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OCILLi DISPATCH. OilM.A, .GEORGIA. •HENDERSON A HANLON, Publishers . That Ceory that thore is nothing in a name is going to be severely tosted when people begin to eat adul¬ terated foods that are called by their rea! names. The average boy or girl has no use whatever for geometry, algebra,chem¬ istry, physical geography, or ancient history as studied in the average pub¬ lic school, says the Washington Post. It is of the utmost importance that he should know thoroughly the principal rules of arithmetic, should be able to spell correctly, write a good hand and read and speak without mispro- nouuclng words. Our system gives a man a kind of self-reliance, of ingenuity, of adapta¬ bility, which in the last war the Old World wondered at, calling it respect- fully “the power of initiative.” And this, if a man ever does settle down with his whole heart aud soul to one job, makes him pretty good at it. In¬ deed, the American has found, as the athlete finds, that the development of his energies in any direction helps bim in all others. The total school enumeration of Connecticut is 184,336, and tlie in- crease of registered pupil was 2.71 per cent, in 1898, as compared with 1.7 per cent, the year before. The r* eighteen “’“•“r shows **?•••*'* trom years an increase $1,144,245 to $2,159,591 in running expenses, aud total expenditures for school purposes in the same time have from , $1,408,373 , AD to , $2,896,142. ononc-wo : risen , The value of school property iu the state is $9,879,922. The railways of the United States pay annually „ m . interest . , , on ,, their moi t- , gage bonds about $250,000,000 in round numbers. They pay iu divi- dends to their tookholders only about one-third of this sum, ’ or about $87,- iu the last for which fig- . 000,000, year _ ures are available. There are not watitiug indications, however, that in future the tendency will be to increase the payments to stockholders, , , ,, aud , decrease those to the bondholders, says the Engineering Mews. Languages form over 62 per cent. of the studies of the freshman in the department of arts and sciences in Cornell university, and over 52 per cent, in the sophomore year, Lan- guages, philosophy, history and po¬ litical science form 75 per cent, of the studies of the freshman aud over 85 per ceut. of the studies of the sopho- mores iu the same department of art and sciences. It is obvious that “sci- enoe” is the small end of this depart- ment, although Cornell is often spoken of as a scientific institution. Tlie geologist's time of activity is here. Like the bicycler and the grass- hopper,he enjoys the summer months. The science . of . geology . embraces , the ,,, eft’ th, and everything connected with the earth. This amounts in the end to the universe and theories. The geologist b ° has discovered manv inter- - esting things about the earth, and he surprises a layman by the large way he talks of things. He speaks of old mountains and of young mountains, like the Alps'; of the filling np of oceans and of the making of new ones by the crinkling of the earth’s sur- face tike a baked apple’s skin. He uses homely illustrations like this for the masses to understand, aud, peer¬ ing over his spectacles, seems to hold the world iu the hollow of his hand. American genius aud industry are competing successfully with European labor in its home markets. Of the $6,500,000 worth of American agricul¬ tural implements exported in the last nine months Europe took $3,250,000 worth; of the bicycles sent abroad, amounting to $4,000,000, Europe took $2,750,000 worth, of the shipments of builders’ hardware, valued at $5,500,- 000, European powers took $2,500,000 worth; exports of sewing machines aggregated $2,225,000, of which $1,- 360,00<> worth went to Europe; and $1,430,000 worth of the exports of typewriting machines, amounting in all to $1,684,000, went to the same markets. Fifty per cent, of our ex¬ ports of furniture and lumber,’ two- thirds of our exports of mineral oil, four-fifths of our exports of cotton¬ seed oil aud nine-tenths of our exports of sole leather were bought by Euro¬ pean countries. success comes always to those who believe in printer’s ink judiciously * used. Let us have your advertise- ment. WITH A DESPERADO. By Rev. William E. Barton. A TRUE STORY. N the days when I was a student in college I spent my vacations in the mountains ofKen- ^ £ t school, u c k y selling teaching 8 ^ books, and giving occasional talks on r\ Jt popular subjects of to the parents MM my school chil¬ dren. These so- called “lectures” tp M were the by what delivered schoolhouse called in ? was (lilVij! fifil though “candle-light,'"al- the light ..,„ was mostly made by pine torches in the great open gW fireplace, The first of these lectures was on temperance, a practical subject, aud suited to the locality, for although ij quor i 8 ma de aud too much is con- sumed in the mountains of Kentucky, there is no place of which I know where there is a more strenuous aud wholesome temperance sentiment. So my lecture was well received in the schoolhouse on Richland Creek, and j wag i nv ited to deliver it again on Horse Lick. Horse Lick was eighteen miles dis- n0Qn> haying dismigged gchool eftrly for the purpose. A mountain preacher met me by appointment on the way, and rode the remainder of the dis- tanoe with me. We were well mount- ed 0Q ^ sturdy hor8e8> and the r j de was pleasant, save as it brought nearer the strange audience which I bad rashly promised to address with all too meagre preparation. It began to grow | upon me that although I mig t witw preaumpt ion give in¬ formal talks to the people about my own schoolhouse, talks hastily pre- pared aud necessarily superficial, but ? ot witho ' lt value th f.,° r ; lgmal purpose, it was quite another p thing to go to a strange locality and attempt a formal lecture with the same material. However, on one point I felt toler- ably strong—the part of lqy lecture dead . w jtq, intemperance and crime. In my own schoolhouse I had used as the “awful example” the well-known case of the then desperado of the adjacent county, Pal Seagraves. Every one in our although county knew who Pal Seagraves was, he preferred to do t the most of his mischief in the nearest blue-grass county, Madison, and when pursued, to take refuge in the mountains of Jackson itself knew all too much of what he could do, but much as he was hated there, he'was feared more, and few ventured to turn him from their door when he came np and asked a night’s lodging, and perhaps a place i u which to hide. So with the whole county of Jackson for a hiding-place, and more than half its homes open to him, he rode in and out at will. Pal Seagraves consumed more un- colored corn whisky and killed more men than any other man in that part Kentucky. I never knew just how mauy ^ men he had killed, ’ but the total was gmal , Murder was a mftttei . 0 £ with hinx; sometimes he had killed a man for no other apparent purpose than to terrify a neighbor- hood and make his name more potent. Sometimes, so ran the explanation, “he was jea’ drunk and didn’t keer. ” | j£ 9 wa3 an excellent warning for use in a temperance lecture in the county where he was known by reputation i only. He might not serve so well in the county where he made his head¬ quarters. But that county was Jack- son, and Horse Lick, to which I was going, was there, in “the free State of Jackson,” as it is called. I eagerly asked my companion about ! Pal Seagraves^ for his possible pres¬ ence at my lecture would necessitate radical changes in it, and I had no time to make them. Much to my re¬ lief, I was informed that ha was gone —gone, they hoped, for good. Being hotly pursued by the sheriff for a crime in Madison County, he was said to have ridden away into a distant part of .the State. Immensely relieved, l gave myself anew to thought upon that part of my lecture, and material for it accumu¬ lated, as the road was eloquent with tales of Seagraves. “Right here,” said my companion, “Pal Seagraves killed a man.” We were watering our horses in a ford. “Right where?” I asked. “Right here. They were watering their horses together. They had had a fuss, and expected to shoot at sight, and they met on yon bill, and the other fellow got the drop on Pal. But Pal begged him not to shoot. He told him they were good friends. He swore that he would stand ‘ by the other fellow if the other fellow wouldn't kill him, and he, feeling good to have humbled Pal and to have made him his defender, shook hands with him. They rode down here and watered their horses together, aud while the other fellow was looking down at his horse, drinking. Pal shot him.” Later my friend pointed out a double log house, with barn across the nar¬ row road.' “In that house and barn sis me n concealed themselves and waylaid Sea- of gvaves. They filled him so full lead he hasn’t dared to go in swim¬ ming since, folks say. They thought he would die, sure, but lead can’t kill him.” I remembered the incident, for I had chanced to ride in the stage with his mother on her way to see her son, whom she believed to be dying. “My Pally,” she called him, and told me that she herself had named him tine, “bekase hit’s a good Scriptur’ name." She was curiously proud of her boy, although disapproving his oriines; sorry that he did as he did, but admiring his hardihood and power. I had seen Seagraves himself once. He had galloped by me, frightening my horse with his reekless speed and yell, and turning toward mo as he passed a pair of fearful eyes. Whether he was light or dark, wore a beard or not, I could not recall, but I could not forget those eyes, and I knew that I should know him again if I ever saw him. By this time the thought of Pal Sea- graves had well-nigh absorbed the lit¬ tle part of my lecture that was devoted to other aspects of the liquor problem. I had no thought of naming him, but I knew that every one would know whom I meant, and I was quite willing they should know, inasmuch as he was at a safe distance. And so the lecture began. cultivating I was a boy of twenty, my first mustache, and the minister who introduced me told the people who filled the schoolhouse not to de¬ spise my youth, for, said he, “Ireckon he’ll talk well, and I know he’ll give you the best he’s got.” I was through with my introduction, and had started well upon the body of my lecture, and had reached the topic of intemperance and crime. I had just got into this when the door opened, and in came Pal Sea- graves. He had a companion before whom he was evidently minded to show off, aud both were more or less drunk. Respectful room was made for them, and they sat well toward the rear, but in plain sight, and their coming sent a perceptible chill over the audience, and worse than a chill over me. I tried not to look that way, but turn as I would to this corner and that, I saw nothing but'those eyes. I talked on from sheer inability to stop. I could not forget what I had to say. I could not change it. I had to go on. I confess I tried to soften down some of my illustrations, but it seemed to me that every such attempt brought the statement out in all the more un¬ compromising form, I grew almost I soon saw that Seagraves recog¬ nized his portrait, and counted it a good joke. He winked at his com- panion and nudged him. Tlien he laughed, first softly, then aloud, and then a coarse, defiant laugh. This ir¬ ritated me and steadied my nerve somewhat, and I began to say to my¬ self that he should hear the truth about himself once, anyway. So I gave myself more liberty, and went straight ahead. His laughing mood did not continue long. He scowled; he scuffed his feet on the rough floor; he made some discourteous noises; and all the time I talked on as if driven by fate, every word sounding harder and more sting¬ ing than I had meant it to, even when I supposed that he would be absent. At length he rose aud started to¬ ward me, lie walking unsteadily, partly because was drunk, partly because such is the custom of human centaurs when compelled to use their own legs. I It was not because I wanted to that looked him straight in the eye. I could not help it. And I talked on because I could not stop. Perhaps my looking at him had an effect; per¬ haps he counted me small game; for he turned on his heel and went out. Many mountain schoolhouses have no glass windows, but this one had, and at one I soon saw the hideous, grinning, angry, drunken face of the desperado. There are few faces that look well through a window at night, but I am willing to affirm that no face ever looked less attractive than his did to me. It was plain that he was undeoided what to do, for I could read his thought in his drunken features. At times he seemed tempted to shoot me through the glass and again, he remembered apparently that I was a boy,' aud that to kill me would he a little out of his line, and could do him little good. As before, I kept my eyes on him, and every eye in the schoolhouse was fixed with mine on that pane of glass. His curiosity soon overcame him, and he came in again, apparently a little more sober, and partly restored to good nature by the fresh air. And I found means about that time to draw my lecture to a close. In that part of Kentucky the min¬ isters descend after a service, and the people come forward and shake hands with them. I was a sort of brevet minister, and the preacher and I stepped down. The first man to come up and extend his hand, which he did with a swagger, was Seagraves. I took the hand which he extended, and asked, “Will you tell me your name, sir?” He told me his name with emphasis 9 “Do you live about here, Mr. Sea- 7 graves?” I asked. It was a stupid enough question, but it was all that I could think to ask. To my surprise it abashed him. He felt an apparent humiliation that he had left it possi¬ ble for any mau to enter Jackson County and not know his name. Turning on his heel, he went out. My friend, the minister, got to¬ gether a group of people to walk with us to our stopping place aud protect nfe in case of need. We passed tlia ruffian, who was watching for us in the shadow of the schoolhouse, aud his attitude and a growling curse con¬ vinced my friends that the precau¬ tions were not unnecessary. By the time Pal had taken one or two additional drinks, ha appeared to repent of having let me off so easily, and came galloping up to the log house where we were entertained. I had gone to bed, and was making some mental calculations of the thickness of the walls when I heard his voice. My landlord went out to the fence aud reasoned with him. Pal demanded that “thepreachers” should be brought out. He wanted to see both of them. If we did not come out, he would come in and fetch us out. And there was more talk of this sort, emphasized now and then by the firing of a bullet over the house. My host pleaded the law s that govern hospitality, and seemed to be urging my youth in extenuation of my con¬ duct. Somewhat mollified, Pal at last rode off, and as the light of the new day was coming in, I ceased to wonder if he would return again and fell asleep. Pal That was the last time I saw Seagraves; but I was told a year ago that he has settled down into a shift¬ less farmer, and “rides on his raids no more.” About three years sinoe, his nerve shaken and his aim less true, he found himself with empty pistols looking into the loaded barrel of a re¬ volver in the bands of a younger and equally desperate man, and gained his life by the hardest begging upon his knees. The stock in trade of such a des¬ perado is chiefly the fear which his name excites. The power of his name to frighten once broken, his poor, sham courage oozes out, and Re stands confessed a coward. I never knew a ruffian who had not in him some patent elements of cowardice. The swagger¬ ing and bluster of t\je desperado rarely go with true courage, which, as I have seen it, is almost uniformly modest and at the root, moral. Now, they told me, “Anybody can kick Pal Seagraves around,” and “When a fight begins, and you see a man going through the brush to where he’s tied-his horse, and hitting the road right lively—that’s Pal!”— Youth’s Companion. WISE WORDS. The greatest remedy for anger is de¬ lay.—Seneca. Kindness out of season destroys au¬ thority. —Saadi. Avarice is the vice of declining years. —George Bancroft. ■ Curiosity is one of the foi’ms of feminine bravery.—Victor Hugo. ' Behavior is a mirror in whioh every one displays his image.—Goethe. The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty. Hazlitt. They that will not be counseled cau- ; not be helped.—Benjamin Franklin. ! If a man is worth knowing at all he j is worth knowing well.—Alexander Smith. Life is not so short, but that there is always time enough for courtesy.— Emerson. Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.— Alexander Pope. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not aooordiug to what he has.— Henry Ward Beecher. He that overvalues himself will un¬ dervalue others, and he that under¬ values others will oppress them.— Johnson. AcEversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.—Carlyle. No man is the wiser for his learn¬ ing. It may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are boru with a man. —John Selden. Fatalities in Modern Wars. The ratio of killed to wounded has not become greater in modern mili¬ tary conflicts than in those of former days. At Kunersdorf it was 1 to 1.9; at Leipsic is was 1 to 2^, among the British in the Crimea it was 1 to 4.4; among the Frenoli iu the Crimea it was 1 to 4.8; among the Prussians at Koniggrate it was 1 to 3.6; among the Austrians at Koniggratz it was 1 to 3; among the Germans in 1870-71 it was 1 to 5.4; in our own Civil War it was 1 to 4, and in the Spanish- American struggle it was 1 to 5.6. In the late Spanish war the casual¬ ties before Santiago, from July 1 to 12, were a little over eleven per c&nt. There were present for duty 858 offi¬ cers and 17,358 men. Twenty-twc officers and 222 men were killed, and ninety-three officers and 1288 men were wounded.—New York World. # Makes the Densest Forest Known. California redwood, says a writer in the National Geographic Magazine, covers an area of about 2000 square miles, lying in a narrow strip along the Pacific coast, chiefly between San Francisco Bay and the Oregon bound¬ ary. This tree is exempt from de¬ struction by fire, as it contains no resin, but has in it much water, and will not burn when green. It is a cheap timber, worth $14 per thousand feet in Eureka for the best. A red¬ wood forest is probably the densest forest on earth, both from the size of the trees and their closeness. The' sun never shines about the base of these trees. RIOTERS SHOT DOWN — Bloody Conflicts Occur In Valencia, Spain. TROOPS TAKE POSSESSION Mob Barricades Thoroughfares and Are Fired Upon By the National Sol¬ diers—Hundreds Wounded. According to advices of Sunday very sorious disturbances are in progress at Valencia, Spain. Under the orders of the captain general of Valencia, General Molto, the troops occupied the streets Saturday morning and now hold all the strategic points. At the beginning of the riots the mob placed obstacles on the street railway tracks and stopped the cars, stoning the gen¬ darmes when they tried to remove the barriers. Finally the troops charged and the first shots were fired. Sev¬ eral persons were wounded. In one case a bullet passed through a shop and killed a man within. As the day advanced, disorders increased. Troops were stationed at some points and the artillery was held in readi¬ ness. The rioters thereupon erected barricades which the cavalry captured only after fierce fighting, in which many were wounded. At 8 o’clock in the evening the mob attacked a monastry and the brother ■who was acting as gate porter was obliged to defend himself with a re¬ volver. They then moved upon a jesuit house, whioh had a narrow escape from being burned to the ground, the troops arriving jnst in the nick of time to prevent the mob from setting in on fire. An enormous number of arrests have been made. It is not known how mauy were wounded. At a late hour the generals held a conference and decided to .continue the military occupation of all points I of vantage. ! The mayor of Valencia issued a proclamation callhsg upon the people to cease resisting the law. The riots were renewed Sunday and j the rioters stoned the gendarmerie in barracks. It is reported that a captain of the gendarmes was severely injured by flying missiles. PRESENT TO M. CAMBON. Ambassador Receives Costly Loving Cup From President McKinley. President McKinley has presented to the French ambassador, M. Cam- bon, a superb silver loving cup in recognition of the ambassador’s friend- ly services in the negotiations which restored-peace between the United States and Spain. The beautiful tes- timonial was sent by Seoretary Hay to the French embassy, accompanied by a note frem th' secretary iu which, speaking for the president, he express¬ ed sincere appreciation for M. Cam- bon’s considerate and disinterested service, and tendered the loving cup as an evidence of the esteem felt for him. The cup is of massive proportions and chaste design and.the international significance of the gift is shown iu the blending of the French aud American coats of arms. It stands about two and a half feet high, with the top of the bowl about ten inches across. The outer service is silver, richly emboss¬ ed, while the inside is of hammered gold. Around the outside of the bowl, in raised old English text, is an appro¬ priate inscription. WHEELER aOES TO MANILA. Reported That General Will Soon Get Orders To Sail. A special to The Chicago Record from Washington says that General Wheeler will receive orders within a few days to go to the Philippines. Secretary Alger is quoted as saying: “All that I can say about General Wheeler at this time is that he has asked to be sent to the Philippines. What service he may perform there will depend upon Major General Otis.” SWEETHEARTS FIGHT A DUEL. Illinois Boy Declined To Marry and Trouble Ensued. A special from Arlington, Ill., says: Charles Saltseman and Miss Kate Horfoldsteimer fought a duel with re¬ volvers in a buggy near Beatonville, Ill., Wednesday night,and the doctors believe both will die. The cause of the duel was the desire of the young woman that Saltsemau should marry her and the refusal of the young man,who had been keeping the company of Miss Horfoldsteimer for mauy months. POLICE ATTACKED BY MOB. Gendarmes Fired Upon With Fata! Results At Barcelona. A special from London says : De¬ spite assertions to the contrary, riot¬ ing in Barcelona was renewed Wednes¬ day night. A mob stoned a number of shops and were charged by the gen¬ darmes. The mob fired revolvers at the gen¬ darmes, who returned the fire. In the encounter three geudarmes aud a large number of rioters were wounded. Eighteen arrests were made. SILVER’S CHAMPION J AT GAINESVILLE < Hon, W. J. Bryan Addressee Big Audience of North Georgians. A GUEST OP CHAUTAUQUA Glowing Tribute Paid Nebraskan By Governor Candler. William Jennings Bryan spoke to a 2,000 people at the Gainesville, Ga., j Chautauqua Wednesday at noon. He was met at the depot by Governor Candler and staff, Mayor Gaston and a large number of citizens. He was enthusiastically welcomed by several thousand north Georgia people. After an informal reception the party filed into the crowded auditorium. Mr. Bryan was introduced by Governor Candler in a five-minutes speech in which he beautifully introduced Mr. Bryan as the providential leader of the forces of the wronged masses against the wronging classes. He spoke of Luther, Calvin, Cromwell, Napoleon, Washington, Jackson, Jeff¬ erson and Bryan as providential lead¬ ers raised up for emei gencies. Mr. Bryan began his address in compliment to the purity and courage of Georgia’s chief executive aud from this combination of virtues drew a ,. lesson for American people and preached a sermon on patriotism from this text. His theme was “Pendin & Problems,” and from this introducto¬ ry talk it was an easy step to the body of his effort. He appealed first to patriotism, then to partisanship. He defined government as affirmative and negative and from these premises took np some cuirent “Pending Problems” for discussion. He alluded to the differences of property owners and wealth producers and opposed in an enthusiastic way those who fought the income tax issue. He alluded next to the money question and adduced his favorite ar¬ guments for bimetalism and free coir- age. Lastly and more at length he touch- ai ] in 7 question and opposed as imperialistic the proposed republican increase of the standing army to one hundred thousand, and spoke for nearly an hour against expansion and against the drift of the government policy from its foundation principles as enunciated in the declaration of independence. Bryan made little attempt ator- atorial display and less at wit. His address was clear,compact aud logical in form and cool and unimpassioned in delivery. He was listened to with at¬ tention and cheered heartily time and again. At the conclusion of his Hand speech two thousand people shook his as the audience poured out of the ball. The noted speaker, the governor and his staff and other distinguished guests of the city and the chautauqua were elegantly entertained at luncheon during the afternoon at Yonah hall. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. Various New Industries Established During the Past Week. Among the more important of the new r industries reported during the past week are coal mines in West Vir¬ ginia; two cotton mills in Georgia, one each in South Carolina and Texas, and a cotton and woolen mill in Virginia; a cotton seed oil mill in West Tennes¬ see; electric light and power plants in Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina and West Virginia; a fertilizer factory Al¬ in Mississippi; flouring mills in abama and Virginia; furniture facto¬ ries in Kentucky and North Carolina; a gas machine company in Louisiana; an ice factory iu Arkansas; kaolin mines in South Carolina; a knitting mill in Georgia; lumber mills in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia and W r est Virginia; a natural oil and gas company in West Virginia; an oehre mill in Georgia; a railway motor manufactory in Virginia; a sash, door and blind factory in North Carolina; steel work* in West Vir¬ ginia; a stova foundry in Kentucky; a telephone company in East Tennessee; tobacco factories in Kentucky and West Virginia; zinc mines in Arkan¬ sas and a ramie machine company in Texas. — Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) MEMPHIS WILL REMEMBER. Celebration of the Fourth Was Costly To the Tennessee City. July 4, 1899, will remain memorable as furnishing a full share of excite¬ ment and disaster for Memphis, Tenn. A day of activity in the employment of fireworks in celebration of Inde¬ pendence day closed with a conflagra¬ tion entailing a loss of between $400,- 000 and $450,000, including the his- toric Gayoso hotel. Added to the monetary loss was the probable fatal injury of ex-Fire Chief J. E. Clary, the serious hurting of As¬ sistant Fire Chief J. V. Ryan, the death of a negro in the American Bis¬ cuit company's plant. NO POST FOR BISMARCK. Kaiser Has Not Tendered Ambassa¬ dorship As Reported. A special dispatch from Berlin says: The officials of the foreign office has em plwitically denied to Press the correspond¬ that Em¬ ent of the Associated peror William has offered Prince Her- bert Bismarck the post of ambassador at Washington or any other diplomatic post.