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Fitzgerald Leader.
TITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
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The National debt of Spain is neaifly’
82 , 000 , 000 , 000 , and the annual inter¬
est $80,000,000.
They do things somewhat strangely
in France. The town council, of
Havre, has just rejected an offer of
$20,000 for a convalescent home made
by a merchant of that town, on con¬
dition that the municipality should
provide the $1000 needed for prelimi¬
nary exponses in tho way of plans,
etc.
According to the Chicago Tribune
the enormous sum of $33,070,120 was
given during 1896 to colleges and
other institutions of learning, libra¬
ries, hospitals, museums and various
objects of interest in this country. Of
this sum the colleges recoived $16,-
814,000, and $10,854,000 went to
charities of various kinds. This is a
good showing for one year.
A special committee of the Alabama
Legislature on the State convict ques¬
tion recommended that all of the
county prisoners and all except twen¬
ty-five per cent, oi the State convicts
he withdrawn from the mines where
they are employed under contract,
and that the State convicts bo worked
on the farms and in the brickyards
and the cotton factory belonging to
the State.
German army officers are to have
their pay raised. First lieutenants
will receive $420 a year instead of
$315; captains, $958 instead of $900 ;
majors, $1500 instead of $1350, and
golonels, $2100 instead of $1950. The
money for the increase is obtained
from the saving the Government makes
in reducing the interest on the publio
debt from 4 to 3l per cent. The offi¬
cers are compelled by the army regu¬
lations to invest their savings in Gov¬
ernment funds.
At Baltimore, Md., a very interest¬
ing paper was read by David Sulzber¬
ger, of Philadelphia, on the subject of
“Our Hebrew Population.” The writer
states that in 1812 the total number of
Hebrews in the United States barely
exceeded 3000. In 1840, however, the
Hebrew population had increased to
something over 50,000, of which num¬
ber 13,000 resided in New York, 4000
in Philadelphia and 1000 in Baltimore.
At the present time Mr. Sulzberger
estimated that the Hebrew population
of the United States is about 500,000
and that no less than 140,000 of this
number live in New York City.
The centennial anniversary of Ger¬
many’s famous composer, Franz Peter
Schubert, has recently been fittingly
observed throughout the world. In
doing honor to the memory of the
great musician this country viod in
its tribute with the Fatherland. Exer¬
cises were held in several of our lead¬
ing-cities, including New York, Phila¬
delphia, Boston and Chicago, and tho
namo of the great composer was ex¬
tolled amid a perfect jubilee of his
own melodies. ' In striking contrast
with this magnificent ovation is the
squalid mauuer in which the composer
was allowed to die some three-quarters
of a century ago. Except the im¬
mortal creations of his brain, the
musician left behind him nothing but
a few old clothes valued at $13. In a
similar state of wretchedness the re¬
nowned Mozart also iiassed away; and
yet to-day the great composers are
honored wherever mueiu has its vota¬
ries. Alas ! that death should inter¬
vene before this stupid old world is
made to realize that a genius has
moved among men.
“I have not much faith,” said an ex¬
perienced criminologist recently, “in
the theory that criminals are born
with an irresistible tendency to evil-
doiDg. Crime is not a hereditary dis¬
ease, but is chiefly the result of en¬
vironment. ” This is an opinion from
a high authority, delivered at a meet¬
ing of criminologists, and worthy of
deep consideration. It was substan¬
tially stated two years ago by Thomas
Byrnes, ex-Superintendent of the Ne.w
York police, who spoke from a wider
and closer contact with the criminal
class than any other man on this con¬
tinent. This is a bold and direct
attack upon the favorite theory of
heredity, which has been the bugaboo
of the human race since the days of
the ancient Greeks and Hindoos.
Modern science has asserted, in the
words of Emerson, that “man is a
quotation of all his ancestors.” But
even science is now modifying her
view. Although Darwin preached tho
doctrine of the inheritance of acquired
character, Weismann, the latest master
of heredity, has agreed with Gaiton
that acquired character is rarely in-
lierited.
EVEKV YEAR.
1 he spring has less of brightness,
Every year,
And tho snow a ghastlier whiteness,
Every year,
Nor do summor flowers quicken,
Nor does autumn irultage thicken,
As they once did, for thoy sioken
Every year. J3/
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Life Is a count of losses,
Evory year,
For tho weak are heavier crosses j
Every yoar.
Lost spriags with sobs replying,
Unto weary autumn’s sighing.
While those we love are dying,
Every year.
It is growing darker, colder,
Every year,
As tho heat and light grow older,
Every year,
1 care not now for dancing,
Or for eyes with passion glancing,
Love is less und less entrancing,
Every year.
For the days have less of gladness.
Every year,
The nights have more of sadness,
Every year,
Fair springs no longer charm U3,
Tho winds and weather harm us,
The threats of death alarm us,
Evory year,
Tliero come new cares and sorrows,
Every year,
Dark days and darker morrows,
Every year,
Tho ghosts of dead loves haunt us,
The ghosts of ohanged friends taunt us,
And disappointments daunt us,
Every year. ,
Of the loves and sorrows blended,
Every year, ,
Df the charms of friendship ended,
Every year,
Of the ties that still might bind me,
Until time and death resigned me,
My intimities remind me,
Every year.
Thank God, no clouds aro shifting,
Every year,
O’er the land to which wo'rc drifting,
Every year,
No losses there will grieve ns,
Nor loving faces leave us,
Nor death of friends bereave us,
Every year.
—Albert Pike.
Ti-iu County Line: Road.
BY GEORGE S. CUTHCEETSON.
wa n,S—p /N a particular
vM/ portion of the fair
jfef* 1E£ State is of long, Michigan level
a
Wretch of high-
W8 7» 0 n
to® boundary be-
tween two coun-
S*’* “tru ties, for which
reason it is familiarly known to tho
adjacent residents as the “County Line
Road.” In former clays, before the
keen bladed ax and sharp toothed saw
of the sturdy settler had accomplished
such a wonderful transformation in
the appearance of tho landscape, both
sides of the road were lined for a
number of miles by a dense, heavy
growth of forest and underbrush.
In consequence of this fact and the
scarcity of human habitations, the
farmers who traveled over this route
to the city markets located at its ter¬
mination, found an exceedingly lone¬
some, cheerless ride before them. But
then, the highly remunerative prices
paid for the results of their toil, as
was evidenced by their well filled
purses on their return, offered ade¬
quate inducements to them to brave
the dangers and discomforts of the
solitary journey.
The dangers to which we refer were
occasioned by a band of outlaws who
Pad established their headquarters in
this extensive belt of timber.
Startling were the stories circulated
concerning the bold deeds of this ruf¬
fian gang; many were the farmers that
could testify from bitter experience
to the veracity of these stories; and
numerous were the attempts made to
apprehend and bring the criminals to
justice. But all to no purpose. The
“County Line Road” continued to
possess a reputation so unsavory that
it struok terror into the hearts of those
who were obliged to travel its lonely
windings.
Robert Emmet was only eighteen
years of age when his father died and
left him in charge of their newly set-
tied, partially cleared farm with the
responsibility resting on his inexpert-
enced young shoulders of caring and
providin'? for his widowed mother and
his two small brothers.
Robert was a healthy, active youth,
with a clear brain and strong, well-de
veloped muscles. He iully realized
the gravity of his position and cheer-
fully and bravely went to work. By
dint of earnest, tireless efforts, fine
crops of grain and vegetables were
grown and harvested; so that, when
in the wauing life of autumn there
came whisperings of the arrival of
blustering winter, the Emmet family
found themselves plentifully provided
with food and an ample surplus of
farm produce which, when sold, would
bring iu sufficient revenue to meet all
tho expenses incurred iu the manage-
meat; of their farm and household'.
But in order that this happy result
might be brought about, it was, of
course, necessary that Robert should
convey to the city markets the prod-
nets oi bin Hummer’s labor over tho
ill-famed “County Line Road.”
It was not a pleasant prospect that
conironted him. Just the week pre-
vious his nearest neighbor went on a
similar expedition aud returned, tell-
ing a doleful story, having been re-
Our life is less worth living,
Every year,
And briefor our thanksgiving,
Evory yoar,
And lovo grown faint and iretful,
With lips but half regretful,
Averts its eyes forgetful,
Every year. ,
Ah, how sad to look before us, •
Evory year,
Whllo tho cloud grows darkor o'er us,
Every year,
When we see the blossoms fadod,
Thnt to bloom wo might have aided
And immortal garlands braldod,
Evory year. -«*,
To the past go more dead faces,
Every year,
And tho loved leavo vacant places,
Every year,
Everywhere the sad eyes meet us,
In tho evening's dusk they greet us,
And to come to them entreat us,
Every year. -A
“You are growing old,” they toll us,
“Every yoar;”
“You are more alone,” they toil us,
“Every year;”
“You can win no new affection,
You have only recollection,
Doopest sorrow and dejection,”
“Every year.”
Too true. Life’s shores arc shifting,
Every yoar,
And wo are shoreward drifting,
Every year,
Old places, chaugiug, fret us,
The living more forget us,
Thoro are iewer to regret us,
Every year. —-
.
But tho truer lire draws nigher,
- Every year,
And its morning star climb3 higher,
Every year,
Earth’s hold on us grows slighter,
And the heavy burdens lighter,
And tho dawn immortal brighter,
Every year.
lieved of his watch and all his money.
A couple of days following this af-
fair a well organized posse of men,
under leadership of the sheriff, started
out, determined upon capturing the
highwaymen. Scouring the wood for
nearly a week, they were on the point
of giving up, when a rude log cabin
wa3 discovered in a deep ravine.
Here they came upon three members
of the gang, who, being taken by sur¬
prise, surrendered after a slight resis¬
tance.
These welcome tidings were joyfully
received by everybody, but no one
felt more jubilant over them than did
the hero of this narrative, Robert Em¬
met.
He now believed he would be able
to carry his produce to market, and
return therefrom in safety. Nor was
he mistaken, for a month passed
rapidly by, during which time he
made several successful trips; and, as
a natural result, the carefully hoarded
earnings, tuoked snugly away in tho
old stocking in the tin box under the
loose board in the corner of the
kitchen floor, had become enlarged to
such an extent as to burst from the
confinement of their wooly prison.
The day arrived at last when Robert
was to make his last visit to tho city.
Thankful, indeed, for his past good
fortune and happy in the thought of
the near-by termination of his labor,
he bade the dear ones at home fare-
well, and gaily mounted to his place
on the load.
Justly proud was ho of the team of
beautiful prancing colts which, heavy
zj&l zazueit .t
Robert was far on his way when day-
light’s rosv hues began wenthe°r io tin<»e the
eastern horizon. The was
sharp and frosty, and the roads like
pavement, so hard were thoy frozen,
and the city was safely reached early
in the afternoon.
Before nightfall ho had succeeded
in disposing of the major portion of
his load.and what remained was parted
with the iollowiug morning.
Quite a handsome sum was gained
from the sale. The com he carried in
a leathern pouch in his bresches
pocket, while the bills were caretuily
rolled up iu a bunch and stowed away
in an inside pooket of Ins vest.
When his team had finished their
feed of grain he started out on the
homeward journey. His heart was us
light as the fleecy clouds that floatod
lazily about on the western margin of
the sky, and he hummed a lively tune
as tho wagon rattled along over tho
smooth road.
It was still early in tho day and few
conveyances were abroad and these
were headed toward the city. For the
first ten of the thirty-four miles farm
houses were numerous, but after that
ihe country ^grow gradually wilder,
with settlers homes less in number
and looated farther apart.
Arriving within a mile of the forest,
Robert perceived a tall figure rise
suddenly from the ditch at tho road-
side and walk ahead with slow, halting
movements. As lie drew nearer he
could see a woman. She was attired
in a dress of coarse, dark material and
a thick woolen shawl hung in loose
folds around her shoulders. Her head¬
gear consisted of a small felt httt, over
which was drawn a close, brown veil
that completely concealed her fea¬
tures. Her hands were enveloped in
mittens and in one of them she oarried
a little wicker basket, whose contents
were hidden from view by a strip of
paper tuoked about it.
As Robert drove up the woman
paused and turned around. She didn’t
raise her veil when she spoke, and her
voioe was low and hoarse.
“Would you give an old woman a
ride?” she asked, and then went off
into a paroxysm of coughing.
“Certainly, ma’am 1” said Robert,
cheerfully, at the same timo bringing
his team to a stop.
“What a terriblo cold the poor
thing’s gut,” was his mental comment,
as he looked down pityingly.
When the fit of coughing had
subsided she clambered slowly into
the wagon and took a place beside the
young teamster, who drew up the
heavy robe and kindly assisted in
arranging and tucking it around his
passenger.
“Quite chilly,” lio remarked, set¬
tling himself again on his seat.
But liis companion made no reply,
and he concluded that she did not de¬
sire to enter into conversation. So
they drove along in a silence broken
only by the noiso of the vehicle and
the clatter of the horses’ hoofs on the
frozen road-bed.
Bat if Robert’s tongue was silent,
his thinking powers were by no means
dormant, and over him there crept a
vague, uncertain feeling that every-
thing was not just as it should be.
Now and then he stole a glanco at tho
woman, who sat as motionless a3 a
niarblo image.
During one of these glances the
stiff breeze that was blowing caught a
corner of the veil and flung it back,
exposing for an instant a stubby
growth of black chin whisktfts!
Immediately the stranger pulled
down tho unruly covering and in¬
dulged in another dry, racking cough.
“A woman with a beard!” thought
Robert in dismay, and then in a flash
he realized that seated beside him was
a man in disguise, a man belonging to
a gang of highwaymen.
It was a startling discovery, but
evidently his unwelcome passenger
was totally unaware that he had
made it.
What should he do? He must de¬
cide quickly, for soon the forest would
be reached and in its gloomy mazes
no doubt other highwaymen were sta¬
tioned at the spot where it was intend¬
ed ho should be robbed of his hard-
earned money. Suddenly he gave a
quick little jerk of his head which
tilted his hat over on his ear, and the
wind catching it, off it went.
“Whoa! Prinos! Whoa, Topsy!” he
cried; “Whoa, I say ! I’ve lost my hat.
“I’ll hold tho horses till you get it,”
said his companion, checking with ap¬
parent effort another attack of cough¬
ing.
“Oh, no, ma’am ! I couldn’t think
of it. They’re a pair of colts and very
difficult to manage unless you under¬
stand them. I’ll hold them and you
may do me the kindness to get my
hat.”
The counterfeit woman appeared
undecided, a minute, then depositing
the basket in the bottom of the wagon,
dropped down over tho wheel to the
ground and hobbled off in tho direc¬
tion of the ditch.
Robert watched until the hat had
been picked up, and then spoke sharply
to the horses, at the same time strik¬
ing them lightly over their backs with
the reins.
The noble animals sprang forward
a hound and struck into a steady
rnn ‘ ^ torrent of oaths falling on his
ears a1,)0ve the racket of the wagon,
t!i0 .V otI “g driver glanced over his
shoulder and saw that his lata corn-
panion had torn off the veil and was
running, rapidly. after him. But it
TCaa not ' i°ng until there was a long
distance between them
“Weil done, my good horses,” he
said, approvingly. “Lou deserve a
double quantity of oats to-night and
iE 1 livfl to 8 et home - Y ou shal1 haTO
it. Ah! here’s that strange little
basket, I must sea what’s in it.”
Picking it up he cautiously removed
to defend himself. But nothing of a
suspicious nature was further encoun-
tered aud-mueh to his relief-the
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„ MaSeg S oa»
Most oi the soap factories m Greece r
-which number thirty-seven-aro to
be found at Zaute, some working all
the year round and others only during
certain mouths. The annual produo-
turn of common soap is about 6,-
500,000 okes, of which three-fourths
are consumed in the country, tUo re-
mainder being sold to lurkey, Egypt,
Bulgaria, Koumania, Austria and tne
United States. Altogether tho indus-
try employs 180 hands, whoso wages
vary from three to five drachmas per
day. Native olive oil is used for the
manufacture. For soma years past
the Grecian soaps havo effectively
competed with similar _ manufactures
on foreign markets, they being pre-
forred to the common soaps manuiao-
tured in brnyrua, Mytilene, Syria and
even in certain European countries.
1 he annua, exports exceed a million
okes.-Loudon Lhamber o. Lorn-
merce Journ a ■
Vcur>-t1 ‘ 1 !“Tm-->i,tates ^ ‘ J *
Qneen victoria, _ for all her seventy-
seven years, is yet overtopped in point
of age by four other mouarchs of Eu-
rope—the Pope, the Gr^nd. Duke of
Luxemburg, the King of Denmark and
the Grand .’Juke of Saxe-Weimar. _____,
WOMAN’S WEAR.
SOME NEW FEATURES IN FEMI¬
NINE GARMENTS.
Stylish Example of a New Dress for
the Warm Days of Sum-
mor-A Handsome
Homo Gown.
M ATERIAL3 anti suggestions
for summer dress are not
wanting even at this early
date, writes May MantoD,
and the exquisite colors and gauzy ef¬
fects invariably carry one’s thoughts
to tho mountains or tho seashore. An
over-supply of sheer and dainty gowns
for summer resorts is an utter impos¬
sibility. such
A stylish examplo of It just carried a
gown is here pictured. is bro¬
out in gray faille, with bolero of
cade showing black and yellow figures
on a gray surface (an extremely
Frenchy confection, by the way). The
free edges of the bolero and epaulettes
are deoorated with narrow ribbon and
sequins.
The foundation, reaching to the
waist line, is glove-fitting, provided
with the usual seams and double bust
darts, and closes in the centre-front.
The seamless front fits smoothly
across the shoulders with tho fulness
at the waist line simply gathered in
centre. Under-arm gores separate
the back from the fronts that show a
cluster of tucks which extend from
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neck to yoke depth; the fulness thus
caused being collected in gathers at
the waist line beneath a soft crushed
belt of satin.
To make this waist for a lady in the
medium size will require two and oue-
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stylish summer dress.
material. The skirt will require two
and one-half yards of same width
goods.
late styles in misses’ sleeves.
Two exceedingly stylish models are
here represented portraying the latest
fancv iu sleeves of modified dimen-
slon3 _ No. 1, developed iu figured
taffeta, fits the arm comfortably close
from W rist to shoulder, where it is
we( . by a Bji01 . fc full puff that is
gathere d at the top and bottom and
so arranged upon the sleeve as to ex-
panel in mushroom effect, thiis verify-
ing tho name of “fche mushroom
sleeve.” The wrists may be plainly
completed -’illustrated. or decorated with a 1 rill
] ftCei as
No. 2, of striped novelty in silk-
and-^col, j a a popular design adapted
to all manner of weaves and textureB.
The shaping is accomplished by smooth
under and full over
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kisses’ sleeves.
fitted linings,that flare stylishly above
the elbow, the adjustment below being
close. The sleeves can be made of
material which matches tho waist in
which they are inserted or accompany
a short bolero jacket to be worn over
a waist of contrasting material. For
remodeling last season’s gowns no
better model can be recommended,
particularly in renovating school
dresses where sleeves aro apt to be
worn by constantly coming in contact
with desks, blackboards, etc.
To make either style of sleeves for a
miss of fourteen years will require ona
and one-eighth yards of forty-four-
inch wide material.
ladies’ home gown.
Tho tea , -»*- May Manton, . .
gown says is
M no means a luxur .Y. but !l means ot
economy inasmuch as it saves one s
street gowns from unnecessary wear
Beet and comfort are sure to be found
m these loose, fascinating gowns, the
fitted lining-front, uaving single bust
darts and closing in the centre, upon
which the lull vest of wm e mousse-
IZwUh'lho fffincss^oU^ed °^e
shoulder-edges in gathers, ami con-
fined at the waist-line by the belt of
satin, which enoiroles the waist and
finishes-it Lud^rne the afd lett sido wiln u end! full
bow long grwe.nl
The close-fittin^ to° back shows 'advantage. the lines
of the figure the best
Below the wai>t-line the fulness is dis-
posed in underlying plaits which widen
perceptib’y producing two flule like
folds that Hare in graceful fashion. At
the neck is a plain standing bund,
above which rises a soft frill of white
j no usseline that is doubled and gath-
ere( j c ] OS elv to flare stylishlv. Aust¬
tractive feature is the collar that falls
deeply |^ across the back. r'evers The fronts of
e }, avo b roa d that taper
gradually toward the waist. The right
front overhms the left below the bust-
Jiue, fastening invisibly at this point,
The sleeves present the fashionable
mousquetaire, in wrinkled effect, and
may be cut full or three-quarter length,
the'pattern providing for either style,
Moire, brocade and liberty satins
make lovely gowns, but less expensive
materials can be had, ns the bargain-
. i ales ofitirues iurni&h excelieufc oppor-
tunities for pretty dress fabrics at
small price-. Crepon end soft cash-
mere in light colors me,he more per¬
viceable gowns, with fronts of silk,
lace cr net.
