, woods and bushes. They then
followed the insurgents, who fired
while the marines were reloading. The
result of the bombardment is not
known.
The New York left at 5 p. m. for
the roadstead, after landing ner cargo.
Marines from the United States
cruiser Columbia remained stationed
at Pajarito until Sunday afternoon,
when they withdrew to a great dis
tance without further resistance. The
shells from the ciuiser iNewark caus
ed some damage at Pajarito and the
surrounding country.
A protest signed by prominent citi
zens has been distributed to the- public
against the action of the United Status
Avarships Avhich it describes as an inso
lent outrage against the liberty of ‘he
republic and a disgrace to national
dignity.
Trouble Officially Confirmed.
A belated dispatch dated Feoruary
15, from Captain J. J&. Miller, of the
U. S. cruiser Columbia, wnicn, with
the Newark, is in San Domingan wa
ters, brings official confirmation of Lb ’
Associated Press dispatch regarding
the bombardment of the insurgents by
the war vessels of a position near the
capital city, the landing of mar.nes
and blue jackets to punish the revo.v
tionists and their subsequent re-em
barkation.
AMADOR NAMES OFFICIAL FAMILY.
Cabinet of New Panaman Republic is Se
lected by Chief Executive.
President Amador, of Panama, has
appointed the folloAving cabinet:^ anch f^oreiS 11
Minister of government eQn&?4p[
relations, Tomas Arias, T vaii ve '
Minister of justice and*Rjf lD '
structions, Julio of finance, Fabrega. Fr^ cdp*
Minister .UCi*®/
priella, liberal. | Juf
Minister of public works;
Quintero, liberal.