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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. - 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" ' " MadamB bale I ”) i e lo ir She spirits iovBsfitgfik jB-k?/”' % TR 1 EnjtH ij seu ao tl,