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OCILLA DISPATCH. OCILLA, GEORGIA. IK1VIN COUNTY PUUL18HING CO., Proprietor*. Thera is no native of the State of Nobraska among its representatives in either branch of Congress notwith¬ standing tho fact that Nebraska be¬ came a State thirty-three years ago and was the twenty-fourth admitted into the Union. A Harvard professor lias made the calculation that if men wero really as* big as they sometimes fool, tkore would be room in tho United States for only two professors, three lawyers, l wo doctors and a reporter ou a Phila¬ delphia paper. The rest would be crowded into the sea and have to swim for it. There is an industrial awakening observable at present in Ireland. The passing of the local government act has benefited them in many ways, and, as a result of its operations, a syndi¬ cate is now in the course of formation for the opening up aud working of granite and slate quarries in certain districts throughout the country. ** Chicago possesses a natural curiosity in the form of a mau who has just paid off in full his father’s outlawed liabili¬ ties, the result of business reverses sustained several years ago, amount¬ ing to $40,000. Some of the creditors had forgotteu all about the traaaction. His name is Simeon B. Chapin, and the world would be better with more mon of this kind. i ..... . ......... The special committee of the British Parliament appointed to estimate the C03t of the proposal to pension the aged deserving poor has made a ro- ,-port. On the assumption that the pensionable age is fixed at sixtv-five, . tho committee estimates that the an¬ nual charge for the United Kingdom would, in 1001, be $52,000,000; in 1911, $33,009,000, and in 1921, $78,- . 000 , 000 , FT A Massachusetts judge before whom ■% fifteen-year-old boy was convicted of forging a check, recognizing the unwisdom of the ordinary forms ol punishment in a case of this kind, has sentenced the offender to banishment from the State for two years, and his father has taken him to California under tho court’s instructions. The case is attracting some comment, and the policy of banishing a culprit from one community and imposing him on another is receiving discussion. The produce of farms in the United States for last year was worth to the farmers $1,600,000,000 more than in the hard time3 six or eight years ago; live stock is worth $700,000,000 more, staple crop3 $400,000,000 more and other crops $200,000,000 more. Horses are worth one-third more than they were four years ago, milch cows forty- five per cent, more, and sheep were worth more than at any time for twen¬ ty years, the total value for the coun¬ try being 140 per oent. more than in 1896. _ British Canada is enjoying itself to the top of its bent these days in the glory of the imperial cause. The fly in the ointment, however, is the French Canadian, who is distinctly anti-Briti 3 h in his sympathies in the South African war and does not mind showiug it. As a result of this the celebrations in Montreal in honor of the relief of Ladysmith have had a head and window breaking accom¬ paniment. All this goes to show that Oauada has enough problems at home to worry over without entangling it¬ self abroad. Of great importance to the com¬ merce of the country, and of the highest value to its military defence, is the Chicago Canal, which was re¬ cently opened and which makes a navigable channel between the Mis¬ sissippi and the great lakes. It is of twenty-two feet mean depth and one hundred and sixty feet broad at the bottom, and cost $33,000,000. It is primarily a drainage canal, intended to provide for » (low of water through the Chicago River, which will no longer be a mess of filth and a source j! disease; but a channel which will permit the passage of large Bhips from New Orleans to Duluth is some¬ thing of enormous national utility. Prosperity promlsts to smile be- pijinedly upon you this year. You’ll ttoV miss the small sum necessary for you to become a subscriber to this paper. k'i jo mM 35 m M .u LOST IN THE CHAPARRAL BY EDWARD B. CLARK. REPRODUCE your mind grass¬ i n / '/l less stretch a of country with rrsnr- groat cracks showing in the 82 L sun-baked earth, with here and there a stunted, leafless tree, aud upon a hillock a little way off’ 'A gaunt, gray wolf a ' Q silhouetted against the sky, and yon will have some idea of the nature of ono part of the country through which for two years the United States regulars marched and scouted in the attempt to kill or capture a band of notorious bandits. If you should ride some hours over this desolate waste you would come at length to a dense woodland of chap- arral, an almost impenetrable thorny thicket which stretches for many leagues along the Bio Grande Kivcr and extends miles inland from either bank. Since tho time soven years ago when Uncle Sam’s cavalrymen tinally succeeded in rounding up and punishing the outlaws the face of that southeasteru Texas country has changed. Itain, which nature had denied to the spot for nearly two years, ha 3 again visited the region, Verdure has again appeared and the dried earth has drunk to its fill with rejoicing. with Mexican There was a man parentage, but a citizen of the United States, Cateriuo E. Garza by name, who it was thought intended to en- gage in an attempt looking to the driving of President Diaz of Mexico from his office and to the establishing of himself in the presidential chair, Garza did not have enough followers in his first raid to cause much anxiety lo the Mexican authorities. After a fight on Mexican territory the leader, with about two hundred men, re- treated, into Texas and there for two years hid in the dense thickets along the river, making occasional forays and doing a great amount of smug- gling. Uncle Sam put a number of regiments in the field to hunt down tho outlaws, but owing to the nature of the country and their familiarity with the trails the hunt was » long one. It was during this campaign against the outlaws that Trooper Thomas of D Troop of the Third Cav- alry had the experience of which this Captain George F. Chase, now fighting insurgents in the Philippines, was in command of D Troop in the field against the bandits. The little body of troopers was encamped at a ranch about thirteen miles from the edge of the chaparral, through the lieart of which at a distance of thirty- fivc miles lay the Bio Grande Biver. Ope morning before the last star had disappeared from the southern sky a scout rode hurriedly to camp. He threw himself from his horse at the challenge from the 3entinel and said he must see the commanding officer at once. Tkeringiug toned “Who comes there?” of the sentry as he checked the progress of tho rider at the point of his carbine roused Captain Chase, and in a minute he was confronting the scout, who reported that there was a gathering of Garza’s men just within the chaparral near the ranch called St. Gertrude, something more thrn twelve miles away. AVithin ten minutes the commaning officer and two-thirds of his troop were gal- loping in the direction indicated by tke scout. At St. Gertrude’s ranch, whose southern boundary was the edgo of the chaparral, the captain dismounted his men aud threw them into a skirmish line with an interval of about two yards between each skir- misker. In, this order the line went forward into the chaparral. Just as tho men entered the outlying edge of the thorny them", thicket a volley was poured into but no one was hurt. They advanced several hundred yards into the dense tangle of mesqnite, prickly pear and other thorn-growing south- ern vegetation, and finally found the place where the enemy had camped, The bandits, however, had disap- peared, and pursuit through that laby- rintk was a physical impossibility. ,On the extreme right of tho skir- misli line was Trooper Thomas. So thick was the undergrowth that he could not see, save at times, the skir- misker on his left, only twoyardsdis- tant. Thomas lost his direction a little and managed to get farther away from his nearest comrade than the order for the skirmish line formation demanded. Suddenly there came the clear, ringing trumpet order: “As- semble on the centre skirmisher.” This meant that the men at the right and left of the center should turn and march directly toward the centre, thus eventually bringing the command shoulder to shoulder in close order, Trooper Thomas turned and headed, as he supposed, for the sound of the trumpet. Ho heard his nearest com- rade thrashing through the thicket and supposed that he was following close in his wake. He soon foufcd that ho was getting farther and farther away from the noise of the cracking underbrush. Then he turned in a new direction and floundered on. For p 1Y0 minutes ho kept up the pace as well as he could aud was astounded to that he had not yet come up with ] n3 comrades. He raised his voice and shouted. There was no answer- ing cry. He cocked his carbine, put it to his shoulder and pressed tho trigger and then eagerly listened. In less than a minute two answering shota were heard from what seemed to be a point afar off. The density of the chaparral growth was in itself an obstvelo to the transmission of sound. Trooper Thomas turned as he sup¬ posed in the direction from whioh the shot signals came and ouee more fought his way through the thicket. He struggled on for a few minutes and then slipped another cartridge into his Springfield and fired. Ho listened intently for five minutes, but no answering discharge gladdened his ear. Ho fired three more shots in rapid succession. Still no answer. The cavalryman was lost in an almost impenetrable jungle, through which every step of progress was a toiling pain and where there was no means whatsoever to give him a key to direc¬ tion. He stood still for a few minutes to think what was best' to do. He had no compass, and wliile-.lie knew that the northern edge of the chaparral was within a comparatively short dis- tauoe he had not the remotest idea whether that edge lay before him, be- hind him or at his right or left. For two days thick, heavy clouds had ob- Bcured the sky. They were full of the promise of rain, which would not come. Time after time the few people living in the region had looked upon just such lowering clouds with some gleam of hope that they might let fall a bnrdeu of blessed showers. There was promise, but no fulfilment. The heavy, murky bank, however, served, with the aid of the matted canopy of the chaparral, to prevent the lost cavalryman from getting any idea, however faint, of the position of the sun. North, south, east aud west were alike to him. Trooper Thomas finally determined to trust to luck, and taking the course which he thought was right he worked his way through tho thorny growth, For two hours he toiled on, aud then in despair he realized to a certainty that he was hopelessly astray. When the line had been deployed Thomas had left his. canteen behind, and he now began to suffer severely from tkir.st. Hours passed, and still neither open- ing in the chaparral nor the glint of water gladdened his eye. The trooper slipped a cartridge from his belt, and taking his knife cut the head ballet from the brass cup. He put the mis- sile in his mouth and it momentarily relieved his thirst. It was beginning to grow daskr, and the soldier realized that he mast spend the night in tho chaparral. Ho cut some of the thick leaves of tho prickly pear, and scraping off the thorns from the green surface chewed the pulp for the slight relief k^ that the juice afford- ed. Then cleared a place, and ly- ing down tried to sleep. Physically worn out though he was, his thirst and the horror of his situation kept him awake. Toward morning he had a little feverish sleep that brought no rest. As the first streak of daylight stole into the chaparral the trooper was ou his feet and on his way once more, The puckering juice of the prickly pear leaves seemed simply to have ag- gravated his thirst, and his suffering was beginning to be more intense than can be expressed in words. Painfully making his way along, Thomas came to an open place in the chaparral. At the farther side of it he heard a orack- ling, and in a moment a peccary—ono of the little wild hogs of the Texas jungle—broke into the clearing, Thomas steadied himself with an ef- tort. He raised his carbine, aimed aud fired. The shot was a olean one, and the little wild pig fell dead in its tracks. To ease the pangs of his thirst Thomas drank of tho animal’s blood, and it gave him strength and courage to keepon. The effect of the drink, however, was not lasting, and in an hour’s time he found himself suffering as keenly as before. He strode along, however, with occasional rests, all through the morning and the long afternoon. At night he was half delirious with suffering, but the utter exhaustion of his body forced him into slumber. Ho slept in a troubled way for some hours, and then, waking, found his suffering so intense that remaining still was im- possible, and through the darkness of that Southern chaparral be stumbled on. Finally he fell from sheer ex- haustion and lay for some time in a half-dazed condition, Then the morning came. Little by little some expression of returning sense came into the trooper’s face, He looked straight ahead, and there, not ten yards in front of him, he saw that there was a break in tho thicket, New life came to him in an instant, aud he fairly dashed through the nn- derbrnsh. In a moment he stood at the chaparral’s edge. Before him lay a great clearing, with a house in its center. With a cry of joy the soldier made his way to the building. It was deserted. There was not a sign of life anywhere, and all around, com¬ pletely inclosing the clearing, he saw the chaparral walls. A great wooden cistern, such as one finds in southern countries, rose beside the house. In the times when there had been rain water had poured from the roof into the cistern. There was a faucet six inches from tho bottom of the great tank. Thomas almost staggered as he went to it aud turned the han- die. Not a drop of water trickled I j out. He was at the verge of despair, but with that hope which is always present even at fortune’s lowest ebb lie thought that it was possible that a little water might still remain in the oistern below the point tapped by the faucet, fie climbed upon a shed and from thenoo to tho roof of the dwell¬ ing. The top of the cistern was cov¬ ered, save for tho small hole into which the pipe from the eaves trough ran. The trooper tore oft' two of the rotting hoards and looked into tho cistern depths, far down, below tho entering place of tho spigot he saw something glisten. It was water. He cut strips from his suspenders and from his clothing, and letting down an old tin pot that he had found in tho house he managed to draw up a mouthful of water. It was stagnant aud ill staelliug, but no draught that man ever took seemed sweeter to him than did that drink of green-coated cistern water to Trooper Thomas. He let the can down again and again, aud drank until new life and strength came to him. He knew that there must be a disused trail leading some¬ where through the chaparral from the cloaring. He made a circuit of the jungle’s edge and Anally found the trail. He knew, not where it would lead, but he knew also that his only hope lay in following it. Ho had not gono more than a hundred yards be¬ fore he met two Mexicans, who proved not to belong to the bandit gang. They gave him something to eat, and agreed to pilot him back to the camp of his troop. It was then that Trooper Thomas made the astounding discovery that, although he had been wandering for forty-eight hours, he was not five miles from the place where he had lost the flank of the skirmish line. Compasslees and with no landmarks to guide him, he had been practically traveling in o circle until when, in the half delirium of the second night in the ehaporral, he had risen, aud going blindly ahead had managed to keep for ft while in » straight line.—Chicago Record, WHAT A JOURNALIST fS. How Ho Differs From a Plain, Ordinary New#pajier Man. After his lecture before the journal¬ istic class at Cornwall University, a sophomore asked Eli Perkins when he became a journalist. “Never,” said Eli, “but I do hope, after twenty years’ more experience, to become a newspaper man.” “AVell, what is tho difference?’ asked the sophomore. said “A “Just this, my so-n,” Eli. callow reporter calls himself a jour¬ nalist. As George- Welslions says, ‘is his first tadpole stage, when his head is swelled,’ he is a journalist. If he finally shows great brain and indus¬ try, and escapes the fool-killer, he may become a reporter, fitter years of study and toil, and when his brains are stuffed with wisdom, wit and dis¬ cretion enough to kill Ilia own editor¬ ials and ‘makeup’ a sixteen-page Sun¬ day edition, then I say lie's a news¬ paper man.” “Then this is as high in tho profes¬ as he can “Yes; he is now at the pinnacle. By and by, when he gets lazy aud stiff and old and stupid, they reduce him to the position of editor. “An editor is a decayed newspaper man with bunions on his brain, chil¬ blains on his heart, corns on his ears and warts and dyspepsia on his liver. Tho business of the editor is to sleep uptown all day and at night he prowls around a newspaper office, and at mid¬ night he takes a blue pencil and assas¬ idea sinates every bright and readable that the smart reporters have brought in during the day. while the “The editor is ail epithet, reporter is all proof. The editor calls a man a chicken thief and gets sued for libel, white the reporter, kodak in hand, interviews him while picking off the feathers in his back yard, and the next day the thief takes ft whole ad¬ vertisement to shut up the newspaper. “No,” continued Eli, “I hope I am a newspaper man, and I dread the time when I shall get old and stupid and have to kill my own bright things whioh made the people glad, sold newspapers and made Americans know me.” How to Fit a Shoe. “People would find less difficulty in suiting themselves with ready-made shoes,” said an experienced shoe¬ maker,’ “if they would stand up to have them fitted. Nine persons out of ten require a particularly comfort¬ able chair when they are having shoes tried on, and it is difficult to make them stand for a few minutes even when the shoe is fitted. Then, when they begin to walk about, they are surprised that the shoes are less com¬ fortable than they were when first fit¬ ted. The reason is simple. “The foot is smaller when one sits in a chair than it is when one te walk¬ ing about. Exercise brings a con¬ siderable quantity of blood to the feet, which accordingly swell. The mus¬ cles also expand. These fasts must be borne in mind when one buys one’s shoes, or discomfort and disappoint¬ ment are sure to be the result. Peo¬ ple who are not comfortable in ready¬ made shoes should have both feet measured. The -result will generally be the discovery that they have feet of different sizes, aud therefore need specially made shoes.”—Washington Star. London’s First HaHway. The last remaining relic of the first railway in London has just disap¬ peared from public view, having fallen wearily into tlxe waters of the AYandle. It was in 1801, or nearly a century ago, that an act was passed authoriz¬ ing tho construction of a railway from "Wandsworth to Croydon, the sleepers being of stone and horses the motivo power. The scheme included a dock at AVandsworth, and it is the ancient wooden crane connected therewith which has just committed suicide in despair at the futility of its life.— | London Chronicle. SAfflFORD GETS GOVERNORSHIP Alabama Democrats Name Him Unanimously. OPPOSITION WITHDRAWN Democrats of Stale Open Meeting In Montgomery With Harmony Prevail¬ ing to an Unusual Degree. A Montgomery special says: On the third ballot Wednesday night, after just a little sparring, tho Alabama Democratic state convention nomi¬ nated for governor Hon. AVillinm J. Samford, of Opelika, one of the clean¬ est, purest, best and wisest men in the state. The honor was worthily be¬ stowed, as every man in the conven¬ tion realized and emphasized with his applause. It has been many years since a gnb- ernatorial nomination in Alabama has left as few scars, To be defeated by Colonel Samford is no reflection on any mau. His opponents appreciated this fact, as well as did their friends. He won out over three formidable op- ponents, and did so without entering a combination or exchanging a vote j with any one. He won on his merits, and on his oratory, for wherever he spoke in the campaign he bound his hearers to him. Colonel Samford came to the con- vention with 168 votes instructed for him, as against seventy-six for Mr, i Waller, of Hale, speaker of the house; sixty-eight for Mr. Stallings, con- gressman from this district, and fifty- nine for General Charles M. Shelly, of Birmingham,former congressman from the fourth Alabama district. One hundred and twenty votes of the 501 in the convention were uninstrueted. The first ballot was as follows: Sam¬ ford 216, Stallings 102}, Walter 96}, Shelly 8*.t. At the close of the second ballot, which was taken about 6:30 o’clock p. m., a motion to adjourn was made by an opponent of Colonel Samford. This was the test vote. The Samford men wanted to remain and nominate their favorite. The friends of the other candidates desired time to figure among themselves, When the roll was called the vote stood in favor of adjournment 240, opposed to adjourn- ment 263. This was understood by the knowing ones to mean that Sam- j ford could get 263 votes when he had 1 to have them. ! The third ballot was proceeded with. ! Colonel Samford had received 238 votes with several counties unreport¬ ed, aud still juggling,when Hon. John B. Knox, who knows how to do the graceful thing, climbed on a chair, contrived to suppress the yells for “Samford! Samford!” and stated that, realizing Colonel Samford was the choice of a majority of the convention, the friends of Mr. AValler, General Shelly and Mr. Stallings had author¬ ized him to withdraw their names and move to make the nomination of Col- onel Samford unanimous. This announcement was received with tho wildest enthusiasm by the convention and Colonel Samford was nominated without a dissenting vote. In response to the demands of the convention he came from his hotel and delivered one of his inimitable speech¬ es. He expressed his gratitude to the Democracy. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the noon session was the introduc¬ tion, by Hon. Robert J. Lowe, of a resolution to the effeot that it was the seuse of the convention that the wel¬ fare of Alabama demanded a constitu¬ tional convention. Under the rules, the resolution was referred to the committee on platform. After the nomination of Colonel Samford, the convention adjourned until 9:30 Thursday morning. Against “Tuba” Service. A Washington special says: The house, Wednesday, put its heel upon th# pneumatic mail tube Rervice now in operation in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, and if its action stands the whole service will be crushed out. THE LONE HIGHWAYMAN. Negro Bandit Holds Up a Coach Full of Passengers. A southbound St. Louis, Iron Moun¬ tain and Southern passenger train was held up by a negro bandit near Hig- ginsou, fifty miles north of Little Bock, Ark., at 1 o’clock Friday morn¬ ing. The negro had no visible con¬ federates and confined his operations to one passenger coach, compelling the panic-stricken passengers to hand over their valuables at the jioiut of a pistol. The bandit escaped. ASSETS OF APPLETON CO. Receiver at Atlanta, Ua., Files Inven¬ tory In Superior Court. Mr. Alfred C. Webster, receiver for the southern department of D. Apple- ton & Co., filed in the office of the clerk of the superior court at Atlanta Tuesday au inventory of the assets in bis cba’ ge. Three thousand open accounts are reported with a face value of $48,- 103.97, 10 per cent of which amount is uncollectible. Tho stock on hand is inventoried at $53,121.95. TOWNS IN ASHES. Over 2,500 Buildings In Ottowa and Hull, Ontario, Destroyed By Raging Flames. A special from Ottawa, Out., says: Five square miles of territory burned over; more than 2,500 dwellings, fac¬ tories, mills, stores and other buildings destroyed, entailing a loss estimated to reach $20,000,000 and between 12,000 and 15,000 men, women and children homeless, is a summing up of the havoo wrought by a fire which ragerl at Hull and in Ottawa Thursday. Most of the lumber piles in Ottawa and Hull have disappeared and are now mere heaps of charred wood and ashes. Half a dozen churches and schools, a number of mills, the Hull waterworks, the Hull courthouse and jail, the postoffice, the convent—al¬ most every business place, and about 1,000 dwellings and shops iu Hull have been destroyed. Indeed, nothing prac¬ tically of Hull is left but a church and a few houses beyond it. The fire originated through a fire in n sooty chimney and the high wind caused the flames to spread rapidly in the direction of the lumber piles and mills on both the Hull and Ottawa shores of the Ottawa river and Claud- iere falls. The total loss is estimated at $15,000,000 aud insurance at $2,500,000. ALABAfHANS FAVOR BRYAN. State Democratic Convention Finishes Its Work At Montgomery. The Alabama Democratic state eon- Tentlon . adjourned sine die Thursday . after nominating the next governor and his cabinet, indorsing Mr. Bryan and the Chicago platform, indorsing Senator Morgan aud his Nicaraguan canal plan, selecting a new state exec- utive committee and electing delegates and electors to the national convention at Kansas City. It will go down in history as perhaps the most harmoni- ous state convention ever held in Ala- bama. There was less trading and trafficking in votes and influence than iu any of the conventions held in re¬ cent years. There were no combinations to de¬ feat the strongest man, notwithstand¬ ing there was an average of four or five candidates for each office. The favorites all won, and it was the evi¬ dent policy of the assembly, repre¬ senting the Democrats of the state, to give the nomination to the man who came to the convention with more votes than any of his opponents. The following is the state ticket in full: Governor—William J. Sanford. Secretary of State—Robert P. Mc- David. Treasurer—J. Craig Smith, Auditor—W. H. Mathews, attorney General—Charles G.Brown. Superintendent of Education—John 'W. Abercrombie. Commissioner of Agriculture—R. pj. Poole. “WITHDRAW FROG CUBA.” The Import of a Resolution Presented By Mr. Mason. In the senate, Thursday, Mr. Mason of Illinois introduced a joint resolu¬ tion ' requiring the president to with¬ draw the forces of the United States from Cuba so as to turn the govern¬ ment of the island over to the Cubans by the 4th day of next July. The reso¬ lution was as follows: “That the president of the United States is hereby requested to withdraw the forces of the United States as rap¬ idly as may be done with convenience and safety, and that on the fourth day of July, 1900, all civil and military power of the United States be turned over aud surrended to the people of the island of Cuba.” Senator Mason argued that the Cu¬ bans must be turned loose sooner or later to govern themselves, and that the shortest way for them to learn self-government is to begin the prac¬ tice at as early date as possible. MORE CLAIMS COniNG. Sultan of Turkey Promised a Busy Time In Squaring Accounts. Advices from Constantinople state that in view of the steps taken by the United States government arising out of the Armenian massacres, the em¬ bassies of Great Britain, France Aus¬ tria and Germany have asked their governments for instructions as to their similar claims. CAROLINA PROHIBITIONISTS Promise to Make It Warm In Palmet¬ to State This Summer. A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says: The prohibitionists are preparing for a determined state campaign this sum¬ mer. A call lias been issued for a state convention to meet May 23d, for the purpose of suggesting candidates for governor and other state offices. C. C. Featherstone, the prohibition candidate for governor, in the last Democratic primary was defeated by Governor Ellerbe, the dispensary can¬ didate, by only 2,000 votes, The dis- pensary will be represented by Gov¬ ernor McSweeuey. RIVERA RESIGNS POST. Quits Cuban Cabinet and Becomes Can¬ didate For Mayor of Havana. A special from Havana says: Gen¬ eral Buis Rivera has resigned the post of secretary of agriculture, industry and commerce in the governor gen¬ eral’s cabinet. He has also announced to the citizens of Havana that he is a candidate for the mayoralty. His let¬ ter of resignation was sent to General Wood.