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cam Duron jr - OCiLLA, GEORGIA. HKM1KRSON & H,VNLO v , Publishers. mMMMI 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- 1 j ■ 1 mM ft#*** m O m “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 -- 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 / 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. *■ 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 . * * M I 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