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The temptations to interfere with
Americans at Manila and with Eng¬
lishmen at Apia are calculated to
make the German emperor wish there
were not quite as many of the Anglo-
Saxon race.
A good deal of discussion has been
called forth by a new order of the
< hn„go hoard . , ot .. education , ,. ■ •
: reqiu ’ ng „
city teachers to live in the city, inis !
order it is charged was made in the
interest of local butchers, boarding-
house keepers and other providers. In
any event it comes as a great hardship ...
to tnauy teachers who prefer to live
outside the city limits, and an ngita-
tion for its repeal is being made.
General Henry’s order prohibiting
the foreclosure of mortgages on Porto
Rican plantations is a good illustra¬
tion of the beneficent despot so nec¬
essary to do things while others are
wrangling as to how they shall be
done. We are finding in our new pos¬
sessions some fine illustrations of a
doctrine only discussed academically
among ourselves, Our experience,
however, shows the use some of these
rusty doctrines may be put to on oc¬
casion. This is not the country in
which to repeat Carlyle’s assertion
that a wise, beneficent despot is the
best, kind of a government, it you can
only find him; but, all the same, we \
have given tlirei four rul- j i
or of such
era to subject populations, and are
getting good results from them.
Great Britain is the farmers’ largest
foreign customer. Notwithstanding
the fact that the United States has re-
duced itr-: purchases from the United '
Kingdom nearly one-third in 1898 as
compared with 1897, sales to that !
, couutry have increased than
more
$50,090,000, and for the full rear ex-
cee led $500,000,000. Of more than j
200,000,000 bushels of corn which
the farmers have sent abroad in the j
year, over 75,000,000 bushels have j
gone to the United Kingdom. Wheat j
exports to the United Kingdom in- |
creased nearly 20 per cent, and formed j
50 per cent, of the total exports of J
wheal, while flour exports to the ;
United Kingdom increased in a like
proportion and formed more than 50
per cent, of the total exports of that
article. Cotton exports to the United
Kingdom have increased over 40 per
cent.,and those of provisions and other
farm products likewise show a marked
increase.
Tbe recent meeting of the Quebec
fruit-growers in Montreal attracted
some little attention to the present
situation of that very important
branch of the farming industry.
While the farms infection . capable of
peach-raising bring the highest prices
in the whole Dominion, no: infre¬
quently the sale price of a single crop
will suffice to repay the purchase
money. Excellent returns were also
made in former years by such farmers
as grew strawberries, raspberries and
the like, and the natural result lia3
beeu what is called “overproduction.”
The result has beeu that farms once
considered worth nine or ten thousand
dollars because of their special capac¬
ity for fruit-growing have sold in the
last few years for six and seven thou¬
sand or even less, and there is now a
decided tendency to abandon fruit¬
growing, or, at the very least, to
abate the interest formerly shown.
That the new bankruptcy law is do¬
ing well is testified bv the fact that
ninuy petitions in bankruptcy already
filed in New York state relate to fail-
ui es that occurred from two to 10 years
ago. These failures may have been
eutheiy liouest, as doubtless most of
them were; but this made no diflei-
euce, says Christian Work. So long
as judgments hung over them it was
impossible for bankrupts to enter
business except under the name of
another person. They did not dare
to, invest a dollar they could call their
own. Ill this way their creditors as
well as themselves often suffered. As
a result there was little incentive for
a bankrupt to attempt to to get on his
feet again, and creditors, for whose
protection the state law was especially
intended, received nothing." Instead
of the law being to their advantage it
was just the reverse. -This state of
things the new federal bankruptcy law
removes. It is now possible for hon-
ext debtors to secure discharge from
old debts and to make a fresh start in
business. The law bids fair to prove
a real blessing, and the only wonder
is that the statesmanship of the coun¬
try could not have produced an ade¬
quate measure long ago.
BLUNDERING.
Mrs. Cramer, a wealthy young wid¬
ow, lived in a style of simple elegance
in a desirable quarter of the city. Her
personal attendant, Susie Moore, was
young, pretty, and coquettish, with
half a score of lovers at her heels, so
that it is not to be wondered at that
she was at times absentminded and
giddy.
Mrs. Cramer had gone out calling,
and Susie was doing two things at
once. She was reading for the twen¬
tieth time a declaration of love she
had received that morning and dusting
a marble-top table that stood in the
center of the room, An ominious
crash which followed an unlucky whisk
of the duster caused her to drop both
^ broom and tbe , etter and cxclaim:
“jjy goodness.” On the carpet lay
the fragments of a costly porcelain cup
a valued gift of the dear departed!
l ns t an t dismissal was the least she
could expect in case of detection, and
how could detection be avoided? No
one else had access to the apartment,
and there wasn’t a cat on the premises,
Bnt Susie was a girl of resources. A
bright idea struck her and she ran to
the back yard, snatched up a stone
twice as large as a hen’s egg, and
dashed it through one of the panes
of a rear window. Then returning to
the parlor she picked up the stone and
laid it among the pieces of the broken
cup.
“But will that look right?” she cjac-
ulated. “People don’t throw stones
through windows for nothing, and this
being a back window, why—I have it!”
Her love letter lay at her feet, It
had neither address nor signature,
though well she knew whence It came.
Catching up the missive and the mis¬
sile she hastily wrapped the one
around the other, securing the parcel
with a thread and placed it amid the
ruins.
Having finished her work, Susie
closed the apartment and took good
care not to be there when her mistress
returned.
If Mrs. Cramer was vexed when she
saw her broken cup and window, she
was indignant when she came to in¬
vestigate the cause.
“Who can have dared to take such a
liberty?” she exclaimed, crumpling the
paper in her hand, but she had scarcely
asked the question when a dark sus¬
picion took possession of her.
The damaged window not only over-
looked her own back yard but the gar- j
den of an adjoining proprietor, a gen- 1
tieman passionately devoted to horti- i
cultttre, and Mrs. Cramer had occasion- 1 1
ally busied herself for a few minutes !
in looking out upon his labors. The j
two had ofteij exchanged glances, but
never the slightest token of recogni-
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“MY GOODNESS.”
tion. She had thought him a proper
man, and he had sometimes lingered a
little longer at his work than he prob¬
ably would have done had the bright
eyes of the widow been absent.
To suspect was to resolve, and, in¬
stantly tying up the stone in the letter,
as she had found them, she walked to
the window and with all her might
hurled back the hated message beyond
the enemy’s confines and at once re¬
treated.
The innocent and unsuspecting
neighbor, who chanced to be stooping
out of sight, digging weeds in the
midst of the shrubbery, startled by the
sound of what might be some meteoric
body whizzing past in dangerous prox¬
imity to his head, raised himself just
in time to catch a glimpse of the wid¬
ow’s receding figure.
But judge of his surprise as his eyes
fell on the strange object which had
barely missed knocking him down.
With a trembling hand he undid the
parcel and, as he read its contents, his
heart fluttered worse than Susie’s had
done in the morning.
The fact is, he had long been in love
with the widow and had secretly
sighed for an opportunity to tell her
so, but to receive an unequivocal dec¬
laration from her—that was a little
more then he had ever dared to hope.
Some fastidious people might think
such a proceeding indelicate, but the
widow had evidently taken pity on his
backwardness; besides, wasn’t it leap
year? True, her grammar might have
been better, and her spelling was, to
say the least, indifferent. But then he
wasn’t partial to literary ladies. Do¬
mesticity was what he wanted, and
the widow was the picture jf that.
The note said something about not for¬
getting 6 o’clock. No, he wouldn't
forget it. And he didn’t.
At 6 o’clock sharp Elijah Rogers
presented himself at Mrs. Cramer’s
door and was admitted by Susie.
“Tell your mistress,” he said, "that
a gentleman desires to see her.”
“Please walk in,” invited Susie.
The fair widow was prompt in mak¬
ing her appearance.
“Mrs. Cramer, I am Mr. Rogers—
Elijah Rogers—your neighbor,” said
the caller, arising and introducing
himself, with some nervousness and a
heightened color.
The widow bowed stiffly, for in Mr.
Rogers, though better dressed and of
course better looking than she had
ever seen him in his garden, she recog¬
nized immediately the ruthless tres¬
passer who had broken her window,
smashed her china, and been guilty
of other acts against her peace 1 and
dignity.
“I scarcely know, madam,” Mr. Rog¬
ers began, after a painful pause, “how
to preface what I am about to say, but
the note-”
“That, indeed, requires explana¬
tion!” exclaimed the widow.
“And yet I had flattered myself that
it was sufficiently explicit,” returned
Mr. Rogers, somewhat disconcerted.
“Sufficiently explicit, no doubt,” con¬
ceded Mrs. Cramer. "But the motive
“Do not say it was to deceive,” in¬
terposed the caller.
“And the method chosen,” cried the
widow; “perfectly unheard of-”
“Whatever others may think,” said
Mr. Rogers, "between us two it can
never be misinterpreted.”
And Mr. Rogers told his iove—told
It so much better than the stray note
rould have done that the widow would
have wondered how much his tongue
was mightier than his pen had she
been in any mood for such compari¬
sons.
She and Mr. Rogers have now been
married for many years, but whether
they have even discovered how the
broken cup first broke the ice between
them is more than I can tell.-—New
A r ork Evening World.
THE NEXT CENSUS.
Congress will probably pass a bill at
this session to provide for taking the
next cdfisus. The primary purpose of
the government in thus counting the
people, which the constitution requires
to be done once in ten years, is to
ascertain how many representatives in
congress shall be apportioned to each
state. Until a first census could be
taken the constitution itself specified
lbp Dumber of representatives allowed
to pac h of the thirteen states. Vir-
§, lnia was assigned ten members, Mas-
sachusetts and Pennsylvania were al-
lowed ei S ht pach . New York and Mary-
land six each, and the other states
were granted representation in the
same arbitrary manner. The total
membership of the first house of rep¬
resentatives was sixty-five.
The apportionment based on the first
census, that of 1790, allowed one rep¬
resentative for every 33,000 people, as
near as the divisions could be made.
On that basis the membership of the
house became 105. By the next cen¬
sus, ten years later, using the same
“unit of population,” the number of
representatives was increased to 141.
Since that time it has been neces¬
sary with every new census to allow
a larger population to each district,
and also, with the exception of one
decade, to enlarge the membership of
the house. A part of the increase has
been caused by the admission of new
states. There are now 357 men in the
house, and each congressional district
is made to contain as near 173,901 souls
by the census of 1890 as is possible.
fi'he forthcoming census in 1900 will,
as usual, make a new apportionment
necessary. The population of the
United States, which was 62,622,250 in
1890, will be, it is estimated, from
74,000,000 to 76,000,000, not including
our new possessions.
It is not desirable to have the house
of representatives made much larger
if its efficiency as a legislative body
is to be maintained. Hence, that in¬
crease of population will probably
make necessary an enlargement of the
congressional district—perhaps an in¬
crease to 20,000—which would be six
times the population of the original
unit of apportionment.
Energy to Spare.
“I feel just as though I had been
drawn through a knothole,” declared a
Woodward avenue man of business,
and it was only 10 in the forenoon.
“Out late to some party or theater?”
laughed his partner. “Can’t stand
those things as you could when a
youngster. You do two men’s work
here, and that demands regular hab¬
its for the rest of the twenty-four
hours,” reports the Detroit Free Press.
“I’m as regular as a clock. I wasn’t
out late at all, and haven’t missed
going to bed before 11 since holiday
week. But the old gentleman is visit¬
ing me. You don’t know my father,
do you? He’s one of the honest yeo¬
manry of the land. Was reared a
farmer, and is disposed to look down
upon almost every other calling as too
dependent for a spirited American cit¬
izen. He’s 72, and lively as a cricket.
There is many a young man of 30
that might well envy him.”
‘But what has he to do with your
being used up?”
“Everything. He gets up at 5 every
morning and paces up and down,
whistling like a piccolo player and
asking himself aloud where in creation
the family is. He goes into the kitch¬
en and hauls the cook over for not
having breakfast ready, jollies with
the milkman, and then reads the paper
in the tones of a stump orator. There
is no chance to sleep after 5, but I’m
not going to have the old gentleman
interfered with, although all of us will
be going around in a partial trance as
ong as he chooses to stay.”
Nature is the mother and habit is
the stenmother.
TROUBLES OF THE POOR.
Food and Olotbvfl Are l'cisslblo but Knot
Worrlos Them.
“If you own the roof over your head
you don't know what real trouble is,"
said the factory hand to the New
York Times rnan. “Of course foil?
have got to eat and they’ve got to
have clothes to wear, but it isn’t the
thought of that that’s always hang¬
ing over 'their heads, and making
them work themselves to death when
they’ve got work and fret themselves
to death when they haven’t. Every
now and then we Hee something in the
papers showing how easy it is for a
poor widow (or worse than widow) to
feed herself and a family of children
on 25 cents a day, and if the woman
has got good judgment and under¬
stands marketing such stories are not
so far wide of the mark. Oatmeal and
potatoes are cheap and there’s odds
and ends of meat and bones that may
be had for next to nothing that will
make good soup. As for clothes, all
poor folk who try to keep themselves
looking decently know how far con¬
trivance will go in making them hold
out. Skirts may be turned inside out
or dyed when they are faded or spot¬
ted and there’s a lot of wear in the
second-hand shoes that the cobblers
sell cheaply. Of course we’d all
rather eat the best steaks and wear
silk and velvet, but it is cot having
to do without them that keeps folk
awake at night. It is the rdnt. That
goes steadily on, no matter whether
you are lying around idle, and it is a
happy day for a tenant when the land¬
lord can be talked into bringing down
the rent by a dollar. Not that all
landlords are hard-hearted, s-s some
folk seem to think. Landlords are just
like all other men, some being better
and some worse. Now, there’s a poor
woman who works in the same place
with me—a widow with two children—
and she lives in one of the toughest
neighborhoods in the city. Well, last
fall, when that woman was too sick to
go to work, she got $18 behindhand
with her rent, and found out afterward
that the man whose business it-was
to collect it had been paying it out
of his own pocket right straight along.
The house belonged to a family in
which there were some minors, and
so all expenses and revenues had to
be accounted for to the family law¬ ]
yers, and that was why the eldest
son, who collected the rents in per¬
son, could not remit the widow’s $6
a month, as his father might have
done; but all the same he wasn’t go¬
ing to see her turned out on the street,
knowing her to be a good tenant. Of
course she began to pay the money
back as soon as she got to work again,
but it was a great help, his advanc¬
ing it, for if it hadn’t been for that
she would have had to part with her
sewing machine, which she had just
finished paying for on the installment
plan. As long as she can hold on to
that machine there is no great dan¬
ger of her starving unless she is too
sick to hold her head up. There is a
benevolent society that, when she is
laid off from the shop on account of
work being slack, gives her four wrap¬
pers a week to make at 50 cents apiece
and pays for them in provisions.”
Walking Fish of the Indian Sea.
The "walking fish” is a very odd,
grotesque-looking creature, which ap¬
pears rather to be the composition of
human ingenuity that a being actually
existing. It is a native of the Indian
seas. In this fish the carpal bones,
that is, the bones which represent the
wrist in man. are very greatly length¬
ened, and at their extremity are placed
the pectoral fins, which are short, stiff
and powerful, the pointed rays re-
sembling claws rather than fins. These
prolonged fins enable them to walk
along wet ground almost like quadru¬
peds. The Doras, a South American
fish, is known to travel overland in
quest of fresh waters, when its pools
are dried up by the sun’s heat. Dr.
Gunther tells us that “these journeys
are occasionally of such a length that
the fish spends whole nights on the
way, and the bands of scaly travelers
are so large that the Indians who hap¬
pen to meet them fill many baskets
with the prey thus placed in their
hands.” The climbing perch is an¬
other peculiar fish, which is in the
habit of leaving the water for the land
and climbing up some of the trees
which are found near. This it does by
means of its tail and spjny fins.
Animals nt Play.
Cats delight in racing about, but not
so often, I think, in circles as dogs do.
They prefer straight lines and sharp
turns with the genuine goat jump.
This sudden flight into the air, which
appears to take the place without the
animal’s knowledge or intention, can-
not here be preparatory to life In the
mountains, but the cat finds the high
jump very useful, not only in pouncing
on its prey, but in escaping its hered¬
itary enemy. Brehn records a move¬
ment play of young chamois. When
in summer the young chamois climb
up to the perpetual snow, they delight
to play on it. They throw themselves
in a crouching position on the upper
end of a steep, snow-covered incline,
work all four legs with a swimming
motion to get a start, and then slide
down on the surface of the snow, often
traversing a distance of from 100 to
150 meters in this way, while the snow
flies up and covers them with a fine
powder. Arrived at the bottom, they
spring to their feet and slowly clam¬
ber up again the distance they have
slid down.
Professor (to his young wife as they
come out of the church after the wed¬
ding)—So, now we are each other’s
forever, Emma. Wife—Yes, Ferdi¬
nand, but you had better make a note
of it or else you’ll forget it.
SANTA CRUZ TAKEN
BY LAWTON’S MEN.
City On Lake Laguna de Bay Waa
a Filipino Stronghold.
THE FIGHT WAS SHORT.
No Americans Killed, But Enemy
Suffered a Big Loss.
A special of Monday from Manila
says: After sharp, quick fighting.
forming of the most important 1
one
battles of the war, General Lawton ’
has captured Santa Cruz, the Filipino
stronghold on Lake Laguna de Bay,
and the rebels, who were commanded
by a Chinaman named Pao Wall, were
driven into the mountains.
The Americans had six men wound-
ed, while the rebels lost sixty-eight
o,
1,500 men, left San Pedro Macati, on
the Pasig river, ou Saturday night
with the purpose of crossing Laguna
de i n> Bay and i capturing the town of
Santa Cruz, on the eastern shore ot
the lake.
The plans of the American com¬
manders worked • perfectly with the
exception that the progress of the ex-
^edition was delayed by the difficult
navigation of the Pasig river.
In navigating the shallow stream, j
perhaps through the cunning of na-
tive pilots, wb,o were not anxious to
see the Americans succeed, the boats
grounded and it was nearly dawn when
the troops reached the lake.
The expedition then steamed can- :
tiously forward, the Napidau and the
Oeste a mile ahead, the Laguna de
Bay guarding the rear.
Rebel signal fires, however, were
lighted on the mountain tops, giving
alarm of the approach of the troops.
It was noon before the white church
towers of the city appeared in the
shadow of the grand volcanic mown-
tain on a marshy plain dotted with
occasional palm groves.
Lawton’s troops partly surrounded
the city, while the gunboats Laguna
de Bay, Napidau and Oeste, under the !
command of Captain Grant, of the
battery, shelled the city ”• and out-
lying ' trenches.
General Lawton and his staff accom-
panied the troops, sometimes leading
the charges in Indian fighting tactics,
which eventually resulted in the com-
plete ront of the rebels, with the small-
est amount of damage to the city and
lightest to the Americans. |
ALLEGED LYNCHERS ARRAIGNED
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Eleven South Carolina Citizens Are
Charged With Hurder.
Eleven alleged Lake City, S. C„
lynchers were placed on trial in the
United States circuit court at Charles-
ton Monday. The case against J. P.
Newham and Early P. Lee, the men
who turned state’s evidence, was
dropped by the request of the district
and this accounts for the fact !
attorney,
that eleven instead of thirteen men
now on „ trial. , . i : !
are
At the very outset counsel for the
prisoners sought to enter a demurrer
to the indictment. It was claimed
there was a multiplicity of crimes
charged in the counts and that the
circuit court had no jurisdiction under
the statute. Assistant District Attor-
ney Cochran and General Barber re-
plied for the defense, and tbe court
overruled the demurrer and the jury
was selected and sworn.
The defense exercised its right to
challenge six times, four of the men
excluded being negroes. The jury as
it stands is composed of white men of
means and standing in the several
counties from which they come.
EX-SENATOR TABOR DEAD.
At One Time He Was the Richest flan
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In Colorado.
Hon. H. A. W. Tabor,postmaster of
Denver, Col., and ex-United States
senator, died Monday of appendicitis,
after three days’ illness.
Horace A. W. Tabor was born in
Orleans county, Vt., November 26th,
1830. He removed to Kansas in 1855
and served a term in the legislature, !
In I860 he engaged in placer mining
in California Gulf, (now Leadville). I
In partnership with August Roche and
George T. Hook he opened the famous
Little Pittsburg mine, later selling his
interest for $1,000,000. Other mines
at Leadville yielded enormous profits
and quicklv made him the richest man
in Colorado
When Senator Teller entered Presi-
dent Arthur’s cabinet, Mr. Tabor was
appointed as United States senator to
fill the unexpired term of thirty diys.
He was a candidate for the long term
as senator, hut was defeated by one
vote.
In 1898 Mr. Tabor was appointed
postmaster at Denver by President
McKinley. He had lost his wealth
through unfortunate investments.
BARGE GOES DOWN
And Five Men Reported Drowned
Near Vineyard Haven.
A New York dispatch says: The
ported barge Ellen from Vineyard Gowan, which Haven to was have re- j
sunk Sunday, had of five j
a crew men
aboard her. They were lost.
S h6 he ^°, a r g0 of
coal, , at 862,000. The barge Kohinoor,
which was m company with the Ellen
Gowan, lo»t one man overboard.
GEORGIA STATE NEWSi
The state Apartment of education is
now making regular monthly payment
to Georgia's public school teachers,
and when this lias been finished some¬
thing like $340,000 in cash will have
been disbursed in the several counties
of the state.
The people of Atlanta will he given
an opportunity to decide whether the
proposed issue of $200,000 of water
bonds shall be issued. Everything is
now in readiness for the election, and
from present indications, there is no
doubt that the bonds will be carried.
The executive committee of the As-
*!’ Pmtum of c< >«i'ty School Commis-
School Educltio^met’'in'the*office^ State
Commissioner Glenn at Atlrnta
Saturday morning to arrange for the
annual session of the association. The
committee agreed, after enthusiastic
addresses by several of those present,
to call the next meeting of the asso-
ciation in Atlanta. The association
w111 meet May 9th, 10th and 11th.
~ vrc
present time has been much leps than
during the year past. The amount of
•ertilizers used by the farmers of the
staie call be judged accurately / by the
nnmbel . of tag8 is8ued fron th e de-
partment of agriculture. The sale at
the present time indicates that only
“bout 80 per cent of the fertilizers put
in the ground last year will be used
this season.
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Judge Lumpkin at Atlanta has
granted “ charter to the Southern
Westerly Granite Company. From
tbe statement of the businesses which
the company proposes to carry on, it
wl11 be one of the largest developing
1111,1 manufacturing concerns in the
state - The present capital stock is
#100,000, with the privilege of increas-
ln 8 11 to #300,000. The company will
have lta principal offices in Atlanta,
and will operate in the counties of
b niton, Clarke, Elbert, Oglethorpe
and Madison.
The educational department of the
slft t e fan’ will be unquestionably the
best and most comprehensive display
that was ever made by any state fair
ever held m Georgia—probably the
best that has ever been seen at any
smiiiar exhibition in the south. From
th « ™ry inception of the present fair
th e idea of education and its import-
ance as influencing and dominating
every possible line of hijman endeavor
occupied a conspicuous place in the
minds of those entrusted with the im-
portant work dt planning the general
s, ’°P e of the fair,
An application has been filed with
Secretary of State Phil Cook for a char-
ter for the Arlington and Blufftou Rail-
road company by the incorporators of
the new company, amoug whom ard
some of the most prominent capitalists ltd
in the state The line is designed
ho m Arlington in Early county
tbl ' ou f . the counties of Clay and Cal
P le ‘ ed to f ® { u f b f ou - between » a - and seventy when comj fivd
and eighty miles in length. The prm
«pal ated office Arlington of the company and will proposed be loj
f 111 it is
by the incorporators to begin the worU
oi construction as soon as the cnartei
baR . . been granted , , . by the ,, secretary , o
state -
The negroes of Georgia will b
handsomely represented at the stab
fair this year; and every negro in tin
state who is engaged in agricultural
industrial or mechanical pursuits wil
have an opportunity for competing fo
one or more handsome cash premiums
The fair committee, realizing the ini
portance of interesting the negroes i
pursuits of which they may becom
self-sustaining, question of has special taken in hand deparjj thj
a negro
ment, with the result that a fund d
over $2,000 has .been set aside in prJ f
miums to which negroes alone c \
compete for. !
The Georgia state monument h
now been erected in Chickamaui
P ark and the Georgia u emorial boar
which has had the world under its c
rection for over two ysais, msi a
nounced that the monument will
unveiled with appropriate exercises
May 4th. , , Ihe piograu o exetcis
lla « “ ot be f n fuU y ™Sf d > but th '
will be elaborate, and the immeu
gathering which will witness the de
lcatl0n wlU be representative one tro
many sections of the south. Hon ,
0. Black, of Augusta, has bee
chosen as the orator of the occasio
Governor Candler will receive t.
monument on behalf of the state fro
the commission. He will deliver it
the secretary or the latter’s represe
tative, who will receive it on behaif |
tb e national governmeu .
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The state prison commission
been engaged in perfecting‘the fajrm at Milled; orgf
ization of the prison of guards
ville, and in the selection
oversee the work of the convicts. T
position of the greatest importance
the farm, next to that of the super
tendant, is the camp physician, a,
this post has been filled by the electi
of Dr. R. T. Dozier, of Sasser, C
The commission decided that it woi|
be best to keep at least twelve con
guards at the farm, with two depi
^of ^ male She otl
female prisone rs. The board
oor(JiB „, y elected twelve guards fr
’ applicants for the
the lo list , 0 f pc
tion The f arm a t present is un
ihe control of Captain Foster, the
perinten dent, who will retain his p
l o{ the state.
( ion fn the serrice