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“De Valley an de Shadder." !
By HARBY STILLWELL EDWARDS.
[Copyright, 1808, by The Century company.
All rights reserved !
CHAPTER 11.
Weeks passed. The little brown baby '
fell to the care of its grandinammy. A
spell was upon Mandy. With her long
hair down upon her shoulders, elbows
upon her knees and face in her hands ;
she sat by the hour under the great 1
black gum gazing down into the shad
owy depths of the swamp. With an in
tuition and refinement of kindness not
uncommon to the race the elder woman
kept silent upon the events of that
dreadful night. Not once did she refer
to the tragedy, not once to the wildlife
of the young wife of which it was the
culmination—wild, for it had been the
same old story of mismated ages and
foolish playing with fire. Quietly she
had gone on doing the cooking and the
washing, and the little brown baby as
she toiled played with its rag doll and
preached to the sleepy cat. When the
baby cried for food, she placed it in its
mother’s arms, where as it lay Mandy
studied the round face vaguely. But no
tear fell upon the child, and the old
mammy wondered as she watched the
two.
“Mandy ain' come roun yit, ” she
said to a neighbor once. “De Lord es
’flictin her mighty hebby, but she’ll
I come bimeby; she’ll come biineby. ”
Yet the time seemed long.
One day as thus they sat the Rev.
Kesiah Toomer, or “Unc ’Siah,” as he
! was called, leaned over the split oak
. picket. His aged face, full of wrinkles,
' and its white eyebrows beamed down
i ikndly upon them.
“Mornin, Aunt Charlotte,” he said,
touching the battered old straw hat that
kept the sun from his bald head and its
: kinky fringe of snowy hair. “How you
do des mornin?” His was a soft, flexi
! ble voice, full of conciliatory curves,
j "I’m toler’ble,” replied the woman
simply.
| “How Mandy?”
“She’s toler’ble.” The young woman
. was dreaming into the depths and
1 heard nothing.
“How littl’ Ben?”
“lie’s toler’ble.”
“How Sis’ Harriet?”
“She’s toler’ble.”
“Yes’m. ” Unc’ ’Siah’s face mellow
ed a little more, and he shifted his
. weight to the other foot. '
"How you, Unc’ ’Siah?”
“I’m toler’ble, bless God!"
“How Phyllis?”
“She’s toler’ble.”
“The. chillun all got well?”
*’Yes’m, dey all toler’ble. ”
“Won’t yer come on an res’?”
Unc’ ’Siah replied by limping slowly
into the yard. Ho had a log that was
I stiff with rheumatism and gave him a
painful looking gait. He seated himself
in the splint bottom chair proffered him.
For some time he was silent. Every
now and then his eye rested upon the
sleeping child and the brooding mother.
Charlotte knew that ho had something
to say.
“You seen Ben?” she asked quietly.
The old man stirred in his seat.
’ ‘ Yes’m, ’ ’ he said. ‘ ‘ Seen him yestid
dy. ” There was a slight change in the
face of Mandy; no movement, but the
eyes seemed to lose their faraway look
and fix themselves on something nearer.
“W’at ’e say?”
“Well,” replied the old man, thrust
ing out his stiffened limb, “he ain’ say
much. Hit’s mighty nigh unto fo’
weeks sence he uz put en jail, an dey es
gointer have es trial next Chuesday. ”
Then presently, “You bin deir, Man
dy ?’ ’ Mandy turned her hunted eyes up
on him.
"Yes,” she whispered after awhile.
‘‘ An he druv me ’way. ’ ’ Silence fell up
on the little group. The old woman was
studying the face of the man, turned to
" Yea, though 1 u'aTk troo de L'alley cr de
shadder.”
ward the ground. The other had sunk
again into hopelessness above the baby.
Presently Unc’ ’Siah spoke:
“He do say dat dem lyyers ’low dat
deir’s mighty littl’ chance fur ’im Tess
'n dat knife er Bill’s ‘d been picked up
by somebody w’at uz leanin ter outside
er de case, ’cause Bill's name uz on hit,
es hit uz Bill’s, an ’u’d show fur hitse’f.
Pleimy uv ’em seed Mandy snatch hit
sum de groan, an sum ses es how et uz
Ben’s an she uz erf eared ter show hit,
an sum ses es how hit uz Bill’s an she
uz er-hidin hit ’cause she liked Bill
more’n Ben. an so hit goes. Now. ses I,
deir ain’ nuth’n en aat, an Mandy’ll
sw'ar in de courthouse she flung hit en
de swamp fur Ben’s ’thout lookin at hit
—des like you say, honey—but dey
Tow, does dem lyyers, es how Mandy,
bein de prisoner’s wife, can't sw'ar en
de case. But es de knife uz deir, ses
dey, hit ’u'd tork fur hitseX ’cause
deir ain’ no ’sputin de name, an Sam
Toliver au Bob Johnsin knowed hit by !
sight. You couldn't fin hit, you reck’n, 1
Sis’ Mandy?”
The woman shuddered. “No,” she,
♦aid, “I bin deir en the day. but de
■ place es changed sum en de night, an et
night—l can’t go deir, Unc' ’Siah! I
can't go deir! An hit ain’ no use ter go
eu de dark, an hit en de water. ” Unc’ i
'Siah was silent a moment, then he
added:
“Ben ses, ses he, ‘Ef Marse Bob uz
heali hit 'u'd be all right. ’ But deir ■
■ ain' no chance now, fur c live 'way off
I yander sebenty odd mile, an no railroad 1
"half way. Au heah hit is er Thu'sday i
’bout sundown. ” Mundy turned her face '
to his, but his eyes looked away, and
he had given himself up to reflectiop.
! Presently he said, as if addressing no
one iu particular, “My ole mis’ tell |
me oncst, ‘ ’Siah,’ ses she, des so, ‘w’en I
I de heart es sick an lonesome, deir ain’
ino med'ein’ like work. Es you got ter ■
■ set down an study 'bout hit, hit ’s goin- j
, w*t,‘es dis heah sickness, but es you
j es er-workin, hit gits out into suthin
1 else. ’ Lord, but she live up ter hit, too,
an w’en Marse Sam uz shot et Chinck'n
! hominy, es dey say, she tu'n en an cut
j up cyarpcts fur de sogers, an knit socks
j an scrape liut twell bimeby hit uz all
done, an one day I seen ’cr pickin cotton
1 in de orchud patch like er common nig
-1 ger, an I ses den, ‘Ole mis’, hit's er sin
an er shame fur you ter do like dat. ’
An right deir she lif’ up ’er hans, dat
de sun almos’ shine troo, an say, ‘Gim
l me work ter do, ’Siah; gimme work ter
do!’ An lemme tell you, right deir, too,
i I broke down. But hit kep’ ’er up, an
she ain’ dead yit, but as peart as any
body. Yes, sir, work es er big t’ing fur
hebby eyes. ’ ’
On the face of the yellow woman over
her babe a thought was dawning. A new
spirit shone in her eyes, and a quicken
ed breath shook her form. As she gazed
upon the old man he took a pair of sil
ver rimmed spectacles from his pocket
and adjusted them. Then he drew out a
worn Bible. The woman sank back
again, but the thought in her eyes re
mained.
“Sis’ Mandy,” said he, “let de Lord
speak, fur deir’s trouble in sto’ fur you
an yourn. ’ ’ Charlotte rested her chin
upon her hand, and her knitting, which
she had drawn out, dropped to the
ground. The old man began, but his
progress was slow. He had to spell out
many words and explain as he read :
“‘ De Lord es my sheppud; I shall
not want.’ Bless the Lord fur dat!
‘Shall not want.’ You heah dat, Sis’
Mandy; not want furnuthin. Don’ care
w’at hit es, you shall not want hit long,
shan’t keep on cr waut’n hit es do Lord
es yo’ sheppud an you es one er de flock.
No chile.
“ ‘He makes mo to lay down in green
pastures; he leads me beside de still wa
ters.’ Yes, Lord, we know w’at dat
means fur er sheep whar de grass es
long an gieen an de water es cole an ■
dcircs shade all day long; dat’s de place ■
fur yo’ sheep an yo’ lam’s.
“ ‘He rcsto’itli my soul; he leads up
do pas er do righteous fur es name I
sake. ’ Des heah dat! Hit makes no dis- I
funce whar dat pas es er-goin—by de big |
road or ercross de corn rows oi - troo de
swamp hitse’f. He’s gointer lead de
way an hit’s all de same es hit’s day or
night; hit’s all one wid de Lord.
“ ‘Yea, though I walk troo de valley
er de shadder er death I’ll fear no devil. ’
No sir-r-r! No devil gointer hu’t you
deir, fur deir’s er han en de shadder, an
hit’s more’n er match fur him an his
kind, dat hit es.
‘‘ ‘ Fur thou art wid me; thy rod an
thy staff dey comforts me. ’ Oh, yes,
chillun, Jesus es deir by de side er de
troo berleivers es dey only knowed hit.
Aniv’endeyes come out er de valley an
de shadder, w’at den?
“ ‘Thou prepares’ er table fur me en
de presunce uv my enemies; thou
a-n-o-i-n-t-e-t-h my head with oil an my
cup hit runs ober. ’ Dat’ll be cr happy
day den! Oh, yes, oh, yes, w’en de cup
es full, de heart es full, an de eyes dey
runs ober, ’cause uv de fullness erway
down below; yes, ma’am. W’en dat
tayble es spread, hit’ll make anybody’s
eyes run ober; barbecued shote, br’iled
chicken, fat ham, biscuits, white bread,
’simmun beer, all spread right deir en
de presunce er de enemy, de ole devil
hisse’f fairly bustin wid hunger an spite,
but pow’less, ’cause de sheppud es deir
ter guard de lam’s.
“An w’en hit’s all done w’at ses de
prophet? W’en de hard heart done lay
down hits load an de feet been en de
valley an de shadder an by do waters an
’cross de pastures er-fearin nuth’n, w’at
den?
“ ‘Sholy!’ ses ho, ‘sholy!’—oh, hit’s
cr great word is dat sholy—‘sholy good
ness an mussy shall toiler me all de
days er my life, an I’ll dwell den en de
house er de Lord. ’ Bless him fur de
promise!”
’Siah closed his book and drew off
his glasses and wiped them carefully
upon the lining of his coat. But the
young woman stood up with the new
thought fairly speaking in her round
brown eyes and new vigor trembling in
her frame.
“Tek de baby, mammy,” she almost
shouted, placing little Ben in the oth
er’s lap. “I’mer-goin—don’t youheah?
—l’m goin troo de valley an de shadder
an by de waters an cross de pastures
twell he show me Marse Bob! I bin
bline, mammy, I bin bline, but I ain’
bline now! He done op’n my eyes an I
see de way. Goodby! Goodby, mammy!
Goodby, Unc’ ’Siah! Keep de baby en
yo’ bed, mammy, en de night an don’
let ’im cry fur me. ‘En de valley an de
shadder an by de pastures!’ En yo’ bed,
mammy”—
She turned away. Her voice died out J
as she passed beyond the live oaks, but !
like a wind whisper among the pines it
returned once more—“Eu yo’ bed.”
Then, and then only, did Unc’ ’Siah lift
up his face from his hands and fix it
skyward.
“De Lord he has spoke at las’. Hit’s
all right, Sis’ Charlotte. De Lord's han ’
es er-reachin out fur Ben. Dat es Bill’s '
knife. ”
Charlotte spoke not. Bending until I
her head rested against the one ragged i
garment of the sleeping child, she rock- I
ed him in silence. The old man gazed j
upon her doubtfully, but presently he
rose, and in silence, too, limped out ,
across the field.
CHAPTER IH.
On went the young woman, her
straight, strong limbs bearing her brave- j
ly; on into the great road, on through ;
the village with its lazy groups sitting '
about in the afternoon shade, on past ■
the jail, never stoppping. She moYed as
one in a trance, and the strange light
shone from her eyes.
‘ ‘ ‘ En de valley an de shadder, ’ Ben, ’ ’
I she shouted, “‘an er-fearin nuthin. ’
’ An I'm com in back leanin on his rod an
his staff. I'm er-comin back. ”
People looked at her curiously, but i
she stopped for none. The shadows ’
fell; night found her on the lonely high
, way. The tall pines crooned above; it
1 seemed as though a spirit sighed from
i the lips of the dying man. A whippoor-
I will called from the depths of the forest.
! To her it was a voice from the past, and i
strange things caught at her dress as she
I glided by.
“ ‘En de valley an deshadder, ’ ” she
whispered, “ ‘an leanin on his rod an
staff. ’ ” No moon rose to comfort her,
but a mocking bird sang as he used to sing
in the haw bush by the cabin when the
baby was rolling on his back in the sand I
and she was sewing. On, never falter
ing; tired of limb, hungry and athirst, I
but onward stilt
i At dawn of day she dropped down by .
a friendly door in the city 's suburbs and 1
south animates the hummest dwelling,
and the humbler the roof the broader j
the unquestioning hospitality. Her !
thirst quenched, her hunger appeased, I
she dragged her stiffening limbs into a
new road and continued her journey.
1 The sun came forth and parched the
ground, but the trees lent hor shade
! here and there. Thirst came back, but
j the sparkling brook danced across her
way. Hunger, too, came again, yet the
hospitable cabin followed it—night and
j sleep, when far in the night she sank in
a fence comer, murmuring, “En de val- ■
! ley an de shadder.” And as she slept j
nothing evil passed the sentinel that |
there stood guard beside her.
With the dawn the blistered feet re
i suined their -weary way. The history of
■ one day was the history of the next. She
started on Thursday; on Monday morn
ing she passed through the great white
columns of a princely home and told her
story for the last time, and at 10 o’clock
the next morning the trial of Ben Thom
as for murder was to begin at Jefferson
ville, in Twiggs county, seventy odd
miles away.
The evening of the same day found
Mandy back in the city, and with her
was a gray haired man—Marse Bob, she
called him—and the people who passed I
him on the street touched their hats to
him and looked back as his tall form
went by. A buggy was to bear him to
Jeffersonville in the early morning, but
for her there was work yet to be done.
“W’en you pass Black Ankle, ” she
said to him, “I’ll be deir. ” Before he
could stop her she had gone.
Not a voice broke the stillness of the
hamlet as she entered among the brood
ing cabins, save the far barking of Bill
Fowler’s dog. She had hoard that ani
mals see spirits. Was he barking at his
master’s ghost come back again? Iler
flesh crept, and she almost screamed as
she trod unawares on the spot where the |
; man died. There was no light in the j
s little house, no sound. Should she en
j ter? The wail of a baby came out to her
—a feeble wail, as of one sick or starv
-1 ing. She laid her hand upon the latch.
“No,” she moaned, “not now. Hit's
de las’ chance, de las’.” She passed
down into the black swamp, lying there
in the clouded moon like the grave itself.
“ ‘En de valley an de shadder, ’ ” she
whispered, “‘an er-fearin nuthin.’”
As she entered there, that other night
came back, and its horrors rose ab< >ut
her. There was the bush that clasped
her knees, there the crooked tree that
barred the way and there the tangled
brake.
Then the lagoon, with its wide, still
stretch of water, lay at her feet.
“Bon!” she called, but the name died
in her throat. She raised her bead again j
and threw the knife with all her might I
—aye, for the handle seemed in her j
grasp as hard and bloody as on that fa- |
tai night! Yonder it would fall, she j
thought, straining her eyes to where the [
black night rested upon the cold, pale
sheen of waters, and lo! so it seemed to
fall. There came back from the carpet
ed gloom the same splash! She gasped
and clutched an overhanging vine.
“ ‘En de valley an de shadder, thy
rod an thy staff, an er-fearin nuthin, ’ ”
she whispered brokenly, and so, half
moaning, she let herself down into the
silent water. The chilly flood rose to
her armpits, but she moved forward
straight into the. gloom. Once she stum
bled, and the flood rolled over her, but
straight on she passed with a precision
seemingly supernatural. As she moved
she felt with her bruised and torn feet
in the soft ooze and in the slime, slow
ly and patiently, for she fancied she
could tread every foot of the dark depths
until the knife was found.
But there is a limit to human prog
ress in Black Ankle swamp, and just as
the spot was reached to which she had
calculated that her strength could have
hurled the bloody weapon the ground
passed from under her feet. Frantically
she clutched at a cypress knee to draw
back, when instantly a sharp, swift pain
ran along her arm. She had touched a
snake, and he had struck his fangs into
her clinched hand. She must not lose
her hold. She did not. But her lips
opened and sent up one wild, frenzied
cry from that dreadful place, “Oh, my
God!”
But what was that? There was no
serpent in her grasp, only the long keen
blade of a knife thrust into the tender
cypress. Ignorant and superstitious, her
frame trembled with terror. Then
the truth was upon her. The weap
on she had hurled into the night had
stuck where it had struck. The splash
was the plunge of a startled cooter.
She drew it from its rest and rushed
from the place, as when a brown deer,
I the hounds pressing hard, breaks
■ through the swamp and the cane and
: the treacherous ooze into the clear fields
I beyond.
But gone now fatigue. The woman
passed the cabin, with its crib and its
memories, almost without knowing it
and took the road back to the city. It
j would have been as well to crouch there
j and wait for the buggy or to have sought
| the village, but wait she could not.
i The fever was upon her. She must move,
j So she ran cityward to meet the gray
i haired rescuer. Mile after mile passed,
’J ' b Ij A
The thundettng feet of the animal were
almost upon her.
hour after hour,_ and still he came not.
Day broke, and the sun rose. A pre
j science of mortal danger was upon her.
! faintly at first, a terror at last, and mas
. tering the fevered energy of her great
| struggle it slew her strength and hurled i
her Ly rhe wayside, to lie with hunted I
eyes fixed upon the tree arched lane I
; overhead.
j As thus she lay, an old man riding a'
j flying gray horse rose in the shadowed
■ light of the lane and presently burst in-
j to the full sunlight there before her. i
The thundering feetof *be animal were .
[TO 9X COFTntTK>4
! HOKE SMITH RESIGNS.
Secretary of the Interior Quits the Cleve
land Cabinet—His I'robable Successor.
Washington, Aug. 23. For some
time rumors have appeared in print on
the probability of the e.ariy resignation
of Secretary Hoke Smith. There is now
no doubt but that he has resigned and
that his resignation has been accepted.
For some days past shipments have
been made to Atlanta of his books and
! papers, and it is learned that ho has de
! dined to set any departmental business
to be heard by him for a date later than
this month. It can finally be assured
that his successor will be in charge in 1
short while.
After the nomination of Bryan and
Sewall, Secretary Smith was the only
member of the cabinet who announced
his purpose to support that ticket, and
while this action on his part did not in
any way affect his personal relations be
tween himself and the other members
of the cabinet, it seems that he felt con
strained to offer his resignation.
The secretary declines to discuss the
subject in any way.
Ever since the rumors of the probable
resignation of Secretary Smith there
j has been more or less gossip concerning
his successor, and at the interior depart
ment the name of John M. Reynolds,
the second assistant secretary of the de
partment, has been mentioned freely
for the place. Mr. Reynolds has made
an excellent executive officer. Ho has
had charge of the difficult work of re
view of pension divisions of the pen
sion bureau and has given general
satisfaction. He is a native of Pennsyl
nia. The new cabinet officer will have
only a little more than six months to
serve and it is regarded as probable that
Mr. Cleveland would prefer to fill the
vacancy from the department rather
than fill the place by ap ointing some
one that would be new t > the work,
! which involves acqnaintaive with a
j great variety of matters affecting di
rectly the public welfare.
WRIGHT IN ATLANTA.
The Fopulist-Frohlbitiuu Candidate For
Governor of Georgia Speaks.
Atlanta, Aug. 19. Seaborn A.
Wright, fusion candidate for governor
of this state, addressed an audience of
about 4,000 people in the Moody taber
nacle here. Mr. Wright spoke with his
us al force, droll some times, dramatic
often and always entertaining. He won
loud applause after ho got well into his
speech, though at first the audience
seemed to be waiting for him to line
out his course. He said that he was a
Democrat of the original kind, and next
declared that he was independent in
politics.
Mr. Wright dAvelt at length on the
' Democratic campaign of 1894, and de
-1 cried partisanship in politics. “The
! man who is a partisan is a little man,”
he declared. He quoted Washington,
! Toombs, Stephens and Hill against par
: tisanship in politics. William Jennings
Bryan, he said, had announced that he
would not support the nominee of the
Chicago convention if the nominee
should be a gold man, and Grover Cteve
i land refuses now to follow the majority
I of his party.
He denounced the present state ad-
I ministration and closed by saying that
nothing could have induced him to ac
cept the nomination for governor except
the insertion in the Populist platform of
the anti-barroom plank
ATKINSON SPEAKS. •
The Governor Discusses State and National
Issues at Savannah.
Savannah, Aug. 19. Despite the
stormy weather, about 1,000 people
gathered in the Odd Fellows’ hall hero
to hear Governor W. Y. Atkinson dis
cuss state and national issues. He was
introduced to his audience by President
Mauncy of the Bayan and Sewall club,
and three cheers were given when he
arose to speak.
Governor Atkinson devoted a large
part of his time to the financial issue.
His argument to show that competition
in securing silver must raise the com
mercial value to the coinage value was
not short of convincing. His statement
that all the silver in the world divided
by 16 give the weight of the gold,
and that therefore God Almighty must
have had something to do with the ra
tio, caught his hearers, and they cheered
him lustily.
Governor Atkinson advocated a plan
for the employment of convicts by the
state, or such supervision by the state,
as will give them immunity from cruel
and inhuman treatment. He also ad
vocated state control of county chain
gangs, from many of which he said he
had had reports of innumerable horrors.
The state, in its sovereignty, he said,
should exercise its control over these
convicts and see that they were treated
humanely.
The ‘Lone Lyncher” Pardoned.
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 24.—The gov
ernor has pardoned D. C. Ready, whose
trial and conviction in Barnwell county
several years ago was heralded through
out the land. He was called the “lone
lyncher ” because, as will be remem
bered, he took a negro accused of a hein
ous crime, and allowing him a few min
utes to pray, tied him to a tree and,
stepping back a few paces, shot the top
of his head off with a shotgun. The
attorneys had great trouble in saving
his life. He was finally convicted of
manslaughter and given 30 years in the
penitentiary. The reasons for the gov
ernor’s action have not been given to
the public.
A Georgia Murderer Arrested In Florida.
Newberry, Fla., Aug. 21.—William
C. Shehee, the double murderer, was
captured while taking breakfast beyond
the old town of Hammond, 35 miles
west of Newberry. Shehee did not re
sist arrest, but surrendered his 38 re
volver, very much to the surprise of the
deputies. The warrant on which he
was arrested charged him with the
double murder of J. T. Hilliard and J.
S. Taylor, at High Springs, on last
Sunday.
Two Children Burned to Death.
Waldo, Fla., Aug. 24.—The house es
Ephraim Coleman was destroyed and
two children, a girl and a boy of 10 and
2 years of age, were burned to death.
The mother and father went to visit a
neighbor and locked the children in the
house.
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MR. BACON 13 HOPEFUL.
Thinks tha Demnemts Will Win Despite
Republican Money.
1 Washington, Aug. 21.—Senator Ba
con of Georgia, who has just returned
from the Pacific coast, was at Demo
cratic headquarters during the day. In
, an interview he said that as the senti
ment now exists m the country, Bryan
would be elected, but that Republicans
told him tlis sentiment of the people
would change before election. The sen
. ati.r said ho failed to s'e that the senti
ment of the country through which he
had passed had change I, but was in-
■ clined to think that tb.o money which
tiie Republicans are putting into the
campaign will have its effect. He did
dot mean By this, ho added, tb it voters
would bo bought, but that Republicans
would get their literature more largely
circulated, will have more speakers and
will have more and better informed
men at many places who wiil bo able to
defeat the Democrats in argument.
He said lie noticed sit the stations and
other places where there were groups of
men talking, arguing the silver quos
t on, as a general tiring the Republican
was better informed am! could array his
. argument with moro effect, and when
ho got the best of his Democratic antag-
■ onist lie was likely to carry tho crowd
wit’n him. This lie attributed to a large
circumtion of literature andsp ci.il work
of tiie Republicans, wlio were posting
men everywhere to be able to argue tho
question. Senator Bacon thought that
tliiswas t)ie only feature wherein the
; llepublicaus were succeeding, and said
1 ho had no doubt that all this would be
counteracted by the Democrats.
NESBITT WRITES LETTER.
Urges the Farmers of tiie Soutli to Use the
New V.’iro Cottou Tics,
1 Atlanta, Aug. 22. —Colonel R. T.
■ Nesbitt, commissioner of agriculture,
has written a letter to the farmers of
the south in regard to the wire cotton
ties, suggesting that they discard the
old tie and delay packing their cotton
until the new wire ties can be secured.
Iu his letter Commissioner Nesbitt re
quests the farmers to meet in their
counties as soon as practicable and ar
range to secure the ties. Following is
the commissioner’s letter:
To the Farmers of Georgia:
This deoartmont lias been investigating
■ the ques-ion of substituting wire ties for
. the flat ties heretofore u i ■•! in bailing cot-
■ ton, and I believe now that a satisfactory
I solution of the question lias been reached.
1 ow urge upon the farmers of this and
other cotton growing states to meet to
gether in their re peelive counties and de
vise plans for securing wire ties. If neces
sary delay packing your cotton fora short
time in order that yon may get the wire
ties.
The ties used by Mr. George W. Truitt
are made by the Continental Wire com
pany, Laclede building, St. Louis, Mo.
They weigh IS pounds to tiie bundle and
are offered at 5b cents a bundle (0) ties) on
the cars at St. Louis in earload lots, or 60
cents in smaller quantities.
The ties recommended by the Farmers’
Alliance Exchange of South Carolina can
be purchased Iron the Washburn &
Moore Manufacturing Co., 241 Pearl
street. New York. They weigh 37 1-2
pounds to the bundle and will cost 90 cents
a bundle laid down in Atlanta. Any fur
ther information desired will be cheerfully
furnished upon application to this depart-
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1 KAIuKOADS CONSOLIDATE.
The Abbeville and Waycross Merged With
the Georgia and Alabama.
Richmond, Aug. 20.—President Wil
liams of the Georgia and Alabama rail
way announces that at called meetings
of the stockholders of tiie two compa
nies which have just been held, resolu
tions have been adopted by which the
Abbevi le and Waycross railroad, ex
tending from Abbeville, Ga.., to Fitz
gerald, Ga., 22 miles, tho seat of the
soldiers’ colony, has been merged with
the Georgia and Alabama railway, and
will hereafter be known as the Fitz
gerald branch of tho Georgia and Ala
bama railway.
Tiie latter company several months
ago quietly secured control of all of the
bonds and stock of the Abbeville and
Waycross railroad, but up to the present
time tiie Abb wille ami Waycross his
I been operated as a separate and inde
pendent road. By tills consolidation tho
■ mileage of tho Georgia and Aliibama
' railway is increased 22 miles, making a
j total of 362 miles operated.
Former *»Jacon Man a ISis’auiist.
Tampa, Fla., Aug. 20 —Thomas F.
j Gibson is in jail here on a charge of big
| amy. He married nearly 20 years ago
; in Macon, Ga. Five yoms ago he left his
I wife and went to Brunswick, Ga.,
! afterwards coming to Tampa, where
jhe married Miss Florence Parrish
j last November. Gibson claims that
j lie left his Macon wife because of her
bad character, and instituted divorce
j proceedings. He claims he secured the
divorce while in Brunswick, but says
he heard that his Avifo was dead ami
never sent to Macon for the papers.
Tiie charge of bigamy is preferred by
tho father of tho young woman Gibson
married here. The Macon authorities
have been asked to look up Gibson’s
record.
Topeka Enacts a Curfew Law.
Topeka, Aug. 19.—The eity of Topeka
has enacted a curfew hiw. It provides
that all children under 16 years of age,
found on tho streets or in public places
unaccompanied by guardians after 9 p.
m. in summer and 8 p. m. in whiter,
shall be arrested and fined not loss than
$5 nor more than $;!5. The lire bell will
ring every evening 15 minutes before
the hour.
Texas Fever Kafflng In Tenncssoo.
Nashville, Aug. 21.—A destructive
outbreak of Texas fever lias developed
at the county hospital, near this city,
14 cows having died and IS others are
affected. Tiie state veterinarian has
established a strict quarantine and all
efforts will be made to prevent the fever
spreading. A searching investigation
will be instituted as to the cause.
Suicided on Iler Wedding Eve.
Chattanooga, Aug. 22.—0 n the eve
of her wedding, which was to have oc
curred Sunday, Miss Amanda Douglas,
daughter of Prater Do glas, a farmei
living near McMinnville, Tenn., com
mitted suicide by shooting herself. It i;
said some slight disagreement with her
affianced over the wedding preparations
led to the deed.
Weyler has adopted a course of
extol initiation in Cuba. Two little
girls are to bo shot as spies. Some
body ought to exterminate Weylor
b >fore his nefarious plans are put
into execution. He is a monster
whom it would bo an act of justice
and mercy to remove. Vigorous
measures should be adopted re
garding such Hood thirsty brutes.
MOTIC®.
I WANT everv mar. and woman in the United
States interested in the Opium and Whisks
habits to have one ot my books on these dis
eases. Address B. M. Woolley, Atlanta, Ga.
Box 382-and one will be sent yon free.
Local Schedule,
Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus railroad.
Eugene E. Jones, Receiver.
Passenger Schedule in effect May 3, 1896.
southbovmi, Stations. northround.
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•J i.'s ■•• 7 30 Shops G 35 950
4 27 7 77 Battleliicl I « J 1 <) 22
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5 0.5 831 . . ..Laßayetto :> 34 / 848
5 3» ' 01 Trion 5 01 8 17
"> 41 ■> 11.... Summerville 4 54 8 04
553 •> 19.... Raccoon... 4 754
5 02 .0 28 Lyerly 4 37 B T T 4(>
7 00 10 20 Rome 3 ,‘;9 G 4.5
7 i’ J * *’ Cedartown 252 ....... T.O 00
1 Felton ■ • • • - 2 20
1- Buchanan 2 05
12 .... Bremen 1 45
!<• ;j 0 Carrolton 1 1.5
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Seaborn Wright kept aloof from
political candidacy f>r twenty
years, until a ptrty tl ir > l tn miki
the suppression of the barrooms its
loading issue. He accepts the no m
ination for governor now, because
Jhe can help put down saloons—
■ Atlanta Motive.
i If Motive don't know anything
more about Ihe sa’vation than it
does about Scab Wright and his
platform record, why its future
circulation will be confined in that
Jclima that is hotter than this—
I tho eternal hoine of the hypocrit
j who keeps a jug in liis closet while
i he clamors for a law that wil k< ep
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I Returns from the Democratic
’ congressional primaries in the
Eighth Alabama district are con
, elusive of tho nomination of Will-
I iam Richardson, of Huntsville, over
, General Joseph Wheeler, who has
’ i served the district for eight terms.
1. Both are free silver men. General
! Wheeler, who was a distinguished
cavalry leader in the Confederate
Army, is one of the richest of the
j southern members of congress. He
• is 60 years of age, a lawyer .and
’ planter. He has been a hard
-1
- working congressman, and has long
e been noted for his zeal and indus
s t’:y in furthering the interests of
his district. Qn July 20, 1892,
C General Wheeler rose to question
of privilege in tho house and de
nounced the campaign book of tl e
r Populist party written by Tom
( Watson, then a congressman and
now a.Populist candidate for vice
presidunt Juse it, charg<id_4fiint
many members had been drunk on
the Hour of the house. Watson, in
reply, told of tho “Mr. Speaker,
where am I at?” incident. Inves
r3 i tigation by a committee of con-
i giess resulted in a report against
*• ; tho truth of Watson's charges.