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KHAMSIN, vlad from Uwdmwt Mrala! Dm. m the deeert bhw in! r front the heart nf the llery south, ‘ eferrt l Mildami the lillUofdrought, Uacd.tao laud with lie m-ort-hlug mouth- The wiud from the desert blew In! II blaated the buds on the nlmotid bough. And It shriveled the fruit on the orange tree; The wlsenod dcrvlxh breethed no vow, 80 weary end (tsrohed wes he. The* ‘ * “ lean muexzln could not cry; ed the skyt The dotzs ran »»ft and bavi The hot sun shone like a copper disk, And prone In the shade of I In the shade of an obelisk The water carrier sank with a sigh, For limp and dry was his water skin— And the wind from the desert blew In. The camel crouched by the crumbling wall. And oh, the pitiful moan It made! The minarets, taper and slim and tall. Reeled and swam In the brasen light, And prayers went up by day and night, Bnt thin and drawn were the Ups that prayed. The river writhed In Its slimy bed, Shrunk to a tortuous, turbid thresd; h cracked *“ The burnt earth cracked like a cloven rind— And still the wind, the ruthloss wind Kham- The wind from the desert blew In. Into the oool of the mosque It crept. Where the poor sought rest at the Prophet's shrine; • Its breath was Are to the Jsamlne vine; It fevered the brow of the maid who slopt; And men grew haggard with revel of wine. The tiny iledgllugs died In the nest; ■“Sill The sick baba gsspvd at tho mother's breast; Then a rumor rose and swelled and spread Prom a tremulous whisper, falut and vague, Till It burst lu a terrible cry of dh>ad— The plague! Tho plague! The plague! Ok, the wind Khai __ harasln, The scourge from the desert blew lnl -Cllutou Hcollnrd In Century. ANTRIM'S DEATH. 5V- There Is an Intoxication in the •heddlng of human blood that is for tunately given to but tew men to know. Borne men are uforo suscep tible to it than others—just ns Bomo men degonovate more rapidly into Irunknrds by the drinking of wino than others. ThiH blood drunken ness is not war. Soldiers seldom know It. In war when you feel your bayonet Bink to the shank in the soft yielding breast of another, or drop a man with a bullet, you lose interest in tho man you havo killed and jerk out your bayonet or load your rifle tor unother. Blood drunkenness is merely killing for the sake of killing. A hundred years ago this blood drunkenness was recognized by the law prohibiting butchers from serv ing ns Jurymen, It is still recognized on our frontiers, whore the restraints of law are not so rigorous ns in popu lous communities. A half score years ago it was more com muff than at present. There were but fow sec tions then but hud their blood dipso- tamed to his ranch and his cattle, promising the girl not to be long ab sent. While he was i gone the man whose death he had voted for es caped prison. The judge who had presidod at tho trial in his terror left tho county and went to Saute Fe to be safe, and tho girl wrote to Clancy to be on bis guard and come to her at once. Womanlike, she thought that while with her no danger could reach him. He received the letter, and manlike thought it would not do to leave his ranch as if in fear. The judge who went to Sante Fe was old enough to be, his grandfather. At any other time Clancy would have been only too glad to have gone to Ci = L,D: i*--'f V .' -(’ ^ ‘V.’ go ' When Clancy's body' was taken into Las Cruet in the little graveyard girl’s forefathers for book had been buried. found it led the generations Through it mi- New Mexico had ono, and his name wua Billy Antrim. Had ho boon an ancient Creek instead of bolng an American, mythology would havo made his cruel ferocity Immortal. He was only a boy when he got his first t*>sto of blood - . When death overtook him he was but twenty- - three, yet ho was known to have killed more men than there wore years in his age. All but his mother rejoiced at his death as if a pesti lence hud been staid. There wnsanother woman, though, that rejoiced to see his laxly foster und swell and blacken. Still, tho dead man had loved her, and she had lived with him ns a wife lives with a husband, yet it was not for jealousy she killed him. Before sho had met aim she had loved another man. His unme was Charley Clancy. ,Ho was foreman of tho H-B Cattle company, on the Rio Grande, near Tulerosn. Tho pooplo nlong tho river called it the II lair B outfit. He, too, was a young man just from the east, with no more business to bo in Now Mex ico at that time than a preuclior has in purgatory. When ho had first met the girl it was in Las Cruces—that strange lit tle town near tho Mexican lino whose history runs back to tho Span ish conquest. He was young and green, und perhaps homesick, und it was uot long before ho was in lovo with this girl of alien race, for she was a Mexican. Aftor that ho found tho ranch more and moro lonesome and Las Cruces moro and moro pleas ant. Homo could not lnivo been mote desirable. When a man is in love and his love is returned by a beautiful girl, with her presence any placo is heaven. It was so in this case, and Clancy’s visits to Las Cru ces became very frequent. One day while he wus tlioro thero wns a prisoner brought into town whose presoneo created moro oxcito- mont than if ho had been the gov ernor of the territory, for it wns this man Billy Antrim. Every ono crowd ed to seo the desperado, und with them went Clancy, for no mun was ever moro feared or moro noted for his ferocity. So great wns tho terror inspired by his deeds that when his trial came there were few men who would servo ns jurors. Among those . who did serve wns Clinrley Clancy. He was young and green, and they mode him foreman of the jury. When the girl—you need not know her name, for it is that of a good family, os good as your own per haps, and besides she, too, is dead now and it would avail you nothing —well, when she learned this she imnlored Clancy, in her terror, to witnoraw, nut ne omy smnea at ner fears and answered her tears with kisses. She was a native of the coun try and he a stranger, but, boylike, he thought he knew it all. When the trial was ended and the death sentence imposed, for that was the only verdict possible, Clancy re tire girl at Las Cruces. While he waited and debated when it would do to go to her, one morn ing there rode up to his door two men, and one of them was Antrim. When he saw them it was too late for Clancy to attempt to arm him self. All he could do was to answer their questions and submit to becom ing their prisoner. Tire men took their lariats and tied him in front of his door to a post, and then Antrim told him that he intended to kill him. Clancy knew the man too well to ask for mercy. If he was to be killed he would meet death like a man. It was hard, though, to leave the girl without one word of part ing. If he hod only heeded her let ter. When he was tied so that he could not move hand or foot, Antrim walked oft twenty or thirty paces, and drawing his revolver called Clancy’s attention to his right wrist and fired. Clancy could no longer feel that below that wrist he had a hand. When he tried to move his fingers tho muscles seemed to have grown suddenly numb. Antrim laughed and asked him what ho thought of such marksman ship. The boy did not answer. A now hope, though, had como into his bronst. They would not kill him outright, merely maim him, and with the girl to help him he would uot mind that. Any tiling but separation from her. Then Antrim spoke to him again and fired, and tho same numb feoling came into liis left hand below the wrist, wliero he had felt the second pistol ball crush through tho bone and sinew. But ho did not wince. Surely this man who looked bo boy ish and innocent would be satisfied with this much in revengo and now show him mercy. If Charley Clancy had not been fresh from the east he would know that this wns "pointing” a man to death—an old motliod of torture caught from thq Indians. But now a white man was doing it. There are but fow instances where white wliito men lmvo tiled their hands at it, though it is very simple. All that there is to do is to shoot a man ns many times as possible without kill ing him, until you are tired of the sport and willing that ho should die, The first time it wns over tried by by ono white man on another woo on the Union Pacific railroad. They still point out the station to you. It is Julesburg. Clancy, though, was uot long enough in tho west to have even heard of it. Before tho duy wus done he learned it all, though. Shot aftor shot Antrim put into his nrniB and legs until you could havo twisted them like a pleco of rubber hose hi any direction you desired. Between tho shots ho and his companion would smoke their cigarettes and rest and divido tho plunder thoy had taken from tho house. And Clancy would faint with pain and weakness ns tho hot sun boat down on him. Some times lie would uot regain conscious ness until Antrim had fired two or three shots in succession into his body. Ho never showed the white feather, though, When he found out that it was too Into to hope for life, oven if the best surgeons in Christen dom stood ready to cure for his wounds, ho simply thought of the girl and cursed in his scorn tho cow- nrdico of tho man who wns murder tog him. Everything must havo an end, though. So it is with “pointing." When tho day had nearly passed away and tho sun wns Binking in the west, leaving the lonely house on tho unbroken mesa in darkness, An trim grow tired of the sport and told Clancy so, and while telling it ho emptied his revolver into the stomach and bowels of tho man tied to tho stake. Then he and his comrade saddled their horses, and Clancy, dy ing as he wns, wondered if they were going to loave him to the night and darkness, when tho coyotes, attract ed by his blood, would como to con tinue tho work that day had seen be gun. His mind was still clear, and when Antrim walked toward him he tried to curse him for the coward he wns, until Antrim, placing his pistol against Clancy’s teeth, forced the muzzle into his mouth and pulled me trigger; and then the day s work was over. There was no concealment about it. Every one in New Mexico knew what Charley Clancy had died for, but few men spoke of it above then- breath. The judge who went to Santa Fe staid there. No man cared to meet Antrim. There was only one officer in the territory who had the courage to make the attempt to ap prehend him, but so well did the murderer conceal his movements that it was impossible to follow him. Reward after reward was offered, yet no one cared to earn them. all the girl did not break down as most women would. People said she was cold, though at evoning she would come with her heads and pray by the now made grave until darkness came. One day she was missing; no one knew whither she had gon'e. Soon, though, rumors returned that she was in the different frontier towns among the Americans as one of the publio dancing girls. She was beau tiful and had no lock of lovers. Bhe seemed to be without fear, and no matter how desperate the men with whom her lot was cast, she never quailed. The Americans called her la leona—the lioness. Where men squandered the money gained by robbery and murder in wild orgies, in which men fought and killed each other like mad ani mals, she was always cool and unex cited. The wilder the crowd, tho worse the men who composed it, ap- smwim nseMMan. a »«»tbibhms —i rail. patently tho more she enjoyed it. Her 1 beauty was so groat that many men, even among the Americans, offered to make her a wifo, hut she only smiled and refused all with a gentleness that made them wonder that one in her position could display it When she was at the height of her popularity she disappeared. No one knew whither, although some said she hod left to join a band of desperadoes near the Arizona lino. Wherever it was, nothing was soon of her for months, and then ono day she returned home, but only a shadow of her former self. At first her father would not permit her to enter the house, while her mother cried and embraced her os if bIio had returned from the dead. Thon the father, too, relented. Perhaps, ho thought, it would after all be for but a short time, and it would be better that she should die at home than as an outcast. Sho seemed impassive and indifferent to all. When niglit came sho went to the little grave yard and prayed over the grave that still was the newest. , Wliero slio had spent the months of her absence she never told. Tn all questions sho gavo an ovasivo an swer. It was said by some that hoi return home was duo to the breaking up and scattering by the of the band of desperadoes w.tl whom it was rumored she had con sorted. Stung by tho rumor, her mother had one day asked her to deny it, but tho girl lmd only dropi>ed her head on her mother’s breast and sobbed ns sho had never done since tho day she lmd seen Clancy A body consigned to tho earth. Sovernl times slio had received messages, but from w’>om no one knew. Even to her mother, who alone spoke to hoi 1 , she declined . to tell. Ono day slio received ono of theso messages, and that night after sho had gone to her lovor’u grave sho went to tho houoo cf tho sheriff, who was the only officer that duved to follow Clancy’s murderer. When she returned lie wns with her, mid passing through the dimly lighted patio she led him to her room and placod him whore he could not be seen in tho darkness, and then she lay do\ .-n in her bed and waited in tho darkness as the hoifrs ' passed until there was a tap at the window. The house wns so quiet that it soemed to echo like a pistol shot, but sho oroso, and going to tho window opened it and let a man enter, who threw his arms about her and kissed her passionately and spoke regret fully of the time thoy had been sepa rated. Tho room was very dark, and as she led him from tho window toward the bed where the other man crouch ed hid sho could almost feel her henrt beat. Tho man whoso arm was around her waist noticed her trem ble and drew her moro closely to him. When thoy reached tho bed sho drew herself gently from his arm and lay down. Sho fancied that she could hear tho man who was con coaled breathing ns sho lay betwoon him and the man who had just en tered. Tho air of tho room soomed to stifle her, ns if laden with death. Then sho turned and spoke to tho man who had entered, tolling him to light a match, so that ho would not mnko any noise by striking tho fur niture, and when he demurred that it might not be snfo she answered him that as tho village was asleep no ono could seo him. For a moment ho hesitated, and then he struck n match and tho tiny spark grew into a maze, snowing tne room pinm unu distinct. Only for an instant, though, for then thero leaped out across tho bed on which tho girl lay a jet of fire, and the man who held the match fell to the ground without n groan. The air of tho room grew thick with the smell of powder, and through the house could be heard voices calling in affright, but in the room no one stirred or uttered a word. The girl was wondering if the man who liad fallen was dead or only wounded, and the man who had shot him remained quiet, fearing that after all his shot might have failed him. It was only when the door of the room was opened from without and the light showed a dead outstretched figure on the ground that he came forth, and then the girl rose from the bed and gazed From Wvitnwdnj-V Kvkkiko Hit»Ai.ii. A meeting of the gentlemen inter ested in Albany’s fruit farm mention ed in yesterday’s Hkbald, was held this mbrning at 8 o'clock. Among those present were Messrs. Jesse and John Walters, Pattison Bros, B. A. and R. P. Hall, Nelson Tift, Tom Nelson, Chas. Rawson, A. W. Mnse, L. Sterne and Dr. P. L. Hits- man. All of these gentlemen own valua ble land in the vicinity of Albany, and they haveadopted this means as a plan for its improvement. They decided to plaoe orders for peach trees to stock 400 acres or more, and the gentlemen above mentioned, have placed their orders with Mr. C. C. Crady who is here In the interests of the Cumber land nursery of Nashville, Tenn. Of course only the finest varieties will be ordered, and only those varie ties which thrive well around Albany and in this section of the country. Albany enterprises are Increasing and growing every day, and this is not the least among the number. It will add a great deal to the value of the real estate thus Improved, and will bring n great deal of money into Albany every year, which has former ly gone to other sections. mm.*' oossie. A Mummer *( While—Black nu I Blfeclc. From the Pry Good, Chronicle. Nowndays white Is seen everywhere. White mull lints nre often self-trim med or fancy pins and wings nre used. The effect should njfivnys be light nnri nlry. Large, stylish linls of white llsse, trimmed with rich renl Ince and os trich tips, are shown for wedding* and other ceremonious occasions. The present Indications arc that strlngs’-can he of any width or mate rial desired: that Is, either of lane, rlb- hon or velvet, short, wide or nnrrow. Blank mid wllltiy effects are much sought after. Black gowns, white lints, white gloves anil black parasols innke, in combination, very stylish cos tumes. ■ f TIIKV ARK CO.UINO. The people of Albany may expect ono of the largest crowds the city line ever had to take care of during the session of the Congressional conven tion, which meets on next Wednesday. The Thoinasville Times-Enterprise of this morning says: Mr. T. J, Bottoms; the hustling ex cursion manager, has secured a very low round trip rate to Albany for the iongressional convention, which meets there on the 17th tbit. Tickets will be sold on the lllth and 171 h good to return up to and including the 18th. The rates for the round trip are ns fol lows : llnlnbridge and points between Thomas-,il!c and that place, $1.50; Thoninsvjlje, $1.25; Boston, $1.50: Ooh- lockonue, $1,00: Meigs, $1.00; Pelham, HOc; Camilla, 75c; Hardaway, 40c; Bn- contnu, 50c. A big crowd will most likely attend tile convention from Thoinasville ami other points. It is said that Buln- brldge will send about one hundred coolly down on the body of the man had murdered her lover.—San t.a; who Francisco Argonaut. Kxcuralon Rnlf" lo thr 4'onu cniiiounl Convention. Georgia Vtn send a full quota of eleven Democratic Congressmen to the next National Congress. Alabama’s Democratic victory has been a foreoast of the result in this, her sister State. Hon. Bufus E. Lester has been unan imously renominated by the Demo crats of the First district, and will have praetloully no opposition outside of the Third Party nominee, who will poll only a small scattering vote. In faet, all the districts will be troubled to a small extent by Third PartyItes, whose vain hopes the elec tions will scatter like spray before the hurricane, Everybody Is familiar with the state of affairs In the Second. Ben E. Rus sell will be nominated by the Demo crats, and by them he will be elected, Third Partyism and Ocalaism to the ountrary, notwithstanding. Wntson will try to see that Crisp is defeated In the Third, but the old Democratic wnrhorse from Sumter cannot be downed. Charles I.. Moses will be renominat ed by every vote in the dlstriot con vention of the Fourth, except the vote of Meriwether, which will be cast complimentary to Warner Hill. His eleution la assured. In the Fifth Leouidus F. Livingston lmd to make a strong fight, but he won the battle and the victory is his. He is a good, stanneb Democrat, and his election is now a settled fact. The Sixth is now the scene of a hard contest. Whitfield, Bartlett and Cnb- Iniss are in the race, but the struggle is practically between Bartlett and Cnblnlss, with chances perhaps, In favor of Cnblnlss, All of them nre good Democrats, and either would make u good successor of the “old timer” Hon. Jas. II. lllount. Outside of the usual Third Party opposition lion. R. W. Everett will have n walkover in the Seventh. lion. Thus. G, Lawson Is safe in the Eighth, and In the Ninth on account of the Third Pnrty split between the forces of Pickett and Winn, lion. Car ter Tate will have n walk-over. And now comes Tommy Watson’s hunting ground, but, there Isa more expert Nimrod in the field, ami Flop- per Wntson will have to take a hack seat. .1. C.C. Black will represent this district. Of course the able ami efficient ser vices of Hon, Henry G. Turner who now represents the old Second, will assure him of a rousing viotory ift tho Eleventh, his new district. All of our old Congressmen will re turn except the two Third Partyites whose records have disgraced them selves nod their constituents, and Hon James G. Blount who has served his district for twenty years with honor to himself and to his party, All of Georgia’s next Congressmen will be loyal Democrats. A Urn Frail Wmrm la ta MiackeA la ike Vielaltf a( Ihw City, From Thewiav’* KvkniSO Hkbai.1>. A project Is now on foot among a number of gentlemen in the city, whlota, If It pans nut, will be a bigen. terprise for the Artesian City. Several fruit growers and land owners in and around the 'pity are contemplating forming a syndicate for putting the enterprlae on foot, and a meeting with this object In view wIHP/ beheld to-inorrow morning at 8 o’olook at the office of Carter A Woolfolk. Among the gentlemen who will be present, and who Intend takinga hand in the enterprise, are MeSsers. Nelson Tift, J. W. Walters, B. A. and R. P. Hall, Pattison Bros, Mayer & Crlue, , Sterne and others. A large fruit farm In the vicinity of Albany is the enterprise contemplated, and tinder the management of auoh business men as these it would meet with unbounded success, Mr. Nelson Tift, one of the leaders In the movement, said to-day that he thought the project would be success ful. The gentlemen Interested own a great deal of land In the vicinity of Albany, wliioh is doing very little good as It stands now, but when planted in fruit, even though the oroi> oould not be put on a paying basis the first year, the increase in the value of the land would be a great gain< It Is probable that from 180 to 200 acres of fruit will be put out this fall- end the meeting to-morrow is for thr) purpose of considering negotiations to this effect. Of course only the best varieties of penolies, pears anil grapes will he used, anil, as everyone knows, these thrive well In the country nround Albany. It Is hoped that the enterprise will be successful, ns it will ben good thing for the city. Du, Wiggins, the Canadian nstrono- < mer, hns broken n long period of quit*, esoence with the opinion that Mars must be n far more desirable world to live in than our own, because there is only a small region near the poles where winter exists, and the temper ature is not excessive even ntthe equa tor. The Wiggins theory, It would seem by this, reduces happiness to a matter of climate; yet any sort of cli mate may be found even on this earth. The Doctor’s observation, after all, is but mi illustration of the trait, pommon to humanity, which ascribes the most verdure to the hills that are farthest away. anil fifty unterrlfled supporters of Rus- . This rale is it very low one and sell. will no doubt be the means of carrying up a big crowd to tlie Artesian City. I'oureutiou The authorities of the Brunswick ami Western have agreed to allow a rate of one fare for round trip from Tifton to Albany, and from points be tween Ulnae two stations. Mayor Gilbert hns sent in a request that the limit be extended to Allapaha, and it Is probable that it will be granted. The other roads are making satis factory rates, which, in several cases, are even less than one fare for the round trip. Nome Hint* About .Invi’Irj. From the Young l.mlios Journal. Silver rings are coming in again. A handsome wedding present to be given by the groom would be a dia mond bracelet, or one of the pretty jeweled sets of Grecian bands which we see nowadays. There are, just at present, some handsome paper-cutters with jeweled handles. Girls, be simple in your wearing of jewelry—don’t wear* too much, nor don’t look as if you had none at all. Be moderate. Some pretty rings are seen with a tiny plain or jeweled bow-knot. There are some handsomely chased silver inkstands and paper Weights seen in the shop windows. Cut glass is far superior to cheap silverware as a wedding gift. Some pretty transparent penholders, with gold trimmings, are seen among the novelties. THE ONLY ONE EVER PRINTED. (!nn You Flud lh«* Word? There is a 8-inch display advertise ment in this paper, this week, which has no two words alike except one word. The same is true of each new one appearing each week, from the Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house ^ “CONCEIVED IN POLITICK.” That’s what Col. W. L. Peek, leading AUianccman' and Third Party candi date for Governor of Georgia, says of the Farmers’ Alliance. In a speech at Grillln on Monday last, Col. Peek, according to the re port of Ins speech published in yester day’s Atlanta Constitution, says; Col. Peek began hi* speech by Buying lie lirnl gone off with tin* Third Party, and gave mb hi* reason time they could accomplish their aims quiet er in that way than by remaining longer with the Democratic party, tie stated that Providence called a little hand together in Texas a few years ago and from it sprung the Farmers' Alliance, and from that ctnno the People’s Party. He said: ‘You often hear it said the funnel s.in joining, were not required to lay down any political preferences,” “They don’t,” shouted a voice In the audience. “H,ut 1 tell you," Col. Peek went on, “the Farmers’ Alliance was conceived in politics.” ^Conceived in politics!” Yen, verily. And behold a new po litical party has been born, and its name is Third Party or People’s Party. It is safe to say that very few of the farmers of Georgia would have gone into the Alliance if they had been told when asked to join it that it was “con ceived in politics” and that an enemy to the Democratic party was to be born of it. places a “Crescent” on everything they make and publish. Look for it, send them the name of the word, and they will return you book. t'n IHSTITD I Bookkeeping, I’hotographo, Telegrn- ' ' ' experience teaoliers, phy, taught by Terms easy, (tall oil or address, IV. H. STANI. UUUCIS. ! .V,yP 129 Broad street, Thoinasville, Gn. 1-IIO-Om. m /g-'VULO si; XBiTans c l: i MfL RELIEVES all Stomach Distress, REMOVES Names, Sense of FllTItiKS, Congestion. Pain. REVIVES Paiuno ENERGY. RESTORES Normsl CtronUtton, and WARMS TO TOB TITS. OR. HARTER MEDICINE CO.. St. l«all> MO. HARDWARE! A. Truthful Buy. 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