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THE HAUNTED CITY.
Fomc heart's mnembi re and regret
Fill every street with life profound;
This corner where of old we met
To me has sinee been hallowed ground;
I never pass in sun or rain
Now, but 1 met n you here again.
W e cannot go from where we dwell
And leave behind no lingering trace;
Wh ' ere in the past our shadow fell
A shadow of h; mts the place;
Detaining Disturb H now. our ‘Ives may there
some ghost of what we were.
lhe stones are thrilled by many a tread
I hat leaves no footprint whore it strays;
bhades oi the Jiving 'and the dead
In silence throng the noisv ways;
Here where I meet in shower or shine
1 our ghost, you h iy meet with mine.
The a,r has sounds we cannot hear,
^ Too is,dun ^ with the living silanes voice, that none and dear can see;
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1 ne sight of living voices be.
Y util kindlier yearnings yet we greet
The friends we see not when we meet.
—A. St. John Adcock, in The Spectator.
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i ■t, It. WARNE, please, miss.
Margery Young rose and
o Q held out a friendly hand
1 ’WOW' ^ to her visitor.
Geoffrey Warne was a
man with a distinct person
ality. No longer a youth, lie was yet
on the right side of forty, personable,
even distinguished looking, and a self
made man. His face wore habitually
a tired expression, but his smile, if
rare, was very pleasant.
He was smiling now.
Margery looked very pretty in her
cool pink gown.
“Mother will be here directly. Why
were <you not at the tennis match to
day?”
get away.”
He absently held her two out
stretched hands in his till .she blushed.
“It’s ages since you’ve been to see
us.” withdrawing them nervously.
M never go anywhere, you know—to
pay calls, I mean.”
“I know it’s very nice of you to
come at all when you’re so busy. Let
me take your liat and stick, and -won’t
you sit down? You'll find chat chair
comfortable. • ’
“I please myself when I come here,”
he remarked, with a slight glance at
Margery, and letting her take liis-hat
and stick. Then he sat down and
stared hard at her as she sat opposite.
She rested him, this fresh young crea
ture. His tired mind relaxed in her
presence. He felt younger, better.
Margery’s color came and went. She
was looking her best. A sparkle of ex
citement made her bright eyes brighter.
The man was her hero, her Ling
among men. Slie admired him for the
very poverty which had rendered his
struggle with life necessary, for the
tired look in iris eyes, for his smile, and
perhaps because lie went nowhere ex
cept to her. She watched the tired
face relax with a thrill of triumph.
His fingers stole insensibly to the
pocket where reposed his pipe.
"You may smoke, if you want.
Mother wouldn’t mind. t J
“Have you been to see the new ‘Car
men?’ ”
“No. Is she good?”
“Splendid.” edging Ids chair closer
to liers and leaning forward with a
look of affectionate interest; it you
would like her immensely. Ask Mrs.
Young to take you. * *
Margery rose, and taking a book
from the table, said:
“Look wliat a pretty book Mr. Rockly
sent me.”
Warne scowled. A rose dropped from
between the leaves. He picked it up
and elaborately returned it to her.
“You are throwing away a treasure.”
She tossed it into a bowl of pot
pourri.
“It was such a pretty rose, I pressed
it. Some one left It on the table.
Warne sneered imperceptibly.
“How have things gone with you
lately?” he asked, returning the book
negligently, and pressing her lingers
in the act.
ii Oh! very quietly,” said Margery,
with a sigh. ‘We hardly go anywhere
or do anything.”
Warne looked intensely sympathetic
and moved his chair half a foot
nearer.
“You shouid persuade Mrs. Young
take you down for the May week,
adding in a iow, sweet voice, “you
ought never to be dull, you have so
many resources.
Ills chair was opposite to hers now.
As he leaned forward her
touched him.
Tea was brought ir .
"Do Ton take milk and sugar?” band
Ing him a eup.
"Both, please,” with n faint pressure
of the fingers beneath the saucer.
“Thank ,tou, I will help myself. D 011 T
you take sugar?” tenderiv.
“No.”
“Then you don't care for sweets,”
anxiously.
"Oh! yes,” said Margery, puzzled at
his eagerness, "I am very fond of
sweets.”
A look of relief crossed Lis features,
and lie leant back with a sigh, to gaze
unremittingly at the piquant face be
fore him.
“Would you like to see my new pho
tographs?” Margery asked presently.
“Yes,” lazily, "do show them to me.”
lie got up and stood by her till she
unearthed them from a pile on a cor
no: of the table, then reseated bim
seif.
“See! which do you prefer?” she
asked him, leaning down to hold one
in the best light.
Their sleeves touched. An electric
thrill transmitted itself to each. As he
felt her breath on his cheek a delicious
sense of happiness pervaded his being.
Youth would not be gainsaid. Their
hearts boat wildly, intoxicatingly. In
voluntarily their bands mingled, It
was an instant of exquisite bliss to
both.
When Mrs. Young came in an in
stant later she wondered at Margery’s
flushed checks and Warne’s evident
nervousness. Having pronounced sen
tence on the photographs and shaken
hands five times. Warne left. Margery
went to the door with him. On the
step lie paused, gazed at her intently,
and half sighed. Then he took both
her hands in liis.
ii I think it will be fine for the match
to-morrow,” he said, earnestly. “Shall
you be there?”
“I think so.
.. All! I thought perhaps you’d had
enough tennis this season. Goodby. * •
A parting squeeze of the hands—how
hot his were—they burned like fire—
and lie was gone.
a What was Mr. Warne talking to
you about when I came in?” f d Mrs.
Young.
.. Ob! tennis and books and photo
graphs,” said Margery, blushing as she
remembered that hand clasp.
a He seemed very nervous, and ac
tually said good-by five times, and held
your hands quite an unnecessarily long
time,” severely.
“Did he, mamma?’’ innocently.
“’Yell.” said Mrs. Young, with ap
parent irrelevance, "your father and
T will be content as long as you are
hnnny.”
That evening Margery dreamed that
Geoffrey Warne had proposed.
But he never did.—Violet Defries, in
the Free Lance.
Automobiles Will Free Suffering Horses.
, Ihe „ humane societies Lave , done a
great deal to free the suffering horses
from their troubles on our icy streets,
but the automobiles will do more.
The latest figures show that there
were 28,000 automobiles made in the
United States last year. Their cash
value is about $30,000,000.
The automobile is no longer a toy for
millionaires. The cheapest ones cost
no more ikan is paid for a team of
horses. And they are to be found to
day in ali parts of the world.
For instance, automobile trucks are
now being used to carry supplies to
mining camps. They are carrying the
Government mails in. Germany, Italy
and even in some parts of India.
Automobile stages are carrying pas
sengers along the mountain roads of
the Western States. In California au
tomobiles are hauling lumber; in Mich
igan they are pulling snow plows, and
in Ohio they are doing chores on the
farm.
In New* York City there are automo
bile coal trucks, operated by one man
apiece, which carry and deliver five
tons of coal at a load. If the fittest is
to survive, the days of the work horse
will soon be ended.—New York Jour
nal.
Wanted No Frills.
Lloyd Morgan, Professor of Miner
alogy and Geology at the University of
Oxford, England, who passed through
Philadelphia the other day oil his re
turn home, tells a story of an English
commercial magnate which equals
those absurd but veracious tales that
used to come out of Chicago.
He says that the great merchant in
question came to him to consult about
the instruction of the hopeful son and
lieir, who was some day to run the
vast business interests from which the
pater had made liis wealth.
‘ But mind you,” said he, “I don't
want him to learn about strata or dips,
or faults, or upheavals, or denudations,
and I,don’t want him to fill liis mind
with fossils or stuff about crystals.
Wbat I want him to learn is bow to
find gold and silver and copper in pay
ing quantities, sor—in paying quanti
ties."—'Philadelphia Press.
Feeding: Nifrosea Artificially.
The chemists of the Agrieulturad De
partment have shown that ability to
fix the nitrogen, which is infinitely
abundant in the air, and appiy it to
the wornout fields of the world, will
enable mankind to cultivate wbat is
practically virgin soil fore ver. A plant
at Niagara Falls is taking nitrogen
from the air by electrolysis, but not
yet in commercial quantity
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Brief Summary of Doings
Throughout the State.
On a Dispensary Platform
The real sensation in Coweta coun
| ty politics occurred, when Judge W.
B. W. Dent, candidate for the legisla
ture, came out squarely for a dispen
sary and will make the fight on that
issue. ^
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Sylvester Wins County site.
After a hard fought contest in
Worth county to move the county site
from Isabella to Sylvester, the election
the past week resulted in 2,126 votes
for removal to Sylvester against 430
opposed. The election passed off
quietly everywhere.
* * *
Pulaski Wants School Fund.
A petition signed by a number of
citizens asks the county commission
J ers of Pulaski to rescind their action
and hold on to the $2,800 school fund
that the county will have to forfeit on
account of accepting seventeen con
victs from the state to work on public
roads.
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New Electric Line Chartered.
B. F. Curtis, of Atlanta, has secured
from Secretary of State Cook a char
ter for the Piedmont Electric Railway
Company, the road to extend from At
lanta to Roswell, Alpharetta and Cum
ming, a distance of 23 miles. The pro
moters say the railroad will be con
structed or the charter disposed of to
others vcho mght undertake the work.
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Two Georgia Offices Re-Established.
The postoffiee department, at the in
stance of Representative Howard, has
re-established the postoffices at Par
ker Store, Hart county, and Mize,
Franklin county, which, were ordered
abolished upon the establishment of
rural delivery routes in the vicinity.
It was found that the abolishment was
a mistake, hence the change was made.
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Bride Only Thirteen Years Old.
C. R. Daniel and Miss Hattie Lou
Blount ran away from Waynesboro a
few clays ago and were married in
Augusta by Rev. Dr. Eakes. Daniel
is a prominent merchant of Waynes
boro. Miss Blount is the 13-year-oid
daughter of A. H. Blount, a prominent
citizen of Waynesboro. The parents
of the bride objected.
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Majority of Only One Vote.
The returns from the Muscogee
county primary consolidated by the
democratic executive committee,
showed that P. E. Whittlesey was
nominated tax collector over D. A. An
drews, the incumbent, by the narrow
majority of one vote, he having re
ceived 1,183 votes and his opponent
1,182 votes.
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To Fight Pulmonary Diseases.
At the fifth annual session of the
Medical Association of Georgia, which
will convene at Macon on April 20,
remaining in session throughout the
22nd, a Georgia Anti-Tuberculosis As
sociation will be formed, The move
ment has been on foot for some time,
and the promoters are now confident
that a permanent organization will re
sult from their efforts.
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Captain Wright Has Recuperated.
Comptroller General W. A. Wright
has returned from Orlando, Fla., where
he went to recuperate after his recent
illness which kept him so long confin
ed to his home. He is looking much
better, and has practically regained
his health. The comptroller general
will soon have to take np again the
tax returns of corporations, which
must be made by May 1.
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Road Purchased Outright.
It is stated on good authority that
the Atlanta and Birmingham had pur
chased outright the Brunswick and
Birmingham and that the papers have
all been signed up.
The officials in Waycross, however,
refused to make ftny public statement,
but the facts have been obtained from
a reliable source, and there is no fur
ther doubt about it. The only thing
that now remains to be done is to
have the sale ratified by the stockhoid
ers of the Brunswick and Birmingham
road. * *
There are rumors that the general
offices and shops will be moved to
Brunswick, but it is all merely rumor
and nothing of this kind has yet been
! determined.
Money for Wesieyan College.
At a mass meeting held in Atlanta
last Sunday afternoon in Wesley Me
morial Church, the surd of $1,610 was
raised to aid in the erection of a new
chapel and for other improvements at
Wesleyan Female college aVMacon.
The meeting was projected by and
held under the auspices of the Atlanta
Alumnae Association of W’esleyan col
lege and that organization contributed
$1,000 to the fund realized. The occa
sion attracted a large audience that
filled the spacious church auditorium.
Several prominent men participated in
the meeting and made talks in the in
terest of the college.
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May Enlist Aid of Children.
At a meeting in Atlanta of the ex
ecutive committee of the John b. Gor
don Monument Association, the propo
sition to enlist the aid of the school
children of Georgia, and of the entire
south in raising the fund to build a
memorial to the late General Gordon,
was extensively discussed.
There was some opposition to this
plan, but it was finally decided to ap
point a committee to take the matter
under consideration and report at the
next meeting of the executive commit
tee.
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No Encampment This Year.
It is now a certainty that there will
be no encampment of the Georgia
troops this year. That much has been
ascertained by Governor Terrell, who
says that he has been informed by the
United States government that it has
no money on hand for Georgia this
year. The governor had hoped to be
able to make arrangements to again
put all the Georgia soldiers in camp,
but there is not enough money from
the Dick bill this year to give the sol
diers in every state a camp, and the !
Georgia sol.diers were camped last I
year at the expense of the state.
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Shoplifters Come to Grief.
In default of $5,000 bonds, Mrs.
Edith Briggs and Mrs. Ellie Rivers, the
two alleged shoplifters, were sent to
the Tower in Atlanta by Recorder
Broyles on five separate charges of
larceny from the house.
Both women claim Charleston as
their home. They arrived in Atlanta
some time ago and began their work.
A merchant reported to detectives that
he suspected the women of being
shoplifters and they were followed to
their place of boarding. There the
officers found a trunk full of valuable
goods "which were afterwards identi
fied by five leading merchants. In the
trunk was found a 'curiously arranged
bag which was especially adapted to
shoplifting.
Mrs. Rivers claims that she was
only a chance acquaintance of Mrs.
Briggs and that she met her in Atlan
ta while en route to visit relatives in
Tennessee.
The officers believe both women are
professional shoplifters since Mrs.
Briggs has made a full confession.
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Cyclone Fund Statement.
P. N. Parker, of Gainesville, chair
man of the relief committee appointed
for relief of the distressed in the cy
clone of June 1st, 1903, has just com
pleted a full report of the amounts
used for the benefit of the sufferers,
subscribed by the people of the coun
try.
This report shows a total amount of ;
cash received from all sources, $43,- j
752.73; a total value of clothing, pro- 1
visions, merchandise, etc., from all
sources, $12,171.96, making a grand
total of $55,924.69. Household furni- j
ture, provisions, merchandise, etc., to
the value of $6,371.96 was received
from the Atlanta relief committee, and
$800 in rations from the United
States government.
The $12,171.96 in provisions, mer
chandise, etc., was judiciously distrib
uted. Cash disbursements were as
follows:
For burial expenses of killed, $1,-
583.50; provisions, clothing and furni
ture, $3,693.84; labor, freight, express
and livery hire, $1,195.17; paid physi
cians for services, $3,445.25; paid
trained nurses for services $594; paid
board physicians and nurses, $619.79;
paid hospital expenses, court house,
New Holland and colored hospital, $1,-
626.4^ distributed among the families
and wounded, $13,808.66; Ninety-five
homes rebuilt and repaired, $13,338.05;
five churches rebuilt and repaired, $3,-
655; expenses of relief committee for
secretary, postage, etc., $200. Making
a total of $43,752.73.
The killed, including those who died
s j nce from injuries received during the
storm, numbered 112; the number of
wounded was 355 in addition to the
killed. 1
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Negro Barber to Oppose Hardwick. l
The republicans of the Tenth Con
gressional district met the past week
at Sparta, Hancock county, and nomi
nated Sim Walton, a colored barber of
Augusta, to oppose Congressmen T. W.
Hardwick, the democratic incumbent
from the district. The convention was
composed entirely of negroes.
Besides the nomination of Walton,
resolutions were passed indorsing
President Roosevelt's administration.
A. W. Wimberly, a deputy revenue
collector, was indorsed as a delegate
to the national convention.
For Congressman from Alaska.
A favorable report was made Tues
day by the senate committee or. terri
Tories on the bill by Senator Nelson
giving Alaska a delegate in congress.
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His Remarks Voice Uj&exoressed r '‘'n
tim£nl 0 { Mliy Democrats kT 1U
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In a speech delivered in the h
of representatives, Congressman Pat
terson, of Tennessee, voiced tersely
an( f (-dearly a sentiment which, tkot a
perhaps long latent in the thoughts of
southern public men, has recently be
come most pronounced in the under
current of discussion of democratic
possibilities in this year’s cam pa n.
Has not the time come when the dem
ocraey of the south may, and in justice
t0 itse i f shou i d naiE . one of itjJ leaa _
erS for the presidential honors?
The most significant utterances or
Mr. Patterson were as follows:
“The time has come for the south
to assert her political independence
and resume her historical place in the
union. The hour is now for the south
to im the mor;gage on her electoral
votes, which she has paid to the u' \
most farthing.
“I do xot think that to nominate a
southern man for the presidency
would change one electoral vote
against the democratic party. For one
I am weary of hearing the constant
and subservient iteration that the
south is for any man whom the north
may name for president. It is an in
justice to the south and a reflection
upon the intelligence and patriotism of
the northern democracy.
“The question should no longer be,
from what state or section a possible
nominee of the democratic convention
should hail, hut should solely be, what
are his qualifications, what his worth
as measured by the high office to
which he aspires.”
WELL KNOWN JOIRNWIST DEAD.
Henry Richardson Passes Away at fast
Point, Ga., After L : ngerinq !l!no*'i
Hon. F. H. Richardson, who for
years was at different periods editor
of The Atlantal Constitution, Atlanta
Journal, Columbus Enquirer-Sun and
Macon Telegraph, % and one of the best
known newspaper men in the south,
died Saturday morning at his residence
in East Point, Ga.. six miles from
Atlanta, after a lingering illness of
nearly two years,
The announcement of the death of
this brilliant journalist, whose writ
ings have attracted attention in all
parts of the United States, will be re
ceived with great sorrow in every sec
tion. No man was better known or
better loved than Henry Richardson.
His death was not unexpected as
he had been in a critical condl: ion
since November, 1902. when he was ta
ken suddenly ill. At times he would
grow better, and at one time he recov
ered sufficienly to resume his work on
The Atlanta Journal, but in a few
days he was taken ill again and had
to give up.
Mr. Richardson leaves a devoted
wife and one little child to mourn
their loss. And not only will his fam
ily mourn, but thousands of his friends
everywhere will be bowed in grief
when they read the sad news of his
death.
F. H. Richardson was born in Upson
county, Ga., July 4, 1858. His family
moved to Atlanta when Mr. Richard
son was two years old and he lived
there nearly all of his life. He at
tended the city schools and then went
to Emory college, graduating with sec
ond honor at the age of sixteen years.
On his return to Atlanta from eol
lege, Mr. Richardson began the study
of law under Lucius J. Gartrell. and
was admitted to the bar. Shortly af
ter becoming a lawyer he was offered
a position on The Columbus Enquirer
Sun, which he accepted. He worked
on that paper in Columbus for a year
and returned to Atlanta to take a place
on The Constitution. He worked on
The Constitution for several years
and was then made Washington corre
spondent of that paper. In Washing
ton Mr. Richardson did excellent work
and won a national reputation. He
made hundreds of friends among the
public men at Washington and the
members of the newspaper fraternity
there, and for years he sent to The
Constitution the happenings in the na
tional capital.
Leaving Washington. Mr. Richard
son returned to Atlanta to do editorial
work on The Constitution. Later he
accepted the editorship of The Macon
Telegraph, where he served for two
years, returning to Atlanta in 1889 to
become editor of The Atlanta Journal