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PRAISE OF THE PINE. nh the pine, the green pine, et its praises be mine! . r heautv when south winds are f of its OL J SW rartr&e-yine under its shadow s n &ow in the sunflecks When , lerns present arms in a rioting the pine, the green pine, Jjet its praises be mine. jj-ail the evergreen pine, V praises be mine! , , ( , ; ,ts courage when north winds are , of greenness in freezing and /.I of the rose or the weight of In - |, t ; snows, ‘J lune-siskinc builds or the last goes, i ; 1 the evergreen pine, sjjH its praise3 are mine! t the evergreen pine, •■( untless uses are mine! * .ije jr.ists of great ships where vast h°- ocean- are spreading; -. n o or nd the stairway that dear feet 1D ‘ ar e trending; rry. e table* 'id stool, and the windlass and ~and !, nug, strong box of the king h°- ' ar t{ the fool; jhe-e gifts are all mine,” jj: lie evergreen pine. ]!, ! ;e pine, the green pine, Its it s God is still mine! is deli' ite beauty in summer winds sigh ins . With e r'ngth ot its verdure in winter undy.ay, , ;;s >tii r ’ . Jet us rise, let us reach to the A-i-i. . ge glad in jr g row ing if lue sings or ° sighs: * . . \nd ror purpose divine Trust the God of the pine. —E<ii L b WiHis Ginn, in Christian Reg ister. j THE SOW’S EAR I He Scorns Being* Made Into a Sillc Purse. “I don’t care nothin’ about st^e, myself,” observed the man with the tobacco-stained bosom to the perfect, stranger who sat opposite to him at the table. “Because I drop a fork on the floor ain’t no sign that it’s goin’ to poison me. It’s all poppycock bringin’ on another one. After the tip, that’s what he is.” “It’s quite a simple matter to wipe it off on your pocket handkerchief, of course,” observed the perfect stran ger. ‘ Sure—if you want to,*’ said the tobacco-stained man. “When I come into a restaurant I come for some thing to eat.” “It’s the primary object, certain ly,” agreed the perfect stranger. “You bet your life it is,” said the tobacco-stained man. “There’s some, though, that seem to want style. They don’t care what’s brought on so long as the dishes is all right. My wife's that way, but I ain’t. She’s a holy terror for style.” 7ndeed?” said the perfect stran ger. You bet you,” said the tobacco stained man. ' That’s where her an’ me disagree. ‘You can give me my chuck on a tin plate if you want to,’ I tell her. I’d as lief eat my gravy with a steel-bladed knife as a silver plated one with a pearl handle, so long as the gravy's what gravy ought to be. I don’t want no change o’ plates to eat my pie, either.” It simplifies housekeeping to eat an the food from one plate, natur ally,” said the perfect stranger. “You bet your life,” said the to bacco-stained man. “What’s the use o messin up half a dozen kinds o’ dishes at one meal? Does it make the food taste any better? I’d like to have you tell me how.” In some countries they just bring on the kettle and let everybody fish iu it to su’ 1 himself,” said the perfect stranger. “Then there are no dishes to wash at all.” ! : y haven’t got sense enough to Jo that in this country,” said the to- Jacco-stained man. “There wouldn’t style enough about it. What peo- ? e ln tllis country want is style. at the things we’ve got in our There’s another thing— Uf \o g * 0 h ave our c nairs uphols -1 1 in plush an’ velvet an’ tidies '^ e hacks of ’em an’ centre ta au y ases on the mantelpiece an’ hss an fixin’s wherever you turn. 111 u> t 0 stand for it, bein’ a married an ' ljUt 1 don’t take no stock in it.” h was luxury that led to the owniall of Rome,” remarked the pe ‘ f cct stranger. (loat know about that. I ' SIU n( ’ ver South,” said the tobac gained man. “I know what’s the „t, ‘ Chicago, though. What’s 1 1 sc tor? it’s to live in, ain’t it? r ,'° n 5 as there’s four walls an’ a iju . Whac more do you want? Give to sleep on a’ a table to (kc , 1 an a to set in an’ an , ‘ ° ne hut my feet on an’ a cuspi that’s all i’ll ask of you.” , 0:1 evidently believe in the sim ll'l. said the perfect stranger. a , 1 believe in it I don’t get it, by Stan, ! sbot ’” growled the tobacco gjm , u man - “Yes, I believe in the fon ~ an 1 believe in solid com an’ tn believe in common sense, in v 3 w hat a woman don’t believe she u *> • W - ite dont ’ anyway. What fie, / 'I s is style, an’ she ain’t satis she - Wlth bßing st ylish herself, but all r -? ls lne to be - 1 tell her that’s bon but sbe worlcs on me m P r, n ° V/ t 0 Rosehill she won’t get '., v ° different to what I am/’ “ /u can’t make a silk— Ahem!” stair, 1, that?” asked the tobaceo ,(nea man. muph 0111(1 seem to be a little too ,?‘ l t 0 expect.” the u ; , . lles ’" r f suraed the man with ciothei CC;o ' staine d bosom. “There’s clothes? bat do I want of stylish t wear clothes to keep me warm, don’t I? Ain’t that what clothes are for? I don’t care if they ain’t the latest cut as long as they’re warm an’ comf’table.” ‘‘lf you had a perfect covering of bristles you wouldn’t want any, would you? said the perfect stranger.—— Chicago News. Structure of Hailstones. By CLEVELAND ABBE. There are three plausible hypothe ses as to the origin of the snowy ice at the centre of a hailstone. (a) The hailstone may have be gun with tile formation of a ball of snow, and the clear ice may be a deposit of cold water, frozen a few seconds later by the cold of the surrounding atmosphere. In this case the air that is mixed with the snowy ice at the centre would be compressed by the freezing of the surrounding clear ice, and would be liberated as a babble when the hail stone is melted under water. (b) The nucleus of the hailstone may have been at first a large drop of water, containing dissolved air, which is forced out by the process of freezing, precisely like the bubbles of air that are seen in cakes of arti ficial ice. Cold water can dissolve an appreciable percentage of its vol ume of air, all of which is ectruded when water freezes; a bubble of highly compressed air might thus be formed at the centre of the hailstone. If such a hailstone be melted in cold water slowly, all of this air will be redissolved, and no bubble will be seen to rise to the surface. If the stone be dissolved in hot water rapid ly, or especially if the stone be crushed forcibly and quickly under water, the air may escape as a bub ble without having had time to be redissolved. (c) A hailstone formed of pure water that has had no opportunity to absorb or dissolve air can be re duced to a temperature far below freezing, but will eventually turn to ice, at which moment its tempera ture will rise to thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit, and it will assume a crystalline structure, so as to re semble snow. Such a hailstone has, therefore, a snowy nucleus without inclosed air, and on being melted under water will, of course, show no bubble. In fact, the central space is occupied, not by air, but by tjie vapor of water only, and as the pressure is very small, we may liken this to a partial vacuum. All these three forms of hailstones, and other forms as yet unthought of, are possible; and if we could in vent methods of distinguishing be tween these three kinds of hailstones we should have a better knowledge of what goes on in the upper air during the formation of hail. Those who have proper conveni ences will find that the study of hail stones under polarized light gives additional information as to their crystalline structure, but has not as yet told us much about the process of formation. As ice is a poor conductor of heat, it is worth while to make some effort to determine the temperature of the interior of a large hailstone. The external surface may safely be as sumed to have the temperature of evaporation or the average wet bulb temperature prevailing in the lower thousand feet of air through which the hail has rapidly but the centre must he at a teskrJ/y ture more nearly that at which the ; V/rJfrs was formed. There is, a state of strain that by polarized light, 'j'/fne average tem perature of tJ? >#if|Pnole hailstone may be easily determined by to melt within a calorßA'i/er, where the heat con suirJrcan be determined, and then tYjr temperature be computed.— Monthly Review. Quite Safe. “John, love,” said the young wife, “you oughtn’t to have any secrets from me.” “Well, Tootsie?” “You go to lodge meetings, and ‘you never tell me anything about them.” “They wouldn’t interest you, dear. I don’t mind giving you the password, though, if you’ll promise never to dis close it to a living soul.” “I’ll promise never to tell it to any body. ” "Remember, it’s to be repeated only once and very rapidly.” “I’ll remember. What is it?” “ Aldaborontiphosciphorniosticos.” “What? Please say it again, a lit tle slower.” “Have you forgotten the conditions already? I said ‘only once and very rapidly/ ” (Tearful pause.) “O, dear! I wish you hadn’t told me!” —Chicago Tribune. Drinks One-seventh of His Income. A German physician, Dr. Hirsch field, has been computing the quan tity of alcoholic drink consumed in Berlin. Berlin possessed three years ago 12,592 drinking shops —one for 610 inhabitants —in addition to 301 where wine only is sold. During the period the Berliners consumed 438,- 939,532 liters of beer, 24,704,525 li ters of brandy and 19,956,062 liters of wine. This works out at an av erage annual consumption a head of the population of 236 liters of al coholic drjnk, at a cost of 100 marks, a mark being one shilling. As the average income of the Berliners, in cluding women and children, is about 683 marks, it may be said that the Berliner spends a seventh of his income in intoxicating drinks. —Lon- don Globe. TABULATED OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE COUNTIES Shows Governor-Elect Joseph M. Brown’s Majority Over Captain Yancey Carter to Be 95,307. V Report of the Atlanta Constitution, Friday, October 0. Lor.. Joseph M. Brown’s majority over Captain Yancey Carter in the election of Wednesday will probably be in the neighborhood of 110,000 votes. He carried every county in the state. Official consolidated reports from 133 counties give Governor-Elect Brown a majority of 95,307, his total vote amounting to 106,283, Carter’s total vote in those counties was 10,906. Ow ing to the fact that several county committees did not meet Thursday, it was impossible to secure the official consolidated returns from the other thirteen counties, al though estimated majorities from most of these counties are presented. In the race for pension commissioner, Hon. John W. Lindsay secured the re quired majority over all other canep Disfranchise- Pension Governor. ment commissioner. Amendment. COUNTIES. bo *■* • © *2 • . w > T 37! e u c £ -r % z s s a is g w 5 b •< 3 s a Appling j 7801 131 6441 420 308| 65| 239 | 416| 4| | I Baldwin | 576| I6| 486! 113 46 1; 35| 43 Banka | 647 | 42 | 381 294| 256! 17 322 Bartow (estimated) | 600| 0| 200 200 j Ben Hill | 5121 9j 436 9 1 262 43 177 Blb b | 2,1361 llj 1,200 882 1,001 229 621 Brooks f 0011 34| 560 439 824 19 28 Bulloch ,901 j 48| 400 250 Burke *. 787| 0| 326 457 273 79 ; 104 Butts 565| 231 444 178 301 66| 145 Calhoun 346) 3| ! 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With the election of officers the Georgia State Association of post masters of the fourth class finished the business of the annual conven tion and adjourhed until 1909. W. 'V- Webb of Hahira was elected presiden. to succeed S. .H- Pope of Buchanon. W T. Kitchens of Mitchell and H. it. Garev were elected vice presidents. Mrs Belle Wright of Powder Springs was unanimously re-elected secretary and treasurer of the association. dates by a safe margin. llis vete will amount to about 60,000. that of hi3 combined opposition to 45,003, giving him a majority of 15,000. Colonel A. J. Mcßride received practically 15.000 votes. All of the counties were carried in this race either by Mr. Lindsay °r Colonel Mcßride, with the exception < t Decatur, Early, Douglas, Dougherty and, perhaps, one or two others, which cast the largest number of votes for Mr. Buchanan. The disfranchisement amendment was given a majority of 30,000 to 40,000, the vote being almost two 10 one in its favor. The total vote for disfranchisement will probably reach 80,000. that against being in the neigh borhood of 40,000. It is probable that the total vote cast will reach 140,000, 125,00 going to Mr. Brown and 15,000 to Mr. Carter. The proceeds of the train robbery that occurred near Vilna, Russia, some time ago, were vury much high er than was at first estimated. The robbers got away with a little over $380,000 Fish Commissioner George M. Bow ers said his department had planted during the fiscal year two billion eight hundred million fish and fish eggs in the different streams of the country. * VISIT SCENE OF INDIAN FIGHT. Where Red Cloud Wiped Out 83 Men —General Car rington, Who Counselled Young Officer Against Pur suit, Renews Memories. *-• General Henry B. Carrington and a few other survivors of old F’ort Phil Kearny recently revisited the scene of the Fetterman ‘'massacre” in Wyoming and took part in exer cises commemorating the slaughter of eighty-three men by Red Cloud's Sioux in 1566. As in the Custer bat tle, there were no survivors to tell the story of Fetterman’s annihila tion. The bodies of the men who were led into a trap now rest on the brow of Custer Hill, which has been convened into a national cemetery. The Government has erected an im pressive monument of bowlders where Fetterman and his men fell, and there is a bronze shield thereon, telling of the tragedy in a few sim ple words. The Fetterman monument is on top of what is known as Massacre Hill, between Sheridan and Buffalo, Wyo., a few miles north of the site of old Fort Kearny, which was the first outpost of civilization in that pai*t of the West, and where General Carrington was practically besieged for two years by the great chief, Red Cloud, who is now near death from old age on a Dakota reservation. Fort Phil Kearny was established on the old Bozeman trail, over which many pioneers were pushing their way westward in the 60’s. Travel over this trail was very dangerous, and hardly a wagon train passed through the hunting grounds of the Sioux without being attacked. When the fort was established Red Cloud and his warlike braves were furious and renewed their attacks upon the white men with redoubled vigor. General Carrington himself superin tended the building of the fort. He made a strong stockade, which sur rounded the buildings and parade ground and constituted an impreg nable defense. Red Cloud was too crafty to try to assault the fort, but he laid constant siege to it, and no body dared venture beyond the stock ade without a heavy guard of sol diers. In the first six months after the establishment of the fort the In dians killed 154 persons, including citizens and soldiers. There were fifty-one demonstrations near 1 the fort, and every train that passed on the trail was attacked. Captain Fetterman’s Boast. The Indians particularly delight ed in making life a burden to the wood cutters. Near the fort was a hill called Sullivant Hill, on which a sentry stood all day long, watching for signals from the wood cutters. If an unusually large force of Indians attacked them, the wood cutters would signal for more help and an additional detachment would be sent from the fort. On December 21, 1866, the lookout signalled that the wood train had been corralled and was attacked in force about a mile and a half from the fort. A relief party of forty-nine men from the Eighteenth Infantry and twenty-sev en troopers from the Second Cavalry was ordered out. Captain W. J. Fet terman, who had little experience in Indian fighting, but who was a brave if somewhat impetuous officer, asked to be put in charge of the relief par ty. General Carrington acceded to his request and gave him positive in structions to relieve the wood train and drive back the Indians, but on no account to pursue the Indians be yond Lodge Trail Ridge, a long, high ridge near the fort, extending from Sullivant Hill. With Captain Fet terman’s party were two civilians, Wheatley and Fisher, both armed w r ith new breech-loading, rapid-fir ing rifles, which they were eager to try in Indian warfare. Fetterman had made the boast that with eighty men he could ride through the whole Sioux nation. He now had eighty-three men, and the sequel proved how little he knew of the Sioux as fighters when he made his boast. The Indians who w r ere at tacking the wood cutters w r ere soon aware of Fetterman’s approach and immediately withdrew, allowing the wood train to break coral and go on its way unmolested. The Indians seemed to realize that the man in command of the soldiers was not an experienced fighter. They kept just out of range and taunted the soldiers and made insulting motions, and, in short, tried by every means to keep the command following them. In this they succeeded. Fetterman was so eager to punish the redskins that he Argot his orders and pursued the Sioux across Lodge Trail Ridge. Once over this ridge he was in the power of the Sioux. Red Cloud had posted hundreds of Indians in ambush. General Carrington soon found that something was -wrong. He had dispatched a surgeon with an escort of four men to join Fetterman's par ty, but the doctor soon returned with the information that the wood train was all right, but that when he at tempted to cross the valley to join Fetterman he found it was full of Indians, who were swarming about on Lodge Trail Ridge, and that there was no sign of the soldiers to be ob served. The alarm caused by this in formation was deepened when the sound of heavy firing w r as heard from over Lodge Trail Ridge, indicat ing that a fierce battle was in prog ress. General Carrington dispatched fifty-four infantrymen to relieve Fet terman, and a little later forty men were sent out, reducing the garrison at the fort to a very small number. Indeed, so small was the number of defenders within the stockade that General Carrington released all the prisoners from the guardhouse, armed all the quartermaster’s em ployes and citizens and then mus tered only 119 men, not enough to defend the walls in case of attack. The wives and children of the men in the first detachment were nearly crazy with anxiety, and this deepened when an orderly galloped in from the relieving .party and stated that the valley on the other side of the ridge was filled with Indians and that no sign of Fetterman was to be seen. General Carrington ordered the two relieving parties to consolidate, and told them to unite with Fetterman. He ordered in the wood train, which gave him fifty-four men to spare for the relieving expedition. Later in the afternoon Captain Ten Eyck’s men returned with details of the ap palling disaster. In the wagon were forty-nine of Fetterman’s men, leav ing thirty-four unaccounted for. Ten Eyck had remained on the defensive on the brow of the hill, though the Indians had tried by every means to make him follow them into the val ley. He found the bodies cf the sol diers where they had fallen, and there was evidence of a terrible con flict on the hill. The soldiers had taken refuge behind some huge rocks and the forty-nine men he had brought back w*ere found in a space about six feet square. They had been shot full of arrows, scalped and mutilated. Captain Fetterman and Captain William Brown, the post quartermaster, were found side by side, each with a bullet wound in his temple. Evidently they had stood face to face and each had shot the other dead rather than be taken alive by the Indians. Feared Attack on Fort. The weather was bitter cold and it was late in December, and there was no telling when the Indians, encour aged by their success, would make a determined assault on the fort. But the next day General Carrington went in person to the scene of that battle with a force of eighty men, after leaving strict instructions as to sig nals to be fired from the fort in case of an attack. The women and chil dren had been placed in the maga zine, and an officer was left in charge of them pledged not to let the women be taken alive if the general did not return and the Indians captured the fort. General Carrington found bodies strung along the road to the western end of the trail furtherest from the fort. The two civilians who had ac companied Fetterman were found behind a couple of rocks. By the side of one were found fifty shells, and nearly as many at the side of the other, showing that they had made a desperate fight. Wheatley had no less than 105 arrows in him. Lieutenant Grummond was found some distance from the others be hind a pile of rock, with every evi dence of a terrible struggle having taken place on the scene. The bodies of the remaining soldiers, which were stripped of clothing, were taken back to the fort. The weather was almost insuffer able, and men and women were forced to clothe themselves in furs made from skins of wolves. As soon as possible relief was sent to the fort. General Carrington was relieved of command pending investigation, but eventually he was absolved from blame, as it was proved that he had given Fetterman distinct orders not to venture into the trap which Red Cloud had sprung so successfully. General Carrington was deeply in terested in going over the scene of his early experiences. It was planned to have him meet his old foeman. Red Cloud, probably the greatest chief the Sioux ever knew, but the old warrior was too feeble to be there. J Just before the abandonment cf Fort Phil Kearny Red Cloud received ample punishment for the Fetterman slaughter. Captain James Powell, who bad been detailed to guard the timber cutters at the fort, repulsed Red Cloud and his warriors in what v/as known as the “Wagon Box fight,” a short distance from the fort. Red Cloud had assembled about 3,- 000 warriors, and determined to make a direct assault on the fort. Asa preliminary move he intended to annihilate Powell and his w'ood guards. No less than 500 Indians made an attack on the wood train, but Powell promptly corralled the wagons, and behind this fortification he and his thirty-one men defended themselves. Unknown to the Indians the sol diers were armed with anew rifle of the rapid-fire type. There w r ere plenty of these guns* and one fron tiersman, a crack shot, had eight loaded weapons at his elbow'. He kept these eight guns busy for three hours. The first charge was re pulsed, the Indians falling in great numbers. Four times the Indians charged, only to be mowed down by the “bad medicine guns.” Final ly Red Cloud made a last charge, but it was only for the purpose of get ting the bodies of those who had fallen. Red Cloud himself after ward said he lost 15 00 followers in that fight. The defeat disheartened the Sioux and caused Red Cloud to lose the prestige he had gained in hia defeat of Fetterman.—New York Tribune.