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THE LAND OF THE NEVER TO BE.
Cr 3fAC?.ICK SMII.ET.
Out there oo the dreamy horizon,
Where the beckoning skies begin,
There lieth a land that i* girdled
By the ocean of Alight Have Been.
Aiu pure as the Si: 1 of an angel,
Out over the Wistful Sea,
Is that goal of the bark of our visions
The Land of the Mover To Be.
There blossoms the Wonderful Gardens.
Where the dews are the tears that wc
shed;
Where the breezes are sighs that we ut
tered,
And flowers we fancied were dead.
The flowers that languished and withered,
And died on a dead hope's breast,
Are blooming in fadeless fragrance,
The sweet of an infinite rest.
And there on a tear-wet altar
Are the laurels of battles we gain.
When we wrestle in aaiguisli of spirit
Iti days that are bitter with pain;
When fast to the cross of ideals
We nail a great yearning that we
May win the crown of the loyal
In the Land of the Never To Be.
There lullaby voices are hushing
Each erv of a crucified need;
And gentfe hands tenderly binding
Each pain of the hearts that bleed.
Out there on the dreamy horizon,
Where the beckoning skies begin;
Out there in the land that is fretted
B 5 ' the waves of the Might Have Been.
Ah, fair as the dawn and the twilight,
That bourne that we never shall reach,
"Where only the pinions of pravers
That May fold on its fronded beach;
strand with the Radiant Harbor
Far over the Wistful Sea;
The shore of the sails of our dreaming,
The Lund of the Never To Be.
, —Collier’s Weekly.
A A & A
Dicky O’Regan
and the Dodor
$ f y $
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★AA AA AAAAAAA
Ii A'ER the slum in a little district cottage of the in
0 west O’Regan. side Professionally lives Dicky
Mr. O’Regan admits that
ne js a retired bank burglar. The po
lice admit that the title is properly de
scriptive, except, perhaps, as to the
qualifying adjective. They are doubt
ful whether Dicky has really retired or
is only renting between professional en.
r*ftk-s. enis.
a 4 ' agent
Dicky lives with his old mother.
With that strange inconsistency which
has so often puzzled students of moral
problems, Dicky is one of the best of
sons. Always, except when spending
a year or two at Joliet or some other
similar moral sanitarium, he has lived
with his mother and has provided well
for her support. Airs. O’Regan’s sun
rises and sets in the freckled face of
Dicky, her son, and no one could make
her believe that lie is not a splendid
young man. persecuted by the police
and other bloodhounds.
Also Dicky is immensely popular
with all the poor people who live in the
same block. Naturally lie is a kindly
person, and, when flush of money, as
occasionally happens immediately after
a scare head has appeared in the news
papers, he often “helps” out families
who have not been so fortunate as him
self. None of Dicky’s neighbors has
ever asked him for help in vain, which
is one reason why Dicky never has any
trouble in finding alibi witnesses in
case he is suspected of a “job.” With
the children of the neighborhood he is,
sad to say, a good deal of a hero. They
look upon him as a big, good-natured
man, who manages to make a living
without working too hard for it, and
who Is always ready to lend them a
dime or come to their assistance when
things go wrong at home.
Dick O’Regan was not especially sur
prised, therefore, when the other morn
ing just at 4 o’clock there sounded a
loud pounding on the door of the cot
tage occupied by himself and his dot
ing mother.
“Well,” said Dicky, who is natur
ally suspicious as to the identity of
early morning callers, “who’s there? **
it It's Alag Sullivan,” sounded shrill
a
and frightened little voice in answer.
“Come with me, Dicky, mu’s a-eroak
ing.”
Dicky threw open the door and let in
the little ten-year-old girl who stood
shivering outside, with the thermome
ter at s-ix below zero.
"She was took bad yesterday,”
whined the little girl, "and now she’s
rolling around and hollering loud. I
guess she’s a-eroaking and I’m afraid.”
Dicky put on his overcoat and went
out into the street with the little girl.
She and her mother lived in a little
two-rooni shanty at the hack of the lot
next door. There was only a small fire
in the shanty and the bedroom in
which the woman lay was cold. She
was apparently delirious and was call
ing aloud for her "man,” who had de
serted the family a year before.
“AA’ait till I get you warm, » said
Dicky. He ran back to his own place
and carried a bucket of coal over to
Sullivan’s shanty. AA'ith that and the
assistance of a broken chair back lie
soon got the little stove steaming and.
made the cottage fairly comfortable.
“Who's the doctor';” asked Dicky,
who saw that Mrs. Sullivan was an ex
tremely sick woman, Little .Map
named a physician who lived more
than a mile away on one of the boulc
cards. Dicky decided that if medical
sk.ll was to do any good it must be had
quickly. It would probably be fatal to
wait until the family doctor could ar
rive, even if he started at once.
“I'll go and get a doctor, Mag,” said
Dicky. “I won’t be gone long. >>
“Don’t go, Dicky,” pleaded the little
girl. “I'm afraid to stay here with her
alone. She might croak on me.”
But Dick insisted.
“I'll be back in a minute,” he said,
“Your mother's got to have a doctor
quick.”
A block away in a second-story fiat,
over a drug store, lived a young doctor.
Dicky ran upstairs and rang the bell.
The doctor opened the door and seemed
not at all pleased and a bit frightened
when he recognized his caller as the
well-known bank robber.
.... Airs. Sullivan ,, ... s uying, said Dicky.
“I want ‘ von to come right awav and do
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“Who’s the family doctor?” ’ asked
the physician
“He lives a mile away,” answered
Dickv, naming him. “The old woman
might be dead before we could get
him.”
“Well, have they got any money?”
demanded the doctor.
“I don't know,” said Dicky. “I guess
they’ve got a little.”
“Well, I'll go over to the house and
see,” said the doctor finally. “If they
haven’t got any money I won t do any
thing.”
Now', before you blame the doctor
too strongly you should consider that
it was 4 o clock in the morning and six
degrees below zero, also that expet
ienee had taught the doctor that collect
on delivery was the only safe policy
for a physicran who had to depend on
his practice m that neighborhood for a
living. Ami. finally, he recognized Mr.
O'ltegan, and lie rvas not taken with
the idea of paying early morning calls
in the company of a man of his reputa
^• on
However, Dicky and the doctor final
ly started out together and walked
around the corner and down the alley
to the Sullivan shanty. As they opened
the door little Alag " came running to
meet them.
“She’s worser, Dicky,” cried Alag.
“Si e’s a lot worser.”
The doctor, his liitle night case in his
hand, hesitated in the open doorway
“Afag, have you got any money?” de
manded Dicky O'Regan, who realized
that that was the first question to be
settled.
"Naw," said Alag, “not a red.”
“Well, then, I'm not going to waste
my time around here,” began the doc
tor, but Dicky interrupted him. He
thrust one hand into the pocket of his
overcoat and pulled out a large and
brightly polished revolver.
“Here, doctor.” he said, holding out
the gun in his right hand. But the doc
tor’s face had gone white.
“All right. Air. O’Regan,” he said.
“All right, sir. I'll do the best I can
for her.”
The doctor threw off his overcoat and
started to work on the sick woman,
peering out anxiously now and then to
the room where Dicky sat, still holding
the revolver in liis hand.
Half an hour later the doctor came
out into the outer room.
“She’s asleep now,” he said to Dicky,
“I think she'll get well, all right.”
Dicky got up and started to hold out
his revolver, but the doctor did not
wait to hear what he had to say. With
his medicine case in one hand and his
overcoat over his arm, he ran out into
the cold night. Dicky sat down again
and laughed.
Presently lie made Alag go to bed,
and after heaping up the coal into the
rickety little Stove he bade Mag good
bye and went back to l.is own home.
There a few hours later the police
found him
Dicky was awakened by hearing the
shrill voice of his mother denouncing
the officers.
it What’s the row?” asked Dicky,
sticking liis head out into the front
room.
“Assault with a deadly weapon,
Dicky,” said the policeman, a drawn
revolver in his hand.
“Let them in, mother,” said Dicky.
“The doctor on the corner beyond
says you threatened him with a gun,”
said one of the detectives. Dicky
laughed again.
"He was scared, that’s all,” declared
Dicky. "He wanted money before he’d
doctor Mrs. Sullivan last night, and we
didn’t have any to give him. He was
going to go back to bis office when he
found the Sullivans were broke, and I
pulled my gun out of my overcoat
pocket. I was going to offer it to him
as security, but he got seared and
thought I intended to shoot, There
wasn’t a load in the gun. You can look
at it.
“You’ll have lo come over and tell
that story to the captain. Dicky,” said
the officer. “Maybe he'll stand for it
and maybe he won’t.
Dicky and the two detectives walked
away together, leaving old Airs. O'Re
gan crying and cursing the police.—H.
! M. H., in Chicago Tribune.
ECTTOTTB- r % **! K I
I MAY INVADE MANCHURIA
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Jap Cohczntrate at Wiju and are Pre
paring to Cross th: Yalu River
in Chass of Russians.
j ! An Associated Press dispatch from
j Chee Foo says: The Japanese are
now occupying Wiju, on the southern
1 bank of the Yalu in force and are pre
j paring to cross the river into Manciiu
; ria.
It is estimated that there are 45.000
troops of all arms in Wiju and this
number is being added to daily. The
' troops in Wiju are among the best in
the Japanese army. They consist of
the Imperial guard, which is a crack
! corps, and the second and twelfth di
visions. These troops are supported
by artillery and cavalry.
The advance to Wiju was marked by
constant skirmishing with Russian de
tachments which, after exchanging a
few shots with Japanese advance
guard, would retreat. Probably not
, more than 100 men were killed and
wouuded ° n .......... both sides during the ad
I vance on Wiju.
Tile most hotly conteste(i affair oc
curred at Chong-Ju, about 80 miles
southeast of M iju, between a detacti
m & iU of 500 Japanese infantry and
cavalry and 700 Cossacks. In this af
fair, the Russians were routed, losing
thirty men k'lled and as many more
wounded. The Japanese lost five men
killed and had eleven wounded. Among
the killed tvag Lieutenant Kato, who
was shot down while leading a charge
on the retreating Cossacks,
The Japanese army at Wiju is sup
plied with all the material necessary
for crossing the Yalu, and it is be
lieved that the paS sage of the river
will soon be attempted,
There seems to be no strong Rus
sian force Qn the north bank of the
river opposite Wlj and it is thought
Rus8 ; ans are concentrating on
. , . order , to , protect that c.ty
'"
an,i ,he ^a,^c,a,1 lme trom Harb '" «
Port Arthur.
lt 18 . rumored that the Japanese hav.
landed in force on the Liao-Tung pe
“ i nsular :n * he vicinity of Niuchwang.
Th . * seems to indicate that the plans
°f l) ate ‘ ho a ^panese fiank movement. general staff If the contera- Jaj
anese have landed on the peninsula,
means that the Russians are caught
in a trap and will be between two
fires.
FIVE PLEASURE SEEKERS DROWN.
i?oat Upsets Near Tampa, Florida, and Oc
cupants Find Watery Grave.
All members of a pleasure party
from the Florida Methodist college at
Sutherland, Fla., near Tampa , were
drowned Monday night in the waters
of the gulf near Anclote light house.
The drowned are: Miss Ellen O’Con
nor, of Atlanta; ALss Laurie McRae
Atlanta, teacher in Sutherland college;
Miss Slaughter, of Sutherland; Mrs.
Walker, wife of president of college;
Mr. Bouland, o’ Sutherland.
President AValker and Miss New'ton
the remaining members of the party,
both reached the beach alive.
The bodies of Mrs. AValker and Miss
O'Connor have not yet been recovered.
The bodie* of Miss McRae, Miss
Slaughter and Mr. Bouland were wash
ed on the beach Tuesi!!?ty morning.
President AValker had taken the par
ty out for a cruise to the light house,
but met with rough weather, and the
beat was overturned in the gulf.
The Florida Methodist college is lo
cated at Sutherland, on the west coast,
along the gulf, about 30 miles from
Tampa.
CANAL COMPANY BiFFFD BY MORGAN.
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Lease R'Shts m Waterway Matter.
T In the senate Tuesday, Mr. Morgan
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called up his resolution directing the
attorney general to inform the senate
whether he has made or is making on
behalf of the United States a purchase
rights granted by Colombia to N.
R- Wyse for the construction of an
isthmian canal or any interest in the
Panama railroad.
| He declared that the new Panama
Canal Company is only a lessee of the
property rights on the Isthmus, and
: said that when we pay to the govern
ment of Panama the $10,000,000 this
government will be entitled to deal
with the canal company as a Tenant,
CHURCH ROW IS RENEWED.
Deacons and Lay Members Arrested on
Warrants Taken Out by Trustees.
The famous factional fight in the
• Christian church of Huntsville, Ala.,
came out afresh again Sunday. As a
result tw'o elders and three members
of the church were placed under ar
rest for wilfully defacing and injur
! ing the church building. Only one fac
tion has worshiped in the church for
several months past, and Sunday last
the other faction posted a notice on
the doors warning every one away,
charging that the present trustee’s
were illegally elected.
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<? 0 GEORG 1 71 *
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Brief Summary of Doings
Throughout the State.
Hon. Frank W. Copeland has with
drawn from the race for congress in
the Seventh district. He declares that
the fixing of the primary for April 20th
does not‘give him time to make a can
vass of the district.
Dispensaries Show Profit.
The Hawkinsville dispensary gives
out a statement showing a profit since
their last statement of $7,472.12.
The Cochran dispensary paid $1,000
to the county and $1,000 to Cochran
as its first quarterly profits,
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Reunion to Be Held in Home.
General P. A. S. AlcCHashan, com
manding the Georgia division. U. C. V.,
makes , the . official „ . , announcement that .
the reunion of the division will take
place at Rome September 14th and
15th.
* * *
Will Make a Splendid Showing.
The department of agriculture this
year will make a big showing for the
state. Commissioner O. B. Stevens
says the net receipts from the sale cf
fertilizer tags and other small sources
will reach $60,000. which is $ 10,000
ahead of last year's record. Commis
s'oner Stevens and those associated
with hirn are naturally quite proud of
this record, which will be the best by
$ 10,000 that the department has ever
made.
* • 4
Vidalia Has Thiee Roads.
The Millen and Southwestern rail
road was completed a few days ago to
Vidalia and connections made between
the Macon. Dublin and Savannah and
Seaboard Air Line, and is now ready
for work.
The track is all surfaced up except
the last mile Passenger trains will
be put on in a few days. This gives
Vidalia three leading roads with good
connections to all parts of the state.
*
Blalock for Next Senator.
There will be no fight in the 38th
senatorial district, composed of Fulton,
Cobb and Clayton counties, for the
senatorshlp. Hon. A. C. Blalock, of
Fayette, will be elected without oppo
sition. Hon. D-. AV. Blair, of Marietta,
who was to make the race from Cobb,
has withdrawn from the contest, and
what for a time threatened to be quite
a mixup among the democrats of the
three counties named is now' calm and
serene.
* * *
To Decide Contested Election Case.
Secretary of State Cook will be call
ed upon in a few day's to decide a con
tested election between the towns of
Isabella and Sylvester, in Worth coun
ty. At a recent election the people ol
AA r onh county voted to have the coun
ty site transferred from Isabella,
where it has heen for many years, to
Sylvester. The people of Isabella are
complaining that the election was not
fair and as a result they have appeal
ed the case to Secretary of State
Cook, who will go over the testimony
that is to be taken. Mr. Cook will
make a decision and will submit a im
port to the legislature.
Twenty Years for incendiary.
At Preston, Henry Morgan, charged
with the crime of setting fire to the
Sown a few weeks ago, was found
guilty of arson and sentenced to twen
ty years in the penitentiary.
Sidney Harrell’s case was also call
ed, hut on account of the sickness of
his attorney, a nol pross was entered
after the prisoner had been brought in
and the case continued.
Since the day of the fire both Har
rell and Morgan had been confined in
the Americus jail. Both defendants
have heretofore stood high in the com
munity.
So high was the feeling against
them at the time of their arrest that
Judge Littlejohn ordered the Americus
Light Infantry to Preston to carry them
to the Americus jail in order to pre
vent a lynching.
*
Five Years for Sbanghaing.
j In the United States court at Savan
I nah Judge Speer sentenced Harry Ol
sen, a well known citizen, to five years
in the penitentiary and imposed a fine
of $5,000, the limit under the law. The
trial jury found him guilty of shang
haing or kidnapping Rose Smallwood,
one of eight negroes deported from
Savannah on the Russian bark Alice
to Bristol, England.
The convention is the first ever se
cured under section 5525 of the revised
statute, which provides against this
form of involuntary servitude. . In
sentencing the prisoner, the court ad
ministered a scathing rebuke, saying
that it was difficult to realize that such
a crime could be possible in this age.
The penalty of the law was not. the
court said, adequate punishment for
1 the iniquitous
ccn-lsu: or s •
less cna, whose conduct i!u
reproach in foreig n land,
this state, but e nation i
Must Pay Taxee cn Dispen—
for Despite the saie the of fact that dis^
liquors whir’ -fa are
ated by counties. ar e public n
> tv
Attorney General Hart holds u
are and the subject to taxation by -vi
county under Judge Harr,,
ing must not only pay tax —CS cm
real ... estate as is . used in
the cor. 1 ■
the dispensary, but upon the
stock of wines and liquors car
sale.
Attorney General Hart render sd :)i
opinion recently as the resnlt
inquiry Wright, from Comptroller Genet-,' v
A. who stated that the
her of these dispensaries troughs
she state is being increased af
time, and it was important that* ,
ing should be made in this matte**
The present legislature put a s-^
fic tax of $200 on these dispen:v>-',
the same as is required of all 0 th/ -'
nor dealers throughout the stata
Judge Hart holds that -ho .
should likewise pay an ad valor
the stock of m
goods carried as well ai
on any real estate it might own.
Money Raised to Build Road.
The building of the ra.sroad froaj
Valdosta to the Ocmulgee river
Douglas ci
was made sure Saturday a *
one of the most important meeting
ever held in Valdosta. Committees
from Douglas and Milltown, composed
cf confer leading men of these places/ whi'-fc m /
lo with the committee r
cently made a trip over the proposed
line. The Douglas people brought i W.ti
them a proposition to the effect that
if Valdosta would build to Leliaton
the Brunswick . 01
and Western division of
the Atlantic Coast Line, they would
raise the necessary money and build
the line from the'r tewn to Leliaton
where the lines would be merged
A'aldosta had alrady subscribed $60
000 to the new road. This amount was
increased to $ 100,000 at Saturday’s
meeting, and a company will b 8 m
ganlzed at once to build the road, lien
with ample means and splendid busi
ness judgment are back of the move
ment and will put their money in it.
Yeatec Goes to St. Louis,
State Geologist W. S. Yeatcs left
-Atlanta last Saturday afternoon tor
St. Louis to begin arranging the Geor
gia exhibit which is to be made at the
Louisiana Purchase exposition. The
big show' opens on April 30th, and Mr.
A’eates is very desirous of having the
exhibit ready on time.
Education in the Wiregrass Section.
No part of our state is developing
mere rapidly educationally than South
Georgia. I have recently spent tw.)
weeks along the Georgia Southern &
Florida railway, An awakening, a
growth, a development is seen in every
industry equalling the awakening of
nature in the spring time, One feels
the new hfs in the very atmosphere.
Towns not ten years old show beauti
ful homes, blocks of brick buildings,
large manufacturing establishments
and splendid public buildings. Anti
they’ are building these cities on an
intelligent ba.sis. Aiarked attention is
given to public schools, Moultrie,
the capital of Colquitt county, has built
a $3,000 court, house and has issued
bonds for a $25,000 school building.
They say they want the best class of
people to settle there and to attract
this class, a city must have good
schools free to ali. Cordele is built
ing a $22,000 public school house; Adel
and Sparks in the same county have
.built $5,000 buildings. Tifton has out
grown her first school, as has Vienna,
each is talking of a new brick buiH*
ing. In Ocilla, Abbeville, Rochelle,
Fitzgerald, Douglass and Arabi, the
people point with pride to their
schools. At Obe, out in the pines in
Colauitt county, Mr. Norman has giv
cn $25,000 for a high school, Val
dosta, Quitman and Thomasvilla have
well equipped public schools, The
hoys and g'rls are coming from the
country adjoining these schools and
arc taking a more extended con rse
than they can receive in the rural
schools. Large boarding department
are found at Arabi. Obe, Sparks, Abbc
clllo and Douglas. In many cases
now. students are being content with
short courses, bread and butter edit
cation,” as some of them call it; but
they must socn see that the more
thorough education of the high school
and college courses makes the stronger
man. Soon these young men w H ha
flocking to the colleges, Everywhere
the educational awakening is keeping
pace w'ith the industrial development
The peopVa talk education with a«
much interest as they do politics am!
an educational rally or sper -;er "■
draw as large a crowd as the polities
orator.
There is much money being m«
in South Georgia, and in every to v
I have visited that is growing the p ; -
hc schools are receiving a fair shar
cf the funds, Much interest was e\
pressed in the University’s efforts
build up and correlate good hig
schools.—J. S. Stewart, of State '
versity.