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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1898)
o ‘ L 2/ the -WIFE'S AWAY. N L n !va£use aH Uttered up, fefcMll with the air of night. [ j-nows then how thin the veil _ ^at ’ separates fdai^yUonfewithTts it3t r pictured walls, 11 tohimwhe n his loved one’s gone [more heathen’s abiding place. jtn the tola?“Neve^mS” Sy house all littered whenhe’grieves. up. a IhfefootfaUs^rlng through the empty rooms tare tv [let THEM REST”! STOUT OF SPANISH VILLAGE LIFE. 8 A R. PARDO MAR i GALL had prac¬ tised medicine in Nuestra Senora de mu. Africa for two $==* years'and had not idf wl/ had tient. a No single wonder pa m 0 he became an ar ■/W' dent reader; sheer ennui drove him is books. And tbe villagers, who btc everybody from their own pecu fpoint of view, sneered: “He calls Iself inieiit a physician; perish the donkey. Gov that sent us such a Bhe is an ass. Don’t we see him ■aged in reading from morning till ■it? Why? because he wants to fa. fces that Learn he at has twenty-eight. not completed That his Kies. Therefore, he cannot be a Ktwortby Bn doctor. Let’s keep away Bow, him.” like a physician without patients a lamp lacking oil. And one 1st live, you know. And that poor ■tor did not earn enough to' pay for ■ water he drank. An end had to Imade of this somehow. .,So, one I fclic morning, Don Pardo hired the bellringer to announce to every fcseholder Blly and to the people gen that after long and earnest ■dies las he had perfected medical art to be able to recall the dead from I grave and reiinbue them with life. I‘A real wonder—and I will perform I’so ran the advertisement; “I will I it whenever the good people of lestra Senora de Africa arc ready | [y, it; before in broad everybody.” daylight, in our ceme [The villagers went wild with expect by. II “Even if it’s only a trick, it be interesting to watch him at irk, for the proof of the pudding is the eating,”, said some. Some ar ed: “Maybe the rascal found a ok written by a Saint in Heaven, osi new-fangled inventiops are made ^ way. Let ns go, anyhow, to see lether he has ideas or straw in his ad.” * It was decided that Don Pardo ould appear on the following Snn ;y, at 12 o’clock sharp, in the ceme fv to recall one or two dead, perhaps re. Oa Sunday noon the cemetery was crammed full as church on Easter &y. miles Everybody was there; people )m had gathered 'to witness e miracle. With the first stroke of e clock the doctor appeared garbed tdack and his brow steeped, in mys : bowsdfcigorously, thoughts, as it were. Using both he pushed through e crowd. Now he stood on the little ,.^ rora which the great cross rises. Silence,” . he thundered in a voice authority, and when all was quiet ■ mgan: “Friends and fellow citi n h 1 have promised to recall some ar t person to life. And I will do so. mi y^ord ! to Heaven. on it,” and “Of he course,,’ raised his be s inued, “it is just as for esurrect Jainre easy me Isabel, Maximo as Carlos, Angela haps, as Neives.. Or fio P er wish me to recall to life much beloved Simeon-Simeon z, yes, that was his name. The or caap who died last of imphon. Shall year con H°ld it be he, my friends?’" on, Don Pardo,” cried a o^ans 1 °w) and Voice he (<I am h . g 5w,„dT was a good enough ad m He m ‘ 3e “* isVtAa hp4:i Ista11 h„ C3 T for Him as long i s z ter zl?z: lau’be’oat’of * °^« aiom eDd ’ n * ing the and month ready to 1 marrv bSLd Pc,- 1 £ the lcm Pedro h My relatives S .’ he ‘ insist it. - t-icr ans nb!ish upon —t n« P ed a week ago, the weddL 3L Pre8ent8 eady received '” most ‘ of “I am V * ten-upt the m‘ U 616 P resent to in cha ” it 0Cee( doctor, v bug 3 , Senora Con politely, but a tremor of disappointment in voice, “otherwise there might bfeen trouble. I will resurrect the wife of the shoemaker, “Not on your life!” A tall man ap¬ the doctor, shouting these words to the accompaniment of angry gestures. “Lola,” be added, “was my wife; ten long years we lived to¬ gether, and the frying-pan, I reckon, is a picnic place compared with our household that was. I say Dolores shall stay where she is. If you had known her, doctor, you would appre¬ ciate the situation. You would not rescue her for all the gold in the Bank of Spain. She was a dragon, Senor, was Lola, as stubborn as a mule, lazy, full of fight and sloppy; served three terms for stealing, and had a tongue like a viper’s. Ah, that tongue, I could never stand up against it.” “But, my friend,” began the doc¬ tor. “Pardon me, Senor, Phave told the story but half. You know the old proverb: Wife dead,jiew bat. Lola left three youngsters, and as I could not tend to them myself I remarried.” “I understand,” this from Don Pardo, who added, good-naturedly, “and perhaps the wife you have now not an angel, either. Let me think of somebody else. I have an idea—I shall resurrect that universal favorite, our brave Maestro Alonso.” “Maestro Alonso Pi y Ladron?” cried a young man, standing in the midst of the crowd. “The same.” “My poor father! Let him have his peace, Senor doctor. Itwouldbe cruel to recall so saintly a man from eternity. Besides, it would break bis heart to observe the breach in our once so happy family. We j have di¬ vided up the farm he left, but only after much figktinginand out of court. In the scuffle one of my brothers lost every hair in his head. And all that’s left of father’s three hundred acres are a few beggarly strips of land. There are six of us, four brothers and two sisters, all with large families. I as¬ sure you npt one of us has a centesimo above his or her immediate wants.” “But it might be possible to ar¬ range “Don't think of it. If you resur¬ rect him we brothers and sisters will have to keep him. How can we do it? Our silk worms are dying, anoth¬ er deadly insect invades our vineyards year by year, tbe olives are full of worms nowadays, corn will not grow, for it never rains. These ai‘e hard times, doctor.” “If you will have it so, in God’s name let Maestro Alonso sleep, But, my friends, I have not come here to re¬ hearse family jars. I want to resur¬ rect somebody. For the last time, then, who shall it be? Tell me your choice; everybody is welcome to name a poor soul.” “Jesusa, resurrect my Jesusa,” shouted a woman with tears streaming from her eyes. The doctor was about to answer her when a young girl pushed through the people and approached him. “No, no, Senor doctor,” she cried, “it can¬ not be. God took Jesusa just in time. Let her rest in safictified ground, Don Pardo, for he whom she loved has married another.” “Poor Jesusa, you are better off, indeed, where you are,” mused the doctor, with a show of sympathy. “But,” he continued, after a while, “this thing is getting tiresome, I cannot waste more time. . I am going to resurrect Hernan, the painter, who died of an overdose of ham boiled in oil. He left not a relative in the world, so nobody can ob-”, “Do it, if you want a. suit for dam¬ ages on youi- hands,” interrupted Senora Joaquina Berceo. “I ac¬ quired Hernan’s farm on condition of paying him a certain sauyper year, as long as he lived-. Thus I kept him in idleness for ten years, and never cheated him out of a copper, If he came back to-day I would have to re new his pension, and that would not be rights Don Pardo, would it? Your action would give me just cause for claiming damages. Anybody can see that,” The doctor tugged impatiently at his hair and beam. Assuming a des perite.mien, he cried: “By the *pow ers, there must be somebody in this cemetery whose resurrection may be accomplished without hurting the feelings or the interests of the living. There was our late parson, Father Maximo. His reverence left all his money to our hospital; the whole vil lage called him father and friend, and his death was sincerely mourned by you. Shall it be Father Maximo, my friends?” “No no- not him!” These cries were heard on all sides; there was not one assenting voice. “It would bethemore foolish,” said Senora de Perez the richest woman in the vil lags. “a. the Sainted Father was bent double with age and as deaf as a post, & ^ looking; new be 1 ™‘° is as n true is yoanf! as gold, “n sings Ti like an organ, preaches like a seraph, and is worshiped by everybody. said “Donna Isabel is right,” acquiesced a dozen persons, and the rest by their silence. Thereupon the doc tor said: done, I “Something . must be yo must help me, friends, to keep my promise. Ah—another chance. Under that little white cross yonder sleeps a suckling babe; he was only ten months old when he died. It would be a shame to resurrect him, who is so happy among the angels, but if you insist upon it, say so, it shall be done.” forward. At ^hat moment “Maestro an doctor,” old woman she came said in a depressed voice, “I am the deajl child’s grandmother. My daughter was about to wean him—he was just having his milk teeth—when he died. Ah, he was the most beautiful child that ever lived. God took him from us. God’s will is supreme.” And grandma crossed herself and bent her knee. Then she continued: “Con¬ cepcion—that is my daughter, senor— has another baby now. God is so good. What He takes with one hand, He returns with the other. But we cannot feed two babies, you see, and are too poor to put one ■with the wet nurse. Therefore, Senor doctor, our little one must not be resurrected. I, his grandmother, forbid it.” “Very well,” said Dr. Pardo Mar gall, “if the whole village unites in efforts to thwart my plan, I can do nothing for you.” With that he but¬ toned up his coat, drew his hat deep over his eyes and left the cemetery with the step of a conqueror. He has commanded a large practice, not only in Nuestra Senora de Africa, but iu the entire neighborhood, ever since. —New York Commercial Advertiser. WISE WORDS. Wisdom is never talkative. Modesty is a charm which no beauty is complete without. Simplicity is the least in nature and the greatest in art. Genius is never commonplace, though it deals with the commonplace. A character that is a shining light becomes the attraction of enmity. Love alone can purchase love. And the greatest love can feel the greatest sorrow. He who can discourse philosophy in the simplest language is a philosopher at heart. Tbe errors that most mislead are those not altogether wrong, being mixed with some truth.—Weekly Bou¬ quet. The Matabele Mind. The Matabele is not an industrous person; he does not believe in the dignity of labor at all, and it is no un¬ common sight in Bulawayo, South Africa, for instance, to find one Kaffir employed by a family as house boy keeping half a dozen others, who while away time walking about play¬ ing tbe concertina. He is totally un¬ like his more tractable neighbor in Mashonalaud, and his dominant in¬ stinct is perhaps more akin to that of the average English gentleman—a de¬ sire to go out and kill something. Now, when these present inhabitants came into the land some thirty years ago under Mozelikatze, they Were not particularly nice and discriminating in their methods of dealing with the vanquished. No quarter was given, villages were laid waste, and the foe “eaten up” ef¬ fectually. Drastic measures, no doubt, but such as alone can find favor in their sight or appeal to the native un¬ derstanding. Quick as is the native wit, there is and can as yet be no point at which black and white minds converge; there is therefore no species of argument, bar the shambock, which can be brought to bear with any salutary effect, and it is consequently sheer waste of breath and time, as well as the greatest folly, to attempt any other. As far back as history reaches we have precedents without number of the bondage of every vanquished race to that of its conqueror; it was the inevitable have;the law of primeval of society, the fittest, in it we supremacy which must in itself, portend a pro¬ gressive movement. Now the native quite expects,to bpmadie to. work, though he will, shirk it as a child, does its lessons, unless . compelled, and while he is inclined to develop W-kind of canine regard for the superior brute force which is able to subject him, he has, on the other hand, a most ‘thor¬ oughgoing contempt for mere moral suasion, which, from his point Of view, amounts to nothing more or l<?ss than arrant cowardice.—Pall Mall Gazette, A amo “ * The American *L ,, , apple , tiee • the original Greenm,, still standing on thetaim of S o Drowne at Mount Hygeia, in North Foster, • • f * jj j old one when the farm m was sola g in n 1801. Tke seller pformed ^ .* h Induced the V™ chaser tbat * ‘ “ p1 , into . decay as uproc was going the best frni ^ rch td ^ , » “ ' Mkeep it to see ° survives after al- ! ^ signs s g the p.rent rf all the famous f s Rhode Rhode Island isiana Green mgs. whl ° b will orcbar f ° “Lhborhood u tbe world soon be but b a ghb memory, £ K » ‘ * more mona’s^roves to be found in all Po c from end to end of the^ " ea FOR PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS IN CUBA AND PORTO RICO. INSTRUCTIONS BEING FORMULATED Madrid Government Preparing To Throw Obstacles In the Way of the Commissioners. A Madrid cable dispatch says: A committee consisting of Duke Almodo¬ var, the foreign minister; Senor Ro¬ mero Giron, minister of the colonies; Lieutenant General Correa, minister of war, and Captain Aunon, minister of marine, is preparing instrucfions for the Cuban and Porto Rican com¬ missioners, which will be dispatched on August 31, so as to arrive within the time fixed by the protocol. In these instructions attention will be called to the distinction between cession of territory and cession of sovereignty. In the latter case it seems to be maintained here that buildings and public works remain the property of the sovereign power until they are paid for by the new gov¬ ernment. Certain members of the cabinet are of the opinion that the committee will have, first of all, to determine some legal and administrative modus vivendi during the transitional period until the evacuation is completed. Meanwhile the government will prob¬ ably call the attention of the cabinet at Washington to the fact that while the insurgent leaders profess to accept armistice, their subordinates continue to carry on hostilities against outly¬ ing Spanish garrisons. While the government devotes its attention for a moment chiefly to the questions of detail relating to the An¬ tilles, much anxiety is felt with regard to the Philippine question, vfkich is likely to create much more serious difficulties. On this subject very little guidance is afforded by the studiously vague terms employed in the protocol. These words have been carefully examined with the aid of all available dictioua £ies, not only by the Spanish minis¬ ters, but also by the diplomatic repre¬ sentatives of several foreign powers, and all seem agreed that in drafting this part of the protocol, President McKinley’s aim was simply to keep a free band for himself until he should have time to collect information and decide what policy the United States should adopt in the far east. All possible questions regarding the future of the archipelago are thus left open and both government and publio opinion here seem in doubt as to what line shall be taken by Spain in the forthcoming negotiations. Much will depend, of course, on the attitude as¬ sumed by the United States govern ernment, and consequently the con¬ flicting currents of American public opinion ape watched here with the keenest interest. CLAIM CAUSES DISCUSSION. We Will Pay For Nothing, However, the Commission Doesn’t Stipulate. Premier Sagasta’s claim as set forth in Madrid dispatches, that Spain will expect indemnity for all government property, buildings, barracks, fortifi¬ cations, etc., in Cuba, Porto Rico and elsewhere, has excited much comment as showing the difficult questions to be Heated by the military and peace com¬ missions. In official quarters at Washington' there is no disposition to make a coun¬ ter claim to Sagasta’s proposition, for this will be done in due time before the commissions. Merritt military governor. General Has Taken Charge of Affairs In the City of Manila. Advices from Manila state that Gen¬ eral Merritt has proclaimed a govern¬ ment of milit&ry occupation. The news of the armistice arrived on the 16th. ’ It is feared that the Americans may restore the Philippines to Spain and thus reinaugurate a fresh period of tyranny, extortion and rebellion. The Spanish guarantee for freedom of the press and religion and for just ad¬ ministration are useless unless under foreign supervision. , OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION From General Merritt of the Capituia tlon ° f Man " a ‘ Official announcement of the terms of the capitulation agreed on Manila, reached the ..rdep.rtm.nt S.tarda, e venlD g m a dmpatch from Major ss; stipulations and embraced tbe P lete terms in six articles. There cotlsiderable dl fference of opinion as to the exact significance of the terms of capitulation but the best opinion obtainable so far construes the language to embrace all Spanish possessions in the Philippines a not Manila a.one. * ASK SUSPENSION OF JUDGMENT. MissUstppians Will Not Believe Fifth Regiment Acted Outrageously. The people of Columbus, Miss., are astonished at the publications throw¬ ing discredit on the Fifth regiment of immunes now in Cuba. They cannot believe them to be true, and ask the public at large to suspend judgment tin til the accused can be heard from. They show that the officers of that regiment, almost to a man, are from the best families in Mississippi and would sacrifice their lives to protect the honor of a woman, be she ever 3 a humble. The Fifth was organized in Colum¬ bus, Miss., and its commander is Col¬ onel H. H. Sargent, as fine a soldier and as perfect a disciplinarian as ever drew a sword. His subordinate offi¬ cers are prominent and conspicuous men from all sections of Mississippi and Alabama. SEVEN KILLED IX COLLISION. Express Train liung Into a Bocal, Caus¬ ing Death ami Destruction. A local train from Providence, R. I., on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, due in Boston at 7:45 p. m., Sunday while stauding at the depot at Sharon, Mass., was tele¬ scoped by an express train from New Bedford, and seven persons were killed and twenty-nine injured. The work of rescue was prompt, but the debris was so great that hours elapsed before a satisfactory estimate of the fatalies could be made. The two trains wliicb were in the collision were usually combined iu one long train, but the day’s traffic was so heavy it it was divided, the first section running as a local accom¬ modation, while the second, which started fifteen minutes later than the first one, ran as an express. TO HAVE BIG CAPITAL. Canbrin Iron Company to He Absorbed By New Corporation. The Cambria Iron company, whose extensive plant is located at Johns¬ town, Pa., will be absorbed by a new corporation, the Cambria Steel com¬ pany, and its stock will be guaranteed 4 per cent dividends. The new cor¬ poration will have a capital of $24, 000,000, and the holders of Cambria Iron stock will have tbe privilege of subscribing to three shares of the new company—the Cambria Steel company for every share of the old company. MILL PRESERVE ARCHIVES. Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba Has Been Organized. The Society of tho Army of Santiago de Cuba held its inaugural meeting in tho governor’s palace of Santiago “for the purpose of organizing a society to • be known as tbe Society of tbe Army of Santiago, tbe purpose of which shall be in general to preserve the ar¬ chives records and perpetuate tho memories of the invasion, campaign and battles culminating in tbe fall of Santiago de Cuba and the surrender of the Spanish army on July 17, 1898.” FLEET A GREAT ATTRACTION. New 'Vorh Boats Carry Thousands Out to See Sampson's Ships. A New York dispatch states that the ships belonging to Admiral Sampson’s fleet received thousands of callers Sunday. It is estimated that the Staten Island ferry boats broke their record for carrying people. During tbe greater portion of the day they carried as many passengers as the law would allow. It was estimated that fully 125,000 people visited the island during the day. ATLANTA MARKETS. CORRECTED WEEKLY. —34 Grocer!®*. 11.80, 50c 100 fb Roasted coffee ® less per cos&s. Gre'ea coffee choice 12; fair 10; prime 9. Sugar standard granulated 5%e.* New Orleans wh|te 5>^c; do yellow 5’4'c; Syrup, New Orleans open kettle 25®40c. mixed 123^®20c; sugar bouse 20®35c. Te<*s, black 30® 05c; green 20@50e. Rice, head 7}^C; choice 6^®0%c; Salt, dai¬ ry sacks $1.25; do bbls. 2.25; ice cream $1.03; common 65®70 :. Cheese, full cream 10 >!®ll>£c, Matches, 65 s 50e ;200s $1.30® 1.75; 300s $2.75. Hoda, boxes 6c. Crackers, soda 6Kc; cream 8e: glngersnaps 8c. Candy,com men ' stick 6c; fancy 12® 13c. Oysters, F. W. 1.65;L. W. 1.15. Flour, Grain and Meal. Flour, all wheat first patent, $5.25; second patent, 44.25: straight, $3.75; fancy, $3.00; extra family, $3.00. Corn, whito, 50c; mixed, 48- Oats, white 37c; mixed 35c; Texas rust¬ proof__. Rye, Georgia 8‘>e. Hay No. 1 tim¬ othy large bales 85c; small bales 75c; No. 2 timothy small bales 70c. Meal, plain 50c ; bolted 45c. Wheat bran, large sacks 75c; small sacks 82e. Shorts 90c- Stock meal; 75e. Cotton seed mewl 95c per 100 lbs; hulls *6 50 per ton. Peas stock 60®65c per bushel; common white $1.00; Lady $1.13@1.25. Grits $2.50. Country Prod nee. 14®15* Butter, western cream fancy Tennessee 11K@12 ^o; choice 8c : Georgia-8<^i0e. Live pom Duck3 puddle, 17K#20-: PeKins; 22^® 8@9c“° OnioL r “uSs bbl. oi?p 75@ %i.00 per bu. ; *3.00^3.20 per P«vui.n«. Clearribs boxed sides 6J£c; clear sides 6J/e; ice-cured bellies 7p4c. Sugar-cured hams 9>i®llc; California 7%C; breakfast bacon 12® 14s. Lard, best quality sec¬ ond quality 6%; compound 5c. Cotton. 5%. Market closed quiet; middling
