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Fitzgerald Leader. to to see an- was 1(5 .* The statue to Frederick Donglass, which the Park Commissioners will place in one of the publio squares of Rochester, N. Y., will probably be the first public statue ever erected to a colored man in the United States. Here is an opportunity for John Bull and his inevitable umbrella, though he may not covet it. A Ger- man professor, in giving his experi¬ ence as an explorer in the wilds of Africa, says that the best protection against tigers and lions is an umbrella, as the beasts are especially afraid of one when opened suddenly upon them. On all the new ships of the navy the American shield has displaced as a fig¬ ure-head the designs carried on the older vessels. This is carved out of solid brass, with the stars and stripes and the shield proper fitted close around the slender bow, while scroll' work extends backward on either side for a distance of four or five feet. The New York, the Minneapolis and the Philadelphia have possibly the most elaborate designs, some having cost four thousand or five thousand dollars each. Novelties in advertising are not lim¬ ited to America. In some of the for¬ eign cities enterprising firms watch the papers carefully for records of births and promptly send the mother pres¬ ents of soap or toilet articles. One London house, keeping its records carefully, waits till the child is a few years old and then sends out—the sex being noted—the following: “Madame, as your little child’s birthday ap¬ proaches, and, thinking that you may require some present for her in com¬ memoration of the event, we enclose a catalogue of our toys.” A medical man in London lost his dog; it was not a beauty, but hand- some enougn a to 1 be .. .mi. stolfen, and i it '4 was ° a great pet of his wife. He hit upon an ingenious device for recovering it at a cheap price. He put the follow¬ ing advertisement in the paper: “Lost, a small black dog from May Fair street. It is of no value even to the owner, but kind-hearted persons who may have been moved to take it in are warned not to do so, as the animal has been much experimented upon for scientific purposes, and may become involun¬ tarily a source of great danger.” The dog came back tho same day, in time for afternoon tea. A special service for old people was held in a Philadelphia Methodist Epis¬ copal Church on a recent Sunday morning. The sermon was from the text, “Cast me off in the time of my old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.” A general invita¬ tion had been issued to the old folks of the congregation and others were asked to spread the word among the aged and infirm of the whole commun¬ ity. Carriages were sent for those who were unable to walk to the church,and special arrangements were made for their comfort throughout the service. Great, comfortable, easy chairs and rockers for the old people surrounded the pulpit, in a semicircle, and on two tables were several bouquets of fall flowers, which were afterward dis¬ tributed as souvenirs of the occasion. A “stereoptico-musioal aggregation” from San Antonio visited a neighbor¬ ing Texas town. To entertain the in. habitants they impressed an old grand piano which haif lain long unused in the publio hall. The “professor’’ opened the lids and found that the keys responded pleasantly to his touch. He launched into Wagnerian melody, and the pianissimo prelude gently awakened a colony of wasp s that had built a nest in a recess of the instrument during the months of its idleness. The pianist plunged int 0 fortissimo and was startled to find the rumble and roar of his basso-prof undo notes accompanied by a strange, high, angry hum. In another second, with a vicious whir of wings, the yellow- jackets were out and upon professor “aggregation,” and audience. There was a howling stampede for windows and doors; aud in current history it is written that the San Antonio train, which was flagged at the crossing that night, carried away a little band of men who looked as if they had had an anvictorious enoounter with a thresh¬ ing-machine. REST. Let ns rest ourselves a bli. Voyage off, beneath tho trees, Worry? wave your hand to It— O’er tho field’s enchanted sons, Kiss your finger-tips little and smile Whero the lilies are our sails, It farewell a while. And our seagulls, nightingales. Wonry We of the weary way Where no wilder storm shall bent have come since yesterday. Than the wind that waves the whoat, Let ua fret us not, In dread And no tempests burst above Of the weary way ahoad. The old luughs we used to love. While we yet look down—not up— Lose nil troublos—gain relense, To sook out the buttercup Languor and exoeoding poaoe, And the daisy, where they wave Cruising Idly o’er the vast O’er the green home of the grave. Calm mld-oooan of the past. Let us launch us smoothly on Lot us rest ourselves a bit. Listless billows of tho lawn, Worry? !Uss wave your hand to smile It— And drift out across tho main your llnger-tips and Of our childish dreams again. It farewell a little while. —James Whitcomb P.iley. 8 Harvey’s Romance. I * T was during his fresh- man year at Harvard that ,\ o° I first became acquainted with Harvey. He had come to college from a thriving Western town, where his father was a banker and leading citi- zen. Harvey was a remarkable fellow in many ways. In the first place he was one of the handsomest fellows I have ever known. He was possessed of rare talents, and bore upon his face the unmistakable stamp of good breed¬ ing. And yet, when I first knew Harvey, he was a freshman in every sense of the word. You could hardly call him green; he had seen quite a bit of the world and society, too, for all that, but it was of such as a boy sees under the chaperonage of a fond and indul¬ gent mother. His experiences, while quite varied in their nature, were of a tame variety, so you will not deem it strange that when he arrived at Har¬ vard, with an allowance of $300 per month and no chaperons but sophs and seniors, a new world was opened to him. Like all freshmen of this type, Har¬ vey fell in with a fast set, joined a swell fraternity and went straight to the bad. And what a winding and mellifluous path his Satanic Majesty has provided for the college devotees. Of ^course Harvey’s apartments were the best in the city. His dog had whipped everything that had been pit¬ ted against him, and his wine suppers to the fast set of which he was a part were the talk and envy of every cheaii Cholly man in the college. * Long before the end of the first term Harvey was an acknowledged king of the bloods. He was a greatly changed lad; all that simple charm and frank¬ ness that had marked him when he came .were gone. His manner, talk and dress had all changed, aud now conformed strictly to the ideas of the set of which he had become a part. At the ,, junior . . , hop occurred little mci- , a I ,j ell t w hioh to mark an epoch in the affairs and life of the freshman, and, in fact, to give birth to this story. The junior hop is the social event of the year at Harvard, and at all great American colleges for all that. This is the high tide of the year when the freshman sends home for his best girl to show her something of college life, and to show her how important he has become in one term. A few months before a beautiful young lady, tho daughter of one of the Back Bay mil¬ lionaires, had made her debut in Bos¬ ton society. Bessie Hill was so re¬ fined and so charming that it was but a short time before all of the young men, both in Boston and in Cambridge, were wildabouther. She was a model of beauty, but to stop here and say no more would be doing her great injus¬ tice, for she was not only a queen of beauty, but possessed of all the other qualities necessary to make her a type of perfect womanhood. Of course, she would be at the hup, and every fellow who had not already met her had set his heart upon an introduc¬ tion. Every swell fraternity in the college attended in a body, and every big fraternity man individually did all in his power to bring Bessie Hill to his booth and make her a part of his Greek letter circle. Harvey looked that night as I had never seen him look before. With the efforts of na¬ ture and the tailor combined he was by far the handsomest man in the ball¬ room. He was introduced to Bessie Hill; it was Greek meet Greek. They exchanged glances; Harvey bowed low; she extended her hand, while the polite audience of students, mammas and sisters held their breath in as¬ tonishment. Never befoie had Bessie Hill extended her hand to any new ac¬ quaintance. She had been with Har¬ vey but a short time when the cold and steel-like glitter left her eyes and her cheeks were suffused with the rose of nature’s rarest red. They danced together. Harvey was a perfect Terpsichorean. They glided off to the conservatory. Harvey’s heart beat faster than usual and his bosom swelled with pride. But surely he had good reason to feel proud, for he had by his side the most admired woman of all Boston. The freshman had won the greatest of all social tri¬ umphs. It cost him a wine supper at Harvard and no little notoriety in Boston. Their meeting at the hall had caused quite a sensation, The daily papers reviewed his life and fam¬ ily history, and Bessie Hill was con¬ vinced that she had made no mistake. But Harvey was a beginner. He could not understand that a sooial triumph and a love affair were one and the same thing, and that at best should last only so long as people talk about them. Like a foolish freshman that he was, he allowed his head to be turned. He underwent a change. The wine at the midnight revelries grew insipid; the songs, however spicy, lost tneir charm. There would come steal¬ ing into his mind now and then a fancy that he should study. But who ever heard of Greek and love uniting in the same character. “Philosophy bo blowed,” he used to say. “I will win the girl I love; I will be a man of business; let other freshmen wreck their bodies, sell their eyes and lose their souls trying for a degree. I will marry the woman I love.” his Harvey spent the major Fportion of time in Bessie’s company. They read together, compared notes and spent their time as all lovers do in that delicious pleasure of doing noth¬ ing. Harvey came home one night on a car from Boston. He rushed violently into my room; his face was flushed; he was somewhat wrought up; I thought he had been drinking. “Congratulate me, old fellow,” he exclaimed, “Ihave won her, but keep it still. The wed¬ ding is to be in June; I know father will consent. We’ll have the affair in Boston, so all the fellows can be there. We’ll go to Europe for the summer, and I will go into business with father when we return. I came to Harvard to scale Parnassus, but find myself worshiping at the shrine of Diana.” As it neared the first of June Harvey was almost constantly in Boston. He and his bride to be were ever together. The fellows all wondered what the freshman was going tc do when exam¬ ination day came round. Harvey, however, was preparing a surprise for them, but, alas, for the poor old chap, there was in store for him the greatest of all surprises. He came into my room one night; I shall never forget the look upon his face. I have seen men die in the throes of mortal agony, but pain was never pictured more vividly on any face than it was upon that of poor Harvey that night. He held in his trembling hand a telegram; I knew some terrible calam¬ ity had happened. His father—his old and respected father—was a bankrupt and a defaulter. Itis too painful even at this time to go into details of that sad night. How all the fellows looked and act¬ ed. None could say a word. Harvey, poor Harvey, cried like a child. And when I saw him who yesterday was the man of all men to be envied; when I thought of his broken home—the stigma of disgrace the world would put upon his name; of how, perhaps, the prison cell yawned for his father; and when, above all, I guessed the thing that galled him more than all else, his love affair, I cried myself. Tho news was spread . broadcast throughout tha country by the morn¬ ing papers. “Big-headed Harvey, Railroad Manipulator, a Bankrupt.” Harvey’s heart was broken; his spirit was crushed. Hastily penning a few lines to Bes¬ sie, in which he reforred to the sud¬ den downfall of his family, of his dis¬ grace; their present difference in posi¬ tion, life, eto., he gathered his belong¬ ings together and in half an hour was off on a midnight train for New York. He would not stay over a day. He said on leaving: “Fellows, I want you to remember me as Harvey and not as a beggar.” He would not and could not go home. He would only be useless to his par¬ ents in their hour of woe. He could not dare to go back to town a beggar where he had once been a prince. Harvey shipped out of New York on a steamship bound for San Fran¬ cisco. She was to take the place of n liner that had gone down off the coast of Lower California. After a vain ef¬ fort to find something worth doing in the city of the Golden Gate, he shipped out of ’Frisco as a common deck hand on the fast boat for Japan. After a few months of knockabout life in Yokohama and Tokio he fell in with a party of pearl fishers and was faring well until a heavy sea tossed them all upon the rooks of Australia. He next tried sheep herding away back in the hills, where he lived for months with no company but his dog and the sheep. He was stricken down with a deadly fever while one of a party of adven¬ turers who were searching for a quiok fortune in the diamond mines of South Africa. Three mouths later, more dead than alive, lie fqund his way to Johannesburg. He hero fell in with an English captain and made his way to London and then to Liverpool, and after four years of adventure, trial and sickness he landed once more in New York. Harvey was a ohanged man — changed this time in earnest. He had learned a most valuable lesson, one worth going all the way to Africa to learn, my boy. He had learned to know the value of a dollar. Being a persevering fellow, he de¬ sired to raise himself to a better posi¬ tion in society. Knowing that an edu¬ cation was necessary, he looked for a school where his limited means would hold out for the longest time, and in afew weeks after we find him enrolled as a student of law in that greatest of all Western colleges at Ann Arbor. Jlorth of University Hall to-day still stands a building that, had it tumbled down twenty years ago, would still have been old. This building is owned by some church corporation whioh furnishes students with rooms in the old shack at miserably low rates. But more miserable than all else are the rooms; these are devoid of furni¬ ture, save a rickety old table, a chair and a rusty Btove with a crazy pipe, some dry goods boxes and a broken looking glass. The decorations were the work of spiders and flies of genera¬ tions gone. The windows, for the moat part, were minus glass and stuffed up with oopy books and old paper. Here Harvey was located. Just across the way was the local chapter of his fraternity. Little did his wealthy brothers think that the “Tramp Law,” as they called him, possessed their most sacred of secrets, knew their grip, had memorized their ritual and was indeed a brother in good standing. It was the night of the junior hop. Across the campus the gay young dan¬ cers assembled from all parts of the country were whirling enmeshed in the mazes of the waltz. It was just midnight; Harvey had put in a hard night over a still harder lesson in common law pleading. He crossed the floor to the window. The dingy old building shook in the wind that moanod bitterly out of doors. Ho brushed aside the frost from the pane and looked in silent meditation toward the scene of gayety and grandeur. He reflected on his own position; thought of a time when he was a part of a simi¬ lar gay assemblage, and how now he was poor and more miserable than the coachmen that were knocking their heels together without. He sat down before his dim lire, and thoughts of another junior hop came to him. He was back again in the good old days; Bessie was by his side; he saw her tender eyes looking into his; she seemed just as she did that night in the conservatory when, for the first time in his life, he felt the warm and gentle pressure of the hand of the woman he loved. His heart boat lively and his body thrilled through and through. “Strange it is,” he said to himself, “that a beggar dares love.” As the blaze dimmed and the coals blackened he thought of his career, of his wealth, his life, his adventure and, last of all, his poverty. “Such is life,” he said to himself. “Why not write a story about it all? It seems more romantic than real anyway. People would read it and be interested in the characters they can never know, and besides, I need a pair of shoes and a new coat badly.” A few weeks later in a Sunday pa¬ per there appeared a most interesting college romance about the junior hop in Ann Arbor. A pale and sickly newsboy was vain¬ ly trying to sell his wares in a crowd¬ ed parlor car. Travelers fatigued with a long and hard journey, and chilled with the cold even in the car, were not interested in the paper, and only one was affected by tho pale look upon the face of the poor and thinly clad boy. This was a very handsome young lady; she was tired with her journey and seemed weary of the world. She purchased all the papers because she pitied the boy. She looked them over; her eye chanced upon a college echo. She read the story, for she irsed to know college girls and fellows, too, for all that. The story finished, the paper at her feet, this very handsome young lady unconsciously lent a charm to her beauty by the tear in her soft bine eyes. The next day shortly before noon there w'as a light step upon the dingy old staircase that led to Harvey’s room, and there was a light rap at the door. Harvey, thinking it was his washwoman, called out, “Come in, but I have no washing for you to-day.” The visitor came in, and Harvey looked up; he almost fainted, for before him he saw his sweetheart of other days, Bessie Hill. I have just received a letter from Harvey to-day in which he says: “In this mail you will receive a printed in¬ vitation, <feo. Well, old man, the af¬ fair’s to be in Boston, so as all the fel¬ lows can be there, and it is a special request of Bessie’s that you be the best man.”—Cincinnati Commercial- Tribune. Cost ©3000 to Get Down Stairs. It cost Columbus R. Cumnjings, of Chicago, $3000 to get down stairs from the bedroom in his residence to the dining room. He made the trip on an elevator which he put into his home at the cost mentioned. The “lift” is of bronze, beautiful in design, and the best and safest manufactured in Chi¬ cago. The capitalist, banker and street railway magnate has not left his bed¬ room since January. He is ill with a disease that may be arrested, but can¬ not be cured. His malady is dropsy. He is a restless patient. He insists on receiving friends when their pres¬ ence is forbidden by the doctor and the nurse. He wants to give such at¬ tention to his large and varied busi¬ ness interests as is possible to give in the sick room, and he particularly de¬ sires to get down to the parlor floor of his dwelling house. So he had the elevator built. Artesian Water in Sahara. One of the most important results of the Egyptian expedition np the Nile has been the discovery that by sinking deep wells water may bo found in the desert in many places where its presence had not been sus¬ pected. Not only will this give a se¬ cure basis for military operations, but it is possible that water may be found in sufficient quantities to serve for ir¬ rigation, in which case the Sahara may be turned into a flower garden. Its aridity comes from no material steril¬ ity of the soil, but simply from the lick of moisture. OUR LAW-MAKERS GET DOWN TO WORK IN EARNEST. THE FIRST SESSION II LIVELY ONE. A Brief Summary of Each Day’s Pro¬ ceeding* In the House and the Senate. The Georgia legislature convened Wednesday morning at Atlanta. The first day’s proceedings in the house were replete with sensations, and, if the doings of the day are to be taken as a safe indication for the future, it is proper to announce at the start that there is going to be lively times in the capital for the next two months. Speaker Jenkins, in his brief open¬ ing speech, answered defiantly that part of the governor’s message on the convict question which serves notice on the legislature that he will veto any bill for a new lease on the old plan. The speaker expressed confi¬ dence that the legislature would meet its grave responsibilities “without dictation from any source whatever, and without fear, favor or affection.” Following this he made a significant reference to the dominant spirit of economy in the words: “There is a great shadow over the state that is fast becoming a cloud. That shadow is low cotton. I trust that in considering the public business you will remember that agriculture is smitten at a vital point.” The first business of the house ses¬ sion was a resolution by Mr. Hall, of Coweta, condemning in scathing terms the action of the president in ap¬ pointing an objectionable postmaster at Hogansville over the protest of 90 per cent of the property owners and responsible citizens. The resolution declaims that the president would not dare appoint a Chinaman as postmaster in a western town over such a pirotest, and would not in the east or north appoint an ob¬ jectionable character over the protest of 90 per cent of the good people of a community. By an accident the resolution was referred to a committee composed of nine populists, two republicans and four democrats, after it had passed the house viva voce. This committee brought in an ad¬ verse report, but notwithstanding this, the house adopted the resolution almost unanimously. The call of the roll for new matter brought out a number of bills and res¬ olutions. The most important of these was a resolution by Mr. Fogarty, of Richmond, to reduce the common school appropriation from $1,000,000 to $600,000, the old figure which was raised at the last session. Other bills provide for fish and game wardens for each county, for a ’ state board of arbitration to settle disputes between employers and employes, for a penal y on mortgaging pensions and for a number of miscellaneous local matters. The reading of the governor’s mes¬ sage consumed the balance of the day’s session. The senate convened at 10 o’clock with President R. L. Berner in the chair. President Berner, in calling the body to order, delivered r. short speech in which he expressed his pleasure in meeting the senators again. In glow¬ ing words he paid a beautiful tribute to the memory of Col. It. U. Harde¬ man, whoso seat in the house had been made vacant by death. A joint com¬ mittee was appointed to notify 'he governor that the general assembly was organized and ready to receive any communication he might desire to make. President Berner called President Pro Tem Gray to the chair and intro¬ duced a resolution that the finance committees of the senate and house shall constitute the joint standing com¬ mittee, and either in a body or by such sub-committees as they may deem proper, shall examine the offices of the comptroller and treasurer of the state, and perform such other duties as may bylaw or by the direction of the gen¬ eral assembly be imposed upon them, and shall make reports of their exami¬ nation to the senate and house of rep¬ resentatives. A few local bills were introduced when the annual message was re¬ ceived and read. At the conclusion of the reading, the senate adjourned until 10 o’clock Thursday morning. Thursday’s Proceedings. The second day’s session of the house was a dull one, and the proceed¬ ings were in striking contrast with those of Wednesday. The only dis¬ cussion of consequenco was over a bill to provide for the sale of equitable in¬ terests in property. This measure, by Mr. Felder, was favorably reported by the general judiciary committee, but Mr. Fogarty objected to it until pro¬ vision was made for recording bonds for title, and the bill was recommitted. Mr. McCook’s bill to prevent the hunting or catching of o’possums be¬ tween March 1st and October 1st, was taken up with a favorable report from the committee on agriculture aud passed by a vote of 109 to 15. Mr. Felder, chairman of the general judiciary committee, submitted a fa¬ vorable report on the bill prohibiting the reporter and stenographers of the supreme court from practicing law. This favorable report was adopted. A few local bills were introduced in the senate Thursday, and the follow¬ ing bills were taken up for a third reading and laid on the table: A bill to amend the constitution as to the election of judges and solioitors- general of the superior court; bill to enlarge the powers of the railroad commission; bill to authorize tho state school commissioner to grant perma¬ nent licenses to graduetes of the Nor¬ mal and industrial school of Milledge- ville. Friday’* Vroceedlngs. The majority of Georgia’s law-mak¬ ers left Atlanta Friday for Nashville and spent Saturday taking in the sights at the Centennial. Both houses ad¬ journed at noon Friday. The house met at 9 o’clock and be¬ gan the reading of bills for the first time. Among them was a bill by Mr. Felder, of Fulton,, providing for nu¬ merous and important changes, in the city charter of Atlanta. Mr. Henderson, of DeKalb, intro¬ duced a bill calling for the changing of the county site of DeKalb county from Decatur to Stone Mountain. The question that the county site was es¬ tablished permanently at Decatur by the act creating a county site for De- Kalk county will be settled if tho bill is passed, as it provides for the repeal of all conflicting laws. By Mr. Blalock, of Fayette, that the state treasurer shall have the authority to draw upon any funds of the state on the 1st day of April of each year in tho sum of $400,000, the same to be used for the payment of school teachers and to be paid back by tbe school fund. At 12 o’clock the house adjourned until 10 o’clock Monday morning. Friday morning’s session of the sen¬ ate was short and devoid of interest except the passage of Senator Gray’s cattle stealing bill. This bill was introduced early dm ing last year’s session and was report¬ ed adversely by the general judiciary committee. Senator Stewart, of the Twenty- seventh, introduced a resolution that a joint committee of five from the sen¬ ate and ten from the house be appoint¬ ed io visit the state normal school at Athens, to investigate the work that is beiue done, and to make such report as they deem proper to promote the best interest of that institution. M’CLUN GOES FREE. Man Who Shot -HI* Baby Boy Acquitted by Jury. Thomas J. McClain, who sent a pis¬ tol ball crashing through the brain of his little 5-year-old son at Atlanta a few months ago, was put on trial in the criminal court Wednesday and was promptly acquitted by the jury. The defendant made his plea with tears in his eyes, stating that the shooting was entirely accidental on his part. The jury believed the father’s state¬ ment, for it had been out not more than thirty minutes when the foreman announced that a verdict had been reached. It was a verdiot of not guilty, and declared that McClain had suffered enough. The boy, Willie MoClain, is rapidly recovering. BLUNDER OF LAWYERS. A Clause of Penitentiary Bill Conflicts With State Constitution. In spite of the wisdom that is pro¬ verbial in a multitude of counsel, large bodies sometimes make strange blun¬ ders. A curious example of this is the action of the general joint penitentiary committee in adopting a clause for the penitentiary bill which is in conflict with the state constitution. That clause provides conditionally for the sale of a tract of state land at Milledgeville and the application of the proceeds to the purchase of a farm for the women, boys and infirm convicts. The con¬ stitution of Georgia provides that when state property is sold, the pro¬ ceeds shall be applied to the publio debt. MRS. LONGSTREET IS OUT. Resigns As Assistant Librarian—Her Su*v cessor Is Miss Jewett. Miss Susie Y. Jewett, assistant clerk in the educational department, has been appointed to succeed Mrs. James Loiigstreet, formerly Miss Ellen Dortch, as assistant state librarian. Mrs. Longstreet’s intention to give up the office has been known since her recent marriage. She paid a visit to Atlanta a few days ago and tendered her resignation. The resignation wa3 aooepted and Miss Jewett was notified of her appointment. Mrs. Longstreet is now definitely out of the raoe and her support will probably go to Captain Milledge, the present librarian._ CHICAGO’S POLICE FIRED. Change Made Ii> Order To Put Now Men Under Civil Service. Chicago’s chief of police issued an order Tuesday discharging from the force 434 policemen, and appointing in their place a. like number of mem¬ bers of the “Star League,” who are democratic ex-policemen who had been discharged under the previous- republican administration. It is the biggest so-called “general order” issued since ex-Chief Badenoch, republican, issued his famous order No. 13, in May, 1895, discharging 587 men. The changes were made in order to put the department under civil service. DISASTROUS SNOW STORM Svreeps Over Colorado Doing Fearful Damage to Property. A special from Denver, Col., states that a severe wind and snow storm raged in that city Tuesday, damaging property to the extent of $100,000. The greatest damage is sustained by the electric light and telephone com¬ panies. One company has 4,000 miles of wire down, Most of the railroads are completely blocked.