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i or ILL A, GEORGIA.___ IIKNDERSON & HANLON, Publishers. Instead of looking for some one to protect the n from tlio United States, South American republics should cry out for somo one to save them from themselves. A nation may have too many politi¬ cians, too many soldiers, too many of almost ever sort of folk, but never too many good cooks. The more the better is emphatically and invariably true in this case. The pavdon of Dreyfus is really a revision aud reversal of the military verdict by the superior civil power. It clears his fame as completely as au acquittal, anil disgraces the army as fully as would a judicial verdict of condemnation of the whole general staff. Attention is called in medical journals to the desirability of testing railroad employes for defective hear¬ ing as well as for color-blindness. A recent examination in F.urope de¬ veloped the fact that out of 82 fire¬ men and engine drivers only three possessed perfectly normal hearing. It is suggested that there should be a standard of hearing power for the ex¬ amination of employes who have to depend upon sound signals. The engineering department of the German navy seems to be in need of reform. Not long ago the boiler of a torpedo boat was blown up with most d sastrous results, and the other day the boiler of the cruiser Wacht ex¬ ploded, killing four meu aud wound¬ ing an equal number. Such accidents are most uncommon in the navies of more experienced maritime powers and indicate either careless manage¬ ment or defects of material which good engineers should have discovered in advance. Great improvement in public roads is sure to attend and follow the multi¬ plication of automobiles. One writer predicts that “before the end of 1900, the total mileage of macadam aud asphalt will be increased by fully one hundred per eejit. More., than 8300,000,600 is said to be pledged already to the manufacture of this class of vehicles. Till the storage battery is perfected aud cheapened, the means of propulsion are practical¬ ly limited to gas engines aud petro¬ leum products. .. A system has been established in Philadelphia whereby teachers are given permission to take their classes for one-half day, once or twice a year, to Fairmount park and to the Zoolo¬ gical gardens, such visits to be re¬ garded as a part of the regular class duties. In Germany such an arrange¬ ment is a regular part of the program in many of the schools. Through the genorosily of the managers of the Zoological gardens, the superintend¬ ent of public schools is furnished annually with about 125,000 tickets, which admit both teachers and pupils to the gardens, aud to make the visits of greatest benefit to the children, the teachers accompany their pupils, while the information obtaiued by such visits i3 utilized in subsequent iustruction in the classroom. Not many years ago aproposition to divert some of the head-waters of the Grand river to the east side of the Rocky mountains was looked upon as visionary; now it ha3 been realized, and it is a remarkable fact that water which flows naturally into the Gulf of California has been virtually lifted over the Bocky mountains, and, after being used for irrigation finds its way to the Gulf of Mexico. A number of small streams on the western side of Loug’s Peak which flow into Grand lake and thence into the Colorado river have been diverted by a ditch that finds its way through a pass 10,000 feet high into the head-waters of the Poudre. Some four hundred cubic feet per second has thus been -diverted from the Pacific to the At¬ lantic slope. The success of this en¬ gineering feat leads the Denver Re¬ publican to ask for its repetition. “There is,” it says, “an enormous supply of irrigation water on the Pacific slope of Colorado which would be a mine of wealth if it could be brought to the Atlantic slope. On this side of the mountains we have many times more land than water. On the other side there is many times more water than accessible irrigable land.” OUR ADVERTISING RATES ARE EXTREMELY LOW. AND ARE A GREAT INDUCEMENT FOR BUSI¬ NESS MEN TO PATRONIZE OUR COL¬ UMNS. TRY US. THE BURGLAR. I. Donaghue knelt at the door and put a practiced ear to the keyhole. There was a faint sound of breathing, so still that Donaghue pressed his rough ear still closer to the brassy aperture in the door and listened even more Intent¬ ly. His small eyes glistened in the dark hallway like the eyes of a cat (he had been nicknamed “The Cat" for this very peculiarity), b’ut there was no one in the house to see those glistening eyes save the servants, fast asleep two ltories above, and the occupants of this one room. He had watched that house three preceding days and nights. He knew that it was occupied by a young mail and his wife—evidently newly married and beyond doubt rich. He knew that the servants wero a cook, two maids, and a butler, and he had almost worked out in his mind just where the pretty wife placed her jew¬ elry when she went to bed In the sec¬ ond-floor room, and just what means the husband took to secure his proba¬ bly well-filled purse. Donaghue was patience personified, and he received the reward that all patience deserves. His thin face broad¬ ened into a smile ns he realized the fact that the breathing was that of a wom¬ an, and that she was alone. When one is in the habit of making social call3 of the description that Donaghue was making it is much bet¬ ter to find husbands away from home, the servants and occupants of the house all asleep, and the policeman on the beat quite out of hearing, Donaghue was not in the habit of entering the mansions of the rich by the front door, or being ushered into the presence of the hostess by a liv¬ eried flunkey, of making polite inqui¬ ries concerning her health, and depart¬ ing, after leaving his card. The fact was, Donaghue shrank from notoriety. He preferred a quiet en¬ trance by the window wholly unob¬ served if possible, and, departing, left not his card nor anything else was of v/m Tl i ,( y { 7 / W/A i ii ii VM/A m i/j ■m* / m m mjii * 0 < 'I 7 I L fgm Wm m I 1 —-— ~ nn i; “ m m Si fl iff! w i 77 77 Js s 3 . h Wii f /A 4 fW •'-Y) ML 2 ! i al a A ‘ : -- O “DON’T MENTION IT," ANSWERED DONAGHUE. value and at the same time portable. In¬ deed, Donaghue was not the tall, hand¬ some fellow that most heroes are. On the contrary, he was of medium height, spare, slouch, and had a general ap¬ pearance that was anything but pre¬ possessing. "Dead easy,” said Donaghue to him¬ self. “A young married couple, as I thought, and husband’s away on the loose. She’s calling his name in her sleep. But I needn’t expect him until morning, and when he does come home lie’ll probably be drunk. That’s what I call dead easy.” He turned the knob of the door and opened it the fraction of an inch. His small eyes glistened in the dark as he found that the door was not locked and that in all probability it would not squeak. “The easiest thing I’ve struck in my twenty years’ experience,” said Don¬ aghue, again to himself—a remark that was noteworthy only because Don- aghue was little over 20 years of age, and, therefore, must have begun his efforts to get on in the world at quite an early age. Slowly and with infinite care he opened the door and entered the room. Four feet from him. as he stood al¬ most breathless, with his hand still clasping the knob of the dGor, lay the sleeping form of a woman, A flood of moonlight from the window fell upon her and melted the pink of her cheek, the cream of her throat, the lace of her night-dress, and the white sheet that wrapped her, into one semrigolden hue. The undulation caused by her breath¬ ing made her look like a drooping lily swayed by the gentlest of breezes. “Great heavens!" thought Donaghue, “what a beauty!” He could hear her faintly mutter the name “Paul—Paul” at intervals, and he had a vague con¬ sciousness of a certain disrespect for Paul, whoever he might he. A man must be a brute to leave such a wom¬ an alone at night. He lingered but a moment, though. Beauty was a thing of little value to Donaghue. His own Maggie was hardly cursed with the fatal gift of beauty, and she was quite as jealous as other wives. Ho stepped softly and quickly to the dressing-case at the other end of the room. Ho picked up a perfumed lace handker¬ chief and threw it away Impatiently, although in his more youthful days a lace handkerchief he would have considered a prize of no mean value. Below it ho found what he wanted and expected—a locket and chain, a jeweled watch, a heavy bracelet, a pin, and what seemed to him a handful of rings. He held them all up in the moonlight and noticed how they sparkled in his trembling hand, and ho smiled with delight. "There’s nothing the matter with this," said Donaghue, almost aloud. “She won’t look so pretty in the morn¬ ing, after she has cried for an hour or two. She’ll cry, of course, but she’s rich, and can afford to lose them. She can get others just like them, Her husband will buy them for her just to keep her pretty mouth shut about his being out so long. Hanged if I see how he can keep away long enough to give a fellow like me a chance to make a living.” He turned and looked at her. He felt like adding a stolen ki3s to the other jewels he had taken. He almost laughed aloud at the thought of such a man as he kissing such a peerless beauty as the woman who lay on the bed before him. And he was just about to depart as peacefully as a social caller, when suddenly he heard the slamming of the front door in the hall below. "Her old man,” said Donaghue, for¬ getting that he v,’as probably a young man; "and I’m caught. Caught—bur¬ glary—ten years at least. I’ll kill him. But I’ll he caught w'hether I kill him or not, and” (self-upbraidingly) “I could have got away easily enough if I hadn’t stopped to look at her.” Again lie- stepped quickly to the door and listened. He Jieard footsteps in the hail beneath. The man had stepped into the back parlor, or library, which¬ ever it was. Perhaps the man had been out on business and would stop there for a minute or two at his desk. Per¬ haps there was, after all, a chance for escape. He was cool and careful. He dropped the jewels on the bed. It would not do to be caught with them about him. And he went out. II. The door squeaked this time, and the young wife started in her sleep, awoke, and half-rose in her bed. Donaghue, at the same time, heard the shuffle of feet in the room below'. He paused and listened at the top of the stairs. Even though the man had heard the door squeak he had not left, the back room. Donaghue tripped down the stairs as softly as a cat. He had been in a tight fix before, and he was never cleverer than when he knew that he was in danger. But luck was against him. There was a fur rug at the foot of the stairs. The floor beneath was polished. He slipped and fell, and in spite of him¬ self he uttered an exclamation that was profane enough to be unmistakably masculine. He heard the man rush from the library, and how it all hap¬ pened he hardly knew, but some way or other he managed to dash into the dark parlor, to throw open the window, and jump out. He expected to fall at least eight or ten feet. He did not fall two. He had Jumped out on a porch, evidently, for he could see the railing in the moon¬ light. There was one thing to do—to hide directly beneath the window in the shadow and wait He knew his pursuer would be there in a moment. He knew there would be a hue and cry. Still, there was a chance. True enough, the man came to the window—but, to the infinite surprise of Donaghue, he made no outcry H« heard the man utter a half-articulate, "Heavens has it come to this!” He heard him walk a few steps and strlko a match. He saw the light of the gas- jets from the window—and thon he knew that he was safe, and he cursed himself for a fool for leaving the jew¬ els behind. It was tantalizing. He raised him¬ self cautiously and looked in the room. The man was sitting in a groat arm¬ chair in the center of the room sobbing as though his heart would break. Don- aghue almost laughed aloud at the sight. There was something in it ail that he could not understand, He wanted to And out the real meaning of it. Besides, he had a sort of dare¬ devil idea that perhaps after all he might get the Jewels. He waited. He had hardly time to scratch his head in perplexity when the door of the room was opened, and the woman, whose beauty had been unconsciously the cause of Donaghue’s folly, entered. She was still in her night-dress, but she was very pale and very frightened. She ran to the sobbing man and fell on her knees as she cried out:. "Ob, Paul, Paul! what is the mat¬ ter?” To Donaghue’s surprise the man pushed her roughly away. “How can you look me in the face?” he cried. “How dare you come to me after this?” Calmly the woman raised herself to her feet, and, looking at the man, said in a forced whisper: “What do I mean. Y r cu know what I mean,” answered the man. “He has been here at last—perhaps not for the first time. But I have found it out. I have found you out.” Donaghue heard a stifled moan and the crash of a body as it fell on the floor. He began to gather a crude idea of what it was all about. He had some experience with Maggie. He had been jealous himself once. He raised himself a little higher and peered over the eill of the window'. The woman was not moaning now, but in a dead faint, and, with her face as white as the sheet that covered her in the room above, she lay motionless nt the feet of the man who accused her. The man stood over her with burn¬ ing cheeks and clenched hands. “And the cur ran away from you? He didn’t even stay to fight me like a man! He’s a coward. I knew it when we met him in Baden. He’s a villain. I knew it when he followed us to Lon¬ don. He can take you now. I don’t want you. And some day he’ll run away from you, poor, beautiful, miser¬ able fool, just as he has run away from me. There was considerable human na¬ ture in Donaghue, even though he did make his living in a peculiar way. This was a little more than he could stand. I-Ie jumped up and leaped back through the window. • "Look here," he shouted, and then was suddenly silent, for a pair of 1 strong hands were clasped about his throat, and the heavy weight of the larger man had borne him to the floor in a moment. "You, such a being as you, my wife’s lover!” roared the man. “No!” screamed Donaghue, making a desperate effort to free himself. "Well, who are you?” said the man. “Let me sit up and I’ll teli you,” answered Donaghue. The man released him, still keeping him within arms’ reach in the corner of the room. Donaghue felt his throat tenderly. “Well?” said the man, peremptorily. “I’m the man that was in the house,” said Donaghue sullenly. “What do you mean—why were you here?” asked the man. “Well,” answered Donaghue, regain¬ ing some of his customary bravado, “I wanted to add some of your jewelry to my collection. See? If you don’t believe me, you’ll find it where I threw it away, up in your wife’s room.” “I shall send for the police and have you arrested.” said the man, quietly. “That wouldn’t be very fair,” said Donaghue. “I came back here because I wanted to clear things up between you and your wife. I could have got away easiiy enough. If I were you, I’d send for a doctor, and even though I’m a thief, I’d ask my wife’s pardon. You may not get a chance, though, She looks as though she were dead.” The man turned and dropped to his knees by the side of the prostrate woman. He put his ear to her heart, and when he raised liis head again Donaghue saw that there were tears in his eyes. “Thank God, she has only fainted!" said the man. “Bring me some water from the library.” Donaghue brought the water in a sol¬ id silver pitcher that made him sigh with a vain wish that he had got away with it and the jew-els above. “She will be all right in a moment,” said the man; “and you may go.” “Thanks,” said Donaghue, noncha¬ lantly, going toward the window. "Perhaps it is I who ought to thank you,” said the man, “for, after all, you have proved that my wife is true to me.” “Don’t mention it,” answered Dona- gliue, as he disappeared—“at least not to the police.”—Spare Moments. Hla Business. Ida—W’ho is that man we saw In front of the cave? . May—He takes tourists under- ground. Ida— Goodness! he must he an un¬ dertaker. Readers Becoming More Numerous. There are now published In Paris 2,585 periodicals, nearly 100 more than wero issued at the corresponding date last year. JOUBERT SLAIN IS A REPORT News Comes From Durban Announcing- His Death. REPOST NOT CONFIRMED Ollier Belated Information From Seat of War In South African Republic. A dispatch from Durban under date of Sunday, November 12, says: “The Times of Natal publishes a telegram from Lcuvenzo Marques saying that General Joubert was killed in action on November 9th.” London advices of Wednesday state that the most interesting, and, in fact, the only news of the war now comes from the western frontier, the ac¬ counts of Colonel Baden-Powell’s bril¬ liant exploits at Mafeking forming quite lively aud encouraging rending. Trench work is quite novel in Boer tactics, and some curiosity is evinced as to who may be directing aud as to what is still to be shown. Nevertheless, both at Mafeking and Kimberly, conditions seem altogether favorable. So far as Natal is concerned the British must possess his soul in patience and trust to General Buller. A belated dispatch from Ladysmith, dated Nov.7th, tells of a languid bom¬ bardment and of a native rumor that the Basutos are on the warpath,which is supposed, according to one corres¬ pondent, to have had the effect of in¬ ducing somo of the Orange Free State troops to abandon the siege and to re¬ turn to their own territory and also to be accountable for the slackness of the attempts of the Ladysmith de¬ fenses. Another correspondent says that it is reported that in the attack upon the Free States at Dewdrop the Boers had 300 killed and wounded. If the reports that the Free State burgers are tired of the affair and are going home should prove true, the fact would bo most important, as their retirement would probably compel General Joubert to withdraw north¬ ward. The statement that the Boers are entrenched so closely to Lady¬ smith is held in some, quarters to in¬ dicate that they are running short of ammunition for guns. All of General Buller’s arrange¬ ments for the advance from Durban,it is ruraorod, are practically completed, and news of it may be expected in a few days. The war office has received several dispatches dealing with mili¬ tary details, but it is not likely that these will he published. The where¬ abouts of General Buller is not pub¬ licly known in London, but he is be¬ lieved to be up country somewhere. Belated News of Boer Activity. A dispatch receive-' 1 in Capetown from Bnluwayo, dnt - d Friday, No¬ vember 3d, soys an armored train pro¬ ceeded south close to Machudi, where a culvert was found damaged. The Basuto police, the dispatch adds, report that a party of Boers has been looting and damaging property. A Fort Tuli dispatch, under the same date says: “There is great activity in the Boer camp south of here. A reconnoitering party sent along the line heard heavy firing in the distance. The party re¬ turned to Colonel S.preckley’s campon which the enemy was advancing in force. It M-an shelled at noon, stam peding every horse aud mule, but not touching a man. The Boers number¬ ed 400. The Boers surrounded Bych store, where a small party stubbornly resisted, ultimately retiring to the bush and gaining from Tuli. An offi¬ cer and five troopers are missing from Spreckley’s force, which has been out somo days reconnoitering the ene¬ my’s force, and which had several skirmishos on returning to fort Tuli.” Fever Report For Miami. Miami, Fia., reported eight cases Tuesday and three Wednesday. Total cases, 125; total deaths, 7. Neither Key West or Port Tampa City sent in reports for Wednesday. TO SUE ROADS. Chattanocgans Will Attempt to Col¬ lect For Overpaid Freights. The merchants of Chattanooga are preparing to bring many suits against, the Southern, the \\ estern and Atlan¬ tic, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroads to recover from them money overpaid on freight. The decision of Justice Harlan at Cincinnati that these roads could not charge Chattanooga more for freight than they did Nashville merchants, is the cause of the suits. They wifi sue for all amounts over¬ paid since the first decision in favor of Chattanooga was given about six years ago. COUNT IN fUSSISSIPPI. Official Figures of Recent Election Are Made Public. The secretary of state of Mississippi made au official announcement of the returns of the state election Thursday. Longino, Democratic candidate for governor, received 42,227 votes against 6,421 for Prewitt, Populist. Lougiuo’s majority, 35,806. The vote on the Noel election amendment was: Yeas, 21,169; nays, 8,643. STEAMER BURNED; PASSENGERS SAVED American Vessel Destroyed By Fire Off English Coast. MANY SOULS ON BOARD Crew of the Vessel Proved Them¬ selves to Be Heroes. A London special says:'. The Ham- burg-American steamer Patria, Cap¬ tain Frohlich, which left^New York November 4th for Hamburg and passed the Lizard last Tuesday, caught on fire near Dover. All the passengers were rescued and landed at Dover. The Russian steamer Ceres sighted the Patria, showing signals of distress and demanding immediate help, about twelve miles from North Hander light¬ ship. The liner was enveloped in smoke. Putting on full steam the Ceres soon reached the Patria and Sending a boat learned that Captain Frohlich was in urgent need of assist¬ ance. The boats were got out and with difficulty the Pntria’s passengers, num¬ bering ICO, were transferred to the Ceres, which proceeded for Dover. Among the saved are many ladies and children, as well as six babes in arms. The hurry of the rescue was indicated by the fact that most of the passengers were enveloped in blank¬ ets only. They were rapidly distributed among the hotels or sent to the sail¬ ors’ home and everything possible is being done for their comfort. According to interviews with some of the passengers, which elicited the fact that most of them were American citizens taking a vacation in Europe. Crew Worko<l Heroically. The crew, according to several pas¬ sengers, worked like heroes in their endeavors to keep the flames under, but the great quantity of linseed among the cargo and the oil supplied by this made all their efforts hopeless. There was very great excitement among the women and children, but the example set by the coolness cf Captain Frohlich and the crew had a calming effect on the passengers gen¬ erally. The boats vrere promptly got over the side, the crew working as if they were at drill. The safoty of the ladies and children was the first considera¬ tion. As the fire had by this time consumed the greater part of the pas¬ sengers’ belongings, they had to get into the boats as they had come up from their bunks, and some were in very light raiment. POSTMASTERS FOR GEORGIA. Department Gives Out a List of Re¬ cent Appointments. A Washington dispatch says: Fourth class postmasters for Georgia have been appointed as follows: Abernathy, Bartow, A. G. Mor- gin; Adgateville, Jasper, A. M. Brandon; Aunie Delle, Floyd, W. O. Edmondson; Bayard, Harris, M. J. Pate; Cobb, Sumter, W. J. Hill; Corbin, Bartow, M. L. Findley; Dug- road, Pickens, W, I). ’.Ruddell; Laston, Bulloch, J. A. Braunen; May- haw, Miller, J. E. Spooner; Nettie, Forsyth, J. L. Hansard; Paynter, Fannin, M. J. Gilreth; Pooler, Chat¬ ham, Joe Heidt; Rural Y’ale, Whit¬ field, Julia Cline; Sehrenkville, Bryan, Zaclsaria Shuman; Short-pond, John¬ son, J. T. Moxley; Stratbam, Jackson, W. J. Ross, Sr.; Talona, Gilmer, YV. V. Russell; Tybee, Chatham, V. H. Wortham. HEASURE IS UNCOMPROMISING. Features of the Prohibition Bill Be¬ fore Georgia Legislature. The Willingham prohibition bill, which is now creating so much inter¬ est and excitement in the house, is a bill providing that intoxicating liquors shall not be manufactured or sold in the state of Georgia. It is a complete, uncompromising prohibition measure. It was introduced at the last session and prohibitionists in the house are now awaiting au opportunity to have the bill placed upon its passage. A constitutional majority of the house is apparently in favor of the measure and the minority,those opposing the meas¬ ure, are now adopting filibustering proceedings to keep the bill from passing._______ EASY PREY FOR BOERS. They Glory In Destruction of British Armored Trains. Thursday’s dispatches from London stated that misfortune steadfastly pur¬ sues British employment of armored trains, the fascination for which has given the Boers their first and victories. On this last British seem to have walked deliberate trap with the result mht, according to the last accounts, ninety meu are either killed, wounded or missing. Of these Fusileers claim fifty and the Dnrban infantry forty. It is believed that few escaped, and that the others are prisoners in the hands of the Boers. PARIS PAPER REJOICES. Publishes a Report That Ladysmith Has Surrendered to Boers. A Paris paper gleefully Ladysmith, announces the fall and capture of but reports from this source no longer cause a ripple of excitement in Lon¬ don. Nevertheless, there will be con¬ siderable anxiety, however, until the war office or somo independent version of the latest developments at Lady¬ smith is known.