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DOBBlN’S DESPAIR.
I have no differential clutch
And no pneumatic tire;
I guess 1 don't amount to much.
For none come to admire
My form or speed—I deep have no cam;
And. t® my remorse, -
I must confess 1 only am
A one horsepower horse!
They used to stroke my sorrel side
And tell how I could go.
To-day they tpeak in tones of pride
Of some bright red tonneau.
But. though my sorrow is so great
And anger is so keen.
I'm glad to have a chance to state
I don't eat gasoline.
I don’t know how to carburet.
Nor how to radiate.
When I wish to get up and get
I simply struck my gait. beam
’Tis true, in casting out the
For fairness 1 should try—
But’ lectric, gasoline or steam,
The “mote” is in my eye!
I have no wondrous steering peer,
But still they rush to see
A thing that has. I’m pained htar,
A horseless pedigree. the time,
They used to pet me all
But now they only shrug
Their shoulders, and pass by, for I’m
A poor old sparkless pluu!
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IX months before Gloria
s Spencer left school, a new
music teacher was em
ployed in the seminary,
and she was one of his
pupiis. He was a handsome, blue*
eyed blonde, with a musical voice and
perfect manners. He was also that
strange creature—a male flirt. He
spent the six months in winning
Gloria’s heart, never saying a word or
committing an act that would com
promise himself.
How she loved him!
"First Jove?” you ask.
Yes. is there anything like it? It is
well that it comes but once.
He called one night to say "Good
hy
Gloria thought he was coming back.
He said—
"I suppose you know that I am to be
married next month?”
It was a cruel blow. Better men
♦ban lie have committed murder.
An older woman would have con
cealed ap almost mortal wound, but
she grew so white that he sprang to
ward her.
n Don’t touch me,” she gasped, strug
gling with her agony, and then woman
ly pride triumphed, and into her eyes
leapt a flame that literally scorched
him.
"I fear you have misunderstood me,”
he said gently.
“Were yon engaged when you came
here?”
‘Of course.”
"Why did you make me care for
you?”
Forced to answer at the bar of be
trayed trust, for the murdm- of love,
he stammered—
“Why, really; I—I—you know I did
not try to do that exactly. I—wish
you would not look at it that way. We
have been good friends and-- • >
“Mr. Harlon.” Gloria interrupted,
U will you kindly go away?” opening
the door to facilitate his departure.
“I hope we may still he friends,” he
ventured as he passed out.
“And I hope,” she retorted, “that 1
shall never look on your face again,
or that of anyone like you, in this
world or the next.”
Afterward she road of his marriage,
hut small as the earth is, she never
saw him again.
As a result of this experience. Miss
Spencer grew a trifle cynical, hut pride
kept any one from knowing that sir
cc-co had passed over her heart.
At seventeen she learned that men
do not always mean what they say.
For ten years this fact formed a
piece in her mind around which
group all ideas regarding the sex
the .twenty-seventh, having traveled,
studied, and thought, she was a
tivated. well-informed woman, equal
in intellect to most men. Every
said “Gloria Spencer will he an old
maid.”
One day cards were issued for
marriage; the groom-elect was a
to-do merchant, slightly past thirty.
People talked, speculated and filled
church, when the weddin < •* a
satin affair, occurred.
Sidney Clarke was worthy of any
woman's affection .and he took
fate in liis own hands when he said—
“Gloria, will you be my wife?”
She thought, “what difference
it make?” and replied—
‘I do not love you, Mr. Clarke.
is not possible for me to care for
man. I loved once^and, with a
smile, “history does not repeat
in a woman’s heart. Still, if you
I will become your wife.
At the end of three years Mrs. Clarke
was thirty. She and her husband
never quarreled, they were good
friends, hut she never thought of
ing him. She respected him,
hiln even, and Sidney seemed
/ecliy satisfied with this state of
*l e tarxrjxx jit
fairs. Out of his content, at length,
grew Gloria's discontent. She began to
wonder why he did not love ber.
arguing that he did not. on the ground
that were it otherwise lie could not be
happy without his wife’s affection.
”lt does not follow that it is because
I do not love him,” she said, ” for men
have adored women who were indif
ferent to them. I wonder if he evei
loved. •»
One day she asked him.
"Sidney, did you ever care for a
woman?”
‘•Yes,” laughingly, "my mother.”
"Not that, did you ever have a—a
first love?”
"Yes,” gravely now, “I have had a
first love. * *
"She jilted you, I suppose?’
‘•No.”
“Then.” her voice full of sympathy,
“she is dead.”
"No, she is not dead.”
The conversation was interrupted
then and was not resumed; but Mrs.
Clarke wondered now why her hus
band married her, and before she was
well aware of it, with all the dormant
passion of her nature waking into
life, she was jealous of his first love.
After awhile she began trying to win
Ills affection. The restraint that Sid
ney put upon himself in those days
was wonderful. His wife was so sweet
and gentle, so tender and womanly,
so altogether lovable, that having
loved her always, the temptation to
tell her so was almost irresistible. But
it was the desire of his life to win her
heart, and understanding her nature
perfectly, he feared to speak too soon,
and so waited with seeming patience
until the longed for treasure should
he his. At last, Gloria knew what
caused the jealousy that possessed
her, the eagerness to win her lius
band’s regard, the thril that shook
every nerve at the touch of his hand.
She loved him. with the love of a
woman who had lived, and suffered,
and learned wisdom; the passion of her
girlhood was the fragrance of the
rose, this was the rose itself. It blooms
once only, but the flower is immortal;
the crisis in the lives of these two
came unexpectedly after all. They
were riding home from the theatre.
The play was one in which the hus
band having married to please His
father, eventually falls in love with
liis wife. They were speaking of it.
Gloria said—
“Do you think people ever do fall
in love after marriage?”
Sidney replied promptly:
I know it.
“From experience?”
“No. I could not have such an ex
perience. n
Some light they passed just then
flashed full on liis wife’s face. He saw
that she had grown very pale, hut she
asked:
“Why?”
He could bear it no longer, and tak
ing her in his arms, he said:
"Because, my darling, I always loved
you. I could not learn it after mar
riage, for I worshiped you long be
fore. Oh, love, tell me it is not in
vain,” and the wfe of four years
blushed in the darkness like a girl as
she put her arms around her husband’s
neck and whispered:
“I have loved you ever so long,
dear.”
Some time afterwards Mrs. Clarke
said:
"Tell me about that girl you loved
long ago. Sidney.”
“What girl?” in surprise.
“Have you forgotten, you told me
you had a first love; l have wondered
why you did not marry her."
“I did.”
“Sidney!”
u Gloria!”
“You don’t mean that—that---" and
then slie stopped, something choked
her a little.
Sidney dropped his paper, got up and
went over to her. He took her face
between his hands, and looked down
into the big gray eyes that were shin
ing through tears.
“My dear wife,” he said, “you
the only woman I ever
erone Magazine.
A Jap's Different Names.
Every European child can
the question, “What is your name?”
without hesitation unless lie is dumb,
but the Japanese boy must think a
tle to make sure, for at various periods
of his life he is called by
names. He receives liis first when
is just a month old. Then three
ferent names are written on three
of paper and thrown into the air
the temple, while prayers are
dressed to the family deity.
which falls first to the ground
the name the child is called tiH he
three years old. At fifteen the
ese hoy receives a now name in
Of his coming of*age. Ilis name
chauged again on the occasion of
marriage and on any advance in
position.
Significant Chance.
A hotel in Switzerland bore on
of its walls the time-honored
tion, “Hospes, salve!”
stranger!”) After rebuilding, the
gend ha*’, to be restored, but the
er, who must have had some
ence as a traveler, made a very
alteration in one of the words
i caused it to read, “Hospes, solve!”
( ‘Pay. stranger!”)
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Epitomized Items cf Interest
Gathered at Random.
Atlanta Aids State Exhibit.
Subscribers to the fund for the At
lanta exhibit at the Louisiana Pur
| chase exposition have consented to
1 rhe use of their money in completing
the Georgia building at that, fair ana
in advertising Atlanta by means
printed matter for distribution in the
Georgia building.
Glenn Succeeds Avis.
The board of trustees of the Uni
versity of Georgia, upon th<» reeom
mendation of the local board of trus
tees of the North Georgia Agricu.iit
ral College at Dahlonega, has electei
Dr. Gustavits B. Glenn preside-it
that institution to succeed the
Dr. E. S. Avis.
* * *
Nurserymen’s Convention.
The twenty sixth annual
of the American Associatoon qf
serymen will he held in Atlanta be
ginning Wednesday, June 22, and
I ing through Fr lay, June 24.
Many Georgia nurserymen
members of the association from
joining states will be in attendance
and it is expected the convention will
be one of the largest held in years,
j ! * *
Feud Ends Fatally.
j Z. T. Hall was shot and killed near
Rome a few days ago by Jack Bone.
j Hall was at work in a cotton field
when Bone walked up and shot him
with a shot gun, tearing off the top ol
his head.
The shooting was the outcome of an
old feud. Hall was 06 years old and
i leaves a family. Bone is about 22
old and is unmarried. He made his
escape.
* *
| Woman Appointed Receiver.
At Macon a day or two ago,
Speer, of the United States court,
. pointed Miss Nellie Walsh, of
nah. as receiver for the bankrupt
of Krouskoss & Co., a millinery firm
of Savannah. This is the first time
woman was ever appointed to
a position.
In making that appointment
Speer declared that he did this to
his confidence and pride in the
! ness ability of the women of
South.
* * *
j Supreme Court Will Decide.
The Ball-Ormond case at
i has gone to the supreme court.
bill of exceptions was filed a day
two ago and signed by Judge Lumpkin
of the superior court.
The supreme court will have
last say whether or not. Justice
E. Ormond has the right to try
John W. Ball for contempt..
This makes another chapter in
now celebrated case of Blanzer
i Harding, which has been aired
tensively in the newspapers.
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Are Not Boll Weevils.
More bugs have been sent to
state department of agriculture
; suspicion that they are the
boll weevil. This time the bugs
from Cuthbert, having been found
the farm of A. C. Moye, where,
is said, they made disastrous depreda
tions on the cotton.
These bugs have been submitted
I State Entomologist Scott, who
make an examination of them as
has done in several other cases.
is stated positively, however,
: these bugs are not the boll
| hut some other kind of insect
1 really out not to be destructive to
ton.
* * *
Barnesville Cotton Mill Sold.
The big cotton mill of the Barnes
ville Manufacturing Company was
at public sale a few days ago by J.
W.. Cabaniss, trustee for the stock
holders. It, was bid in by Captain Hen
ry Blun, of Savannah, for the
holders, at $50,000. The capital
amounts to $150,000. The
get the mill with their first
bonds aggregating $75,000, while
stockholders and other creditors
nothing. The mill cost $215,0*00,
has not been operated since 1901.
bondholders will probably organize
* new company for disposing of the
erty.
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Investigating Repudiated Bonds.
Representing English holders
Georgia’s repudiated bonds to the
tent of about $3,000,000 face value
Hon. A. D. Provand, of No. 2
hall Court, London, has been in
lanta for several days looking un
records of the statfe capitol with re
gard to these securities and
over their standing with various
house official-:.
Mr. Provand is not a lawyer,
a merchant. “A lawyer is tlie last
to be called in to adjust a
matter,” »r. Provand says, He
lievos that where there is an hone
!
; contention between two parties to a
business transaction, they should seek
| to themseivbs, settle it and harmoniously that i« the between j
, manner ;
of Mr. Pro rand’s mission to Georgia j
regarding the state's repudiated secur- j
ities.
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. Judge Turner Laid Rest.
to
All of the business houses of Quit
man were closed, and the court house
of Brooks as weii as the public insti
j tutions and Bank of Quitman, were .
draped in mourning as a vast con
course of friends and admirers fol
lowed to its last resting place the uior
; ta l remains of Hon. Henry G. Tur
ner *
Quiet and simple, but of an impres
sive character, were the exercises at
i the grave. A few verses from the
j scriptures were read, followed by a
I prayer and short eulogy pronounced
by Rev. J. M. Lovette, of Cordele.
Rev. J. W. Lowrance, pastor of the
| local Methodist church, assisted at the
burial services. A large number ot
prominent men from throughout the
section were present to pay a last
tribute of respect to the distinguished
j Georgian. Hundreds of telegrams were
; received from all parts of the state
and other states, from those who knew
and admired Judge Turner’s public ca
reer and from men associated with
him in congress, on the supreme court
bench and in business affairs.
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Comptroller General’s Repcrf.
Comptroller Genera] v % i
Wright’s annual report has just i.een
issued from the press a -.i i- J
. : others interestecu
Comptroller General Wright deals
.irst with the condition of the treas
ury up to December 31, 1903, and :hen
with the returns of taxable property
from 1880 to 1903, showing the in
crease to he from $251,424,651 in 1880
to $504,617,947 in 1903. The increase
of 1903 over 1902 was $37,307,301, of
which $14,218,979 came from the fran
chise tax.
The comptroller geneaal strongly
urges legislation Icokfng to equality
of taxation. Under the present system
there are inequalities in many ecc
tions of the state. The comptroller gen
eral says hut little personal property
ever gets on the tax books, and that
something should he done to reach it.
Stocks in foreign corporations held
by citizens and by corporations in this
state, he says, should he taxed, hut
the owners claim that there is no ;
Georgia statute under which a return ]
of such property can be required. This
item of property, he says, would add
j several millions to Georgia’s taxable :
values.
The latter part of the report deals .
with the insurance companies, the
comptroller general being also msur- j
1
ance commissioner.
* * *
Secretary Cock’s F.eport, !
Secretary of State Phil Cook has :
completed his report of the work done j
by his office between O-ctober 28. 1S98,
and May 6, 1904. The report, is now
in be the issued hands from of the the printer, and will j
press in a few
days.
The report shows the following:
One hundred and ten banks charter
ed; 6 miscellaneous charters; 96
amendments to charters: 36 charters
of steam railroads; 11 charters for
street railways; 23 insurance compa
nies; 11 navigation concerns; 2 pur
; chases of railroads reincorporated; 231
! bond issues; 98 trade marks; 44 com
] missioners of deeds appointed; 60 land
grants.
The report also shows that $16,792 .00
aas been l iai( 1 the state irea-
1 oury by his office.
* * *
Georgia Delegation Organizes.
The Georgia delegation to the na
tional convention of the democratic
party at St. Louis met in Atlanta last
Saturday and organized by electing
Judge John W. Maddox, of Rome, per
manent. chairman of the delegation,
and H. M .McIntosh, of Albany, sec
retary.
The delegation decided to leave At
lanta on Sunday, July the 3d, and the
route selected is that of the Western
and Atlantic an -’l Louisville and Nash
ville, the committee appointed on
transportation deciding on this route
immediately after the meeting of the
delegation adjourned.
The delegation will stop at the
Southern hotel while in St. Lou; s.
National Committeeman Clark How
ell called the delegation to order.
Those present as shown by the roil
call were:
Judge J. W. Maddox, C. R. Pendle
ton, James R. Gray. John D. Little,
A. C. Riley, A. H. Van Dyke, R. T
Daniel, Albert Strickland, J. D.
Price, W. W. Stark, C. B. Young,
W. B .Crawford, Moses Wright. Prox
ies of ten delegates were announced.
As soon as the roll cal’ had been
called and it was announced that four
teen delegates were present in person
and that there were ten r^nresented
by proxies, Judge C. ft. Pendleton arose
and said that some understanding
should be reached in the beginning
about the proxies. He questioned in hi
own mind, he said, whether the prex
ies should be recognized ■„
questions which rotate to .' 0tin
of the delegation at the St j
.
vention. The delegates had
elected to represent the 602
they could not be state, a „
should present th ms
Lave sent their altern
National Committeeman ate.
asked unanimous How*!, ‘
consent of h ° e
ing that nothing should i, t doiv.
the meeting other than to
rangements for transportation mak
like, everything else being an,
future meeting of delegatio” left
the
the Relegates should be present*v
son. There was no objection
course was decided ana j
upon.
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Educational Association Pr °8rsn
President N. EL Ware presents
following program for the J |
of the Georgia 1904
mg Educatio nal a.
ciation to be held at Warm Sprit
Ga.;
Tuesday, June 21.—Paper. Profetf,' ■
ture in Public School,”
M. Park, Milledgeville.
The Ratification of the Local t
ation Amendment—Discussion led
M. L. Brittian, Atlanta; w. M. 'j
ritt, Atlanta, and others.
Paper—"The Place of Techai
English in a Course of Study,”
Peaft Stephens, Macon.
Paper, Miss Celestia Parrish, ;
ens.
Departmental Meetings —
me.nt of Supervision, W. F. Shi
Atlanta; Manual Training, m. L.
gan, Suarta; College and High
Chancellor Walter B. Hill,
Physical Culture, Dr. Theodore
Atlanta; Primary Schools, Miss
sie M. Snyder, Milledgeville.
8:30 P. M.—Address, Hon. ;
Brown, Hawkinsville.
Wednesday, June 22—Class Wo*'- '
Pupi]s> G c . Ll00 ney, Fairbunr
Nation of Higher Education to n
er Education,” W. H. Kilpatrick, d
cer Study, University; History?” “Why Should j
Edgar H. Johns
Emory College; “County
Schools,’ J. S. Stewart, Uniter]
of Georgia,
Music.
“Should the Supervisors of Scti
be Elected for One Year or -
Years?”—General discussion,
Address—“The Weather Bureau
its Relation to Agriculture,” Hi
J. B. Marburry, Weather Bureau
p-artment, Atlanta,
GARRIbON ALI.GTMF.NTb MADE,
Secretary of War Taft Approves ippl
tionment of Quartermaster GeneruJ
Secretary Taft has approved th?
lotments made by the quartermas]
general of the funds for barracks a
Q uar Wrs at. various army posts al
forts to be expended during the Ss
year beginning July 1. The foiled
amounts were allotted to forts on t
coasts:
Fort Monroe, Va., $137,000; Fort I
Philip, La., $56,000; Fort Barranci
F "‘ a ’ $3,750; E'ort Moultrie, S. I
$168,650; Fort Ecreve-n. Ga., $51 OS
Port CaswoJl, N. C., $9,500.
Th e following amounts were allot!
to interior posts: Fort George
Thomas, Ga., $11,250; Fort Mf?l
ten. Ga.. $68,000.
IN COFFIN TH1RTY-S X HOURS.
little Girl Miraculously Scved by Rck«
Doctor Irom Being Buried Alive.
After lying 36 hours in her cod
Mabel Fearing, the five-year-o!d dad
ter of C. M. Fearing, of Custer,
D., has been revived. The child «
saved through the intervention
Dr. E. S. Norton, a relative, who 4
at the house to attend the cheeks funerj aj
Dr. Norton noted the rosy
unchanged appearance of the chi
and refused to permit the coffin to
closed, tie called other physicians a*
an effort was made to revive the fh:
At last signs of returning .animaflj
were noted. Half an hour later
stethoscope .indicated a return
strong heart action. An hour iatd r 1
child was sleeping in the arms of
mother.
IN BEHALF OF CAPTIVES.
Moroccan Official Sends His Son to P |?
With Bandit Raisuli.
The foreign office at Paris ha?
ceived lengthy advices from tl
French minister at Tangier.
Mohammed El Torres, the
representative at Tangier, has ck ()S
his own son to proceed to the ob
tain retreat of Raisuli, the bar*
chief, and present the final terras
secure the release of Perdicaris 3
Varley.
NO SELECTION HAS BEEN MADF.
Report That Dr. Denny was Elected
dent of University Proves Incorrec-*
The statement that Rea-’. G'* 1
Denny, a member of the facult? j
Vanderbilc University, Nash'-.
Tenu., has been elected president!
the University of Virginia, C ra ‘'
he incorrect. It is stated that
has yet been selected for the F --' 8,