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OCHA,A, GEORGIA. HENDERSON & HANLON, Publishers. A New York jury lias diaided thtt kiliug a critic was only manslaughter. "Wlmt would killing a publisher be? The board of education of Louis¬ ville, Ky., has forbidden women teach¬ ers to wear short skirts while in the practice of their profession. The ex¬ act length of skirt required is not stated, but presnn ably not only bicy- cliug costumes but those designed for use ou rainy days are banned. The downward tendency in street¬ car fates is illustrated by the propo¬ sition of a syndicate to Columbus, Ohio, to take all the franchises at the .disposal of the city and make a three- ceut fare. The fact is very good evi¬ dence that there is money iu the busi¬ ness with a charge as low as throe cents.__ Money is an excellent thing in so far as it enables oue to command health and power and education and opportunity, and promotes one’s use¬ fulness, but children are a power aud an unceasing entertainment, and con¬ stitute usefulness immediate aud pros¬ pective, writes E. 8. Masten in Har¬ per’s Weekly. While money tempts to idleness, children are an incentive to industry; where monoy makes for self-indulgence, children make for self-denial; where money is an aid to vagrancy, children necessitate a home aud some adherence to it. Money in superfluous quantities is « recognize! demoralizei 1 , but every good child is a moralizer to its parents. The London school board, by a de¬ cisive majority, twenty-seven votes to five, has refused to entertain the proposition to provide dinners for hungry school children, on the ground that tho scheme is far too Socialistic iu its character, and would only be a prelude to feeding all children in the public schools as well as educating them. The original proposition came from special committee which ... re- | a ported that many of the poorer chil- area came to school too hungry to learn, and that although some of them were fed by voluntary charity, this was but an uncertain resource, aud that the matter was one that called for official supervision. The San Francisco Chronicle, com¬ menting on the recent football games, says: “When thousands of people turn out aud pay a big price for the privi¬ lege of watching a struggle on the gridiron between two varsity football teams, it is not merely college spirit and the love of sport that are dis¬ played ia the sjrectacle. Underlying it all is a sentiment of much deeper import to the race which is so unob¬ trusive' that few if any of the great mass of excited spectators may give it a passing thought or be conscious of its presence. It is tho intimate relationship which athletic tourna¬ ments of all kinds bear to race and national deve]oi>me.it.” Publicity is often sought by men au.l women who have no public spirit. To appear iu public, to speak in pub¬ lic, to figure iu the magazines as oue who is iu the eye of the public, to carry cue’s self so that h3 will be re¬ garded as a jutblie character, having his doings anil sayings chronicled in all the daily papers — all these things may be, without the slightest exhibi¬ tion or comprehension of public sqjinit. On the other hand, one may work quietly, avoid publicity, make no sen- satiou, but seldom ajjpear in public and never upon the pdatform, and yet in the whole course of his daily life exhibit,in its finest form, ijublic spirit, observes the Christian Register. The temptations which lead young men to leave farms aud go to cities should be resisted and combatted by every influence that can be brought to bear against instates the AtiautaJour- ual. For oue such youth who makos a hit in town, w ho gets a good grip on the skirts of hapjry fortune, ten dis¬ cover too late their fatal mistake and go to wreck. There is no substantial encouragement to the country to be drawn from the rapid growth of its •cities, but rather the reverse, The average boy who is making a good living in the country, who is becom¬ ing a better farmer every year and therefore a larger and more econom¬ ical producer takes his big chances when he leaves the old homestead and goes to town to make a name and a fortune. He is far more apt to make a failure. Keep abreast of these stirring times by subscribing for your home paper. The price is little, and you eannot •afford to be xeithovj. it. LIVING ON THE WATER. Somo Families Spend Their Time on Their Anehnroft Yacht*. A wet sheet and a flowing sea lias nothing whatever to do with life aboard a yacht, as exemplified In the Eiay Itldge Yacht Basin, in South Brooklyn, says tho New York Herald. There are five or six yachts there, one of them a roomy schooner craft, which for various reasons are not in commis¬ sion this summer. Nevertheless the owners and their families or their friends live and sleep on board. On one sloop are fivo young men, who go to a skyscraper building in Nassau street every morning and take out two or three vivacious typewriter girls when work Is over to make the evenings merry, They rented tlje boat on condition that they would not take her outsida the basin, and hired a retired sea cap¬ tain, who lives near the basin, to look after the boat during tlie day nr.d to “mess” for them. They find it cheaper than paying board in the city, and ever so much pleasanter. Three families wintered on yachts in the Bay Ridge basin last winter, and they en¬ joyed the experiment so much that they talk of trying it again. The bliz¬ zard and the rough weather had no terrors for them. One sloop, the Peri, was housed above decks very much like those in the tales we read about Arc¬ tic expeditions. The families who lived In this way were on terms of sociabil- ity and visited every night for games and cards. They gave a boat party iu January, and their friends in Brooklyn who are given ,to assisting at social entertainments, joined them in a modest little vaudeville. When the basin was frozen solid one night they gave a skating party, with a- pip¬ ing hot supper below decks as a wind up. There are still novelties about for persons who know where to look for them. LONDON’S WOMAN BARBER. Sho Is Learned in tiie Mysteries ot Hypnotic Influence. The Lady Barbers’ association—the original one, mark you—has existed eleven years, says the Pall Mall Ga¬ zette. Its present address is 655 Chan¬ cery lane, and its latest proprietor Mine. St. Quentin, who has been in possession since June last, She is a charming and accomplished lady— learned in tho mysteries of hypnotic influence,and has even views on Budd¬ ha. In response to the invitation con¬ tained in the announcement that ma- dame was at home, coupled with the parenthetical promise 0 f tea,the writer descended to the pleasant basement room, with the electric lamps diffus- ing brightly warm color through the crimson shades, and beheld the priest¬ esses of the razor performing the cus¬ tomary rites upon various stubbly and upturned masculine chins, It seemed so entirely pleasant a process that the writer remembered with a secret joy that he had not shaved that morning. Presently it was his turn, and, plac¬ ing his head upon the pad, he suffered himself to be lathered and prepared for sacrifice. To be shaved by a deft¬ handed woman is almost a magical process. There is none of the “slish- slashing” of the gentleman whom a bountiful nature intended to be a hedge carpenter. No, no. There is something smooth and gliding over one’s cheek, with here and there the light pressure of delicate fingers, and, presto! one emerges with a chin that is equal without a shadow of depreca¬ tion to every domestic and ante-mari¬ tal demand upon it. TO FIND JONES’ GRAVE. Perhaps few people know that the ashes of John Paul Jones, one of the most distinguished heroes of the Amer¬ ican revolution, are buried somewhere in Paris. Exactly where nobody knows. After leaving the American service be¬ cause of some alleged grievance, Jones enlisted in the French service, and dy¬ ing shortly afterwards, was buried in the French capital. Efforts to locate the tomb of the great naval officer have failed up to date, but with increased vigilance it is throught that the dis¬ covery can be made in the course of time by carefully inspecting the grave¬ yards of Paris. Recently a Philadel¬ phia paper has commenced to agitate < mm iSgiggSsSS! tgi £5$ «®l O n Sfi '^7 ■ V/l Y^Jk % y @ v JOHN PAUL JONES, the matter by suggesting that close search be instituted for the grave of John Paul Jones, and in the event the quest is successful, that the body be brought back to tnls country and buried in Washington, D. C. Twelve governors and many other distin¬ guished public men have indorsed the enterprise. To make laws complete they should reward as well as punish. HAGG ARD ON THE WAlt DEL1EVES ENGLAND'S DOWN¬ FALL WILL RESULT. Cnlla It Judgment from on High—III* Private Life—Will 8ooi» Stand for Farl lament In a Cornwall Constit¬ uency. Rider Haggard has had ample oppor¬ tunities for forming his judgment of Transvaal affairs. He says that in the end England will be beaten and that it is the judgment of heaven. Ho i3 one of the few survivors, now only three or four in number, of the party that accompanied Sir Theophilus Shepstone on his mission to the Transvaal,which resulted in the annexation of that country on April 12, 1S77. Mr. Hag¬ gard spends several months each year in a big house in Redcliffe Square,Lon¬ don; but after the season, if still in England, he is pretty certain to be found in Ditchtngham Manor, the an¬ cestral home of his wife’s family,which the novelist has filled with souvenirs of his travels. His study is on the sec¬ ond floor. Its walls are lined with book¬ cases, with pictures above them, the latter being original drawings of the illustrations in bis books. Here, too, is Mr. Haggard’s greatest treasure—a desk formerly used by Charles Dickons and bid in by Haggard at tho Gads Hill sale. In this room he does the greater part of his work, writing away steadily if he feels in the mood, and often tossing his pen aside in favor of either a rod or gun. Mr. Haggard’s new book, “A Farm¬ er’s Year,” has had abundant success. Its sales have been eclipsed by those of the sixpence edition of one of hi3 earli¬ est works. This is “Jess,” whose scene, it will be remembered, is laid in the Transvaal. The astute publisher of this novel saw his chance, and in tak¬ ing it was wise enough to make the new edition a popular one. The re¬ sult i3 that he is unable to supply the demand for the book, and it is said that “Swallow,” also a story of Boer life, is having a greatly increased sale. However, the author of “Allan Quar- termain” seems to have no idea of sit¬ ting down to watch his royalties pile up. He is planning a long trip through Cyprus, Egypt and the Holy Land, which Is taken to mean a book from him. There is no truth in the report published by an American paper that the novelist has gone in for gold min¬ ing in Alaska with Lord Ernest Hamil¬ ton. It was a cousin of Rider Haggard instead who took a large slice of Bill Partridge’s shares off his hands. It would be supposed that the long and important trip that Mr. Haggard II WJ to \ < § RIDER HAGGARD, has mapped out for himself would be enough to occupy him fully, but the novelist adds politics to the list of things he wants to study, and it is an¬ nounced that he soon will stand for a constituency in Cornwall. LIQUID FUEL IN RUSSIA. Ait Important Factor for Firing; Loco¬ motives for Railways. The Russian petroleum industry has been placed in an exceptionally favor¬ able position during the past year and a half by the introduction of a large amount of foreign capital, says the New York Commercial, and the im¬ provement is due to the companies having devoted themselves mainly to the production of liquid fuel rather than to that of illuminating oil. The output of liquid fuel, or masut, and of petroleum by-products has now be¬ come the mainstay of the Industry, and in Russia alone the annual quantity of masut consumed amounts to no less than 500,000,000 poods, which, with the extension of the railways,is expected to further increase to a large extent. But it is not only in the firing of locomo¬ tive boilers that liquid fuel is playing an important part, but also in connec¬ tion with the raising of steam in ma¬ rine boilers. As a preliminary all the war vessels belonging to the Baltic fleet are now fired with liquid fuel, and it is believed tho whole of the Russian imperial navy will eventually be con¬ verted to the system, according to a gradual process of transformation. As to the financial position of the petro¬ leum companies, it appears that the dividends paid by the eight leading companies for 1898—the total capital being 28,000,000 rubles—averaged 19 per cent. During the last few years the supply of oil-carrying vessels has been extremely inadequate. To the United Kingdom alone the importation of oil from America and Russia has made enormous strides. In regard to Russian oil, comparing the first six ‘months of 1898 and 1899, the importa¬ tion of refined oil into Europe has in¬ creased from 12,821,624 poods to 16,- 016,990 poods; in lubrication oil from 3,342,638 poods to 3,627,044 poods. When the system of transporting oil In bulk began, some little time previous to 1880, it was probably not thought that the growth of the Industry would be so great, and it was not until 1888 that any great activity wa3 exhibited in the provision of tank steamers. Ia that year eighteen steam vessels, hav¬ ing a tonnage of 42,037 were added to the oil-carrying licet. In the following year fourteen vessels, of 39,493 tons, were constructed, and 1890, eleven ves¬ sels of 2S,2S7. For the year 1893, how¬ ever, the largest quantity of tonnago for the oil-carrying trade was con¬ structed, namely, thirty-live vessels of 94,568 tons, while since that year the output of vessels has gradually dimin¬ ished. The average freight for oil¬ carrying vessels in 18S6 was 14 shil¬ lings; in 1897, 12 shillings 7% pence, and in 1898 it had risen to 23 shil¬ lings 4 pence. The English shipyards are still extremely busy, and probably an almost prohibitive price would have to be paid for vessels to be delivered within a reasonable time. BEGINS NEEDED REFORM. Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, the newly elected president of tho W. C. T. U. '■ > i»’’ : 4 l!f m f-J f m IV, ms IV i sHb 't MRS. LILLIAN M. N. STEVENS, and successor of the illustrious Fran- ces Willard, will this season begin an active campaign against the sale of liquor to college students, She will try to have a national law passed for¬ bidding the sale of intoxicating drinks near any college campus. The famous Princeton Inn, which was closed last year, was largely owing to the work of Mrs. Stevens’ sisters in the W. C. T. U. Mrs, Stevens was born in Do¬ ver, Me., and has always made her home in the Pine Tree state. Her first public work was as a school teacher, but at the age of 21 she married Mr. Stevens, a leading business man of Portland. One daughter, now Mrs. Gertrude Stevens Leavitt, blessed their home. When the Maine Christian Temperance Union was organized about twenty-five years ago, Mrs. Ste¬ vens was elected treasurer, which po¬ sition she held for three years. She was then made state president, and for twenty-two years was re-elected to the position, and in all that time but one ballot was cast for another candidate. From 1880 to 1893 she filled the posi¬ tion cf assistant recording secretary, and in the latter year was elected re- cording secretary, Of profound wis- dom, Mrs. Stevens holds the respect and love of the organization at whose head she is placed. She is a born lead¬ er, and where she leads other women will gladly follow. IN THE PUBLIC EYE. Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson has been governor of Natal and Zulu- land since 1893. On account of his rec¬ ognized abilities he enjoys the good will and confidence of the crown. In dealing with the native chiefs he has been unusually successful, rarely ever having failed to carry his point. Be- for taking up South African work this distinguished Briton was connected with Fijian affairs and also with af¬ fairs in New South Wales. At one time he was lieutenant governor of Malta. Being the son of the fourth W 5c*" 1 an S /=. m "j,. mm t ■m 1 7/a ^y SIR W. F.' HELY-HUTCHINSON. earl of Donougmore, he belongs to one of the most aristocratic of old English families. Smallest PostofBce. California claims to have the small¬ est postoffice in the United States. It is located at Virginia, on a beautiful stretch of road between Escondido and San Dtego, and consists of an old piano packing case, in size about seven feet high, six feet long and five feet wide. In its front are the locked doors to five private boxes, in addition to the general delivery window. No money order business is transacted there, but the office has the monopoly of Vir¬ ginia's stamp trade. Sterlingworth—I think people should marry their opposites, don’t you? Throckmorton—Of course I do. A self-made man should wed a tailor- made won: in.—Judge. GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS Brief Summary of Interesting Happenings Culled at Rand cm. Senator Bacon Injured. Senator Bacon is lying on his back in his apartments on Oregon avenue, Washington, suffering from injuries which may and probably will keep him an invalid for several weeks. A fall, which soemed at first trivial, has placed him under the care of sur¬ geons, and while he has not yet under¬ gone much physical sufferings tho in¬ juries he sustained are sure to keep him confined for somo days and per¬ haps some weeks. In starting from his house Saturday morning the sena¬ tor slipped on an icy step and fell in such a way as to fracture one rib and perhaps two. Komi Issue* Recorded. The bond issue of the Atlanta Stan¬ dard Telephone Company, amounting to $000,000, has been placed on record in the office of Secretary of State Thil Cook. Five hundred thousand dol¬ lars of the issue of $000,000 is intend¬ ed to replace the issue of bonds by the company April 10, 1896. County Line Not Changed. In the recent establishment of the dividing line between Wayne and Charlton counties, iu accordance with a survey made by Mr. Thomas J. Peck, it was published at the time that Chariton had lost an immense tract of about 25,000 acres. The line, how¬ ever, established by Mr. Peck as the true line between the two counties is tlie same line that has been recognized ever since 1812 as the real dividing line. The line run by him is the line which has been recognized ever since that date by both the citizens of Wayne and Charlton counties as the true line, and instead of Charlton losing any territory, the county re¬ mains the same as lias been since the lie establishment of Charlton county from a part of Camden. * * * Condition of State Treasury. The books of the state treasury show that the state has at jrreseut on deposit $1,454,790.53. This showing is somewhat better than that made ou February 1st of recent years, and in spite of the increase of the pension roll. The $50,000 due for the quarter from the lessees of the state’s convicts has all been received by the state treasurer. Rome Gets Rig Plant. The C. L. King Manufacturing com¬ pany, of Holland Mich., is at present removing its immense plant from ihat city to Rome, where it is erecting a larger plant. It will manufacturif boxes, crates, berry baskets and a line of hardwood veneers. The plant was located at Romo through the efforts of the industri¬ al department of the Southern railway. Life Convict Pardoned. Governor Candler has pardoned Henry Smith, serving a life sentence for murder committed iu Clayton county iu 1880. The pardon board recommended executive clemency on the ground that the evidence seemed to warrant a verdict of manslaughter rather than murder, and because such action was asked by the judge, prose¬ cutor and all the living members of the jury that tried the case. 4 'PejC Lcr** Remanded, Judge W. T. Newman, of the federal court at Atlauta, declined to take ju¬ risdiction in tho iiabeas corpus pro¬ ceedings in the case of II. A. Williams —better known as “Peg Leg” Williams —and remanded him into the custody of the sheriff of Morgan county. Judge Newman held that the state courts should pass upon the case. Waycross Sells Bondi). The recent issue of bonds by the city of Waycross, amounting to $50,- 000, were sold a day or two ago to J. W. Dickey, of Augusta, Ga., for $54,- 335. Several bids were received, but that of Mr. Dickey, being the highest was accepted. A premium of over $4,000 on the issue of $50,000 speaks well for the credit of Waycross. Depot a “Nuisance.** The Atlanta board of health has de¬ clared the union depot a nuisance! This action vas taken at a meeting of the board and the vote on the resolu¬ tion was unanimous, Furthermore, prompt measures will be taken to sup¬ press the nuisance and all roads en¬ tering tho structure have been so ad¬ vised. Fifth Itejtfiment Ofllcern. The result of the military elections was an almost entire erorganization cf the Fifth Georgia regiment. The fol¬ lowing are the field officers: Colonel, Park Woodward; lieutenant colonel, W. G. Obear; major, J. V. H. Nash, Jr.; major, W, W. Barker; major, W. A. Patton, Demand Pay In Ad ranee. The railroads in the melon-growing section of the state are making an effort to arrange that all lines concerned re¬ quire prepayment of freight on melons shipped during tho coming season. The men behind the movement- claim that this action will shut inferior stock out of the northern and western mar¬ kets and make good stock command juices that will enab'e the shipper to pay the present freight rates and have a profit. HaDroiui For Ctiinmlnjj. J. R. McKeivey, lessee of the Law- rpnoeville branch railroad, it is said, has announced his intention of extend- ing the line of liis road to Cumming. At proneut the road extends from Law- reneeville to Suwanes. The proposed extension will run from Suwaueo to Gumming, a distance of about fitteen miles. The present length of the road is about ten miles. It is said that the citizens of Gumming and of the coun¬ try which it is proposed to run the new line have announced their readi¬ ness to subscribe $25,000 toward its construction. The people of this sec¬ tion of the state have for a long time felt the need of a more direct railroad connection with other sections of the state. Tho now line, when it’ is oon- structed, will open up a rich and hitherto untonched, bo far as the rail¬ roads are concerned, section of the state. AT OLD liOHE. Remains of Goebel Carried From Frankfort to Covington—An Impressive Scene. Tho Goebel funeral train arrived at Covington, Ivy., at 8 o’clock Tuesday morning from Ftankfort. It consisted of a baggage car with the casket and floral tributes, a coach for the pall¬ bearers, judges of the appelate court, legislative committee and others, aud a Pullman with the relatives. It was an impressive scene when the casket was removed from tho Capitol hotel at Frankfort. The hearse, fol¬ lowed by carriages and many pedes¬ trians, proceeded under the electric lights to the special train which left at 4 a. m. on the mournful journey. Although the train made no stops except at junctions, yet there were groups at the stations aloug the way to see it even in the darkness of the wintry morning. The only railway that runs through Covington and Frankfort, the Louis¬ ville and Nashville, is credited with opposing Goebel. At any rate, those in charge of the arrangements insisted ou Goebel's remains being carried from the capital to his home without traveling over any of tho rails of the Louisville and Nashville. This bit of sentiment caused tho special to be run into Cincinnati on tlie Queen aud Crescent. After cross¬ ing the Cincinnati Southern bridge the train was run around through the yards of oue railway into the yards of another railway in Cincinnati and transferred back into Kentucky over the Chesapeake and Ohio bridge, and thus reached the Chesapeake aud Ohio depot in Covington. This route by train involved about twenty miles of additional travel and half of this dis¬ tance was through the railway yards in Cincinnati. The demonstration iu honor of Goe¬ bel in the city and county, which ha had represented in the state senate for twelve years, was peculiar and simple. A large detail of police was stationed about the depot aud another detail kept the streets clear from the depot to the Odd Fellows’ hall, where the body lay in state. While the demon-, stration was participated iu by both city and county officials, yet the com¬ mon people made up the long line of the procession. At no time during the forenoon was there any cessation of the current of people passing the catafalque. Later in the day excursionists reached the city from adjoining coun¬ ties. Many crossed the bridges from Cincinnati, and the attendance from Bellevue, Dayton, Fort Thomas, Lud¬ low, the Highland and other Kentucky suburbs was very large. The remains lay in state in Coving¬ ton until 10 ir. m., and then they were placed in charge of the guard during the night and conveyed back to Frank- foit by special train Wednesday rnorn- ing, to lie in state until the funeral. RULES RADICALLY CHANGED. South Carolina Dispensary Board ci Control Abolished. The South Carolina state board of liquor control is to be abolished and the management of the dispensary to be radically changed. The of seuate bill to provide a new system house govern¬ Tues¬ ment was passed iu the day and Governor McSweenoy will approve the act. The vote in the house was 77 to 24 in favor of abolishing the board. The action of the general assembly is the result of dissatisfaction all over the state caused by lack of harmony in the present board. There were no charges of open dishonesty in the speeches, but it was plainly asserted that the factional fight among the members on tho board had hurt the state. BRYAN ENDS TOUR Of New England States at Cities of Hartford and Bridgeport. Thursday night William J. Bryan finished tho work for which his New England trip was undertaken. He delivered two long addresses. Tues¬ day afternoon in Hartford he spoke to an audience of 3,800. He took occa¬ sion to rap the knuckles of tho iusur- anco aud manufacturing capitalists of the capital city, “the splendidly wealthy city of Hartford,” as ho put it. In Bridgeport he was wildly ac¬ claimed upon his arrival, and later he spoke to an audience which taxed to its utmost the largest theater in the city. _ Newspaper Han Honored. Mr. Edward M. Durant, a well knowu young newspaper man of At- lanta, has been appointed by Gover¬ nor Candler us secretary of tho com¬ mission from Georgia to the Paris exposition. The position is in reality one of the most important of is the virtually]*’ com-^ mission, as the secretary the executive officer of that body.