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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. TV In ohe Heart >T, [*) '"I of the ■// 1 .V. Woods •V f r*\ ;\\ @ Sy Eunheia’a Holden ® •w 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. 0 0 4 ^ GEORGIA. ; * 0 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. * 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. * ■* * 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. ❖ * * 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. * * * 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. * * 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. * 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. * * 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 - 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.