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OCILLA DISPATCH.
OCILLA, GEORGIA.
HENDERSON & HANLON, Publishers.
Orders have been issued to have
our bellum warships^restored We to shall their ante¬
appearance. now see
them wearing the white paint of a
blameless life.
There is a graver warning to France
tu the decrease of births from 865,
000 in 1886 to 859,01)6 in 1897 than in
tho studied words of Sir Edmund
Monson’s lecture.
The word Sirdar, which has been so
frequently seen since the exploits of
Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, is, ac¬
cording to the Paris Figaro a con¬
traction of the Arabic words “Sayer
eci Dar.” Sayer means inspector or
watcher; Dar means palace; Sayer ed
Dar would therefore mean “inspector
of the palace. ”
The shipbuilding interest of Maine
reports an extraordinary revival of
activity, exceeding anything known
in ten years past, A portion of this
is due to naval orders, but the great¬
er part, according to report, reflects a
boom in the West India trade—par¬
ticularly trade between our ports and
those of Cuba and Porto Rico, and
the coastwise trade of those two is¬
lands,
_
Ours is now the greatest producing
and exporting nation in all the world.
Hitherto we have held at best second
place to Great Britain. At the end of
1898 with our exports amounting to
twelve hundred and thirty millions wo
leave even Great Britain behind by
more than sixty million dollars. Our.
exoorts of domestic products alone
passed the thousand million mark for
the first time in the year 1892. From
then until 1896 they fell below that
figure, but in 1897 they rose to 1,032,
000,000, aud this year they have
reached the enormous total of $1,230,
000,000. Twenty years ago we ex¬
ported of our own products$680,709,-
268 worth—or only a trifle more than
one-half this year’s exports.
A Vienna journal, in speaking of
the movement for woman’s emancipa¬
tion in America, calls attention to the
fact that in Austria women have cer¬
tain legal rights undreamed of by
Americans, They can refuse to ac
company their husbands to any locality
which endangers thefr liberty, life,
or health and, “unless married to mil¬
itary men, can refuse to be parties to
perpetual peregrinations, and to set¬
tling in foreign countries.” There
seems to be some misapprehension in
Viennaconcerningthestatus of woman
in America. There seems to be some
misapprehension in Vienna concern¬
ing the status of woman in America.
Those rules of conduct so carefully
laid down in the Austrian code are ob¬
served here, but iu au entirely differ¬
ent way. Woman enjoys them with¬
out legal sanction, to be sure, but
public opinion and the jury are usual¬
ly with her. She can hardly envy her
Austrian sister, who is constantly re¬
minded that she is under police pro¬
tection.
In international complications Eng¬
lishmen have but one fear. Russia is
“the gray terror” always in the back¬
ground. How close the Russian
French alliance may be, or what Rus¬
sia’s interest is in any quarrel in¬
volved, is a mystery. Kipling has
helped conjure up a picture of the
graj uniformed Cossack hordes be
yond the Indian mountain passes that
has entered into the popular imagina¬
tion and figures iu all British concep¬
tion of foreign relations. Some have
urged war with France, not so much
for hatred of France, but “because
it will weaken Russia.” Indian frontier
wars are fought, not to ‘ conquer wild
tribes for the sake of conquest, but to
strengthen that part of the empire
against Russia. The desperate anx¬
iety about Chinese affairs is because
of Russia. Russian designs real or
imagine , are the reason for much
warlike activity. The czar’s avowed
peace ui ideas are simply not believed.
Said a French diplomatist in discuss¬
ing the situation; “Nicholas is keep¬
ing the peace of the world, not. by
love, as he would wish, but by fear.
He is probably the only man on earth
England is afraid of.”
WILL SEND THE IOWA
Big Battleship to Be Added to Dewey’s
Fleet.
It is understood at San Francisco
that 1he battleship Iowa will be im¬
mediately prepared for a trip to Manila.
She will stay at San Francisco long
enough to take an immense supply cf
ammunition for Dewey’s fleet aud to
await dispatches from Washington.
A BALLAD OF OLD SKATES.
I seo a host of little men
Troop by from school at half-past threo,
And presently troop back again, highest
Skates on their arms, in glee.
The gleaming blades throw back to me
A shaft of sunlight and I are gone;
And then, as in a dream, see m
The old-time skate3 that buckled onl
They all come back—the good old waysl—
The legend that to boy and man
The cars showed on propitious Branch Brook” days— it
“Good skating on ran.
From that hour Boreas began
His reign till dllBenthroned anon.
There were no dearer treasures than
The old-time skates that buckled on.
H— m m
by ward McCauley.
EOBGE QUIRK
had no time to
w a s t a. That
fact could be
easily discerned
from the hur¬
ried, impatient
I step with which
‘he strode along.
Had anyone
taken the trou¬
ble to follow the
noteworthy gen-,
tleman, his destination would not
have long remained a matter of doubt.
Three or four doors along the ave¬
nue his anxious gaze encountered a
sign, “Dr. Conrad Schmitdeil,” and
toward that Mecca, for it was east of
where he stood, he bent his steps.
Mr. Quirk’s complaint was two¬
fold. He suffered from sensitiveness
and nervousness; he had poor control
of his feelings and still worso of his
muscles. He regarded a doctor as a
court of last resort, and he hesitated
when he turned the handle to open
the door.
A ytjung looking man advanced, and
of him Quirk inquired:
“Is Doctor Schmitdeil in?”
“Uf he vas not oudt, I vas in, I
dink,” remarked the other, in broken
English.
The words irritated Mr. Quirk.
“You are too smart, by half, for an
office boy,” he declared in a sharply
reproving tone. “Where is tho doc¬
tor?”
“I vas him, mineself, I toldt you,”
responded the German.
“Really, are you Doctor Conrad
Schmitdeil, the promising young phy¬
sician of jvhom everyone is talking?”
said Quirk, scarcely believing that
such could be the case.
The youthful Teuton nodded
gravely.
“I vas him,” said he; then, draw¬
ing from the shelf a large book, he
added “My register; vot is your
name?”
“George Quirk,” replied hispatient,
nervously. As the other failed to
understand, he repeated: “Quirk,
Quirk! Can’t you understand?
Q-u-i-r-k, Quirk.”
“I vould not got so oxcited aboudt
it,” retorted the physician, and com
mented to himself. “Veil, I don’t
care; I dakes his ‘sass’ in der -pill
oudt of.”
« ( Who’s exoitei? Who’s excited?”
queried Quirk, nervously.
“Uf it vas not me, I dink you know
yourself petter. I dinks dere vas
somedings der matter mit you.”
“Of course, you blamed fool!” com¬
menced Quirk. The German rose to
his feet, but George continued as
calmly as was possible for so excita¬
ble a gentleman, “Of course! Do
you suppose I would consult a physi¬
cian if there wasn’t something the
matter with me?”
“I dinks I forgot dat,” said the
doctor, scratching his head. “Vot is
wrong?”
“Nervousness and sensitiveness.”
“Neirfousness and sunsitiveness;
dot vas pad. Vas you so your hands
vould not stay Still vile you dinks?”
“Oh, worse than that, far worse!
I am as nervous as—as a young man
proposing, and as sensitive i s u n as¬
piring poet—as au aspiring poet. I
tell yon, Doctor Schmitdeil, it’s
awful.”
“Oh, it is not so veirse,” said the
physician, cheerfully, for he had
picked up a little of our slang. “Uf
you do vat I tell3 you, a cure vill
quickly result itself. I kaf tried it on
several uf mine patients und it vas
nefer failed. But it vill be quite hatd
for you to mate your mindt up to do
vat I tell you.”
“What must I do?” inquired Quirk,
nervously.
“Become a canvasser,” replied the
doctor, “und dake subscriptions for a
mitgazine. Uf dat don’t effect a cure,
I will ate my hat—dot is unless you
vas an incurable.”
“I am not an incurable. I assure
you, Doctor Schmitdeil,” said Quirk,
solemnly.
“Den I am quite certain dot you
von’t been yourself at dat time next
month. Uf you do vot I tell you, Mr.
Quirk, you are all O. Gay. Vot you
piust do vas dis: Send to a mitgazine
for terms und outfit und get right to
veirk, seriously, shust as dough your
life depended it on. You will nefer
again bo troubled mit sunsitiveness,
at least.”
“Thanks, doctor, thanks! I’ll try
it at once, and let you know the re¬
sult. How much for your advice?”
“Dot vas agreeable to me, Mr.
Quirk. Fife dollars, sir, are my
charges in dis case.”
Rather ruefully, George drew a bill
from his pocket and handed it to the
Teuton. The latter laughed wisely.as
he opened the door for his patient.
“I toldt mineself his sass I would
get my pay for,” he reflected. “It is
quite oxpensive to be neirfous and
Good skating? Weill Four month3 of Itl
(Tiie winter months then got thetr dues!)
And many a night saw bonfires lit
Upon the Ice—and barbecues!
At six, with heel-plates In my shoes,
Mv best boast was that I could don,
With all their clumsy straps and screws,
The old-time skates that buckled onl
Young man.Jtiio modern skate’s a “champ
But And “just perfection,” you clamp declare;
I’ll ba hound tho clever
Does not increase the sport a hair.
I’m in the forties now, mv share
Embonpoint; but, by Helicon!
Ii I could skate I still would wear
Tho old-timo skates that buckled on!
—Edward W. Barnard, in Puck
sensitive—dot is if you consult Con¬
rad Schmitdeil.”
Quirk lost no time in sending
stamps to the publisher of Popper’s
Gazette for a canvassing outfit, which
arrived in the course of! a few days,
Once possessed of his implements of
navigation, he determined to embark
upon his sea of trouble at once,
“It is the crucible that purifies the
gold,” thought he, ‘^nd it will be
thro'ugh ha’-dship that lam cured of
my maladies of disposition.”
The sample copy of the Gazette pre¬
sented a very handsome appearance,
and, as Quirk gazed upon it-, he con¬
gratulated himself on his choice.
Once started on his tour, the nervous
gentleman reconnoitred for a suitable
street on which to operate. A long
avenue, lined with houses occupied by
people oi the middle-class, attracted
his attention, and there it was that he
began the actual work.
The first house was a plain brick
building, and under ordinary condi¬
tions he would not have given it a
second thought, if, indeed, it received
a first one. Now, however, it loomed
up appalling, and Quirk pictured
dark, gloomy rooms for the imprison¬
ment of agents.
He remained in front of the house
for at least ten minutes before he
raised sufficient courage to climb the
steps and ring the bell. His hands
were shaking, and he toyed nervously
with the paper which he carried. At
the last minute his small amount of
failed him and he fled ig
nominiously, but not in time, for the
lady of the house opened the door just
a3 he reached the street.
“You’re a nice one,” said she, “up.
to the tricks of a boy, bringing people
to the door by ringing the bell!” And
she disappeared.
“A lucky escape,” said Quirk;
“she is a regular tartar. I’m glad I
didn’t stay, but she inferred that I
rang the bell to bring her to the door,
How inconsiderate some people are!”
Fearing another encounter with the
lady of the first house he skipped
four, and cleuoking his fists uetermin
edly, mounted the stairs before a com
fortable frame dwelling.
This time he stood his ground, and
waited for whoever or whatever should
appear. It proved to be a very lady
like person, and when she stood on
the threshold and looked inquiring
at Quirk, he remained speechless
for a moment. Suddenly it dawned
upon him that people don’t ring door
bells aud stand on steps unless they
have an errand.
“Madam,” said he, trying'hard not
to stammer, “I represent Popper’s
Gazette.” He took a sidelong glimpse
at the paper to assure himself that he
had rightly named it. “I should be
pleased to enter your subscription at
the rate of one dollar a year. I say I
should be pleased to enter--”
Quirk’s nervousness was almost The the
cause of his undoing. lady
pursed her lips in that distant manner
so exasperating to a sensitive person.
Besides, you see, she was a lady.
“I don’t care for Popper’s Gazette,”
said she, quietly, yet with a plainly
discernible sneering inflection, “and
I never purchase anything from
agents.”
Quirk stood bolt upright, his hands
at his sides, his face pale, awaiting
her further utterance. Nothing more
came, however, and the lady retired,
closing the door, and, to Quirk’s
great chagrin, locking it as well.
That was the unkindest cut of all.
But the thing had to be done.
Quirk knocked bruvely at the door of
the next house. No one responding,
heipounded harder. Soon steps were
heard in the hall, and George found
himself confronting a frowsy-looking
man who wore no collar, and whose
hair suggested a very recent sojourn
in bed. The man’s eyes were about
half closed, and he assumed a frown
deep and intense.
“What the deuce do you want?”
said he.
“I represent Popper’s Gazette, a
monthly magazine.” And Quirk hes¬
itatingly advanced the sample.
“You blasted agent,” almost
screamed the sleepy man. “I’d like
lo hang your whole tribe! Waking a
fellow up to show him your con
founded Popper’s Gazette, or some
darn thing.”
“I am sorry to have disturbed you,”
replied Mr. Quirk “I say I am sorry
to have disturbed you.”
“Well, I heard you. Look here,
eur number is four-thirty-four. Mark
it down, and don’t you never come
here with your papers. If you do, by
jinks 1 I’ll lay yon out.”
“Sir,” said Quirk, “you are no
gentleman. ”
“I don’t care for what you say. I
thank my stars I’m not a peddler.”
‘Good day, sir,” said Mr. Quirk.
The erstwhile canvasser was all in
a quiver over the various cuts already
administered to mim, but he realized
that in time a permanent cure would
be effected.
After the usual inward combat,
George rang the bell at another
house.
Just at this time it happened that
he was paying attentions to a young
lady of his acquaintance. He was most
anxious to place himself high in her
esteem, and he was thus far doubtful
of his success. Imagine his sur
prise and consternation when the door
was opened by no other than the
young lady herself.
“Good morning, Mr. Quirk,” said
she, graciously. She did not see his
sample copy. “I suppose you want
to see Miss Ernst.”
“Yes—that is, no—I guess I do.
Who is Miss Ernst?”
“Why, she lives here,” returned his
friend, in surprise. “Is it not she
whom you wish to see? Did you want
to speak to me? How did you know I
was, here?”
Quirk was so nervous that he could
scarcely reply intelligibly.
“I don’t want either of you particu¬
larly. You se« I represent Popper’s
Gazette, and x am soliciting subscrip¬
tions.”
It may be wondered that Quirk did
not invent some yarn and retreat as
gracefully as possible. He would, as¬
suredly, have done so but for the'fact
that no plan was suggested to him at
the time. Miss Welton, for that was
the young lady’s name, replied with Mr.
coolness and reserve, “Indeed,
Quirk! I did not know that you were
a,n agent. You told me tnat you were
studying to enter college. I might
have known better than to believe it.”
When Miss Welton originally ap
peared at the door, she had stepped
welcoming!;?aside to allow him to come
in. Now, she moved forward again,
to bar his admittance.
“You see I am not in earnest about
“You are not? Then you are no
gentleman. V
“I know I’m not. I am a peddler.
I say I am a peddler.”
“I heard you. Is there anything
more you want? I don’t care for your
Gazette, and a3 you have deceived me
I don’t know that I wish to keep my
engagement with you to-morrow even¬
ing. Understand me, yV[r. Quirk, I
have nothingto say against your voca¬
tion. Had you told me that you were
a canvasser, I would not have let that
interfere with onr friendship; but I do
not like your deliberately'telling me a
falsehood.”
“But you see,'Miss Welton, I am
not really an agent, only pretending.”
“Quite a baby yet,” said the young
lady, sarcastically and doubfcingly.
“I suppose you know,” said Mr.
Quirk, trying hard to ignore the
“dig,” “that I am afflicted with ner¬
vousness and sensitiveness. I went
to Doctor Conrad Schmitdeil and he
prescribed a canvassing tour as a rem¬
edy. Don’t see you? He says can¬
vassers are insulted so much that they
don’t mfnd it, and thus are cured of
their trouble. ”
“Oh, yes, I see, Mr. Quick. Why
didn’t you'say so before? Won’t you
come in?” *
This time the door was thrown wide
open. Miss Ernst was brought for¬
ward, the two were introduced, and
the trio spent a pleasant hour, during
whioh time Quirk managed to forget
all about his canvassing, his sensitive¬
ness and all.
He was quickly reminded of it after
bidding his friends good-by. Once
upon the street, the recollection of his
errand came upon him.
Wearily he rang doorbell after door
bell and produced his copy of the Ga
zette. The reply was invariably a re
fnsal to subscribe, and was usually
accompanied by a slighting speech if
not an actual insult. Fatigue overtook
the unused canvasser, but ho waspon
dering too deeply to mind it much.
At noon he had taken lunch in a
dispirited sort of way, and all the after
noon he had had the blues. At about
five o’clock,to his supreme amazement,
he secured a subscription. Soon after,
he gave up work for the day. :
The experience was kept up until
the end of the week, and each day was
a repetition of the first as regards in
suits, gibes and sneers. ;
On Saturday Quirk dropped in e«
Doctor Schmitdeil.
“Good evening, doctor,” said he,
cordially. “Shake hands. I can now
talk rationally. Get' fne one of your
testimonial blanks at once. ”
The doctor grasped the hand of his
patient.
“How vas dot canvassing business?”
“Call me a fool, doctor,” said Quirk.
“You vas been a fool, Mr. Quirk.”
“Thank you, doctor, thank you! It
is perfectly clear that I have entirely
lost my sensitiveness. If you had
called me that last week, I’d have had
a fit.”
‘Was dot so? I daut mineself you
vas not shust as you might be ven you
called me on. But dot is a great
scheme.”
“Say, doctor,” said Quirk, winking,
“get your hat; it is my treat.”
The doctor swung his chair around
and touched an electric bell.
“It vas nodt necessary,” said he.
“I alvays have such dings convenient
to mine office. It was shust across der
alley und I haf dis here pecause I
needt them often.”
Shortly a waiter appeared.
“Bring me a glass of mineral water,”
said Quirk. “Doctor, get as much as
you like of whatever you want.”
“Bring me von dozen pottles of
soda,” ordered the physician, and to
himself, “I toldt mineself I vould got
Ins ‘sass’ in der pill oudt of.”
' The refreshments were brought in,
and the sensitiveness of Quirk was
ushered to a conclusion.
Next to New York, the largest city
in the United States in point of area
is New Orleans.
In 1800 New York City got its
water out of wells.
m
Peace Treaty Is
Ratified.
HI CLOSE ID UK
ONLY ONE OYER THE NEC¬
ESSARY TWO-THIRDS
MeEnnery and McLaurin Turned
tli8 Tide In Favor of
the Compact.
The peace treaty, framed at Paris
by a joint conference of American and
Spanish commissioners, was, ratified
in the United States* senate Monday
, afternoon , by majority . of three votes,
a
The vote in detail was as follows:
Yeas— Aldrich,AU%n, Allison, Baker,
Burrollgh8> Butler, Carter, Chandler,
j Clark,-Clay, , Gullom, Davis, . _ Leboe, .
j Elkins, Fairbanks, Faulkner, Foraker,
Frye, Gallinger, Gear, Gray, Hanna,
! HtoBbrongh Harris, Hawley, Jones, ■
| ^ .. 0V, » Denney, _ Kyle, ^ Lindsay, Loi ge,
McBride, McEnery, McLaurin, Mc
j Millan, Mantle, Mason, Morgan, Nel
' Penrose, Perkins, Pettus, Platt,
; son,
Conn.; Platt, N. Y.; Pritchard, Quay,
Ross, Sewell, Shoup, Simon, Spooner,
Stewart, Sullivan, Teller, Thurston,
Warren, Wellington, Wolcott—57.
Nays—Bacon, Bate, Berry, Caffery,
Hilton, Cockerill, Daniel, Gorman,
Hale, Heitfield. Hoar, Jones, Ark.;
Mallory, Martin, Mills, Mitchell, Mur¬
phy, Money, Pasco, Pettigrew, Baw
lins, Roach, Smith, Tillman, Turley,
Turner, Vest—27.
Absent and Paired—Messrs. Cannon
and Wilson for,with Mr. White against
and Messrs. Proctor and Wetmore for,
with Mr. Turpie against.
Not until the vote was taken did the
friends of the measure feel absolutely
sure of its passage. On Saturday only
58 votes could be counted for the
freatv, two short The of the vote necessary Manila,
to ratify. news from
however, had telling effect, and when
the senate first convened Monday it
Tps announced that McLaurin and
r'mcEnerjr, who had been counted by
We'Antis, "vote'fete -.theAtKftjity,
fPVing the measure the necessary two
thirds.
The debate before the vote was
taken was exceptionally warm and an¬
imated.
Senator Allen, of Nebraska, made a
speech denying published statements
that he would attack Senator Gorman
for using the peace treaty as a means
to defeat Bryan.
Senator Gorman Speaks.
_ . then ., spoke. , TT He
re¬
P s P lled e f t h Vf*}™** of Saturday, to saying Mr. that Walcott it was s
an attack as he did not expect
? e he ‘ hat the battl ® °
^Kmla r was but the beginning, . and li
* ,be * rea{ y " as ratified var would fol
|? w ^ or years, costing lives and mil
- lons upon millions of money,
^ r - Gorman referred to what had
been done with China regarding tbs
emigration to those islands and saiq
no Y eight years later we take islands!
which the Chinese will be to but the a United stepping States. stone HI fo|
predicted that within four years till
people would resent the action. Hi
said that in connection with the Phil
ippines it was proposed to increasl
the army to $100,000. He protested I
against it.
What a spectacle it has been, said
Mr. Gorman, to see the president of
the United States, kindly, gentle andl
partisan, as he is in his swing througll thJ
the south giving expression to dear!
sentiment to t e Confederate
which was so grand, and then asking 1
for 100,000 men to keep the descend¬
ants in subjection. At the conclusion
of Mr. Gorman’s speech Mr. Davis
moved an executive session.
Wolcott wanted five minutes to re¬
ply to Mr. Gorman, but Davis would
not.yield, apd at 2:05 the senate went
into executive session” for final consid¬
eration of the peace treaty.
In the open ; senate Mm McEnery
offered a resolution declaring that by
ratification of the treaty it is not Hi
tended to make citizens of the inhabi
itauts of the Philippines nor to annex
the islands perruauenly, but to hold
them until the islands are prepared
for self-government.
At 3:40 p. in. Ihe bells for a vote pn
an amendment to the treaty were rung.
The amendment was to make the
Philippine portion like that relating
to Cuba, aud was defeated.
The vot# on the treaty was then
taken, the senate being in executive
session, aud the compact ratified.
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tfve in London.
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Press saw the London representatbj
of did Aguinaldo not Sunday surprise evening. at the «H| Jgt
express
from, the Philippines, but deciarB
that picious the of Filipinos the attitude at Manila of the were Uuifl sjH
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