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PhT Inc’dctvt of thz Gam
grv . in 'orto Rico.
By Milt Suul.
Hf alcalde had
Bled to leave a
■inch of flowers
Tor the “young
Americano,'’ but
the sentry who
guarded the' door
to the officers’
quarters had or
one.
BPTi’.e Bird, gone, you Spin
the sentry. The
Bcttlde, being in Spanish,
e sentry, but the motion
■ which held the flowers
l*b!y \ transferred understood, and the
from the al
ihe Le sentry, and from the
orderly, who took it up
fc a huge tableful of like
"^fcied the apartments of
pink,” pbbie. said Sentry Laird
rafter the floral offering
and accepted—“do
a minuit that Leftonant
the Hobson act for the
’Twas for*the battery
that worruk was did
I can tell you those, and
not the first Spickety that has
to day to lave a bookkay
doin’ it.”
sentry had the best of the ai
the matter of language, and
official of tho city of
to make room for the
the American uniform
two stars ou ins shoulder
,11 officer passed into tbe
tbe alcalde walked away
liujured I air, and Ike sentry
lus rifle at salute for many
ifter the officer had disap
ithe I stairway.
K of Ponce was gorgeous in
Bt moonlight. The dark
B^ ■ffe.es of shimmered tin* immense, and wide
re
■ rays of the silvery moon,
W waved geutly iu the night
L Prades hic K was a spring of the
that swept continually
island. Tho Eastern Trades
Um 1 of life to Porto Rico,and
fcwhich with a delicious, cool at
is the envy of her
■ds of the West Indies.
■u ■endril in the sheltered plaza,
of the gi# it Trades
I'ing, like vibrations of the
_yima pfht. which It lifted the_leaves nuder the of
W grew
■willing fountains, and caused the
like diamonds and
■ tan iu crooked tittle courses
A giant greon leaves as they
■Fly Eh wafted up auddowu, back
with the breath of the
■phyr. I
further down near the center
Ijuare, Ike the breeze caught up
from the row of torches and
liu the faces of the musicians
ft'tned the military band, and
■fcumdering ^Biu the regular oven
the plaza.
^■l BA had played of officers, the national all in
Biforms, group
"g'ntly their snowy caps
to their hearts, stood
end of the plaza where the
lade turned, while the music of
them was stugiug in a grand
of harmony. The populace,
Gumiliar with the inspiring
tho noble air, bad learned
Efche liymu by removing their
I the soldiers, and stood rigid
■t till the last notes had died
nt notes of the baud died
■ar far oft’ musical tone came
i m* the night breeze to tbe
It was a buglo call, and the
|vo strange to the group of
p. They listened iu sileut
L the calliug of the distant
■f But they knew the strange
come from their camps.
B«itk the native populace,
■fiuf.l HOibist, from the plaza at- the
of tbe call, lluu
’B hurrying (brough the
||||Barm. j.xBl direction \\ me,* came
It a queer
■H^ktiucricau ilv lbe < to little observe
in \ eo.
IpBjipSM Sirs r. ■ ’ ’■
oi' cv cry day life
B^lie B^‘. 1111 middle llC.l I..-Its
of the
fB.ittie gMPYiisiest fellows route with for flaming quick
sBlbegan ■Bltitude, to appear iu the
aud in the tiril
SKfe ■flkuight they looked for
^^■ift great flecks of bloody
tide.
i{B BB officers were watching
increasing wonder, i,n
^■ust IBbugle took up the call in
off the plaza aud al
Bi touch of tho group. One
B followed by three short
Bek succession was the call,
B bugles spoke to each
tBouses. these signals across the
The natives wove
j|B:V-I Being fren/v children of excitement. fre
were
■jkivt stampede. When
Wm was a;
I
B
■ I -
■L I
' ' ' git
1
f bloody old |
mf the group
I
urn 'em out •
good and proper,” said Lieutenant
Rrislow. “Who ever saw such an
other excitement over a' little bluZeV”
While they were still talking of the
great frenzy of the natives and laugh
ing at the fact of having once seen
the people of Ponce in a hurry, the
crowd came surging back. As the
rear end of the column reached the
corner near the Americans, the peo
pie began running into the plaza,
yelling in their queer lingo, driven
mad entirely by Borne unseen power
which was forcing the crowd back
from the side street where the first
bugle sounded.
The Americans did not understand
the words which the people were cry
ing out. Frightened Spanish in the
mouths of mad Porto Ricans is a
language which even tho polished
West Pointer cannot grasp in the
utterance thereof. When the cause
of the madness was made known to
them by an interpreter, there were
other faces than the brown ones of
tho natives turned ashen gray in the
pule moonlight, and other hearts than
the faint ones of the yellow’ people
chilled in the grasp of the blighting
fear,
Como with H10, iny flionds, . s&ill
Nadal, the interpreter from General
Henry’s headquarters, ‘‘the magazine
of the artillery camp is on fire. The
hoises have been, cut loose and the
powder will go off in moment. We
will be killed here. Gomel
He gathered a stupefied American .
army officer in each arm and fell in
with the throngs who now ran from
overy quarter, yet all bent toward the
same street, that which led out into
the open country and the mountains.
As the group of officers melted
away, a red light began to flare up in
the sky over the southern quarter of
the town. the surging ciowds, the
brilliant moon, low red-roofod houses
and the growing flames in the south
ern sky all combined to make a pic
turc that beggars the power of words
to describe. Then, as if the horrors
of the night were not complete, a
troop of unbridled and plunging
horses dashed into the narrow street
which was already choked with the
population of the town. Scores
were trampled under the the flying hoofs.
With the advent of horses into
the scene the plaza became
almost iustantly. Save for one slender
figure in a snow whitey uniform the
walks were cleared as if by magio.
The solitary figure ran forward to
tho street where the maddened aui
mals were and, with a skill born of
long practice, caught the halter of one
of the beasts and with a few steps of
desperate hauling and jerking, drew
the auiinal from the street to the sido
walk. It soon grew quiet, and the
slender figure in white clung to the
halter rein.
That was Lieutenant Bobbie. The
nerves which iater that night carried
him through a siege of fire and burst
ing shell were even then growing
rigid and touse for the deed which he
contemplated.
It was short work for Lieutenant
Bobbie to mount bis captive. Less
still to turn him in the direction of
tbe red glave in the sky. There was
a short struggle as the rider kicked
the trembling steed in his sides with
his white canvas shoes. Then the
horse and rider dashed down the side
street and left but an echo of flying
hoof beats in the deserted plaza.
I witnessed tbe flight of the popu¬
lace from another point of view. I
heard the first call of the volunteer
fireman’s bugle, and saw tbe gather¬
ing of the crowd from the veranda of
the Hotel Fraucais in Commercio
street near the magazine. I saw the
firemen run to the gates of the en¬
closure of the artillery camp, and
then turn and (lee back through the
narrow street as if pursued by the
fiend himself. I witnessed the flight
also of the artillerymen from their
quarters. They were half clad, and
the fear on their faces was uct less
than that on the countenances of the
red shirted firemen.
I stood as if petrified as the horses
dashed over the helpless crowd in the
street. As the street begun to clear I
went out to where a body lay iu tbe
dust, senseless from the stroke of an
iron-shod hoof. At the point of my
pistol I halted a cabman who was
driving furiously past, and compelled
kitn to assist me in getting the sense¬
less body into tbe coach. I had just
giveu directions for the coach to go
to the great hospital on the hill when
Lieutenant Bobbie rode up.
“It’s in my battery,’’ be shouted to
me as he rode past the coach, .“and
I’m going to do what I can.”
Sergeaut -Hein, of the ordnance
department, had spoken of the shrap¬
nel au<# the dynamite stored in the
camp of that battery—enough, be had
said, to blow the entire town to atoms.
So that I felt it was little good Lieu¬
tenant Bobbie could do. I watched
him till he turned into the gateway of
the camp and for a few moments after
he had disappeared I gazed at the
spot where I had smill (fast seen him. called An
explosion of t|ie magnitude
my attention to rising flames, and
in a few seconds after the detonation
the horse which Lieutenant Bobbie
had ridden in jfhe gateway came flying
out, riderless and neighing with
fright, 'IWcoach had left me, and
with the massing of the maddened
horse I was left alone in the silent
street.
return anT •or’th ©v
tei’riic of explosions Lieutenari|pWH)bie. lei occurred Eight back
there in the battery’s quarters, but
w# knew something had been done
with the dynamite and the shrapnel,
or else the whole city had been in
ruins by that time.
The streets wore quiet as the tomb
as we came into the plaza. The glare
in the sky had subsided, and not a
sound was to he heard save the foot¬
steps of our party as we crept toward
the camp gate. We entered the gate
on tiptoe, as if heavy foot might set
oil' something that had not yet ex¬
ploded. We found Lieutenant Bob¬
bie and four privates, whom he had
gathered into his heroic service,
lighting the flames which had all hut
eaten away the magazines. Hundreds
oi revolver cartridges were popping
in the red embers of the ruins, but
the din of the explosions were un¬
heeded by the blacked heroes. Lieu¬
tenant Bobbie was industriously chop¬
ping away at a blazing post which
stood in the center of the camp. The
entire destruction of the isolated post
would have amounted to absolutely
nothing in the general losses, yet the
slender figure in the burnt and smut¬
ty uniform, hacked away at it with a
determination that proved uncon¬
sciousness.
A huge pile of boxes and barrels
covered over with tarpaulins told what
had become of the dynamite and
shrapnel. They had dragged out the
deadly casks in the nick of time, and
the explosions we had heard were the
last of the shells, which, fortunately,
did not harm a member of that heroic
fojmd iu bursting, Thsv had saved
p 0ECe without the loss of a man.
When the great tropical sun came
llp out of t ^ e frj ue wa t ers 0 f the Car
ibbean Sea next morningwe were just
getting Lieutenant Bobbie into bed.
His fevered imagination and disor
flered fancy led him to hover between
two evils, and he voiced his fears to
themj nll uncon8C j ous 0 f the fact that
' Hhin hearing. He
w e were w wan
dere( i in tllQ paat>
“jt’s all shall right if you prefer Powers,
Helen I ao f with mv regiment."
Tbenj as he ell into a refreshing
s j eep> <>\y e put the stuff in the camp,
general, because wo had no other
p j ace s t ore it. How the fire start
e( i > j don’t know.”—Atlanta Constitu
tion.
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SLAUGHTER OF SONC BIRDS.
° y u ea iden7c a mbL n u« a ii M tn«
Dlulinn a on ln Nu
Dealers in . mounted birds or then , .
plumage deny that song birds are. in
cI “ de(l
offei for sale. This assertion li a dii
one to disprove, as the plumage :
use d by women for personal adorn
nient is transformed completely
through ,, , the ,, application .. oL brilliant
dyes. The denial by domestic dealers
that they cause the destruction of
American song birds is in the main
correct, for the preparation of the
plumage aud skins of birds on a large
scale is a foreign industry and most
of those that are sold here are im
ported. Tbat does not aiter tbe fact
that the United States supply these
foi-eigu houses with an immense amount
of ... the material , . . that ,, , they ,, return .
raw
to , this ,, . country , subsequently , the
J V, in ! ;
finished ..... product. . , T It . * well , known
is
j.u that i. ti English i- i and -i r* German taxidermists , . .
place large contracts in this country
for the plumage and skins of birds and
that they are responsible for the
slaughter that has been in ju’ogress
for the last fifteen years. No one who
is not a permanent rnral resident can ;
form an-idea of the diminution iu the i
number of the various species during ! j
that period. Formerly tbe song of wild
birds was beard in all parts of the
woods; now it is heard only within
the limits of private grounds or of
public parks. Formerly in the autumn
there were large flights of song birds
southward; now only scattered indi¬
viduals are seen in migration. The j
beautiful little terns or seagulls tbat
used to impart such animation to the
coast waters have disappeared totally.
They have all been destroyed for their
plumage. The same is true of many
other species. Heretofore at the South
during the winter song birds have
been assured of a certain measure of
security; but now agents of foreign
taxidermists, residing in Southern
towns, are large purchasers of the
bird skins and plumage which every
negro with a gun isweugaged in acquir¬
ing. Swallows aud martins are taken
with bird lime, aud the firelight is
used to kill certain fowls too wary to
be approached by day. All of this to
contribute to tbe adornment of women.
Fine Specimen of Clieek. •
Here is the latest oue iu street cat
stories. ' A Detroit railway car was
running swiftly along Porter street
the other night when a man hailed it
as it drew near a corner. The car
stopped and the man stepped onto the
rear platform. He rode several bloeks
before the conductor came- out and
then he pulled out his watch and asked
him:
“I just wanted to see if I could find
out the time from you?”
The conductor took out his watch
and told him the time, Then the
other thanked him, motioned to him
to stop the car and dropped off at his
destination, just five bloeks from
whero he had got ou, not a cent the
worse off for his ride.—Detroit Free
Pross.
«
A Floating Cburch in England.
Floating churches are not so un¬
common as they used to be. The
most interesting in England is the
church on the fens at Holme, near
Petersborough. It is a bouse-boat,
thirty by nine feet. None of tbe parish
lives more than a mile from the river,
aud the church has the advantage of
movable.
in ■p: pin the Stateof Inter
sting Import.
Gan. Lawton’s Import.
The report of Col. A. R. Lawton, of
the First Gebrgia regiment, on the con¬
duct of his troops duriug the recent
outbreak iu McIntosh county, has
reached Governor Candler. Colonel
Lawton commends the men of his regi¬
ment in their promptness in respond¬
ing to the call and their uncomplain¬
ing manner under trying circumstances
at Darien.
“MUning Link" IJoatl Chartered.
Secretary of State Cook has granted
a charter to the Missing Link Railroad
Company. The company is capitalized
at $3,000,000 aud the road it contem¬
plates erecting will be a trunk line
from Chattanooga to W T alhalla.
The money wit}? which to build tbe
road is all in band and the interested
parties state tbat work will be com¬
menced at once and will be pushed to
a rapid conclusion.
The road will be 150 miles in length
and will result iu great benefit to the
section of the state it will traverse.
Tbe proposed line will run through
the counties of Catoosa, Whitfield,
Fannin, Murray and Rabun, each of
which is rich in mineral resources. It
is expected that the building of the
road will result in the opening up of
mines and quarries and wonderful de¬
velopments are expected by those in¬
terested, to follow.
Reunion of Georgia Veterans.
The Confederate veterans of Geor
gin and of the south who go to Savan
nab iu November to attend the.Con
federate reunion to be held duringtbat
month will be royally entertained,
The dates for the reunion have been
fixed by Gen. Clement A. Evans, ma
jor general commanding the Georgia
division V. C. V., as Wednesday, No
vember 22, Thursday, November 23,
aud Friday, November 24.
Commenting upon the coming state
reunion, in a circular letter General
Evans says:
“We will meet in our oldest Georgia
city—a city which has passed with
honor through all our country’s wars
since 1732 to the present time, and
whose record during and since the
Confederate war’bears proud witness
to the bravery, patriotism and fidelity
of its people-we shall have the pleas
ure of gathering together as comrades
in the cause we love f, so well. It is
uanecessary to say t at hospitality
'
never an f i esteem for the
Confederate veterans unsurpassed will
et us in the city of Savannah and
WRrJU 0 p r fr ear t s afresh.
“The dates of the reunion were
chosen after careful deliberation, so
J wou i*-^ ot ccnflict with other
gatherings in the state, and a time
appointed when the greatest number
of our comrades could most easily be
absent for a few days from business.”
Municipal Officers Enjoined.
At Savannah Saturday night Judge
Falligant signed an order enjoining
the mayor and aldermen and police of
the town of Warsaw, ’ better known as
, Thunderbolt,from p , , , ,, . arresting the ,, motor- .
and .. conductors ’, , of the electric
meu cars
of , the ,, bavaunah, „ i m Thunderbolt , , and .
T T «le , ° f . Hope „ Railway -o •, Company
. bolt ^ towu he last COUDCl1 mee . in an « of ordlDance Thunder was '
passed requiring tbe railway company
to provide separate accommodations
for white and colored persons. Cl Tbe
order was ignored by the street car j
company and the injunction asked for. I j
To Tam of Farmers’ institutes. !
There will be a mass meeting! of j
iarmers in Baxley on Saturday, Octo-j
ber 7th, and by invitation Hon. C. H.
Jordan and Mr. \V. G. Cooper will be
on handto talk of farmers’ institutes
and organize one for the county.
Rev. Childress Exonerated.
At Calhoun, Saturday, the jury in
the case of Rev. C. C. Childress,
charged with burglarizing $800 from
Dr.W. B. Vaughn, at Fairmount some
time ago, brought in a verdict of ac
quital.
A large number of witnesses were
introduced and many able lawyers
were employed in the case, The
courtroom was crowded during tbe ar¬
gument. Many ladies were present.
Leafftiera Meet At Fitzgerald.
The Epworth League conference,
Valdosta district, met at Fitzgerald
tbe past week. State Secretary Wallis
presided. Elder Cook and other prom¬
inent leaguers participated and arous¬
ed enthusiasm in the eonveutiou.
Fund For 5tli Keglment Grows.
The fund that is being raised to car¬
ry the Fifth regiment of Georgia to
participate in the Dewey day exercises
is growing steadily, and it is thought
by those who have charge of the finan¬
cial end of the movement that the sol¬
dier boys will certainly get to the me¬
tropolis.
Farmer’s Dayat Nlftcon.
The second day, October 11th, of
|J»@ Macon carnival will be known as
Agricultural Day and it promises to be
one of the greatest successes of the
four days’ elaborate program. The
street parade of the agricultural pro¬
ducts of the middle Georgia section
will be a crowning feature. The car¬
nival association is hhving built three
beautiful allegorico/ 13oats for this pro¬
cession.
Governor’s Courge Approved
Governor Candler lia& received in
the last few weeks a large number of
letters from every part of the country
commenting upon the position Which
thought^^W^B and “'^B§BBSji|
congratulate this faciK.'N-^ iernor majority on liis of 'posi- them
tion, aud agreed rhim generally that
should the northern politiiyaus leave
the colored man at the south at peace
the race problem would settle itself
and quickly disappear.
* * *
Another Atlanta Sensation.
The publication of Detective Green
Coun’s confession of wrong doing has
evelnped tin* tael that tbeie is a wide
spiit threatened iu the Atlanta city po¬
lice board.
One or more members o" th? board
place no confide <ce in Conn’s state¬
ment, and the others believe every
word of it and will use it as a lever to
shove the. rigid investigation of the
department along.
* * *
Iteport on Clays leaned.
The report of the state geological de¬
partment. of Georgia clays, on which
Ceol< gist Yeates and his assistants
have been at. work for more than two
has been issued.
In order to get material for this
treatise the geological department has
brought clays from every part of the
state and after determining the relative
merits of Georgia days they have been
compared with the best samples from
other states.
A review of the tests made with
Georgia and foreign clays, shows that
in nearly every quality of value the
Georgia article is superior.
The report on clays which is to be
placed in State Geologist Yeates’
hands will be a valuable addition to
the collection of reports completed
since Professor Yeates took charge of
the department.
Prohibition Election Wanted.
A petition has been circulated
throughout Griffin and generally signed
by all to whom it was presented,
asking Ordinary Drewry to call an
election to determine whether the
voters of Spalding county will have
prohibition for four years longer or
not.
Already enough names have been
secured to the petition to anthorize
the ordinary to call the election, bnt
those who have the matter in charge
will not file the petition for several
days.
STATE FAIR TAI.K,
The attractive features of tbe state
fair, which, after all, do more toward
drawing large crowds to a fair or ex¬
position than almost anything else,are
being added to almost daily, and tbe
indications are tbat the list will con¬
tain ixione unique specialties than any
fair that has ever been held in the
state.
There will be a confederate veter¬
ans’ day, a cotton day and several
other notable special days during the
event.
The railways have not only given
liberal rates to exhibitors, but some of
the roads have sent agents into the
counties along their lines to stir up
interest in tbe fair aud aid in
be collection of exhibits.
The enthusiasm with which the
people have taken hold of the fair is a
to the management. The en¬
terprise has rapidly outgrown the
original plans, and now looms up as a
big show which will rank with our
expositions.
Secretary Martin kaS just begun
out bis big posters and circu¬
aud the newspapers are filled
wl ^ it , pms of interest about the fair
da
In every state m the south people
are beginning to talk about Uteorgia s
great show, and thousands of Geor
grans at a distance will visit Atlanta
in October to have a reunion with their
kinsmen.
The people want a big industrial
jubilee, and they feel that Atlanta is
the place for it. Arrangements will be
made to accommodate visitors at low
rates, and a public comfort department
will look after their interests.
It is safe to say that tbe eighteen
days of tbe fair will be red letter days
in our annals, and the general results
will greatly benefit Georgia ar.d her
people.
In the meantime the fair managers
and their assistants are the busiest
men in Georgia, as well as the happi¬
est. But they find time to answer
questions, and if the printed
tion does pot fully cover the
all that a person seeking further
has to do is to write to Mr. Thomas
Martin, secretary, Fair
Prudential Building, Atlanta.
knows every detail of the
show, and will take pleasure in
svering inquiries from every
.
CALL TO I X- NLAYp.
Another Effort Being Vl ule (o tl
8 ii 0 pt»cting; Colored I^-'
A dispatch from Me’^& a
says: “The National
sion Club,association”^* ,f> j
other call for a meeting, <*
Memphis In on tbe 2 fitln%* au/B -’J
the cir ular
gathering it is iieclarJBf thoiijB§§
ported that ten ex-sIivvi|BS^
including old njfl
great convention s<nB
and it is further
W. R. Vaughan,
will In- preseiB*
ber of the
farti.m as to
- lave Dili .
, S
tw\
The of^'fori /t
tion, Moudif i
ing
pretesting i M m
r‘erdiet in th
formal Ap
Signed
AND SENT TO
I'.iri-liti>N Are Coafl
Diejfua and See NoJ
diet of Cou
A Paris special
martial, Monday
formal recommendatii
the case of Captain
ject is to eliminate
feature of the pnni8hrc
ommendation was seiri
Loubet. i
Except for slight st
Monday night Paris
e xpectedly quiet, but
affa rs is not likely
long, heavy rain of S:ll
with, the fact that 1
opposing parties we,, ,
prevented any orga‘
tion. Then, too, t£V.
ivas delighted with t 1
firming the prevailin t j
Now, however, the
to see the want of lot 1
“extenuating cireums
victed traitor, a
ercises doubt as to the j
against Dreyfus, (
case
lie opinion is being
ing the comments c5
large and by the pre
remote, that the exh L .
boycotted, which won 11
of millions to the coup
It is estimated that’ 1
proceedings have cost’
party at least 1,500,000’
do not intend to let ma
rumors are revived of
arrest of General Me:
dares that he does not
pens, being quite
done his duty.
It is understood
Loubet opposes such
course as prosecuting
other generals. He is
to a conciliatory
even to a pardon for
The Dossier In
The dossier of the
tial proceedings was
Monday night for
military court of
of General Marciilo,, 1
honsse, Lieutenant
Major Copp and Major
It is said that
tends to supplicate
to order tbe
ments enumerated in
M. Demange has
conceding so
speech, but it
in the hope of winning
among the judges,
finally joined the
tion that the verdict
pauied with the
ating circumstances.
• Quirt at
A state of calm
All the troops and g<B jB
ed in the town and
left terested and the in jnnralyB tbe^B.;.
:
since Hatiirday.
Hie last few
by excited
on day a
up and down
prison, and
or soldier
week
men were
coiirtrooin
and benchtB" ' "
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lo ir
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