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and Grew Not Old
HiDh'ffd not tho least
0 shame about telling
her Age. On the
contrary, she was
rather proud to do
s«. It was some¬
thing to be proud of.
Not that she was
r, but that at sixly-fonr she
a day over forty-eight, and
forty eight at that,
r hair was silver, but what
.1 calth of silver 1 And it was
-ent to soften wrinkles either,
woro ns many of those ornaments
is legitimate to wear at fortv-
u., anil no more. Ob, she was cer¬
tainly a wonderful woman for her age,
was Mrs. Joseph Allestree!
Quaint, indeed, she appeared, par¬
ticularly on a certain evening, stand¬
ing in tho old square portico, with
the sun shining straight under the
trees into her face.
The house at her hack was low nml
long. It stood endwise to the hazy
little river that flowed at tile foot of
the abruptly sloping lawn. On the
side, at the end o! a long, shady ave-
■"motion nue, was urt-h a >^o with an Concealed old-fashioned by
over u,
vines.
It was toward this gate that Mrs.
Allestree looked, leaning forward
eagerly, like a girl, one hand shield¬
ing her eyes from the level sunbeams.
She wore white—think of her daring
to wear white! She was watching for
Joseph. He had gone down to Stone-
ton—only a mile distant—for the post
at 5 o’clock. That was two hours ago.
Joseph did love dearly to gossip with
theold farmers and shopkeepers, but
he really ought to remember dinner
time.
But Joseph had not forgotten his
dinner. At this very minute the gate
opened and his little gig rolled in,
followed by three em'husiastio dogs—
St. Bernard and 4 red setters.
Mr. Allestree, after embracing his
wife as if he had just returned from a
year’s journey, went in with her to
dinner, and Mr. Allestreo was-but I
will not describe him; Ritnply he was
everything that the husband of Mrs.
Allestree should have been. Forty-
two years had gone by since their
marriage and in all that time they had
never been separated a single day.
“Dearest,” paid Mr. Allestree as
they sat down, “I owe you an apology
for my tardiness, but it couldn’t be
helped. I got a letter calling mo
away on an important matter, and I
had to stop to attend to some things in
the village. I must go immediately—
to-morrow.”
“Ob, that Perley affair,” she said,
glancing over the page. “But, Joseph,
can't you put it off? Remember, the
Kennedys are coming iu the morning
to “I stay over Sunday.”
cannot, Henriett a It’s got to
be attended to at once.”
“But, Joseph, you can’t go without
me. You know you never did such a
thing.”
“I am afraid J. must do it this time,”
he replied, mournfully.
They sat in silence for some minutes.
Twice Mrs. Allestree wiped away a sly
tear with her napkin. At length,
bravely assuming a cheerful aspect,
she asked: "How loug will you be
gone?”
“I oan’fc possibly reach London, ac¬
complish all I want to and get home
again in less than ten days.”
“Joseph, it will kill u-i both.”
“Ah, no, my dear,” ho laughed;
"it won’t quite do that. At least, 1
hope not. It will bo very, very hard.
But think, my love, wo were apart five
long years once on a time.”
“Ah, Joseph,” with a sob in her
voice, “that was beforo we had ever
lived together. We only knew each
other by let'er, you know.”
“And a mighty comfort did we take
out of those same letters. Isn’t it
strange that in two and forty years wo
should never have had occasion to
write to one another ? Not since you
were Henrietta Shower.”
“It is a singular circumstance,” she
replied. “Yes, we can write. Do
you know, Joseph, the thought of it
already consoles me a little. It will
be such a delightful novelty.”
It was a good thing for Mrs. Alles¬
tree that she expected visitors. But
after the guests had departed her con¬
dition was pitiable. Especially as no
letter had come.
Mr. Allestreo had gone away early
on she Saturday. Now it was Tuesday,
had managed to be patient over
j the Sabbath, but on Monday uiorning,
when Jimmy carno up from Stoneton
L empty handed, sho had refused to bo-
r liove that he had not dropped the let-
[ ^G”°ked or that it. the postmaster had not
I the ., tv 41 0, ’ly two deliveries in
'' r hours, and at tho
C 2 *ormance was ro-
-•
Mr, Framwell began to dread th<
hours of delivery. Twice a day, what¬
ever the weather, Mrs. Allestree pre¬
sented her handsome, anxious face at
the window.
When he handed out the post to her
and she found not the letter she longed
for, an angry face it was that peered
in at him, and a stern—albeit well
bred—voice that demanded of him to
hunt through every box. lest perchance
he had made some error in distribut¬
ing.
Tho deserted, neglected wife must
blame somebody, and she would not
blame her husband. She did not at
first even dream of blaming Joseph.
By the middle of the week her whole
mood changed. She felt hurt, deeply
hurt. There seemed to be no reason,
no excuse for such neglect. To think
that this, their first seoaration in so
tunny years, should be unbridged by a
word!
She could not have the consolation
of writing to him, for ho had left no
address, thero being an uncertainty
about the very part of London in
which that troublesome Perley was
was living.
It was the way of men, and he, it
seems, was not better than the
rest of them. Once out of her sight
ho forgot—forgot all tho love and
daily devotion of forty-two years.
By Saturday morning Mrs. Allestree
was ill—ill enough to go to bed.
Jimmy had to letch both posts, and,
after delivering in person the first
one, he vowed to Molly that he would
not appronoh Mrs. Allestree again
while Mr. Allestree was away.
All day Sunday Mrs. Allestreo lay
silent in a dark chamber. Molly could
not get a word from ber, nor would
she eat. It was almost restful to bo
so weak. True, sho was in despair.
Sho had given up all expectation of
seeing Joseph again, but compared
with the bewildering tossings of vain
conjecture, her present state was one
of quiettulfvpid peace.
But by iuondiy Miming sho was
suffering tofmenti once more. She
felt that if Jimmy returned without
either Joseph or a letter sho would
surely die. and, indeed, she nearly
died as it was.
When the wheels sounded again
upon the gravel Mrs. Allestree sat up
iu bed. She was whiter than her hair.
No voices were heard below. She
clutched her heart and gasped. But
presently a door opened and a step
came up the stairs. It was the step
of Joseph. As he entered the room
she fell back among the pillows.
“My dear Henrietta, what’s all
this?’ He looked around almost ac¬
cusingly upon the two frightened
worucD, as if he had caught them iu
the net of assassinating their mistress.
“Didn’t Jimmy tell you?” she mur¬
mured.
“You know Jimmy never tells any¬
thing. He did say you weren’t well.
But have you been very ill, dear?”
The women had withdrawn, and ho
seated himself upon the bed.
“Joseph, you might have sent me
one little line!”
“\Vh—what? I don’t quite compre¬
hend. Aline!”
“Yes, it wouldn’t have hurt you to
write a line.”
“Eenrietio, I wrote to you every
day, and sometimes twice a clay.”
They stared at each other.
“.But I never got a solitary letter,”
she said presently. “1 sent to every
delivery—went myself until I became
ill. Mr. Framwell said thero was
nothing from you. It nearly killed
me, Joseph.”
couldn’t •’However,” he muttered, “they
have all miscarried—1—Hen¬
rietta ! I have it! Wait; I’ll be back
in twenty minutes,” and the gentle¬
man fairly ran out cf tho room.
He laughed all the way down stairs,
and sho heard his ha, ha, ha’s between
bis shouts for Jimmy to bring back
the trap. In n few minutes they rat¬
tled out of the grounds, and within
the time mentioned they rattled back
again.
Mr. Allestree tore breathless up tho
stairs, bursting boy-fashion into his
wife’s room. He carried a package of
letters, which he spread out in a cir¬
cle on the bed. Thoro wore fourteen
of them, and every one was addressed
to Miss Henrietta Shower,
For a short space nothing was said,
and then the two aged lovers began to
laugh, and they laughed until they
cried.
“ Joseph,” she said, “it’s very funny,
very, but was almost the death of me.
How did you come to do it?”
“Why, Henrietta, love, when I once
got out of your dear, familiar presence,
the old days came back completely.
You were little Retta Shower, and—”
Josenh Allestree blu
not o!te i quote poetiy-
Aml our two and fo
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POPULATION A'N D Dj.
MORGAN, GA., FEIDAY, JA . <J AKY 2 !i. 1897 .
HARMON REVIEWS CASE AGAINST
THREE FRIENDS.
HE SAYS THE CREW ARE PIRATES.
His Opionion of the Matter Said to he
Entertained by President Cleveland.
Proceedings to be Instituted.
If the sensational stories in certain
New York newspapers regarding the
Cuban filibustering tug Three Friends
on her last voyage training a Hotchkiss
gun on a Spanish gunboat and firing
on that vessel have any foundation in
truth, the attorney general of the
United States government declares
that the Three Friends is amenable to
the laws of piracy and her officers and
crew are liable to be surrendered and
punished as pirates.
Attorney General Harmon, it is offi¬
cially stated, is considering the advis¬
ability of instituting proceedings
against the Three Friends on that
charge.
The attorney general was originally
of the opinion that the Three Friends
had not committed a piratical act, even
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' pre-
■ sent to the United States Supreme
court for a writ of certiorari on the
United States circuit court at New
Orleans for the transfer of the case to
the supreme court so that the latter
tribunal may pass oh J udge Locke’s
decision, given at Jacksonville.
Judge Loeke held that the govern-
ment in its libel against the Three
Friends did not show that the vessel
had violated any law. He gave the
government ten days to amend its
libel, and declared that unless this
were done, he would dismiss the ap-
plication.
BROTHER WEDS SISTER.
Children Separated in Infancy Meet Rater
On ami Unsuspectingly Marry.
Mulvane, Ark., a few miles south of
Wichita is stirred up over disclosures
brought to light concerning Peter
Wilson and his wife.
When Wilson was a boy six years old
he and his sister Rachael, two years
old, were left parentless and adopted
by two families—the boy growing up
in Missouri and the girl in Iowa.
They never heard anything more of
each other, but in the meantime Peter
WiisC# married a girl in Sioux City,
Iowa. They have been married thiriy-
nine years and have just discovered
that they are the two orphans—brother
ana sister—who were separated in
childhood.
They have nine children, three of
whom are deaf mutes and two others
deformed. He and his wife are almost
crazed with grief over the painful dis¬
covery.
FALLS FROM HIGH BRIDGE.
Trnin With Thirty l’:»s9on K erB Takes a
Plunge—Three Killed Outright.
Saturday afternoon a passenger train
onthe Pittsburg and Western railway
went off a bridge fifty feet high over
Paint creek, near Butler, Pa.
The entire train with everybody on
board went down. Only one person
on the train, it is said, escaped injury.
The train consisted of engine, bag¬
gage car and two passenger coaches,
with thirty passengers on board.
The engineer, fireman and mail agent
were killed outright.
Belief trains were buried from St.
Petersburg and Foxburg with corps of
physicians.
RECEIVER UNDER ARREST.
Mr. Draught is Held Swindling. on a Charge of
Cheating and
A. E. Draught, a middle-aged gen-
tlemnn, the receiver of the Florida
Midland railway and a prominent cap¬
italist of the Peninsula state has been
arrested and jailed at Atlanta, Ga.,
charged with swindling.
The prosecutors are Eady and May-
field, dealers in bonds and stocks, at
Atlanta. They claim they have been
swindled by Draught to the amount of
$2,400.
President Back From Hunt.
Tho president o’clock returned Saturday to Washing¬
ton about 10 night
from his ducking trip near Quantico.
His carriage was in waiting at Steven¬
son’s wharf and upon the arrival of the
Maple Mr. Cleveland was immediately
driven to the white house.
Cordage and MachineCompauyAttached
David H. McAlpin obtained an at¬
tachment for $50,000 against tho John
Good Cordage and Machine company,
whose works are in Brooklyn and
Ravenswood, and a branch in Chicago,
with interest on five notes of the com¬
pany. The notes are dated September
18, 1894.
UNION PACIFIC FORECLOSURE.
Bill Is Filed By Attorney General In U. S.
Circuit Court.
In the United States circuit court
> *r n peti-
>71 e of
COURTESY TO M’KINLEY.
Invited to Dine at the Executive Mansion
the Day Before Inauguration,
President and Mrs. Cleveland will
invite Major and Mrs. McKinley to
dine with them the day preceding the
inauguration, invitation and it is probable the
will be accepted, Tins
courtesy Harrison was extended by President
to Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland
four years ago.
Major According to the present program
ington McKinley March will will arrive in Wash¬
Ebbitt 2, and remain at the
house until he takes up his
quarters in the executive mansion, im¬
mediately is after the inauguration. It
expected that Mr. and Mrs. Cleve¬
land will leave on a special train the
evening of March 4, and go to New
York. Their home at Princeton, N.
J., is undergoing repairs, and will not
be ready for occupancy before spring.
So far, it is said, Mr. Cleveland lias
made no business arrangements, and
it is understood that he will not decide
what he will no until after he leaves
office. It is thought probably that he
will resume his former law connections
in New York city.
WEYLER PARDONS A FEW.
Name Day of Alphonzo Observed in Ha¬
vana But Prisoners Disappointed.
Saturday being the name day of
King Alphonzo it was celebrated in
Havaua by services in the cathedral in
honor of the king’s patron saint and
by social functions.
In accordance with the custom
which obtains on this day, a number
of prisoners were given their liberty.
It was thought that a number of the
Americans now confined in Cuban
prisons would be released in honor of
the day, but this expectation was dis¬
appointed.
There were only thirteen men set
free, and they were only given their
liberty provisionally. They were
charged with various offenses, and all
of them are comparatively unknown.
PREACHER DROWNED.
His Body Was Fished Out of a Tanyard
Vat.
Eev. T. J. Bruce, a Presbyterian
minister, was fished out of an old vat
in an abandoned tanyard in a field half
a mile from West Point, Ga., Sunday
morning.
Dr. Bruce disappeared from West
Point last Thursday under rather pe¬
culiar circumstancrs, and the indica¬
tions are that ho fell into the vat that
evening and was drowned or scalded to
death.
At one time he preached in West
Point and then at LaGrange, but more
recently he has been located in Eufau-
la, Ala., where ho had charge of a
large and successful church.
SENATOR GEORGE DYING.
Mississippi's Representative Ill in a Wash-
ing-ton Hospital.
Senator James Z. George, of Missis¬
sippi. is lying at the Garfield hospital,
in Washington, critically ill. His wife
and family, who are at their home,
Carrollton, Miss., have been summon¬
ed to his bedside.
Senator George reached the capital
January 5th, last, and immediately
entered the Garfield hospital. He was
then suffering from a complication of
diseases,bronchial catarrh causing him
the greatest annoyance.
COAL MINERS STRIKE.
Wilmington, Illinois, Field Operatives
Walk Out, in a Body.
A dispatch from Joliet, Ill., says:
All the men in tho Wilmington coal
fields were ordered out on strike Hat-
urday in accordance with the decision
of a mass meeting held at Coal City,
which was attended by delegates from
Brainwood, Braceville and Diamond.
This action is taken because of the
Star Coal Company’s effort to enforce
the use of the two-inch screen.
Approved By the President.
President Cleveland has approved
the following acts: To provide for the
erection of a government building at
the Tennessee Centennial exposition
without advertising for proposals; con¬
structing the law in reference to the
award of life saving medals may be
awarded to persons not members of
life saving stations and for exertions
elsewhere than adjacent to a life saving
station.
Queen Lil in Washington.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii,
arrived in Washington from Boston
Saturday afternoon and located at the
Sboreliam.
Mol) Lynched Taylor.
A mob of Floridions broke into the
Tallahassee jail Sunday morning and
within a half hour Pierson Taylor a
negro charged with assaulting a young
lady, was hanging from the limb of a
tree in the jail yard within a few feet
of the jail door. The mob was an
open one. There was no attempt to
conceal the identity of the men who
composed it.
Fifty Degrees In Three Honrs.
A special of Sunday from Kansas
City says: A blizzard of unusual se¬
verity is raging over Kansas and the
snow which is falling in the wistern
section of the state is drifting badly.
There is much suffering among stock.
IOWA COVERED WITH SNOW.
Heavy Northwest Wind Prevails*, and
Zero Is Away Up.
Iowa is experiencing the worst hliz-
zat-d if years. Bnow began falling
al jut noon Saturday and reports indi-
; lu- fall is very healy all over the
northern and northwestern
the mercury at 15 to
v/UUll IftlU iiliSilL ULIsUfi i Il/ll
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THEY CONDEMN THE PRESIDENT’S
ALLEGED SECLUSION.
j A BILL PASSED OYER
i HIS VETO.
Members Give Vent to Their Feelings
Without Stint—Sherman Denies News¬
paper Reports.
A number of letters, some favorable
and others unfavorable to the Anglo-
American peace treaty, were presented
to the senate Friday by Mr. Cullom.
After this Mr. Turpie (Dem.), Indi¬
ana, surprised the senate with a very
caustic statement as to the Cuban sit¬
uation. He said he would on Monday
call up the pending Cameron resolution
for the independence of Cuba for the
purpose of making some remarks.
About three weeks ago, lie said,
there appeared a formal utterance
from the secretary of state in the
newspapers olution. relative to the Cuban ros-
At that time there was no
resolution before the senate. Under
such circumstances the secretary’s
utterance was obiter dictum of the
most rude, most swift, most voluntary
character.
It recalled the schoolmaster of anti¬
quity who caused a whole audience to
tremble with a threat of future dis¬
pleasure. But the senate might have
passed that by.
Turpie, “Today, however, continued Mr.
a publication appeared in the
newspapers, which had apparently be¬
come the messengers between the state
department and congress, to the effect
that a compact had, been entered into
between the secretary of state and the
new premier (Mr. Sherman) by which
there was to bo no further action on
Cuba during the present administra¬
tion.
“Allow me to say,” proceeded Mr.
Turpie, “that I regard such a course
as a violation of the comity existing
between the legislative and executive
blanches of the government., This
had been done only once before, when
Mr. Oauning-”
Mr. Sherman arose at this moment
while Mr. Turpie’s reference to the
Canning incident was unfinished and
said:
“If the senator refers to a publica¬
tion of today I wilKsay there is notthe
slightest warrant for the statement
made. I have not had a word with
Mr. Olney on that subject, and there
has beon no mention of an agreement
or Mr. understanding.”
Turpie said he was glad to ac¬
cept this disavowal. But lie felt that
llie senator should do something to
dissipate such reports,
“Whatever the difference may be as
to the independence of Cuba,” eon-
eluded Mr. Turpie, “I think every
senator here favors the independence
of the senate.”
Another Sensation Sprung.
This incident had hardly been con-
eluded when it was followed by a gen¬
uine sensation in the form of the dis¬
cussion of the new Anglo-American
peace treaty.
Notwitstanding the rule of referring
to treaties only in executive session it
brought out statements from Mr. Sher¬
man, Mr. Cullom, Mr. Lodge and Mr.
Gray, members of the committee on
foreign relations and many other sena¬
tors.
Baflaed Over President's Veto,
Two-tliirds having voted in the af¬
firmative—141 to 168—the Texas judi¬
ciary district bill was passed over the
veto of the president in tlie house.
Mr. Cooper, of Texas, in support of
the measure referred to the fact that
he was unable to sec the president or
got by Private Secretary Thurber.
This was followed by a speech by Mr,
Grosvenor, of Ohio, in which he sac-
castically referred to tho difficulty in
seeing the president. He said that no
would self-respecting member of congress
try to see him under the condi¬
tions.
Representative Cooper, of Texas,
told of his many unsuccessful efforts
to get to the president to explain the
needs of the bill,told how he bad been
repeatedly rebuffed and said ho be¬
lieved if the president had allowed
himself to be informed of the facts ho
would never have vetoed the bill. Sev¬
eral other members spoke of tho same
experiences, and the bill passed over
the president’s veto by the necessary
two-thirds.
BARKED OUT THE WOMEN.
ArLanwaft Laglglnturn Will Favor Only
OunlilJutl KJrteioTB.
The Arkansas senate has passed a
bill introduced by Senator Witt, pro¬
viding that hereafter none but quali¬
fied electors shall bold any position
within the gift of the Arkansas legis¬
lature. The army of women who be¬
siege the members at every session to
secure votes for clerkships is responsi¬
ble for the action of the senate.
The Deadly Bubonic Plague.
The official returns of the health
authorities of Bombay, India, for the
past week show that the number of
deaths from the Bubonic plague was
470.
MOB HANGS TWO.
Suspected Murderers of Mrs, Howland
Victim« of dodge Lynch,
A mob, no one knows where it came
from or where it went, rode into Jef¬
fersonville, Ga., went to the county
jail and took therefrom Charles For-
’’*l!is White, two negroes
” Airs, Rowland,
—
- at the
TRAIN ROKBER NABBED.
Was Implicated in Southern Holil-Up
Near Berry Station, Ala.
Information of a most reliable char¬
acter has just been received at Bir¬
mingham, Ala., of the arrest of a man
at Eldridge, said to be one of the rob¬
bers, who worked on the express car
Thursday night.
The information comoe in an official
manner, and while but little can be
learned, and less is being givon out
by those thoroughly posted, it can be
stated that there is every reason to be¬
lieve the officers have secured one of
the robbers.
Tho prisoner answers most accu-
rately the description of one of the
by men, as the descriptions were given
the express agent. Ho had, when
arrested, a brace of pistols, and when
searched $15 in money was found ini
his person. He was found in the sec¬
tion of country in which tho hold-up
occurred, and it is said that the offi¬
cers, relying on information they have
received from Eldridge, foe 1 certain
they have one of the robbers.
In official circles at Birmingham
there is no doubt that the robbery was
committed by the name men who
robbed the train near that same place
on the 16th of December.
PORTFOLIO TENDERED GAGE.
Invited to Bo Secretary of Troumiry Jiy
MeKlnloy.
A Chicago special says: It can be
stated positively that, the name of
Lyman Gage, president of the First
National Bank of Chicago, is being
considered by President-elect McKin¬
ley for secretary of tho treasury.
Prominent men who, while they did
not say that they came at the sugges¬
tion of the president-elect, yet who are
known to represent him, have visited
Mr. Gage and asked him if he would
accept the position in case it was ten¬
dered him.
Mr. Gage was a gold democrat nud
supported Mr. McKinley. He is un¬
derstood to have not yet made answer.
Manager Iluinmcraiein Indicted.
Oscar Hammerstein, manager of tho
Olympia music hall at New York, has
been indicted for maintaining a pub¬
lic nuisance. The specific offense
charged is that upon the stage of the
music hall there is given nightly a rep¬
resentation of scenes alleged to have
transpired at the now famous Beeley
bachelor dinner a few weeks ago.
RECEIVER IS APPOINTED.
Botltliurn Loan anti Builtling AHHoclalion
Ha* Troulilo.
At Nashville, Friday, United Statos
District Judge Clark appointed 8. B.
Luttrell temporary receiver of the
Southern Building and Loan associa¬
tion of Knoxville. The application for
a receiver was made by an Indiana
stockholder who has $10,000 in stock.
He claims that when he desired to
withdraw he could not collect.
Money Still Missing.
The mystery surrounding the loss of
$4,000 from the Southern express car
on the Gainesville, Jefferson and South¬
ern, between Social Circle and Winder,
Ga., is still unsolved.
FUTILE SENATORIAL BALLOTS.
Legislatures In South Dakota and Wash¬
ington Fail to Elect.
The ballot of the South Dakota leg¬
islature Friday resulted: Kylo 30,
Tjoucks 13, Plowman 11, Goody koontz
<>, Palmer 1, Kellar 2, Weeks 1, Bow¬
ler 1. Five fusionists were absent.
Pickier, 50: absent, 4.
The first ballot taken in the Wash¬
ington state legislature Friday for
l ed States senator was without re-
’od with 25 votes, Tur-
.0 had 4.
T. P. GREEN, MANAGER.
TO RE FORECLOSED.
Government lias Arranged a Deal ltegard-
lug: Pacific Kuilroiidfi,
The government has arranged its
deal for closing out its interest in the
Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific rail¬
way ceedings companies, and foreclosure pro¬
will be instituted within a
few days.
The attorney for the reorganization
committee has returned to New York
from Washington, where ho went to
submit the offer of the committee to
the attorney general. That offer ■was
as follows:
“hi the ere u t that the government
shall at once take proceedings in the
pending foreclosure suits, or by inde¬
pendent bills, for the enforcement of
its liens upon the railroads and prop¬
erty of the Union and Kansas Pacific
railways by sale, and for the sale of
the sinking funds in the hands of the
secretary Union of the treasury relating to the
Pacific Company, the commit¬
tee is prepared to guarantee a mini¬
mum bid for the Union Pacific and
Kansas Pacific linos a railroad and
the property embraced within the lien
of the government, and for the cash
and securities in the Union Pacific
sinking fund, taken at par, which shall
produce to the government, over and
above any prior liens and charges upon
the system and sinking fund, the net
sum of $45,000,000.”
The sum is slightly below the upset
price which the government desired to
fix of 02 2-3 per cent of the entire
gross debt of the Union Pacific and
Kansas Pacific, amounting to $69,000,-
000 in round figures, but it was ue-
cepted by the attorney general and nn
agreement was entered into by which
on the deposit by tlio reorganization
committee of $1,500,000—10 per cent
of the guaranteed bid—in a New York
bank to be designated by the secreta¬
ry of the treasury, foreclosure proceed¬
ings will at once be instituted by the
attorney general.
The papers have been prepared and
will be sent as soon as notification of
the deposit is had to the various offi¬
cials of the department of justice in
each state in which proceedings must
be entered.
'0 I !\
WILLIAM IS HORRIFIED AT THE
INCREASE OF SUICIDES.
fl PRACTICAL REMEDY SUGGESTED. '
Wicked Deeds Lend to Remorse of Con-
science Which in Turn Leads to Con¬
templation of Self-Murder.
I tvas ruminating about thososuicides that
soein to bo on the increase all over tlie land,
and are not confined to any class or condi¬
tion. Several have occurred during the last
row days In. Georgia and the adjoining states,
i wo were young men, two past middle age
and one was a girl in her teens. None had
good cause for the rash deed, and it seems
iilro this generation has more nerve and Ion:
fear of tho hereafter than their fathers. 1
cannot imagine any condition or peril that
requires the as much courage and will power as
deliberate taking of one’s life. 1 would
rather take my chances in battle or ship¬
wreck or pestilence. To be weary of life is
a common who misfortune, and thousands there
are can exclaim with David: “Oh, that
I had the wings of a dove, that I might f!y
away and bo at rest.” But to tho avers -
man “the weariest jifo that ago, ache
miry and imprisonment can lay OH V
a paradise to what we fear o f
must be a fearful leap tacorv
“to die and go wo know i *
it has become almost as c
—murder that has the ex*
some passion as hate, revoi
or ambition. The suicide
behind him save his own-
to pity and domestic grief. T
pursue, no court to Iry, i
try no attainder or eonfisou
without benefit of clergy.
A little more than a century
in George force IV was king of Engiand
that the body of a sub
have a stake thrust through it an
by the highway, so as to intimi-’
from self destruction. His goods
were forfeited to the crown. Tills
pealed during King George’s ret'
law declared that tho body s!i<
at night,without tho perform-
ceremonies. Such was th
the our English ancestors for w
crime of suicide. I kn
crime that would justify a i
own life, and that is remors.
as Judas Iscariot felt when
banged himself. Thorn ar<
stances of self murder mentio
iiistory, and they were all bad .
our day, suicides arc generally g,
people—Shakespeare great of heart, but says of Othol.
was jt was romo
killing ills innocent wife that nerved i
the deed. Nowadays the most or si.
are caused not from remorse, hut from
appointments, unhappiness, failures in business, dement,
dead kindred. or grief over lost lovers or
trios drown Sometimes tho unhappy man
to trouble in drink, and th'
brings a depression that ends in self w *
lint it docs not take a great misf<
cause suicide now. Only last wool
young man killed himself on he.
his mother was dead, and a y
hanged herself because sho did in¬
step-mother. been llow many traveling
found dead in the Atlanta hotels durli,
the past few years with no extraordinary
cause for self destruction - just,tired of life—
couldn’t make money fast enough; couldn't
squaro their accounts with their employers,
or gome such reason. Job suffered great
tribulations, self. but didn’t dare to destroy him¬
In the greatest anguish he said- "My
soul is weary of my life, oil, that it would
loose please God to destroy mo, that He would
Hi.4 hand and cut me off 1 .”
What Is the cause of this growing mentrfl
cides malady in this happy land? Aro these sui¬
all skeptics, or infidels, or universal-
ists, that they should huvo no fear of death,
no dread of something after death ?
Maybe thero is a hereafter and a judgment
to come, and if so, a murderer has a bet¬
tor chance and than a suicide, for ho has time t
repent be forgivon, ns David was; Th
again, ft is such a selfish act, for it
grief to kindred and leaves a shadow
tho household that never passes av
few years ago I mot a young man
had not scon since he was a lad. li
lag well In a distant state, where I
and sisters lived, but I could see 4
a father never forgotten sorrow in ill-
broken hung himself In a barn, a:
months family moved far awa.
ago I met tin oid friend wl
ways greeted me cheerfully, prematurejyjgrav, but.',
knew him. lie was
the lines of sadness were in every llnramo,
of his Intellectual features. He had ceasev
to sml|e. His only son, on whom his love
and his hope was centered, had killed him¬
had placed the fatal pistol to his temple
and fired it. What makes our young men
do so? If It comes from remorse, Is It not
and safer to '
What doos kill, repent and reform?
his body. a His man soul anyhow? Nothing but
goes marching or. and
remorse goes with it. Hut even his body
Is saerod, and lie has no right to mutilate or
it. The scripture nays that our
bodies are temples of thellvlng Ood—created
His Image and but a little lower than the
Oh, it Is horrible to think of. It
no one but murderers and assas¬
and they don't do it. If tho butcher,
should kill himself in his cell, it
be a lit ending of his life, whether he
sane or insane, but for a young man or
who have boon tenderly raised and
parents or children or kindred who
thorn, there is no excuse. Hotter to
bear the tils we have than to plunge inagulf
of dark despair, (let up and try again. If
you have nerve enough to pull Hie fatal
trigger, you surely can make another offor*
to reform or to suffer and endure wbatei
troubles you. Get up and do something -
work for your board if you can’t do bettor.
Work/it anything dig, boo, chop wood, be
fireman on a locomotive, keep going don’t
stop to think and brood over troubles. Con¬
stant employment will stifle woods grief. If you
can’t get work, go to tho and hear
the birds slug, and seethe glad wat< xilow-
iiig in the little branches. Kite I- ".h
living and the faithful wag of .OK's
tall is worth living for much mute, is tho
love of kindred and friends. \ believe that
idleness Is not only the devil’s workshop and
the chief cause of crime, but it produces
that morbid melancholy state of mind lluff
begins with drink and ends in suicide. \V>
ever heard of an engineer, or a conduc.
or a gardener, or a hard-working farmer
committing suicide. They haven’t get time
to think about It.^ If domestic trouble or
family discord htfunts you, work it of
Socrates married Xautippe, the most nggrn
valtug woman tie could find, and ho says h
did it for self-discipline and humllialio
Homo women marry aggravating men; bi
not for tlie like reason, but women rare
commit suicide. They prefer to suffer a
to live for their children. Don’t nurse yo
wrath to keep it warm. There arc thousaa
who aro Buffer unfortunately worso for off death than
are. mid be strong,
come after a while and relieve you.
1 was ruminating about th® difference
tween now and then—between the old til
and the new. There wore no suicides tb
A crazy woman threw herself into a well i
it created a great sensation, wondered, Wo hear
many cases in Paris and wo i
had pity, bu' i can't recall any iu Geor
Now the dally thorn. papers have children to keep a s
open for Our are i
wrong or oducutod wrong. They don'
to work or to study or to read good hoi
go to church. They short want to frolic an
sport or to And cuts to fortune. 1
pose we look for romo of the old biudim,
and travel along tho old roads and.ecu if
can't stop this self-destruction the 4
fearfully increasing In Consult**' our south
Hint Akp in Atlanta