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VOL. XXVII. NO 9 TO THE CIRCUS. / * BARNUM * ItAII.EY EXCURSIONS TO BE RUN ON ALL RAILROADS. The great Bartimn A Hailey Circus is to exhibit in Atlanta May 17th, and for the notable occasion all railroads will make a special low round trip ticket, bo all those who desire to wit ness the “Greatest Show on Earth,” can do so at a small expense. The Rarmun A Hai ley Circus this year, while al ways the best and biggest in the past, is now conceded to be the most incomparable exhibition in the entire world. Nothing has ever, or will ever approach it for the genuine merit of its circn . p Tformauce, the size and comp e.eaess of its menagerie, and the wonderful display of its gorgeous equipment The shows require sixty big railroad cars for its transportation, em ploys 700 people and posseses 400 horses and half a hundred cages of rare animals. Its daily expenses are over $5,000, and il annually instructs and enter tains several million of patrons. It is the big show of the uni verse and one of the largest en 1 terprises in the entire world i It will bo a great day for this vacinity, and doubtless a large crowd will avail themselves of the low rate and attend the per formance from this place. LIGHTNING. PLAYS HAVOC AT WINDER. We all noticed the thunder and lightening Friday, but ap prehended no serious danger However it was different at Winder Suddenly there was a terrible crash, accompanied by a vivid (lash of lightening. The Harvil brothers were un hitching a mule in an open space, when the bolt struck and knocked them both down. A number of men sitting at Smith & Carither's store were jarred and stunned by the bolt, Curtis Sanders, who was sit ting in a door, out a mile from town, wns struck on the right hip by a similar bolt. It run down his leg, making havoc of his trousers, and upon reaching his shoe, bursted it ull to puces in its efforts to get free. For tunately, those were all the in juries he received. Ilis escape was almost miraculous.—Mon roe Measengi r. INFORMATION ABOUT GREECE. It has a population of 2.187,- 208. Its is called “Hellas” by its people. The mean temperature of Greece is 01 degrees Fahren heit. No part of Greece is forty miles from the sea or ten from the hills. About one half of the popula tion are agriculturists und shep herds. it has an area of 24,077 square miles. It is the only country in the world whose armies are provid ed with the Gras guns and pa per-oovered earl ridges. The Greek (lag is a white cross on a blue ground—the Ba varian colors and the Greek cross. Greece is more thickly popu lated than any other country in Europe, with the exception of Sweden and Prussia. It ha* few rivers aiul many hills. None of the former are navigable and many <>f the lat ter are fortified. It* present boundary limits wpre determined by an arrange ment iiipong If rent Britain, France, ltussia and Turkey, concluded at Constantinople on July 81, 18112. Only about 7b,000 of the in habitants speak any language other than Greek, and only about 20,000 profess any relig ion other than the orthodox. The chief characteristics of the average Greek are his in oujsitjvenes*, fondness tor ex (Uteinent, loV of discussion, de *ijo for knowledge, an aptitude for learning, and aggressive pa triotism. The olimate has two striking peculiarities —the heat in sum mer and the cold in winter ate far more intense than those >»t any other country in the world Jving in the same latitude. Gell once remark J that in traveling through the More* in March he found “summer in Mesaeuia, spring in I.aooui; and winter in Arcadia, without hav ing moved beyond a radius of fitly miles.”—New York Sun Griggs—Strange thing, Mir andy; even time you draw a breath someb »dy dies. Mrs. Griggs—Well, i ain’t go jug to at<>p breathing on tliat ac count. The Gwinnett Her WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD. STONE MOUNTAIN PICNIC. May is the time of year for picnics. It is the month of flowers, and the rose is in full bloom, sending forth its sweet fragrance. There was an excursion train to nun from Higgsville to Stone Mountain, so me and Newman took advantage of low rate tick ets and made preparations for the occasion before the time ar rived. We sold eggs to ped dlers at 8 cents a dozen when we could have got 10 cents in trade at Higgsville, but we had to meet the demands of the oc casion if wo had to sell them at 5 cents. So we had every thing in perfect trim by t he first Sun day in May. Newman had bought a pair of brogan boots, and Clarinda had strained every nerve in her body to get the cloth out of the loom and cut and make him a pair of new breeches. He had a good old blue yankee coat, with brass buttons on it, that he has had ever since the war ; and it made him look like an officer of some kind. Clarinda washed, starched and ironed his dd red handkerchief, and had it so stiff that when ho tied it around his neck it stood up like a collar, extending above his far-. To have the thing complete, Clarinda gathered some roses and pinned a big bouquet on his coat. Newman objected to this, but she insist ed on his wearing it, and not go out in company looking worse than anybo.dy else. “You i knoy,” said she, “your charac- J ter is mine, and if you are not dressed up like other folks they will talk about me being no ac count.’’ About this time the train gave a keen blast, which was a signal for all to get on board. Everybody rushed for the train at once, pushing and scronging, aud soon we were all on and the train moved off. The train run at the rate of a mile and a half a minute, and it wasn’t long before the whistle blowed for Atlanta Here New man expected to be interviewed by a Constitution reporter, but no reoorter came, but some thing more attractive than re porters; it was a crowd of At lanta women. This put a restless spell on Newman so that he couldn’t keep still, but just walked the isle of the car. Each step lie made his boots would cry like a baby with the three-months colic. This, of course, attract ed considerable attention; all eyes were gazing at him, es pecially those Atlanta ladies. This brought a smile on New man’s face that made him shew all his teeth and half of Ins chaw of home-made tobacco. Just at this time tin* porter came through the car and call ed out, “Stone Mountain!” This caused a snatching of bas k >ts, bundles, etc. Sooij our crowd was off the train and on our way to the mountain, We went down the Yenuhle railroad on foot and soon were climbing the moun tain. All this time Newman kept his eye on those Atlanta girls, and gathered yellow flowers and give to oue of them. I saw at once where he was drifting and how those girls had ent rapped him. Before we reached the summit we came to a steep place, New man hud been waiting fur an opportunity to do some service, and here it presented itself. “Let me assist you, miss,” said he. •‘Thunk you,” she replied, and he helped her over the steep place. “I appreciate your kindness very much,” she said, “and if you have no one to look after, I would he very thankful if you w ould show me over the moun tain.” “Of courso I will, with the greatest pleasure,” said New man, ai d he began to swell up until he looked as large as two Newmans, and he strutted around worse than a turkey gobbler in the spring of the ! year. In a short time after we got to the mountain, and viewed : the surrounding oountry, New j man and his mate took a stroll to gather wild dowers. LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 1 Ith 1 897. That was the last I saw of them until wo came down. They were decorated from the ground up wit h yellow flowers Newman’s boquet was consider ably wilted, the one that be longed to Clarinda. They separated pretty soon and Newman come to me and said: “This has l>ci*n a delight ful day with me; never enjoyed a day better m my life. I don't want you to let Clarinda know anything about it,for you know, Snipe, she’s so superstitious that she would talk about that poor girl if she didn’t say any thing out of the way about me It was the sympathy that I had for her caused nie to take care of her today. I am coming back to picnic again before*May is out, if Clarinda don’t find it out and raise objections.” About this time the ear bell began to ring and we made a rush for the train. The last word I heard from Newman was, “I am coming back to picnic again.” Rube Snipe. BED-TIME STORIES. To send children happily to bed sho'uld be one of the moth er’s most ordinary tasks. No little one should dread the bed time hour, nor fear the dark, nor he allowed to go to rest mi der a sense of disgrace or alien ation from household love. Whatever the child’s daytime naughtiness may have been, at nightfall he should be forgiven and go t 6 rest with the mother's kiss on his lips and her tender voice in his ears. Hardly anything can be worse for a young child than to be scolded or punished at bed-time The mother does well to be a little blind to some things, re membering that a good deal of childish culpability is super ficial only, and washes off al most as easily as does the dirt which the evening bath removes from the skin. The main thing with children is to have them well started good principles, which they will carry through life. Obedience, truth, unselfishness, purity, arc essentials, and these can all be lovingly cultivated, and will flourish in the right home at mosphere. When the nursery brood is undressed and in btd, the lights turned low, the room quiet for the night the mother or nurse, or elder sister, or the kind auntie, who is still to lie found in sumo fortunate houses, should have a little fund of stories on which to draw for the small listeners’ pleasure before they embark on the train for dreamland. Fairy stories are always en joyed by children, aud the lit erature of fuiryjand is not far to seek. Imagination is very active in children, and occas sionslly one meets a mother who does not understand the child’s world, having forgotten her own early days and their il lusions, or who is afraid that fancy and its imageries will lead her child into deoeit. While the most exact and rigid truth fulness should be practiced in our dealing with children, and they themselves should be taught to shun equivocation and every forn of lying, stilt we need not fear to let imagination give them pleasure. They early to di»crimi iuote between the false aud the true —or perhaps it would be better to say that they learn to find the truth wrapped up in the husk of the story. Our fairy lore is older than civiliza tion. The same stories, with variations, have in all ages and climes been taught and told to children, and they have their origin in the needs and the heart of the race Children thrive on fairy stories, and arp the better able to grasp other literature if early fed on these. THREE OLD MAIDS. Miss Nancy Oliver died uear Stillmoro, Ga , recently at the ripe old age of tiß years aud a few months. -She was one of a family of three old maids, who lived down op Jack’s Creek, near the Ohnoppe river, for oyer half a oentqry in a small log house of but ope room, They lived by carding, spinning and weaving by hand lor people living near them. Auut Nancy is the second one to die. ]jer sister Sallie died a few years ago at the age of 98. Only oue member of the family is now living, Aunt Milbry, who is the oldest of the three sisters.—Con ktitution. GEORGIA'S FIRST WOMA . HANGING. POLLY BARCLAY, A WOMAN l RARE BEAUTY, WAS EXECU TED AT WASHINGTON IN 18(H). The sentence of Mrs. Nobles to hang has brought about an interesting discussion as to the first woman legally i fecit ted in Georgia. The Constitution received a communication from a well known and well-posted Georgia lady who has given the question a careful stndy. She has delved into old records and now bring out indisputable evidence that Polly Barclay was the firs: white female to’die on a scaf fold in the state. Here is what she snys: “The first white won an hung by legal sentence in Georgia was Mary, or Polly Barclay She was executed in Wilkes county May 5»0, 18<m>. There is no doubt whatever of this fact. Among the records of the superior court of Wilkes, preserved in the office of Allied Harnett ~ who is now clerk of the court, there is a volume of minutes labeled, ‘Min. from 1807) to 1808.’ This book is be fore me, and from page 97 I copy the following extract about the trial, dated May 9, 1800: -“ ‘The State v. Polly Barclay and Mark Mitchum-lndictment for Murder. Jury: Joshua Chapin, James Henderson, Jesse McLean, Bernard Kelly, Peter Stovall, Christopher Bitlns, Thomas Chi vers, J r., John Kory, William Kilgore, Thomas Hudspeth, John Craten, Charles Terrell. “ ‘We, the jury, find tin* pris oner at the bar guilty, but r< c om mend her to merry. ‘Charles H. Terrell, ‘Foreman.’ “The case of Mark Miiehtnu was nol pressed by consent of court. “From page 105, of the date of May 10, 1800, we make the following extract: “‘The State v. Polly Barclay —lndictment of Murder. Ver dict of Guilty, “ ‘Thp prisoner being brought on this day to the bar of the court, and being asked if sin had anything to say why the sentence of death should imt be passed upon her, and noth ing having been offered, the court proceeded to pronoun- < the following sentence: ‘T! at you, Polly Barclay, be taken from the bar to the place from whence you came, there to ie nmin until Friday, the 18th day of this present month of M v, and that on the aforesaid 18th day of May, you are to lie taken by a proper officer to a gallows previously to be erected in or near the town of Washington, and then and there, on the day aforesaid, between the hours of 10 o’clock in the forenoon and 2 o’clock in the afternoon, you are to be hung by the neck until you are dead, and the Lord Im'e meroy on you.' “The judge was Hon. Charles Tait, who afterwards became United tit a tea senator in con gress. The record gives no in formation us to who the state's prosecuting officer, or the coun sel of tlie prisoner. Judge Tait had bepn a teacher and was a man of cultivation. Discharge to the grand jury us (Stiff is in that slightly stilted style which was the fashion of those days, Imt it is creditable., lie im presses the importance of pun ishing crime. He thinks some punishments are too severe, but from what he *gys, he re fers to making cattle stealing a capital offense, “Before leaving the record of the trial, 1 will call attention to the fact that this whole I rial, examination of witnesses,speech es of law yers, charge of judge, deliberations of jury, took place in n single dgy, and tin. record shows that other business v.us accomplished also in that day. “On the 80th of May it will be ninety-one years since sh. se events happened,and they were fast (lassing into oblivion. One newspaper said that Susan Kb, erhart was the first white wo man hung in Georgia, anti when 1 went to work a few years ago to inquire into the story which the old people used to tell,there was but one living witness of tlie tragedy, the oldest man in (In* county (since dead) ninety years old. He was a Mr. Free man. and when a boy eight years old lie had seen the execu tion of Polly Barclay. Anoth er eye witness of the same age 'iad been dead but a short time. Rev. Mieajah Lane. “John and Polly Barclay lived on tin* Augusta road northeast from Washington. \ll the traditions represent litjr is a beautiful woman and she had a lover. She planned to kill her husband. It is said die paid her half brother S2OO to do the deed. It was in the fall of the year and the deed was committed on a beautiful, clear, cool moonlight night. A number of visitors were assem bled at the Barclay home. A noise was heard at cotton house which he had, just on the road, ■And his wife reminded Mr. Bar day that his cattle had been stolen, and advised him to go and look after them. He was not very willing, and some of the visitors afterwards rsirem bored that she had urged him to go. He went and soon a shot was heard and he was found dead. - “About a mile away through itlic woods a family lived ' There were children and they j went out to play in the moon I light. While they were thus | engaged they heard the sharp ! report of a gun ring out on the i risp evening air. Next day they heard that Mr. Barclay was killed and knew they had heard the shot. One of the Iwiys was Mieajah Lane, who lived to tell the story, when I nearly ninety years old. “At first Mrs. Barclay was not suspected. But her eon duet had not been prudent, and after a while people began to talk and put things together, and finally the talk ended in her arrest . The lover suocecd je.l in getting away and the brother also who did the deed They brought her to Washing ton and put her in jail. On i the trial her uncommon beauty attracted great attention, and it is said that some of the men sent her word that she should not be bung. She believed them and to tin* very last was expecting a rescue. “The conviction was mainly due to one witness. He was a half-grown youth, who lived with her husband. He bad been sick, and was lying by the fire one Sunday afternoon, sup posed to be asleep, when she bargained to have her husband killed. A strong effort was made to destroy the credibility of his testimony, but ho stuck to the same story. The jury ho'ieved him and convicted her. It was said that she went to ex ecution arrayed in a silk dress. When the sheriff came for her, it is said he put his hand in his pocket and she thought he was going to take out a pardon from the governor, to whom an ur gent appeal had been made. “Mr. Barclay was buried where ho fell, just on the edge of the road. Since the Georgia railroad has been built it is a lonely, little used road. But whenever the road has been worked sinoe the tragedy the workers always heap up the dirt on that grave, so that the site is remembered and pointed out. Ou Callaway’s map of Wilkes county the place is marked as ‘Murdered Bartlett’s grave.’ The name Barclay was corrupted to Bartlett. “1 have written the essentia] facts as correctly as I can, and 1 never intend in write them gain. It is a gr-wsnine sub ject. Eliza A. Bowen.” KING OF DL'DES. The greatest dandy in the world isprinoo Albert of Thurn, Germany. This fastidious young man attires himself in it n* W sltU of elothes every e’uy, enough^'ear ly to keep twenty experienced workmen going and to run up a hill of $15,000. Each suit of wearing iipparel is highly per fumed with attar of roses at $25 an ounce, He wears no le.is than 1,000 neckties during a year, being an average of three every day. A laundry'employ, iug twelve people i» kept spe cially for washing his soiled linen, which he never wears more than twice, and his cast off boots number 200 pairs a year. Uiyaua Tabula* cur* bail bieaUi. THE POOREST MAN." “Who is the poorest man in the world today ? The poorest man I know is the man w ho has nothing but money—nothing else in the world but money— only money.” It was a man with iron hair and an iron gray mustache who spoke the words, and he repeat ed the last ones with emotion. The man who spoke has en dowed the University of Chicago with millions upon millions of dollars, lie is Jc hn D. Rocke feller. who a short time since, in the parlors of the Fifth Ave nue Baptist church, addressed the young men’s Bible class. Mr. Rockefeller held in his hands a cheap looking little yellow backed account book. “This is my ledger,” he said. ■‘My first business training was in keeping a ledger. It was at the time when 1 began to spend earnings in my first struggle to get a footing. “It was a very bard struggle. When 1 put my head on my pillow the contents of this little ledger then kept running in my mind until I awakened the next morning. “Besides the accounts I kept in this book there were memo randa of occurrences. In after vears I found it. I kept it more than 42 years ago. In decipher ing some writing on the back of it here, 1 see that I called it ‘Ledger A.’ I place great value upon the little book.” Rockefeller’s hands trembled as he turn id the pages of the little volume which he had tn ken from a bigenyelope in his inside pocket. “It was important to me to be particular at that time a'anit items of receipts and disburse ments,” he continued. “I hope yon voting men are all careful 1 behove it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, get it fairly, religiously and honestly—and give away all you can. , * r “I would not dare to let you rebd this book. My children read it, and said that I didn’t spell toothbrush correctly. 1 haven’t secpi this book for 2b years. You couldn’t get it from qiu for all the modern ledgers in New York and what they all could bring in. “It reports what I received and paid out fin several years. Here is an item: Income from Dec.-26, 1855 to Jon. 20, 18515, sf>(>. “And I lived within my in some. Out of that I paid my washerwoman, the lady with whom I boarded, and 1 saved a little aud put it away. “I see that 1 paid in the Sun day school every Sundar 1 cent. It was all that I had to give. 1 had a large increase of revenue the next year. It was increased $25 a month. “1 was ns independent in those days as Mr. Astor. But when I got that increase I felt guilty. I felt liko a criminal—like a capitalist. We had no trusts or capitalists in those days. “1 remember the clothes I bought. I didn’t patronize u fashionable tailor. I boagbt my olother from a cheap clothi er. Tho cloth“s were good and such as I could pay{for. Let me give you all a word of ad vice: Live within your means.” Curiosity prompted Mr. Rock efeller here to ask all those to raise their hands who had come to New York from the country. Nine-tenths of the young men raised their hands, to the evi dent pleasure of the speaker. “City men haven’t had the struggles we had who came from the country,” ho said. »“A few days ago I had a talk with a carpenter who was going to make a building comfortable were help were going to sleep. There were two big spaces which he closed with mineral wool, so the dump wouldn’t come in, he suid. Then on the next floor he showed me two spuces lie was ulso going to close with wool ‘so that,’ as ho expressed it, ‘the sleeper there, a house man, would not have to hear the rain drops fall upon the j roof. ”’ This seemed to affojd Mr. Rockefeller infinite amuse, mont. “Why,” he said, “the car penter’s suggestion made me think of my own experience, when sleeping under the. roof. 1 know that 1 heard the ruin full, and when I looked up 1 could see the shingles, amt in one place a big crack througli winch the sky was visible. It was pretty ted there iusummer, : but I preferred summer on the whole. “I think 1 was better for that sort of experience, and my head is full of sadness as l cor.te'm plate the condition of n number of young fellows that 1 know in this city. Their fathers have plenty of money, but the boys have not the ghost of a clutuci in competing with you who came from the country. They will go down and you will take their places. “What is success? Is it to get‘money ? Well, is that suc cess? The poorest man 1 know is tin* nmu who lias nothing but money. If J, had my choice to,- with it and let your fathers*' ’ ’ see what you hi. _ down. “In a year or two I n. i to save nearly SI,OOO. He. ■ an item as to my clothes. M l clothes from November, 1856, j to November, 1856, cost me just j $9.00. Here is one bit of ex-1 travagance which had quite es- j caped my memory ‘pair of fur j gloves, s2.’ Here are other! items: • Mittens, SI shillings. Given away, $5.58. H Missionary cause, Nov. 25, 15c. Ministerial student, 10c. Night Society, inc. Sabbath school, sc. Present to Sabbath school superintendent, 25c. “I was living in Cleveland then, and 1 must have felt sor ry for New York. Here is an item: Five Points Mission, 12 cents. “We find a littlrf paper pub lished by the Sunday school called the Macedonian. I sub scribed to that. The re was a venerable teacher in mv class, a Scotchman, and a great Bible student. He is down for twen ty-live cents. “All these little things helped me to come into sympathy with many undertakings,‘both relig ious and philanthorpic. Mv opinion is that no man can trust himself to wait until he has accumulated a great fortune before he is charitable. ll*- must give away some money continually.” TALK WITH MRS. NOBLES. From The Statesboro Star. Mrs. Nobles was visited re cently by one of the ladies who have taken so much interest in her case, by Dr. Monk and a representative of this paper. She was found lying on her cot with her face to the wall, ap parently suffering from tho ef fects of several chills she had experienced. She was not well enough to sit up, but was glad to see her visitors, and talked freely to them. Dr. Monk ask ed her how she felt and she re plied: “I’m feeling’ mighty bud; 1 ain’t well by no means. Haven’t felt well In a right smart while.’ She was asked by l)r. Monk if she recalled him and his wife and n visit they made to her some time ago. Sho could not locate him, but remembered Mrs. Monk very well and later requested that she come to see her again. “Are you a Christian, Mrs. Nobles?” Dr. Monk linked. “I have been—use ter belong tor the Baptist church.’ “Can you road your Bible, and do you pruy to -God every day?’ “1 can’t read, but 1 pray.’ “Are yon resigned to Him— that is, willing for His will to be done?’ “Oh, yet, I am willing for His will to be done, but not for judges and juries to have their way. 1 didn’t want other peo ple ty have their way, but what can i do? I can't help myself.' Dr. Monk then explained tin will of God, and what resigna tion meant, and remarked: “We are in sympathy with you before God, my poor wo man. and Christian people a* mv church nnd elsewhere an praying for you. ’ “Some are prayin’ fer me am some agin me. 1 ain’t heari ’em, of course, but heard it talked of.’ • “Have you any doubt, ’ Dr. Monk inquired, “that you will go to heaven when you die?’ “1 don’t doubt I will g< hone, * she suid. “Do you want to say anything about the crime you un- charged with?’ *! have said all I can say,' . “Are yen guilty or not?’ ‘I am inm cent.’ “You have never confessed that you were guilty to any one?’ “To nobody. How could I, who.: 1 was innocent?’ “Did you know anything of the crime before it was commit ted?’ Dr. Monk asked. “Not a word.’ “Had yon uny intiumtiou it was going to be committed?’ “None. 1 “Did you have any under , standing with *ny oue übout j Celebrated for its greHHj saiTi'gtli ami huiiitliftilw^ 1 surest lie food against aluflf form-' of adulteration e "s the elieap brands. KoyAiUj I'owt'Ku Comi’anv, New Ya> i'- r . ' I did not.’ “Did yon evergiMK “ (.u- Families a iMR , ».-> Thq_~ llt "' YfV • I G..\, r did. 1 ; n "Now. if you have . . W* ’» *>* i'» say t<» Christian p6t»p&. lit world, thaty^ not said about this mi^^^ • “You may tell them, am gone, a poor old innoceut’ woman has been put to death', if it pleases God to take me be toro that old negro. I don’t want the rope to slip from him. He and his wife ought to hang that’s where they ought to be.’ ALL SORTS? From Washington to Athens is 5,005 miles. Governor Atkinson says that he would rather serve two yeivrs. in the penitentiary than to risk his chances six montns in a couty convict camp. Dice'are made from ivory or bone, a cutting machine reduc ing the cubes to near tho size required, after which they are polished, generally by hand.*. Knives of flint and other stone breaking with a sharp fracture were known in early times. When the Spaniards invaded Mexico, the natives had knives of volcanic glass. ' A forward stride has been made in raising trotting horses. In 1867 only nineteen horses had ever made the mile gait at 2:80. Now there are more than 18,000. Twelve veterans of the war of 1812 are yet living, with ages running from 00 to 104 years. The government is about to in crease their pensions from sl2 to SBO a month each. Col. Mosbv, the ex-Confeder ate of guerilla fame, is being mentioned favorably a- the successor to Fitzhugh Lee in Havana. When a cool, level headed and brave man is want ed for ticklish work, look to the South and find him. Kate, the African lioness at Grant park, Atlanta, is dying. Kate is 85 years old, deaf, lame and gray. She has. since being brought to this country, killed three o f her keepers, and has it least a dozen bullets under her hide. Bailey of Texas and McMilan of Tennesse are squabbling over the leadership of the house. What one does the other lights. There is an eternal squabble and us a consequence the Dem ocratic side is the laughingstock of the Republicans. Mr. McKinley has given three prominent offices to Southern Republicans, Mr. Gary of Mary laud has been made postmaster general; Mr. 11. Clay Evans of Tennessee has been made com missioner of i>engioiis, and Col. Buck has been made minister to Japan. Ten million dollars worth of Georgia marble is now used in the construction of three fa mous buildings: The State capitol of Rhode Island, the cathedral of St. Sohn, and St. L uke's hospital, New York. Pretty soon Georgia will be the mly State whose capitol build ing is not constructed of Geor gia marble. “Help! help!” cried the drowning man. “I am drown ing ” “Jove! Wliut an opportuni ty ! ” cried the reporter on the shore, whipping out his note book. “Quick —tell me your sensations, aud I'll give you a •suul-oll* hi next Sunday's ]>a |n-r ” But it was too late; the man had gone down for the third time.—Harper’s Bazar. A Kansas school man m has introduced a new feature in her school. When one of the girls misses a word the boy who spills it gets permission to kiss her. \ml tin- girls are continually