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It w»? young Love came swinging
Along the blossomed way,
When all the birds were singing
The madrigals of May;
4 < Oh. wondrous gifts I’m bearing, •» i
I’Twas thus I heard him cry),
“Good folk, come get voiir fairing
Ere yet I pass you by.”
*Twas I broke off my spinning,
My wheel stands silent yet,
And eager, too, for winning
Came Doris and .Jeanette:
And Phyllis from the herdin e>
My lady from the hall,
And faithful to his wording
Young Love gave gifts to ail.
Young Love gave gifts a-plenty
Ere yet his way he went;
Gold joy to ten and twenty,
Fair hope and sweet content.
Oh. happy mates uncaring,
Pass by, nor pause to sse
A heart ache for my fairing
Was all Love gave to me!
—Theodosia Garrison, in Pack.
TRe Malay Kris
A TRAGEDY OF A
PROVINCIAL TOWN
Translated From the French
of Tristan Bernard by
Laurence B. Fletcher.
OU are in a great hurry,
i Y V Monsieur Gambard. Sit
o G down again for a few min
is utes, won’t you?”
. • But it is nearly ten
o'clock, Monsieur Moutier. ft
“Well, wliat of it? The market
doesn't close until twelve. You have
plenty of time.”
“Yes, Monsieur Montier; but I prom
ised to meet my wife at one of the
shops. Jt
“Oil, she will be too busy shopping
to worry about your absence. 1 did
hope that you wou4d see my son be
fore you left. ft
“Your sail? Oh, to be sure; he lias
come back from Paris. Well, are you
glad? Did he graduate with honors?”
“Yes. He is a doctor of laws, and
his mother is overjoyed. 1 cannot say
that I am. I find him a little hit too
Parisian, this boy of mine. He says a
good many things that I don’t like at
all, argues about honesty, property,
justice. Why, yesterday I would have
left, the dinner table if it had been
anybody but my own son talking in
that way, and, being my own son, it
was hard work to keep my hands off
his ears. And he spends too much.
I am continually giving him money,
yet he is forever after his mother for
more. He goes to bed very late, and
every morning there is a great fuss
before monsieur consents to get up.
No, no! I don’t like such Habits. If
he wishes to succeed at the bar, he
must take another road. ft
*4 You intend to make a magistrate
of him, I believe?
>. He says no, at present. We shall
have to wait until he changes his
mind. yt
“Have you hoard that young Me
guin has come home as a juge de
struction ?”
“I know. He and my son are great
friends. A very serious lad, I hear.
u Serious? He would send his own
father to prison. There will he no
smothering of scandals with him—
like that college affair last year. Hea
vens, Monsieur Montier, it is a quar
ter past ten. I really must go, my
friend. Iloilo! What a pretty cab
inet!”
“It isn’t bad, but I have a more in
teresting one downstairs, in the hall.
I will go with you and show it to
you. You must see tiie Malay kris I
picked up the other day by pure ac
cident. Along comes a sailor—let me
see, it was the day before yesterday
—a sailor of some outlandish country,
with all sorts of foreign curiosities.
I bought something that he called a
Malay kris. Malay or not, it is very
curious. I’ve seen such tilings in
books, but I didn't know they really
existed. After stabbing, you press
spring. The blade divides, and
you pull it out, it leaves a
wound, shaped like a cross.
I will show it to you. Take care
the last step, the hall is so dark.
Cabinet is by the window. Hello!”
*4 What is the matter?”
4 . Well, here's a pretty business!”
4 t What?”
“The kris is gone! Who can
taken it? I must see aliout this. •»
“Look on the lloor, Monsieur
tier. Perhaps the hooks have
way. yy
“No, the hooks are all right,
there is nothing on the floor.
well! I must see about this at or.ee. yy
4 . Well, I must bo going,
Montier. yy
“Good-day. Monsieur Gambard.
tine! Justine! Oh, it’s you,
Where on earth is Justine?”
“In the garden, with madame.
have just come from market. *•
“But what is the matter with
Clemeuce? You look all upset.”
“And well I may be,
Something dreadful has
Monsieur knows the lady of the
teau— • •
44 Well?”
“She was murdered last
About nine o’clock the gardener
a scream and ran; but she was dead
before he reached her. The murderer,
whoever he is, must be a monster.
Just imagine, monsieur! On the poor
lady's breast they found two wounds
that made u cross. But what is the
matter with monsieur?”
“Nothing—the murder of the old
lady shocked me a little. Does ma
dame know?”
“Not yet, monsieur. n
“Don’t tell her. It might excite
her. • I
“Especially as madame is already
disturbed. I don’t know if I ought to
tell monsieur, but Monsieur Lu
cien- yy
“Well! What? Monsieur Lumen?”
“He did not come home last night—
Oh, what is wrong with monsieur?”
“I don’t know—I feel rather faint.
I’ve felt so all day—yesterday, too.’’
“Monsieur had better go to his
room. • •
“Yes. I am going.”
“I’ll help you up stairs.”
“No, no. Leave me alone.”
44 Yes, yes! Monsieur can hardly
stand up. Come! Carefully! Here
we are! * Sit down in your big arm
chair, There! Does monsieur feel
better ?”
“Yes, yes. M
“I am sure that monsieur was vexed
because Monsieur Lucien did not come
home. <*
“Nonsense! I’ve felt badly all day. *»
4 4 I will go and tell madame. ’ J
“No, no!”
4 . All! Here comes madame now.
Monsieur is ill, madame. • •
44 I am not; there is nothing the mat
ter with me. What is the girl talking
about? Go! Go to the kitchen.
•. Madame, I told monsieur that Mon
sieur Lucien ft
“Who told you to say anything about
it? Go! Mind your own affairs. That
girl is unbearable! She told you about
Lucien?”
“Yes. That is what upset me—
though I have not felt well all day. - ’
"It is not so much his not coming
home that vexes me—boys will be boys
—but I confess that I am troubled by
his mysterious actions. What do you
think? He came in, stealthily, two
minutes ago. I was in the hall, put
ting in order the closet under the
stairs. He didn’t see me in the dark
ness, but I saw him go to tiie cabinet
and hang something on a book. Ed
ward! What is the matter? You’re
as white as a sheet! yy
“Nothing, nothing! A slight faint
ness like I had a while ago. Go away;
I would rather be alone.”
“The idea! Leave you when you are
ill! »•»
"It is nothing, I toll you. My nerves
are unstrung. It only irritates me and
makes me worse to have people fuss
ing about me. Please go, dear. • *
“Oh, how yon worry me, Edward!
-What do you want now, Cle
mence?”
“A gentle:'■an to see you, monsieur. ft
“But lie is ill, I tell you.”
“It is M. Meguin, the judge. • *
“Tell him that-Oh! I’ll go and see
what he wants. tt
“No, no. Show him up here, do you
hear, Clemeuce? Go! And you go,
too!”
“Edward! To speak to me like that!”
“Pardon me, my dear; but please
go. He may have something to say
in confidence—something that he
would not care to say before you.”
a I don't know what is the matter
with you, Edward. You frighten me.
Come in, Monsieur Meguin. I leave
you with my husband. Good day.”
“Monsieur Meguin, I am right in not
wishing her to be present, am I not? yy
“You have seen your son, Monsieur
Montier? *'
"Not yet.”
“But you have heard of the murder
of Madame Toyle? .j
“Yes.”
“The whole town knows it. It is
astonishing how fast such news
spreads. So your son Las told you
nothin » rr •
“No. yy
4 . He has been of the greatest assist
ance to me in the affair. We had
dined together and were at the
when a Messenger came for me. But
what is the matter? Are you ill? You
stare at me so wildly!”
“I beg pardon. I am flbt sure that I
understood you. I seem half deaf
to-day. Do you say that you were
with my son all last evening?”
“Why, yes! When I was summoned
to the chateau he went with me. On
seeing the wound he exclaimed: ‘This
wound was made with a Malay kris,
like the one in father’s cabinet.’ He
went home and fetched your kris.
taking great care not to awaken you,
for he knew that this horrible story,
heard suddenly at night, would give
a bad shock. He gave me a descrip
tion of the sailor who sold you that
curious dagger and who was likely
to have another about him. The man
has been arrested, three leagues from
here. He has made a full confession,
but still I must have your testimony.
Ah! Here is your soil. Montier. your
father knows the whole story. He is
not very well. »»
44 Oh, it is nothing—only nervousness.
Why, I am crying like a baby! I beg
your pardon for my weakness.”
“You are ill, father. What is the
matter?”
“Nothing, I tell you. Put your arms
around me, my boy—my boy!”—New
York Evening Post.
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) j Brief Summary of Doings
Throughout the State.
Daly Succeeds Evans.
Governor Terrell has signed an or
der appointing Hon. A. F. Daly, of
Wrightsville, judge of the superior
courts of the middle circuit, to suc
ceed Judge Beverly D. Evans, who nas
been appointed associate justice of the
supreme court in place of Justice Hen
ry G. Turner, resigned.
Gordon Fund Growing.
Over $4,000 has already been sub
scribed by the committees in charge
of the subscri-ptions to the monument
to be erected by the people of the
south in memory of General Joan B
Gordon.
Committees ,are ,~\ill being appoint
ed and all are bea-g urged to get to
work in earnest, so that the full
amount may be raised within a short
time.
♦ * *
Disastrous Blaze at Preston.
At Preston, Sunday morning, fire
broke out on the south side of the
business section, burning every store
on that side. Following were the
losses: Cobb & Montgomery, $8,000;
Stapleton & Nicholson Company, $2,
000; Welch & Majors, $2,000; J.
Horn, $0,000; R. T. Nicholson & Co.
saved most of their goods.
There was no insurance on any of
the property. Tho town has no fire
apparatus.
* * V
Trading Stamp Tax Approved.
The ordinance which places a tax
of $106 per annum upon all Atlanta
merchants who give trading stamps
to customers or who use rebate sys
tems of any kind has been approved
by Mayor Howell, and it is now a
law of the city. The ordinance goes
into effect May 1.
The trading stamp companies have
announced that they will appeal to
the courts in order to continue their
businesses. The municipality will con
tend that it is perfectly legal to levy
such a tax and that $100 per annum
is not prohibitive.
* •* *
Georgia Taxed Five Millions.
A Washington special says: As
their share of the cost involved in the
army and navy appropriation bills just
passed by congress, the people of
Georgia will be called upon to pay
no less than $5,000,000. That means
$5,000,000 in a single year. That sum
would build five state capital buildings
like that in Atlanta.
Senator Bacon showed how much
the cost to Georgia—the cost of the
state’s share of support of the army
and navy according to the size of the
appropriations carried in the pending
supply bills—in a speech he made on
the navy appropriation bill.
lj
County School Commissioner Wins.
State School Commissioner W. B.
Merritt has rendered a decision up
holding the county school board of
Banks county in re-electing Profes
j S or G. G. Strange, county school su
perintendent. It seems that a contest
was made on Professor Strange by
Colonel Oscar Brown and Professor
H. P. Hewitt, who alleged fraud and
irregularities during the examination,
•these irregularities implicating a mem
ber of the county board, Commis
sioner Merritt made a thorough inves
tigation of the case, and came to the
conclusion that Commissioner Strange
did not receive any outside assistance
in his examination as was charged.
He therefore upheld the county board,
and Commissioner strange will con
tinue in office.
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Benedict Memorial School Eurned.
The Benedict Memorial school
building, located near Cedartown, was
burned to the ground at 2 o’clock last
Saturday morning.
In addition to the school building
proper the large library was also con
sumed. The pupils of the school lost
practically all of their clothing.
The origin of the tire is unknown.
At the hour the fire was discovered
all the pupils and members of tho
faculty were asleep. The pupils were
roused as rapidly as possible and bare
ly had time to provide themsU ves
with clothing for the night air before
the entire structure was a mass of
flames. No clothing was saved except
the little they put on before leaving
the. building. There was no insurance
carried on the buildings, hence they
were a total loss.
Pleaded Guilty to Theft.
Samuel McCiurkan, the young At
lanta and West Point railroad clerk,
and William Edwards, formerly porter
in the general passenger agent’s office,
charged with having stolen Und sold
to ticket brokers a number of one-
thousand mile interchangeable tickets
from the West Point Route, pleaded >
guilty to a misdemeanor oefcre Judge !
L. S. Roan, of tiie criminal superior
court in Atlanta. McCiurkan was fined
5200, including court costs, and Ed
wards was fined $100, to include costs.
In default of payment of the fines . tiie
: men are to go to the county public
works for a term ef twelve months.
Judge Roan gave their the fines. men ten days in J
which to pay
Since McCiurkan and Edwards have
pleaded guilty to the theft of the mile
age books, it is almost a foregone ■
conclusion that an effort will be made
by the grand jury to indict the ticket
brokers who received a number of
the tickets.
* « V
Mrs. Wood Goes to Pen.
Mrs. Capitola Wood will spend two
years in the penitentiary unless Gov
ernor Terrell decides to overrule the
recommendation of the prison com
mission, for that body has refused her
application.
Mrs. Wood is under a two-year sen
tence for assault with intent to mur
der upon her husband in Atlanta.
Attorneys for Mrs. Wood took the
j rqS e to the supreme court for review.
but that body affirmed the decision of
the lower court. During the interval,
Mrs. Wood was out on bond. When
the decision cf the supreme court was
made known. Mrs. Wood surrendered
and made the appeal to the prison
commission for a commutation of the
sentence, Her desiring to spend the time j I
of sentence in jail or to pay a
Imo.
After going ove~ the application
carefully the prison commission deci.1
ed that it would be impossible to make
a recommendation.
The only hope for the woman now
is with the governor, who has the au
thority to commute the sentence.
* * »
For Public Buildings.
A Washington dispatch says: The
first step toward securing a $1,000,000
public building for Atlanta ,was taken
Saturday morning, when the senate
committee on public buildings acted
favorably upon the bill of Senator
Clay. As originally introduced, the
bill carried an appropriation of $1.-
250,000. The committee, after going
over the needs of Atlanta, decided
upon $1,000,000 as the proper "mil of
expense.
The sub-committcc of the senate
which had in charge the bills making |
appropriations for Gainesville, Griffin
and Albany has acted favorably, these
bills carrying $100,000 in the case of
Gainesville and Albany, and $50,000
in the case of Griffin.
* * *
Official Primary Enllct.
The official form of ballot for use in
the coming state democratic primary
on April 20 has been completed and
sent to the printer. These forms will
be mailed by Secretary J. W. Gold
smith, of the state executive commit
tee, along with copies of the rules and
instructions, to the chairmen of the
county committees in each county of
the state.
Upon the official form appear only
the names of the state house officers.
including justices of me supreme j
court. In the cases of congressmen,
superior court judges and solicitors,
county judged and solicitors, senators,
representatives and county officers,
blank spaces are left on the form
showing where these are to be insert
ed in the printed ticket for use in the
primary.
This official form of ballot is intend
ed only as a guide to the county com
mittees in preparing the primary
tickets. Special attention is called to
the fact that the name of every can
didate must appear upon the ticket or
it cannot be counted.
The University Summer School.
We present below the first official
announcement of tho great summer
school of the University. Last year |
690 teachers were in attendance ■ .* |
j though it was the first year of the
school. This year preparations are
being made for eight hundred, With
the able faculty selected from our
leading institutions there is no need
for our teachers to go north fur spe
cial instruction. The railroad ex
penses north will amount to about as
much as the entire expenses for the
five weeks at Athens. The summer
school is fast becoming the rallying
point for Georgia teachers and offi
cials.
The approaching session will occur
July 5-August 6. The school was a dis :
tinct success last year. Slx hundred
and ninety teachers were registered, j
The second session will offer greater
advantages than ever to teachers who
are anxiou* to raise their grade of
certificate and to prepare themselves
for better work in the common school
subjects. The organization is as fol
lows:
■
(1) School of Pedagogy; (2) School
of Common School Methods; (3)
School of Common School Reviews;
(4) School of Rural School Problems;
(5) School of City School problems;
(6) g c hool of Elementary Agr
(7) School of Manual Arts and Ha
crafts; (8) School of High Soho'* '
college Subjects; (9) School or
pression; (10) School of d 0 th
Science; (11) School of Pay. *>*cai c
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ture'; (12) A Course of Lyceum i
tertainments by F'amous People™
A one-fare rate for the round rj
has been secured. New buildings J
equipments will be ready; ampler d
better arrangements in every j
have been provided. Athens i s -; n
hill country; the summer elim-ir?]
delightful The teachers of g
cannot <j 0 better than spend a r -
of ' M
the!r summer at the Un . vers
Summer School.
The state school commission
Hon. M. B. Merritt, will order a si
ond annual examination for liter
about the middle of December.
J. S.
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THREE ARE DOOMED TO GALLOWS.
Notorious “Car Barn” Bandits Convict
of Murder by Chicago Jury.
Hanging for all was the verdict
the jury, at Chicago, in the firs mi
der case against the so-called “ C
barn bandits,” Harvey Vandine, p e ;
Niedermeier and Gustav Marix, *
attained notoriety by a desperate a
day battle that started in a dajo
near Liverpool, Ind., where the
had taken refuge after a series of
markable crimes, including the mi
der of two employees of the Chi?a|
city railroad at one of the ccnipaaj
barns, the motive in each instance 1
ing robbery.
UEV'.’SY GL^ ANIMG3.
Fin eon per cent, of the Sr. ■■lit
kota range cattle have died of exposal
this winter.
The Metropolitan Company made
prooosition to build a new subway tiu
will cost $10,000,000.
Over reported 2,000.000 in independent in the United teienIio?’.j Siatj
are use
at the present time.
A stubborn Maze in the AniPdrJ
Tract Society Building in New Yol
City did $.‘50,000 damage.
A Baltimore Insurance papr rsl
mates 1lio not losses to insurance eon
panics by tho great lire at SGI,oor. ,
One German city, Chemnitz, r-oil
the United States during 1 lie year 104
M.919.011 worth of stockings and
330,COO of gloves.
Striking Western Union messed
from , hoys interfering in Chicago, with 111., the were receipt Hijninj ovI
livery of messages by the company.
An explosion of flashlight pliotograd |
chemical's caused a tire and pank
the entertainment of the Stroller*' Oiil
and a disastrous crush was hare!
averted.
The report of the Pennsylvania Ra!
way for 1903-showed gross earning
$122,620,410, with net income from f
sources of $27,500,507 above fix
charges.
State Banking Superintendent K
burn, of New York, recently made pit
lie a report on building loan iissooi
tions, showing that the assets had d
creased $10,500,000.
The English House of Commons lj
ceutly rejected a resolution to sow
the other Bowers on the subject of r
ducing armies and navies in the iute
cst of international peace.
Mayor McClellan, of Greater X?
York, has invited representatives of i
surance companies to confer with k
on the proposed now salt water fi
mains in the business district.
WORLD’S FAIR TOPICS.
Saturday, July 2, will he Am.'iLI
Journalists’ Day at the World’s Fair.
The St. Louis Exposition authoriti
have been notified that the war woiil
not affect Japan's exhibits.
General Ben Yiljoen, a Boor ler.doi
will luiA’e charge of the Boer exhibit a
the St. Louis Exposition.
The perfume woods and plants of ill
Philippine Islands will he shown a
World’s Fair in a special collection.
The World's Fair Committee on Cf
cnionics has assigned October ;; f<
New Michigan York Day Day at the and Fair. October 12 f<|
Idaho will make a big exhibit of b
ore. Important discoveries of fM
metal, so rare in America, were mad
recently near Salmon City, Idaho.
Korea has withdrawn from partiq
pation in the Louisiana Purchase L’
position, and has officially notified dii
management of the Exposition to tM
effect.
California will install an olive fiic
tony in the California space in l,;
Agriculture Building. The proc - "
extracting the oil will be shown in
detail.
The Kentucky Legislature at a ?, ' s
sion voted a World's Fair nppropM
tion of $75,000. This is in addition *
a luiul of $ioo,0(K) raised by the KU
lucky Exhibit Association.
California's principal exhibits wid Lt
massed in the Agricultural BuihbJ 1 !
Eleven counties of the Sacramento
le > r vnl1 combine their exhibits
^uct’o^lie Ameukn Cold
uent.
In making her general mining U
Dibit at the World’s Fair Virginia ' V1
erect a house entirely from tiie stoa
quarried within the State’s consh' bor l'y 11
The cost of the materials and
lion of the building, is estimated •
$100,000.