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/ l r THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. E RIOT; ONE KILLED; BATTLESHIP “GEORGIA” WON’T COME VERY NEAR 00000000000000000000000000 O ITS HOT IN ATLANTA.- THUNDERING IN CUBA. O pOQOOOOOODOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Bold Attempt Made to Commit Assault at Piedmont. 8p*Hal to Til. Georgian Greenville, S. C, Sept. 14.—A email race riot waa precipitated at Piedmont yesterday afternoon aa a result of an attempted assault on Mrs. J. M. Loner, wife of a prominent farmer of the Pied mont district, by BUI Henry, a deeper ata necro about 40 years of age. The attempted assault occurred In the front yard at the Long home and the negro had'formerly been employed by Mr. Long. Mrs. Long's cries attracted neighbors and frightened the negro away. Negress Barricaded. A posse was quickly organized and the negro pursued to an old negro shanty, where, with a number of negro sympathizers, he had barricaded him self and was prepared to flgtg. The l-isse surrounded the house and the negroes came out armed for a light. Woman’s Husband Wounded. A pitched battle was engaged In with the result that J. M. Long, husband of the ladjr on whom the assault was at tempted, was shot through the arm; Dr. Trlppe, a member of the posse, was shot In the breast and struck on the head with a crowbar and one of tit- negroes named Anderson was killed. Negro Captured. The negroes were Anally routed from their position and Henry raptured and lodged In Jail. Three others Aed and are still being pursued. If they are overtaken an other battle Is expected. Mrs. Long was not seriously In jured. Piedmont Is the place mentioned In Dixon's tlansman." The battleship Georgia which Is soon to be commissioned, cannot get any nearer Georgia waters than I or 4 miles off Tybee, and It will be the mid dle of December next before she can be sent that close. This Information was brought back from Washington by Governor Terrell, who has Just returned from a ten days' trip East, accompanied by Mrs. Ter rell. "The Georgia, which Is now at Bos ton,” Governor Terrell said, “will be turned over to the government next - Bunday and accepted on Monday. At | the time of her acceptance the officers; of the new vessel will be commissioned ] and ordered to man the vessel. Hecre- j tary of the Navy Bonaparte explained j the charts while I was In hi* office and ! we found that 3 or 4 miles off Tybee j I* the nearest the new battleship can j safely get to Georgia waters. The > Georgia draws 25 feet 8 Inches, but It Is not considered safe for her to go ' Into water less than 28 to 30 feet deep. Secretary Bonaparte stated It would be , the middle of December before the bat tleship could be sent to Georgia, but | that this would be done If we desired It. Of course we will have her come. I expect to have a conference with Mayor Myers, of Savannah, who In very much inl»r«gtAft lit 1 hn , n o44oa ,....1 .. I_ ' ..s . 1. BARRETT SAYS UNION IS IN FINE CONDITION National Association Moots Here Next Week. The vanguard of the National Den tal Association, the National Associa tion of Dental Vacuities and the Na tional Association of Dental Examiners have arrived In Atlanta and the doc tors are getting down to work at busi ness Friday. The momentous questions having to do with methods of pulling teeth most painfully and how to ef fectually gag a patient for torture are not being discussed yet, but will soon. The National Dental Association with Ita clinics and things begins Its ses sions Tuesday next. The two association* which begin their meetings Friday are In Atlnnta, the one to discuss the business end of dental colleges and the other to discuss the admission of dentists to practice. The faculties association begun Its meetings at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon In the Piedmont Hotel assembly room. The membership la composed of 62 den tal colleges located In all parts of the United Blates. Home forty-odd dele- . .sates are expected. Dr. J. H. Kenner- ley, of Bt. Louis, Is president of this organisation. The examiners began their meetings at the Kimball House In the morning, but were not nble to transact much business on account of the failure of most of the members to arrive on time. The boat on which the secretary and the Eastern members came from New York and Boston to Havnnnah was Into and they missed the Atlanta train. Dr. H. Wood Campbell, of Huff! interested In the matter anil also' of the presentation of some suitable gift to the new vessel. We will doubtless bo able to arrange to have the people who want to visit the Georgia taken down to Tybee on vessel * of some kind. It will take three months to man the ves sel atrain the crew and for this rea son It will be Impossible to get the Georgia here before December." Will Help,New Schools. Governor Terrell also brought back some Interesting Information regarding the new district agricultural colleges which nre being established In Geor gia. He had a conference with mem bers of the Southern Education board and they agreed at the|r next meeting to take up the question of extending aid to the Tech and to other Georgia edu cational Institutions. The governor was fortunate In secur ing some Immediate aid for the new agricultural colleges to be established In each congressional district. Under the law establishing these colleges no money will be available until January ’ 1907. /There Is much preliminary work to bo done in connection with the estab lishment of these colleges," Governor Terrell said, "and the Southern Educa tion board has agreed at Its own ex pense to send such experts to Georgia as we need to map out the curriculum and give such other aid as they can to the trustees. The bonrd also agreed to pay the preliminary expenses of the trustees In the work of establishing the colleges. "Further than that the board sent Its secretary, Dr. Wallace Butrlck, to Washington with mo to see Secretary Wilson and Assistant Secretary Hayes of the detMrtment of agriculture. They agreed to send two experts to Georgia to old In the work and lend such other aid as the department can give under the law.” COL. GEORGE W. HARRISON. Who retired from Franklin Print ing Company, J. L, TURNER 4 CO, BUY THE PLANT OF Big Printing Establishment Sold by George W. Hamson. IN WRECKOF BUGGY Mrs. Martin Has Narrow Escape From Being Killed. I Otsl Campbell, of Huffolk, Va., president, was on hand, but the association could nm get along very far without Secretary Charles Meeker, of Newark. N. J. Practically the only business transacted was the adoption of a resolution on the death of Dr. Charles Chltlenden, of Madison, WIs., former president of the examiners’ as sociation and also of the National Den tal Aaaorlatlon. It Is expected that both these auxil iary aaaoclatlons will be through with their business before the lay dentists begin their sessions September 18. EXCHflHGTpLflCEWflLK UP FRIDAY AFTERNOON An Interesting meeting of the streets committee of council will be held Fri day when the petition of Joel Hurt will be considered which asks that the side walk on Exchange Place be widened. Mr. Hurt has fought the proposed line of the Atlanta, Griffin and Macon Electric Railway since It Arst asked for franchise on Exchange Place. If his petition Is granted by council Mon day the railway will not have room enough to come down the street. The franchise of the railway will also come up for passage Monday and the outcome of the rival documents Is be ing watched with Interest. Kelly, of Jackson. Miss., but formerly a merchant of Atlanta, caus ed the arrest of a negro cab driver named Jim Clements Friday afternoon, claiming that elements had robbed him of 358 while he was drunk. Clements drove Kelly to the police station Thurs day and Kelly was given a berth where he might sleep off his liquor. When he awoke Friday morning he claimed that be had been robbed by the negro. Mrs. W. B. Martin, of Hammond, Ga.. was seriously Injured In Jumping from her buggy Friday afternoon at Williams and Ellis streets. She Jumped to avoid being killed by a heavy wagon which overturned the buggy, and received In ternal Injuries when she fell on the sidewalk. The wagon was driven by a negro named Robert H. Arnold and was owned by the Denny Coal and Ice Company. Mrs. Martin refused to go to a hospital. The negro was placed un der arrest. STICK TO BRANNEN TO THE BITTER END Lieutenant Colonel A. Gordon Tas sels, of the First cavalry regiment, state troops, Savannah, Is In the city on hla way to Carteravllle, where he Is going with his wife and family for a visit. Colonel Cassela la one of the dele gates to the First district congressional district, now In session at Btatesboro, and which Is dead-locked between Hon. J. A. Brannon, of Bulloch, and Hon. W. W. Sheppard, of Liberty. Mr. Tas sels Is one of the Sheppard delegates from Chatham, but had to leave the convention at this time, In order to do which he put one of the alternates In hla place. "We have made proposition after proposition to tho Brannon people," he said, "hut they persistently refuse either to consider any proposition from or to submit any proposition to us. We have for the third time proposed to take the matter back to the people and hold a second primary, but this has been persistently declined. ' "When I left there Friday night it was understood that the Brannen peo ple would withdrawn Brannen today and nominate another man. then charge us with lack of party loyalty In the event we refused to come over to him. But the Sheppard delegates are not go ing to be caught by any such plan aa this. We held a meeting and It waa determined that Bbeppard's eighteen delegates will stick to him to the bitter end." The Franklin Publishing and Print ing Company, occupying the brick building on Ivy atreet, near the corner of Edgewnod avenue, has been sold for 3100,000 and, after thirty-three years of prosperity under the management of Colonel George W. Harrison, will go under different management Monday next. The business has bien bought by J. L. Turner A Company. Colonel Harrison retires for the pres ent from active business, and will, aft er getting his alfalts straight, travel for one year. He will then return to Atlanta and again engage In active business. Tho Franklin Publishing and Print ing Company Is one of the largest con cerns In the South. For tho past thir ty years It has held the contract for all state printing, with the exception of one year, when The Conslltutlon Job Print Ing Company was successful In getting the work. The company waa Arst established In 1859. In 1873 It was taken under new management and Colonel Harrison waa placed at Its head. Blnce that time, through his able management, the com pany has done work for nearly every country In the elvlllzed world. Among the best known publications put nut by tbe concern la The Southern Cultivator, which has a large clrcula- lion in this and other countries. The pay ruff of tho company amounts to 350.000 a year and 160 men have been kept constantly at work for the past thirty years. Colonel Harrison, through hla work In connection with the printing house, and for the prominent part he has taken from time to time In politics, has become one of Atlanta's best known cltlsens. He has been on the staff of Gov ernors Northen, Atkinson, t'undler, and Is at present on the staff of Governor Terrell. For three successive terms he served the Atlanta waterworks In the capacity of commissioner, being presi dent of the board during two terms, and has held other political positions. This is no time for Uncle Sam's 6 0 soldiers' to go to Cuba. They 0 O ought to have waited until cold O 0 weather came when a Southern O O pleasure trip would be real pleas- 0 O ure. But it's npt to be still hot- 0 0 ter down there unless Uncle Sam 0 0 does something. 0 0 But to talk about Atlanta 0 0 weather. It's summer again. It O O was 88 degrees ^it 2 o'clock and O O no clouds In sight. And there's 0 O no promise of Improvement. The 0 O weather prophet says: 0 O "Generally fair tonight and Sat- O 0 urday with no marked change In 0 O temperature." \ 0 0 Friday temperatures; O Charles S. Barrett, president of the National Farmers’ Union of America, was In Atlanta Friday, j Mr. Barrett, who Is a native and ; resident of Upson county, Georgia, Is t recognized as the strongest man In the j Immense organization which has 750,- 000 members. / He says the organisation Is In splen did condition for most helpful work for the farmer. CHARLES SIMON BARRETT. Georgian who heads Farmers' Unionl 0 7 o'clock a. m... O 8 o’clock a. m.. 0 9 o'clock a. m... O 10 o'clock a. m.. 0 11 o'clock a. m. . O 12 o’clock noon.. O I o'clock p. m.. O 2 o'clock p. m.. .. 72 degrees. 0 .. 79 degrees. O .,82 degrees. O ..85 degrees. 0 .,88 degrees., 0 ..87 degrees.'O ..88 degrees. O .. 88 degrees. O 0 00000000000000000000000000 Rswsrd ffcr Short. Governor Terrell today paid a re ward of 1100 to John A. Short, of Up son county, for the arrest of Henry Rosser, who was wanted In Meriweth er county for the murder of Buck In gram In April, 1906. R,.ss«r was re cently convicted of the crime and sen tenced to life Imprisonment In the pen itentiary. DEADLOCK UNBROKEN AFTER 461 BALLOTS Special to The Georgian. StntPHlM»n». <In., Hept. 14.—The emigres- Blnnal convention of the FI rut Georgia tl| trlet rontpiwl here again tills ninrnlujr nf ter no adjournment nt the conclusion of 481 Billiot* without n choice. The feature of yesterday'* Herndon wn* it *|>eech by Judge . Moore, mill nnother l»y Colonel Lee Moore, In liehnlf of Mr. Ilrnnnen. Colonel l«ee Moore *|>runir quite n sensation by rending two affidavit* that Mr. .Sheppard on the ilny fid low lug the primary, thinking ho hail the popular majority In the district wn* heard Severn! time* to remark that for that roaaon he should la* nominated. Now that It npiMMir* that Mr. Hrnunen recelviM « popular majority of over 1.3U0 vote* Mr, Mheppnrd refu*e* to yield. Mr. W. W. Orr to 8paak. Mr. W. \V. Orr will speak Friday night at the Capitol Avenue B. Y. P. U. on the "Triumph of Christianity." All are Invited to this meeting. New Depot at Cornelia. The railroad commission Friday Is sued an order requiring the Southern Hallway Company to submit to It plana for a new depot at Cornelia, Qa., the Junction point of the Southern and the Tallulah Falla railroad, on or before October 4. These plana are to be aub- mltted in accordance with the details already agreed upon between represen tatives of the Southern and the people of Cornelia, who have for acme time complained of Inadequate depot faclii- tlea. It is stated the railroad haa ex pressed a willingness to erect the new depot, but the people are tired of the delay, hence the action of the commis alon. DISPATCHER GONE AFTER BAD WRECK} TWO WERE KILLED Special to The Georgian Anniston, Ala., Sept. 14.—Aa the re sult of a head-on collision three miles north of Attalla last night, about 10 o clock, between a local freight and a work train, Engineer Thomas H. Clem ents and his negro fireman, named Charles Griffin, were killed dutright and several members of the two crews Injured. The collision occurred near Ivalee Station, and but little is known as to the cause, although current ru mor places the blame on the train dis patcher, who has mysteriously disap peared. Immediately after the accident a wrecker was sent from here and another froth Birmingham, the tracks being clear late this afternoon. E FRIGHT Negress Screamed That Snake Was Trying To Bite Her. THIEF STOLE METER FAMILY HAVE NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEAT Special to The Georgian. Columbus, Ga.. Hept. 14.—A thief enter* ed the home of L. A. DImon, on Third avenue, Wednesday night and stole the slot ga* meter, leaving the gas escaping Iti the house. Mr. Dlmon was awakened by the fame*, nnd on Investigating found lilt mother Iti one of tbe rooms almost nsphyx la ted. The fTeah afr revived her. TO DIXIE CITIES TO MAKESPEECHES He Leaves For Virginia to Enter Daughter in School. COLUMBUS BAPTISTS' - MEETING ADJOURNS Special to The Georgian. Cqlumbus, Go., Sept. 14.—After selecting KUerslie, On., for holding tjie next meet ing, tho Columbus Baptist Association closed n three days’ session here. The meeting ha* been largely attended, nnd much Important business bus been transact ed. OPEN CONVENTION First Day’s Session Held Friday at Ara gon Hotel. An unknown negro woman who ran a dozen block*, acreamlng at the top of her voice, dropped dead on the lawn of the Rev. C. P. Bridewell, at Spring and Luckle atreet*, Friday af ternoon at 1:80 o'clock, while an officer was holding her for the patrol wagon. No cause ha* been assigned for her death. The woman frightened the residents of Spring street with her cries and an officer waa summoned. Call Officer Luck responded and placed the woman tinder arrest. After she was hand cuffed and had been quieted she sud denly exclaimed that there was a snake trying to bite her and after Jumping Into the air several times and tearing the clothes almost entirely from her body she sank to the ground and died. A short while before her death the woman said she lived In the rear of 184 Formwalt street. She could not tell her name hut snid she was run ning from her husband and had run all the way from Mitchell street. SALESMAN KILLED DURING QUARREL IN WILMINGTON Special to Tbe Georgian. Wilmington, N. C., Sept. 14.—Early this morning. In a general fight at questionable house in'the eastern sec tlon of the city, W. L. Williams, young traveling man, was mortally wounded. Williams was shot by Lonnie Snipes, a dellvsry clerk for the Portner Brew ery. Death resulted at 4:30 o'clock. - Williams was a young man of re' finement and prominent socially. Hi traveled North Carolina for a Colum bia, S. C., house. The remains will be sent to Coving, ton, Ky., his former home. Hoke Eaton. Hoke Eason, a 2-year-old boy, died of diphtheria Friday morning at his home in South Bend. The body was carried to Fayetteville Friday at 1 o'clock for interment. Commitsionsrs to Msst The Association of Commissioners of Agriculture of the Southern State* will hold Its annual meeting at Jacksonville, Fla., November 27 to 29, with Presi dent W. W. Ogtlvie, of the Tennessee department of agriculture. In the chair. Commissioner T. O. Hudson, of Geor gia, will attend. All of the commis sioners have been cordially invited to attend the Florida stale fair at Talla hassee on November 29, where some unusual exhibits Hill be displayed, and It Is expected they will go In a body. The opening session of the American Public Works Association convention was held in the Aragon Hotel Friday morning, when a number of papers on subjects pertaining to engineering, wa ter work* nnd other feAures of public work were listened to with Interest. . J. Samuel Bllcer delivered the open ing address and Introduced Mayor Woodward. .Mayor Woodward deliver ed an address of welcome and was thanked by a rising vote. Those In attendance at the conven tion will be taken by the committee on entertainment over the city Friday af ternoon. Another session will be held Snturday, after which the convention will adjourn. Those present at the opening session were: J. I,. Watson, Atlanta; N. B. Hudson, Newman, Ga.; J. K. Lord, Atlanta; A. J. Mitchell, Atlanta; Charles C. Wil son, Columbia, 8. C.; R. C. 8. Anston, Hattiesburg, Miss.; M. W. Thomas, At lanta; William 8. Wilcox, Meridian, Miss.; Algernon Blair, Montgomery, Ala.; J. W. Whltner, Roanoke, Va.; J. W. Gemux, Atlanta; William B. Klg. Washington, D. C\; Mark Dean, New York; W. W. I»avl», Harrisonburg, Va.; J. 8. Sheer, Atlanta; Paul Wesley, At lanta; Charles F. McKensle, Augusta; C. M. Isold, Chicago; George McKay. Philadelphia, Pa.; John C. Sharp, Chattanooga, Tenn.; P. J. Crlmmtns, Chattanooga, Tenn.; T. J. Halsey, Balti more, Md.; A. W. Jones, Atlanta; E. M. Cole. Atlanta: M. F. Cole, Newnan, Ga.; J. E. Brady. Cincinnati, Ohio; M. Lewellyn, Chattanooga, Tenn.; P. Dodd, Atlanta; A. J. Brown, Birmingham, Ala.: E. J. O'Brien. Atlanta: William C. Flint, Chattanooga, Tenn. The Unwitting Scholar. FOR GERS IN CHIC A GO HAD GOTTEN $200,000 Chicago, Sppt. 14.—In the arrest of live men, who are held today at Har rison street police station, the police say they have captured members of a gang of forgers that have perpetrated frauds aggregating 8200,000 and have attempted to swindle every bank In Chicago by bogus checks. So daring have been the operations of the gang It Is said that a concern was Incorporated by them for >1 000, 000 to further their Interests and an other Incorporated for a lesser sum, both of them having branch offices In New York. John Hill, Jr., member of the board of trade, Is the man who caused the arrest of the live men, one of whom I* a broker who had offices In LaSalle street. Hill says he represents the banks. . DAUGHTER OF ROOSEVELT UNVEILS M’KINLEY STATUE Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 14.—A statue, erected to the memory of President McKinley by the people of Ohio, was unvellad here today. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, daughter of President Roosevelt, did the unveiling, while Senator John W. Daniel, of Virginia, representing the South, and United States Supreme Court Justice Day, for the North, delivered the principal ad dresses. The Rev. Washington Glad den offered the Invocation, after which Governor Andrew Harris spoke In be half of the state. A life-size statue In bronze of the dead president as he appeared when making his Buffalo speech the day of his assassination stands on a pedestal of granite and completes the memo rial. It was designed by H. A. Mac- Neal, of New York, ahd cost $50,000. Judge Day, reviewing ' McKinley's life, said, among other things: “He conducted a short and brilliant war, which liberated a people and brought forth a new nation.” .Vow, Willie was wound up last. I l.r By WEX JOSES. I.—Tbe Old Term. dullard; be always Ami every any by younger kids disgrace fully was passed. couldn't tell the capital of Oregon or Mnlnc, And thought the war wtth Mezleo part of the wnr with Spain, couldn't name it president; on polities Was dumb. Ami tried to do his algebra by a home-made rute of thumb. When told "six Bek for thirty cents- rnuch for half a doseut" He poudered and be pnssled tilt Ms brains THE STORY OF THE TWIN ROSE BUD By ANNA PEARSON. Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 14.—Wll|ia ra J. Bryan, accompanied by Mrs. Bryan and their daughter, left this morning for Redford. Va., where Miss Bryan will enter school. From there Bryan will continue his tour through th. South, speaking In North Carolina Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and uth.’ er states. He will then return North and take part in several state cam paigns, notably In Ohio, Indiana, Mis. sourl and Nebraska. THE MILKMAID. Aeroat tbe grass I see her psst; Hho comes with tripping pace— A maid 1 know-nnd March winds blow Her hair across her face— With a hey, Dolly! ho, Dolly! Dolly shall be mine Before the spray Is white with Mir. or idoomi tbe eglantine. The March winds blow. I watch’her go- Her eye la brown and clear, ’ Her cheek la brown nnd aoft as down (To those who aee It near)— Wl|h n hey. Dolly! ho, Dolly! Dolly ahnll be mine " hot bna she not that they have got— .The dames that walk In silk! If she undo her 'kerchief blue, Her neck la white na milk. With n hey. Dolly! ho, Dolly! . Dolly shall be mine Before the spray Is white with May. Or blooms tbe eglantine. Let those who will be prond and chill: For mo. from June to Jnee. My Dolly's words nre sweet as curds— . Her laugh Is like a tune— With n hey, Dolly! ho, Dolly! _ Dolly shall po mine Before the spray Is white with May, Or blooms the eglantine. yriif wui j-rcm-jinew, unnw: There’ll lie n bride at Eaaterdlde, And Ifelly la her name. With alley. Dolly! ho, Dolly! Dolly shall be mine Before the spray Is white with May, Or blooms the eglantine. —Austin Dobson. WELL-BORN ENGLISH PAUPERS. The newspapers had a pet phrase descrip- worthy of her. God knows, I thought no, five of Judge Mllburn. "lie Is a man full nnd what 1 wild wmmimmI to iiupreiot her, nml of years and honors.” It fitted him very she finally broke off the match. Hho monied well und he seemed to like It. * He was one of those large, cool, pale >rlor to eln** but once. But Willie couldn't win It, he waa such a hopeless dunce. II.—The New Term. Imagine, then, how Willie felt on getting linrk to nehoot To find that he no longer waa tbe elate* i‘hitmplon fool. % The kid* came up In spelling. "Spell tight," the teacher Mid. It-e." Mbl Willie; aabl tbe teacher, "Go up bead." "Spell •dough.* ** then said the teacher to got an awful Jar Wh**n chased down to the bottom, while Willie trteil ".l-o," Anti much to hi* astonishment found his got | In hi* Ih*U. 'nknnwlng that hi* ttusaha one T. Roosevelt. at but amt stuck It men who human weakness! a. slightly cold. His face never changed a hue. I. who was Imiietuous and unnoc4»unt- alde, used to envy this man hi* noise. One evening over our cigar* In hi* library he told me bis love story. It came about through uijr dlRCovcrlug quite by chance a white rosebud pressed In* tween the leaves of Robert Browning** "Pomegranate* from Our English Garden.’* Just at "Evelyn Hone." 1 looked at him Inquiringly, and he sabl at once, in his calm, cool way: "Yes, 1 am quite willing to tell you at»out It. It was my chief love story. Every man has more than one, 1 suppose, bat there Is always a supreme one, anil It u at middle sge. 1 am of “ second loves are best.’* ur," I said. smile, Gerard*** he said, for flippancy. At Udlrtal afr. daughter of an obi friend ...... .mtate 1 administered. When I footed up tbe balance the fortune could be represented by one figure, and that aero. She i*ame to work among the clerks In my office. Hbe worked for Arc years and then died of consumption. That was all. to all outward seeming. For w*- “■**“ the two concerned knew anything great story Wt the growth of love? "It Is inch an Intangible nnd yet such real thing. I used to think that my Interest In her a ting for her father, at first. Then I noticed face wan. I never saw her other than amiable, no matter what the vexation of florists to get some white roses for her. R*d two flaunted n t me on every able, but to have nffereii them to her wmild have been to insult thnt white nou! nl- ready more of heaven than of earth, so I chose some white one*. Among them was a stem bearing twin rosebuds. The nnmo left ns for a moment, nnd I said: Ther-are the symlmla of our love.’ Hhe smiled nnd broke one rrotn the stem and banded It to been to me,* she through 1. .11 siih.-nt Vo™'" 1 ta ” "That was the last time I saw he*. The ! h s** r,)orn «nd toll thaf mjr v, &* causing nelghi>orpntNl comment. She was a wise woman, and would not have hail that nweer j Missing soul smirched by a breath of fool- *‘ h ** right, nnd I I?-'! »**h.V* * l'***”\ out. knowing well MtejL 1 b*; 1 m '*: n , hpr fnr ,h * l, »» f time. told me who oe was 1 told her he was not family to the^shorc'aad k <^*bll«h ,, !hem look toward her chair when»»ver the door opened that I might see ^he smile with which she greeted every visitor. It was the smile of an angel, Gerard. "She mote to me one day and told me she had been engaged for two years, and that the time for the wedding was ap proaching. l*he said I seemed so much like a father to her that she felt that she ought to tell me and ask my advice. I hope I took an Impartial view of the matter. I asked her about the man. and when she more cheerful after that. MU month* lif ter that a young lawyer In my office pro posed to her, am I she asked me hour «he might reject him gently without hurting bis feeling* too ranch. Together we wrote the reply. "One afternoon ns I was leaving the of. flee she bent over her desk, her head rest ing on her hand. She Imtked weary and ile- ieetod. I leu n»'d over and kissed her f4>re- head ns I might have kissed a child. She started and blushed. I lifted my hat gravely and went to court. Thnt net wa* never repeated* but we seemed to understand each other better afterward. "My heart was racked ns I saw her growlug whiter and weaker every day. The doctor told me there was no question but that the hand of death wa* on her. It was only a question of whether It wouhl be a matter of months or weeks until the weight should crush her. Finally she could not leave her home, nml I went to see her every day. 1 waa trying an Important case and these was a multiplicity 4>f pre * uistdc—-»—» » —*——- * ■ - Last of Many Famous Housss in Rt- duced Circumstances. It Is a fact well known to all students of family history, said a genealogical expert, that If you want to And the “bluest blood” and the longest descents, you must go, not to the peerage, hut to the great middle classes, and even lower, that many a proud wearer of a duke's or an earl's coronet today has a pedigree which will not compare for distinction with that of some of his tradesmen or tenants. Yes, I know this Is a surprising statement, but it Ib a sober statement of the truth. There are very few of our present peers who can trace their descent from the great nobles of the day* of chivalry or earlier. The founder of one line of marquesses was an Innkeper; of a line of earls a glazier, and so on; and many of the greatest aristocrats of our time owe their rank nnd wealth to the en terprise nnd luek of city apprentices. To quote Burke: "Let us look back only as far ns the year 1637, and we shall find the great- rrandson of Margaret Plantaganet, lerself the daughter and nelrese of George, duke of Clarence, following the cobbler's croft nt Newport, a little town in Shropshire. Nor Is this the only branch of the tree of royalty that has dwarfed and withered. "If we were to closely Investigate the fortunes of the many Inheritors of the royal arms, It would soon be shown that ‘the aspiring blood of Lancaster' flows through very humble veins. Among the lineal dlacendants of Ed ward of Woodstock, earl of Kent, sixth son of Edward I, k.lng of England, en titled to a quarter the royal arms, oc cur a butcher and a toll gatherer—the flret a Joseph Smart, of. Halesowen, the latter a George Wllmot, keeper the turnpike gate at Cooper'e Bank, near Dudley. “Then again, among the descendants of Thomas Plantaganet. duke of Glou- ceeter, flftb son of Edward 111, we dis cover Stephen James Penney, the late sexton- at St. George's, Hanover square a strange descent from the ewohd and epter to the spade and pickax!" The last head of the great Scottish house nt Lindsay, and de Jure earl nt Crawford, died In 1734, In the capac ity of hostler In an Inn at Kirkwall, In the Orkneys; nnd In four genera tions the descendant! of Sir Richard Knlghtley of Fawsiey tthe head of one of the oldest and most distinguish ed families In England) and his wife, daughter of the great Protector Somer set, ended as obscure London trades men—drapers and oil men outside the city gates. Sir Thomas Conyers, the heart of s family which had held vast estates, owned castles and enjoyed high rank In the north of England almost from the days of the conquest, died n pau per In a Durham work house. A grand son of Oliver Cromwell and a kins man of Thomas Cromwell, earl of Es sex, served behind the counter In a Snow# Hill shop, while one of Id" nieces ended her days In A w.nk house, and of his great-nieces, one married a butcher's son and the olm-r a Cambridgeshire shoemaker. Among peasants and laborers, farm ers and small tradesmen are many de scendants of the great feudal hou.-t- of Scrope and Greystoke, Neville ur.J D'Arcy, and many another noble Hue* who can claim kinship with our blu- r—j —a\ —— •— -.a pressing buslnessldemaiuls; lint I always found time to go to see uiy darling, who wa» fo.Hn- every dsy In s wrntth. T have In-on n Ims msn, Gerard, but I bare no pitrlomv wttl the men who nre 'too busy' to see the worn nn they love every dsy. "Once on the way there I stopped at s tho pedigree of the duke id figure farmers lore, w of Northumberland flgui haberdashers, husbandmen and papei stalners.—Tld-Blts. ' there for the summer. It required three days to do thin, end on the third evening, ne I paced the platform of the little eeaelile K'nltlii-r tt\p lha train thaf tVH S . .. . Alien luuiiriiij •• : out on the Wtxou a small, white eloml: cfmt hud l»et*u floating nlmlesatj about iHs-'P* In tbe sunset glow. . . , "I looked Ht nnr watch. It waa 8 •> •*‘ , "* k - "That night the ntirae called ttp;*n m> ■ Hhe wn* admitted here. T thought I wmil'l tell you myself, Jmlge Mtlbnrn. that Mis* Emuia died at 8 o'clock. Hbe fiieil ns J aa though she were falling asleep, awl ;«■ *he wns going she smiled and *|*»ke name,* "And thnt’a nil. Gerard. If I h»'J n ’J bid ties that no man »t boa or roaW |,r r :, “ she would hare lieen my wife. She hn« l*»en dead ten yenni, and I am glad * v * known her. She ha* made me a I*”'*' iunn nnd a greater man.* When I nrep.i r*-j that esse, the conduct of which they any put me npon the supreme liench. I »hnt she was beside*me. I felt the »*;*! * Ing influence of her gentle presence. I «•*’) It at nil the crises of n»/ life. Hhe triu t*e with me when the en<l cornea, and will lie with me afterward. I know It- That Is tbe atory of the twin Gerard."