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OGILLA DISPATCH.
OCILLA, GEORGIA.
IRWIN COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.,
Proprietors.
Apprehension of a great war in
Europe is said to be one oanse of the
great inorease of immigration to the
United States.
If there is one thing worse than
the bicycle soorcher it is the auto¬
mobile scorcher. He is just so much
more a nuisance as he is bigger. He
needs to learn the same lesson that
has been incnlcated at much expense
wherever the wheel has bred reckless¬
ness.
The telephone has proved very suc¬
cessful in the West in places where
different farmhouses are connected by
wire, as it enables them to give each
other timely warning of the approach
of tramps. It i3 also useful in cases
of fire and sickness. The possibilities
of the telephone in rural districts are
very great.
An interesting calculation has re
eently been made by an English statis¬
tician, in which he shows that when
the electric light has entirely dis¬
placed gas, oil lamps, and candles ia
the United Kingdom there will be 40,-
0004 ess deaths annually, these illu-
minants being so much more unhealth¬
ful than electricity.
A single robber is reports! to have
held up two stages on the Yosemite
line. After collecting their personal
cash from the passengers, he directed
the coaches to proceed. It is refresh¬
ing to hear about this, for road travel
•was in danger of losing most of its
charm out there through the absence
of peril. A few events like this will
impart a spice to life that it would
Jack otherwise,
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The unfortunate babies born in
Great Britain and her colonies this
past winter will have just cause to rail
at fate. Tugela Smith aud Bloemfon¬
tein Brown, Mafeking Jones and Lady¬
smith Robinson are names conferred
upon recipients helpless to refuse. A
similar epidemic raged in this country
a year since, and Havana Irving, San
Juan Evans and Santiago Nichols
peered out among the countless mul¬
titudes of Deweys, Teddys and Fitz-
hugh Lees.
Few Americans who have not trav¬
eled abroad aro aware how small a
quantity of fruit is eaten in Great
Britain and on the continent, as com¬
pared with the enormous supply con¬
sumed in this country. It is an old
saying that an Englishman makes the
eating of a peach almost a religious
ceremony. London papers treat as
prodigious the receipt of oranges
from this continent; bnt it is insignifi¬
cant as compared with the amount
consumed in this country.
The time has been when a youth
who purposed seientifio pursuits had
little to expect but toil and poverty.
The prospect must have deterred
many who would have endured any¬
thing for themselves, but who had
others, dependents, to consider. To
such men the application of science to
every-day industry means much. In
effect it has created innumerable new
occupations that offer a living and a
ohanoe to learn. One who deserves
success will ask no more—until he
has earned it, states Youth’s Compan¬
ion.
Secretary Wilson proposes that the
postman’s wagon in the rural free de¬
livery service, which is now rapidly
extending,shall carry the daily weather
forecast for the benefit of farmers.
With universal rural free delivery,
every householder may receive a daily
visit from a representative of the
United States Government. The sug¬
gestion is a reasonable one that the
mail-carrier shonld attend to other
Government matters, of which a dis¬
tribution of the weather forecasts may
be only the first upon an extending
list.
A writer in the North American Re¬
view calls attention to the evils of ex
eessive legislation. It appears that
at their last annual sessions the leg¬
islatures of our forty-five States en¬
acted more than fourteen thousand
laws—good, bad an indifferent. Such
industry might be said to speak vol¬
umes for the public spirit of the Amer¬
ican people if we could wink out of
sight the facts that many of the "acts”
spring from an unwholesome desire
to accomplish social reforms by short
processes, and that many more
them represent individual or corpor¬
ate contrivances to utilize the power
of the State for the turning of private
grindstones.
FEEDIN* THE STOCK.
Hear the oliora* In that tle-np, much, ger-runch, nml ranch and runohl
There’* a row of honest orlttensl Does me good to hear ’em munch
When the barn Is gettlu’ ousky and the sun’s behind the drifts,
Touobiu’ last the gable winder where the dancin’ hav-dnst sifts,
When the coaxln’ from the tie-up kind o’ hluts It’s live o’clock,
Wal, I’ve got a Job that suits me—that’s the chore of feedln’ stock.
We’ve got patohes down to our house—honest patches, though, and neat,
Hut we’d rather have the patohes than to skiuch on what we eat.
Lots of work, amt grub to baolc ye—tliut’s a.mighty critters wholesome creed,
Critters fust, sir, that’s my motto—give the all they ueod.
And the way wo do to our house, inarm and me take what Is lelt,
And—wal, we ain’t goln’ calculatin' hungry, as you’ll notloe by our bis heft.
Hang the mail that’s when be measures out hay,
Groanin’ ev'ry time lie Ditches ary forkful ogt the "bay;”
Hang-the man who feeds out r:ifI-souH, wood and wire from tho swale,
’Cause he wants to press his herd grass; send his clover off for sale.
Oh, the dim old barn seems homelike, with Its overhanging mows.
With Its warm and battened tie-up, full of well-fed sheep and cows.
Then I shet the door behind me, drop the bar and drive tho pin,
And, with Jeff a-wagglu’ after, lug the foamin’ milk palls In.
That’s the style of things to our house—marm and me we don’t pull up
Until ev'ry critter’s eatln’, from the cattle down to pup. good.
Then the blsklts and the sparo-rlb anil plum preserve tH9to
For wo’re feellu', me and mother, that we're actin’ ’bout’s wo should.
Like or not, a’r, after 9Upper, mother sews another patoh,
And she says the duds look trampy, ’cause she ain’t got goods to matoh.
Fus*. of all, though, comes the meal bins and the hay mows; after those,
II there’s any extry dollars, wal, we’-ll see about some clothes.
But to-nlgbt, why, bless ye, mother, pull tho rug aorost the door,
Warmth and food and peace and comfort—let’s not pester God for more.
—Lewiston (He.) Journal.
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A BUNCH OF KSYS.
By William H. Brooks*
!| Li FACT beyond
M dispute was that
. I the door was
mm barred and they
i were locked out.
From the pitch
black interior of
the freight eleva¬
tor Mollie Car¬
ton reviewed the
V V- situation.
It was werth re-
i viewin S> being,
- as situations go,
unique.
In the first place, no young woman
Of spend mind sits in a freight eleva¬
tor at midnight attired in a dinner
gown as a mere pastime. Add to this
the fact that tho painfully new and
unyielding ropes by which tho lift
was propelled were being pulled upon
lustily by the clerk from the neigh¬
boring drug store—awakened from a
sound sleep for the purpose—and it
wili reajlily be seen that something
unusual had happened in the Carton
family. when the drug
At that moment
clerk was pulling Mollie with infinite
pains toward the fifth floor, rear, of
the apartment building in which the
Cartons had the pleasure of residing
Mrs. Carton sat wringing her hands
and oalling upon heaven to save her
child upon the front stairs. To be
exact, it was upon the first step of the
fourth flight of stairs she sat. Which
shonld make it evident to everybody
that she was conducting bar lamenta¬
tion just outside her own door, She
sat outside not from choice, but be¬
cause she couldn’t help herself.
In short, she was locked out. And
so was Mollie.
So was the drug clerk for that mat¬
ter, but the fifth apartment in the
“Brunhilda,” not being his abiding
place, he did not take it to heart as
Mrs. Carton did. Having known the
Cartons for only twenty minutes, jus
interest in the matter was as yet
quasi-professional. would be better to
But perhaps it
begin at the beginning.
Be it known, then, that Mrs. Carton
and her daughter had been giving a
little dinner tnat evening. Tho guests
had stopped on rather late, and the
janitor, after the manner of his kind,
having put the lights cut early.
Mollie stepped into the hall to light
the gas that her friends might find
their way down the winding stairs in
comfort. Mrs. Carton followed her,
and together they sped the parting
diners. While they were thus engrossed
the door—their own treacherous front
door—impelled by a slight draft, or
by what somebody has called the total
depravity of inanimate things, clicked
sharply shut. They both turned
quickly, but it was too late, The
latch had done its worst.
Their maid had departed immedi¬
ately after serving,to a balljintending
to spend the night with her sister.
Mr. Carton was ont of town on a
business trip, So there waa no hope
of success from within.
It was obviously impossible to go
to a hotel attired in their evening
frocks. Besides, they had no money.
They knew no one in the buildiDg.
Their friends all lived at a distance.
Their guests were already beyond
reach. Mrs. Carton entertained a
mental vision of a night spent upon
the street, or, at best, in a drafty hall-
way. Ske sank down upon the stairs
overcome. She also wept.
But Mollie was young, and youth
is ever resourceful. Also, she had a
keen sense of humor, Although she
didn’t dare let her mother know it,
she was amused, At all events, the
situation savored of adventure, and
an opportunity for adventure is not to
he lightly disregarded, even if it does
involve a little discomfort. She patted
her mother’s shoulder soothingly.
“There, there. Don’t cry, dear.
The janitor is sure to have a skeleton
key. I’ll run down and get it."
But the janitor hadn’t any such
thing. Moreover, he resented being
disturbed. He was a hard-working
man, he said, and a night’s sleep was
about all he got out of life aside from
throe meals daily. Why didn’t the
young lady go wake up the landlord.
Landlords had an easy time. All they
had to do was collect rents. They
were just made to be waked up. They
liked it.
Fortunately the landlord lived
across the strefit. So, wrapping Mrs.
Janitor’s shawl about her, Mollie went
forth to wake the landlord.
Notwithstanding his rent-collecting
habit, the landlord seemed to share
the janitor’s views on the subject of
sleep. He hadn’t a duplicate key, he
informed her, after at last he had
been awakened and appeared at an
upper window. He seemed to Mollie
to gloat over the faot. He intimated
that his business was renting apart¬
ments, not running other people’s
domestic affairs.
"But can’t you suggest something?”
Mollie cried, desperately. "We must
get in, you know.”
He suggested the drug clerk on the
corner, who had a big bunch of keys,
might be able to open the door, an^
then he shut the window.
Tho drug clerk was asleep, too, and
hard to arouse, but at last opened the
door wide. Upon perceiving a young
woman, however, he shut it again
.quickly that his disheveled condition
might not be too apparent, leaving,
however, a crack wide enough for con¬
versational purposes.
“Give me your prescription,” he
said, extending a hand through the
aperture. “Dll turn up the light as
soon as I get in the back room and
you can come in and sit down.”
It was harder than she thought it
would bo to explain her errand.
Mollie’s tongue seemed to cleave to
the roof of her mouth. She experi¬
enced difficulty in breathing.
“I—it—it isn’t a prescription,” she
gasped.
“O!” said the clerk.
It was all he said, but it sounded
like more to Mollie. She knew it
meant more.
"I—that is, we—my mother and I,
you know—are in great trouble-”
"Of course, I understand,” said the
drug clerk, instant sympathy in his
tone.
“What does he understand?”
thought Mollie wildly.
“Don’t you know your physician’s
telephone number?” he went on. “I’ll
call him up right away.”
“It isn’t illness. It really isn’t any¬
thing in your line of business. We are
just locked out.”
Mollie blurted it out at last. She
heaved a little sigh of relief and hur¬
ried on.
“Oar landlord said you had a big
bunch of keys and were very clever
about—about such things, An4 I
hoped you’d help us, so I ventured to
wake you. It really is a serious mat¬
ter, or I wouldn’t have dreamed of dis¬
turbing you.”
There was a tremble in her voice
that convinced the drug clerk. It
was the same tremble that won the
landlord. Moreover, she was young
and he was young. And he did hap¬
pen to possess a good.temper.
“I ought not to leave the store,”
ho said. “Trouble for mo if I get
caught. Is it near?”
“Just around the corner,” Mollie
hastened to assure him.
“Wait a minute, then, until I get
dressed, and I’ll come with you.”
It seemed a long time before he
emerged, jingling his bunch of keys,
but he really made a hasty .toilet.
Together they repaired to Mollie’s
flat, and the clerk tried his best to
unlock the door, but failed. Then
Mollie suggested the freight elevator.
"You know therens a sliding door
in our kitoken where we take the gro¬
ceries and things off the elevator,
Mary never locks it. I have to do
that every night the last thing. So
it is sure to be open. And it is quite
a large door, I’m sure I-
Then she turned to the drug clerk
deprecatingly. afraid
"I’m I’m heavy and the ropes
are stiff, But do you suppose you
could pull me up on the elevator?”
The janitor’s wife’s shawl had
slipped off by this time, and Mollie
looked so pretty that it would have
taken a far more seasoned yonth than
the drag clerk to withstand her, es¬
pecially when she plead.
"I’m sure I can,” he answered val¬
iantly. “It’s a good plan.”
But Mrs. Carton refused t» see in
it anything bat her daughter’s doom.
"You’ll be killed,” she sobbed,
“And then what will your father say?”
Mollie aud the clerk descended to
the basement, which, of course, was
dark, but fortunately the drug clerk
had a matoh. They found thejele-
vator after a short search. It wasn’t
a large elevator, bnt Mollie squeezed
herself in and sat like a quarter-
opened jackknife, her head bump¬
ing the top of the elevator and her
elbows resting on her knees, it,
wasn’t'oomfortable. As the machine
reached the first floor a voice startled
them both. It seemed to oome from
Above them. *
"Miss Carton," it said, "your door
is open. Mrs. Carton, would like you
to come upstairs." Mollie and tho
“What?” exclaimed
drug clerk in tho same breath.
"How did it happen?” vouohsafedno explan-
But the voice
nation.
It was an easy matter to drop the
elevator the few feet it had ascended.
Mollie scrambled out. She and the
drug clerk ran upstairs. Mrs. Carton
met them at their door beaming, A
tall, athletic-looking fellow stood be¬
side her.
“My dear,” she said, "let me pre¬
sent Mr. Mocre, who has so kindly, I
might say bravely, helped us out of
our dilemma.”
“But how?” demanded Mollie,
heedless of conventions. "How iu
the world did he do it?”
"Very simple, I assure you, Miss
Carton,” said the deliverer.
‘‘O, my dear, he ran a most fearful
risk!" exclaimed her mother.
"I happened to be one of the bach¬
elors that keep house just across the
hall from you,” continued the deliv-
erer. “I came home late and found
Mrs. Carton sitting outside our door
in deepest distress. I naturally
asked if I could be of service. And
then-”
“And then, Mollie,” interrupted
Mrs. Carton, “he went into his
kitchen and opened his door in the
elevator shaft just opposite to ours,
pried ours open with an umbrella
aud swung across that awful chasm
right into our kitchen. Wasn’t that
splendid?” stopped, of breath.
Mrs. Carton ont
Jack Moore laughed.
“For a man with a Yale field day or
two back of him it was nothing at
all,” he said.
But Mollie looked impressed.
The drug clerk sow it and knew that
his brief moment was past. It had
been exciting while it lasted. Miss
Carton was charming. He bad never
come so near to a girl of her class
before. But he was glad he knew
enough to realize that it was over.
Mrs. Carton and Mollie both begged
him to come in and have some supper.
Mollie even said she’d do something
on the chafing-dish fbr him. But he
declined. He said he had to get baok
to the storei
As he bathed his smarting hands
with hamamelis in the safe haven of
the prescription room he indulged in
a few bitter thoughts. Ho remem¬
bered how pretty Miss Carton was.
Moore thought so, too. He knew by
the way he looked at her. At this'
moment the Yale man was probably
consuming the rarebit that he, the
drug clerk, had really earned.
The ache whore his hands were
scraped by the ropes seemed to grow
worse.
“It’s a deueedly unequal world,” he
decided.
LOST A HOUSE AND LOT.
Good and Had Luck of a Man of
Norve.
“The discovery of seventeen lots
that belong to the city and had been
forgotten for over half a century re¬
minds me of a curious case that ouce
came up in my own experience,” said
a well-known New Orleans real es¬
tate agent. "One of my oldest clients
is a lady who has resided for a num¬
ber of years in Paris, but whose prin¬
cipal income is derived from several
pieces of valuable property located in
New Orleans. In 1392 I received in¬
structions to sell a certain house and
lot, but on investigation found there
was title, apparently a slight cloud on the
and requested her to send me
all the papers pertaining to it. In
response I received a bank box con¬
taining not only the documents I
wanted, but also an old bill for the
rent for an entirely different piece of
property on the other side of the city.
The bill was made out by the lady’s
father and dated July 1, 1860. It ex¬
cited my curiosity and I proceeded to
make some inquiries, which resulted
in a surprising discovery.
“The property in point was a two-
story brick residence, located iu a
very desirable neighborhood, and, al¬
though more than forty years old,
was still in good repair. It was oc¬
cupied then by a very nice family,
who were paying rent to an old citi¬
zen, who believed in all sincerity that
he was legal owner of the premises.
Just how he acquired his title I would
rather not say, because the person
who sold to him was never able to
make an entirely satisfactory explana¬
tion, and I don’t wish to reopen old
wounds. But the fact is that it be¬
longed to my client’s father, or rather
his estate, and had simply been lost
sight of in the breaking up of the
family direotly after the war. For a
number of years it had no known
owner, then it was coolly appropriatad
by an individual who had no more
right to the place than the man in the
moon. He just came along and took
it. I finally straigthened out the
snarls and Beoured possession for the
lady in Paris without going into
court. She is now getting a rental of
$250 a year out of it.”—New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
Worked by Electricity.
Canada boasts of one of the most
wonderful farms in the world. Its
peculiarity lies in the fact that every¬
thing is worked by electrioity. Two
waterfalls within the bounds of the
farm, some sixty feet, and one hun¬
dred and eighty feet high, furnish the
motive power, a central power being
erected near, and the current is trans¬
mitted by wires to every available
place on the farm.
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Interesting Happenings In the
State Gathered at Random.
ItaliiH Hula Crop*.
Crops of all kinds thronghout the
state have been greatly injured by the
rainy weather. Cotton and corn are
tar behind and the loss to the fruit
will amount to thousands of dollars.
Reports received at the agricultural
department from all sections of the
state report a great damage. Coupled
with this there are hundreds of acres
of cotton that has never yet been
(Shopped out. This faot alone will
tend to make the crop short.
Grass has grown rapidly during the
past three weeks and if the sun should
happen to shine at any time soon the
farmers will have more work than they
can attend to.
Commissioner of Agriculture Stevens
said: "The crop is two weeks late.
The extreme wet and damp weather
has damaged the upland corn, and that
in tho bottom lands has been over¬
flowed, which will necessitate a great
deal of replanting.
"The cotton crop has suffered great¬
ly and is exceedingly grassy. Hun¬
dreds of acres of young cotton have
not yet bean chopped ont for the first
time. In addition to this the cool
nights and damp atmosphere has caus¬
ed a great deal of the ootton to become
lousy.
"The fruit crop has been seriously
damaged. It is rotting on many of the
trees, and in many of the orchards and
vineyards throughout the state is fall¬
ing from the trees and vines. The
siege of the rainy weather has been
hard on the fruit growers, and the
onoe brilliant prospect for a fine crop
no longer exists. Grapes are suffering
more than anything else. The scarcity
of fruit will in all probability cause a
rise in the prices.”
After a Cotton Mill.
A delegation of prominent citizens
of Gainesville, visited Philadelphia
the past week to look after the move¬
ment of one of the largest cotton mills
of the Quaker City to Gainesville.
Negotiations have already progressed
far enough to warrant the statement
that the Philadelphia mill will either
he moved directly to Gainesville or a
Philadelphia-Georgia combination will
be made by which a new mill will be
erected in Gainesville to co-operate
with the present mill now operating
in Philadelphia.
Kdltnr Fowler Still Alive.
Editor Fowler, of Toccoa, who was
so seriously stabbed in the neck by his
brother-in-law, Bert Safford, at Demo-
rest, on the 21st, is still alive and
slight hopes are entertained for his
recovery. Safford is in jail awaiting
the result, but it is conceded by all
who have seen him that he is insane.
He refuses to say anything but "yes”
or "no” when questioned.
Atkinson Monument Fund.
The movement to erect a monument
to the memory of Governor W. Y. At¬
kinson is bearing fruit.
This noble cause bad its origin
among the people of Newnan, the
home place of the lamented governor.
It was quickly taken up by the friends
of the departed all over Georgia, and
has met with gratifying success. The
grand total subscription to the fund
to date amounts to about 31,700.
Work on the Oemulgee River.
Congressman Bartlet has notified
President Smith, of the Macon cham¬
ber of commerce, that the work of
cleaning the Ocmulgee river will con¬
tinue steadily on, and that $40,000 of
the appropriation provided for in the
sundry civil bill will be available as
soon as the present sum is exhausted.
The $20,000 which was appropriated
last year has been used, and in re¬
sponse to the notification of this fact
by Captain Gillette, who is in charge
ef the general work, the authorities at
Washington informed him that the addi¬
tional sum of $40,000 will he available
at once.
Jailer ‘Whips a Mob.
Singlehanded and unaided Jailer
Tom Taylor at Rome, Ga., prevented
a mob from meting out summary pun¬
ishment on Gns Trout, a negro ac-
oused of attempted assault. The at¬
tempt took place early Saturday morn¬
ing between 2 and 3 o'clock.
Taylor sleeps in the jail office, which
offers the ouly entrance to the jail
proper. Unsuspecting trouble he was
awakened by hammering at the office
door. He arose to see the trouble,
and when ha opened the door several
men forced their way inside. They at
once demanded the keys to the jail
door and to Trout’s cell.
. Taylor refused point blank to com¬
ply aud the crowd leaped upon him in
an effort to overpower him. But they
reckoned without their host.
Taylor is short, but compactly
built, and possesses prodigious
strength. A desperate struggle began
in tho small office, and Taylor was
crushed to the floor by superior Dam¬
bers, only to rise again and fling his
assailants to all sides. The bed was
smashed to pieces and the furniture
overturned.
As the struggle oontinned Taylor
appeared to develop greater strength
and fought them off again and again.
They finally secured his keys from his
pockets, aud while some were trying
to unlock the great outside door, oth¬
ers were attempting to keep Taylor
back.
Like an infuriated lion, the jailer
hurled them aside, and leaping to one
corner of the office snatched up a win¬
chester and leveling it on the crowd,
said with deadly coolness:
"Now, gat out, or I’ll pump lead
into somebody."
They saw he was in earliest and tb
party disappeared into the darkness.
* * ■ *
Want Itamoved.
In the United States district oourt
at Atlanta a petition has been filed by
the International Paper company ask¬
ing as one of the creditors of the bank¬
rupt firm, Wellhouse & Sons, that A.
Steiner, appointed receiver a few days
ago, be removed.
As the ground for the petition, it is
alleged that Mr. Steiner was the choice
of the bankrupt firm for receiver, and
that the bankruptcy was pre-arranged
by the Wellhouses, while ostensibly
involuntary.
Koycott Decided an Illegal.
Judge Brinson at Augnsta has filed
his decision in a case that is impor¬
tant not onlv to the newspapers, but
to organiztd labor, as it deals with the
right of unions to employ the boycott
as a means of compelling n rival to
employ union labor. Judge Brinson
decides as follows:
"Thu owners of the Tribune have a
property interest in that paper. They
have a right to such earnings as
they can honestly make. The right of
laborers to combine is not even re-
motely involved in this case, nor is
their right to work for whom they may
choose, or to cease work, either in a
body or as individuals. Nor is their
right to patronize, whom they may
desire.
‘‘All these rights they unquestion¬
ably have. No one could or should
seek to deprive them of these rights.
These oirculars seem to have this
meaning, viz: ‘We, as organizations,
have boycotted The Tribune; we de¬
mand of their patrons that they do the
-ame. If the patrons do not do so we
hereby put them on notice that we
will boycott them also.’ One may be
intimidated by threats of property
loss, as well as by threats of violence.
"Being governed entirely by what
'ferns to be the current authority in
other jurisdictions of the United
States where those questions have
arisen, no other course remains but to
hold, under the admitted facts, that
the case of the plaintiffs is made out
and that they are entitled to the in¬
junction prayed for. The defendants
ire, therefore, enjoined from sending
to patrons of The Daily Tribune tho
said circulars described in said peti¬
tion, or any circulars containing simi¬
lar threats, or from threatening or
using any means of intimidation to
cause said patrons to sever their busi¬
ness relations with said paper.”
Dividend Wanted.
Judge James A. Anderson, of At¬
lanta, one of the receivers of the
Southern Mutual Building and Loan
issociation, stutes that the stockhold¬
ers will not get more than 20 per cent
of the amounts found in their favor by
Auditor Hammond. Judge Anderson
urges that a speedy trial be given in
he exceptions to the auditor’s report.
He said that he was receiving letters
and telegrams from the stockholders
asking when they would get their
money. There was great clamor for a
dividend.
No Funds For State Encampment.
Governor Candler says he will not
recommend the legislature to appropri¬
ate any money at the coming session
for expenses of a state encampment
for Georgia troops. The governor said
at present the state was doing the best
it could for the soldier hoys. Under
the present plan the state is giving so
much per year for company expenses,
the idea being, the governor says, to
build up the companies instead of reg¬
iments, as heretofore. It is expected,
however, the friends of the military
will rnnke a strong effort for a large
appropriation.
Solicitor Is Named.
Governor Candler has appointed I.
H. Geer, of Colquitt, Ga., solicitor of
the county eourt of Miller. The new¬
ly appointed solicitor of Miller county
is a young lawyer of prominence, and
his selection was made by Governor
Candler out of a number of applicants.
ANTMMPERIALISTS MEET.
Ilf>prpwntativ«i From Various States Con-
sitter I.auucliinff a New Party.
Anti-imperialists, to the number of
thirty-five and hailing from the princi¬
ple cities of the country, met in New
York Monday. The meeting was to
determine what action they will take
in the coming presidential campaign,
and as a result of the conference it is
probable that a new party will be
formed, the members of which will
vote independently of both the Repub¬
lican and Democratic 'parties.
A resolution was unanimously pass¬
ed directing the executive committee
of the American Anti-Imperialists’
League, under the auspioes of which
the meeting was held, to call a general
conference or convention of anti-im¬
perialists to consider a plan of cam¬
paign. This call will not be issued
until after the national Democratic
convention at Kansas City, and when
issued will probably be for a date
early in August.
The resolution states that the call is
to be issued "to the end that we may
carry into effect our condemnation of
the imperialistic policy of the present
administration."
Orange Rebellion Peters Out.
The war office in London has re¬
ceived advices from Lord Roberts,
Btating that the rebellion in Cape
Colony north of the Orange river is
now oyer. The last formidable body
under Commandant De Yilliers. sur¬
rendered on June 20th, consisting of
about 220 men, 280 horses, eighteen
wagons, 260 rifles and 100,000 rounds
of ammunition.