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The Morgan Mon
VOL, II. NO. - Sj PER YEAR,
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Until it is settled right,
However the battle is ended,
"'hough proudly the victor eomoa
With fluttering flags and prnpeing nags
And echoing roil of drums,
Still truth proclaims this motto
In letters of living light—
No question is bottled >
ever
TJnlil it is settled right.
Though the heei of the strong oppressor
May grind tho tvealt in tho dust,
And the voices of fume with one acclaim,
May cull him great and just,
Let those who applaud take warning,
Aud keep this motto in sight—
No question is over settled
Until it is settled right.
Let thoso who havo failed take 1
Though the courage;
enemy seems to havo won,
Tho’ his ranks aro strong, if ha be in the
wrong,
The battle is not yet done,
For, sure ns tho miming follows
The darkest hour of tho night,
No question is ever settled
Until It is settled right.
\
O man bowed down with labor!
O woman youevg, yot old,
O heart oppressed in tho toiler’s-breast
And crushed by tlio power of gold!
Keep on with your weary battlq
Against triumphant might 5 ■
No question is evor settled
UnliJ it is sol tied right.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
A COQUETTYS PUNISHMENT.
BY FREDERICK OWEN,
\Vtl fifes*, HY o’clock! it’s only 8
How
/Wj slowly tho time
Mooro y a w n o (1
VM, ffl/i g&Wfctl, as-she t'ao looked out
HI Wfflk lints ov< * of purpling
tie twi
^ light sea, where
now a ud then tho
of *--bright seemed reflection
a star to splash into the
waves.
It was a golden August evening,
moonless but radiant, with the balmy
air full of fragrance oi new male hay,
mingling not unpleasantly with the
salt breath of. the sea, and tho slty all
glorious with the dolphin-like hues of
the dying day, and Miss Moore, sitting
on the hotel balcony in her floating
robes of whito India muslin girded
with scarlet, and scarlet verbenas in
her hair, made an exceedingly pretty
adjunct to tho scene. She was a brn-1
nette, with i brilliant complexion, all
cream and crimson, jet black lmir,
ntraight and glossy as an Indian’s and
eyes whose melting brilliance was like
the dusty glow of tropic stars.
No wonder that little George Crane
the enthusiastic boy of eighteen, was
madly in Jovo with her —no wonder
that ho hung on her slightest wor d ns
an Eastern devotee liacgs on tho
priest’s oracular utterances,.
“Slowly, Pauline, when I am at
your side,” ho said, a little reproach-
, Pauline laughed and turned the dia
'*on jnond hei^ aud fingers. opal ring carelessly around
“You are only a child George/* she
said, a lifctlo disdainfully.
“I am a year older than you
Pauline. 5 *
Pauline reached up to tap his flushed,
beardless cheek with her fan.
■ “A girl of seventeen is equal to a
man ot twenty-seven, any time George.
You’re a nico little cavalier, and you
dance the polka delightfully, but you
600 you are not fairly out of the top
and ball phase yet. Now there’s Gus
tavus Melville, he*6 a man, and your
cousin Harry Livingston, ‘cavalier
sans peur, ot sans rcprocho.* Major
Livingston’s majestic eyes are enough
to set any womau’s heart in a blaze,”
- She spoke abstractedly, looking out
toward tho sea, aud apparently un¬
conscious that she had any auditor but
the far off waves and tho mantling
twilight.
I “Pauline!” ejaculated tho boy,
passionately, ‘T may bo young in
years, but you havo taught my heart
premature development. You have
no right to speak to me thus after
playing with my affections all tho
summer.”
Pauline glanced up in astonishment.
Finished coquette that she was, she
had hardly expected this outburst
from tho mo3t insignificant of all her
victims. She had encouraged George
Crane’s too boyish attentions simply
because it pleased her to make a cap¬
tive of the pretty boy, aud now sho
was ns xftuch taken by surprise as
would bo the fisherman if a writhing
trout should suddenly find voice to
remonstrate when the hook was being
twisted out of h:s quivering jaw.
“My dear George, you are talking
nonsense,” she said lightly.
“Nonsence! Is it nonsense to toll
you that I love you -that iny heart
*hft3 passed irrevocably into your keep¬
ing; that life will be a desert without
you?”
“Yos—very absurd nonsense! Go
back to school, George, or college,
for, dear child, I should as soon think
of marrying little Tony Warwick who
has just got out of merino frocks!”
George Crane was silent. Pauline’s
lightly spoken words of ridicule cut
him to tho heart.
“Pauline,” he said, almost sternly,
“do you think you havo treated mo
honorably?”
Pauline yawned.
“Honorably! what a big word for
tho occasion ! Ono must amuse one’s
tclf at a place like this, and you cer¬
tainly ought to understand the differ¬
ence between a mere, harmless dicta¬
tion and real, sober earnest. Now,
George, do be f ensibie and leave oif 1
teasing me, that’s a good boy.” !
George turned away.
“1 see Mr. Melville coming this j ]
way. You will excuse me, Pauline?”
“Oh, certainly!” !
Pauline drew a deep breath of relief j
as her youthful swaiu walked away
toward tne star lighted beach.
“Who would imagine that tho little
fellow would havo laid it so seriously
to heart?” sho murmured softly as she
extended a li ly white hand toward
Mr. Melville, who with halt a dozen
others had sauntered up tho piazza
steps.
“You are looking grave, fair tragic
queen!” said Melville, drawing-his
bamboo chair a irifle closer to her.”
“May one of tho humblest of all your
slaves venture to ask why?”
“Did you ever kill or maim a but¬
terfly?” demanded Paulino suddenly.
“A great many times. I am afraid iu
the thoughtlessness of early youth.
But why do you ask?”
“Well, I have just dono tho same
thing.”
Mr. Melville glanced questioningly
around.
“Ob,” laughed Pauline, “it wasn’t
a real winged insect, Mr, Melville, I
was but speaking metaphorically.
After all, that’s a matter of no parti¬
cular consequence; only a lesson tho
child needed to euro him of something
very like presumption. It’s little
George Crime; ho had the imperti¬
nence to tell mo that ho loved me.
Tho idea of a child like that taking
advantago of tho oncouragomont otic
may havo thoughtlessly given him to
imagine—but it’s too ridiculous.”
“Faith, I don’t see tho ridiculous
sido of it,” said Melville sternly.
“Crane is young, but ho is a manly
fellow, and—pardon me, sovereign
lady of all hoarts—but you did en¬
courage him most markedly.”
“I never thought of anything ser¬
ious,” lisped Pauline, with an artless¬
ness truly angelic; “it was only the
chance amusement of an hour.”
“Melville shrugged his shoulders.
“A good deal like tho story ot tho
frogs and the boys,” ho said. “But
to dismiss all less pleasant subjects,
what do you say to a row on tho sea
by starlight?”
“I shall bo delighted.”
And the merry group vanished into
tho enpurpled darkness, tkoir voices
ringing on the air long after their
forms were imperceptible.
Then, and not till then, a tall figure
raised itself from the bamboo settee,
or' couch, just within tho wide opon
windows, where the cool muslin cur¬
tains waved softly at every breath of
tho summer night breeze, and Major
Harry Livingston cooliy walked out
upon the piazza, igniting hia cigar as
he did so.
“The coquette!” ho muttered be¬
tween his set teeth; “tho heartless
flirt I Now I begin better to compre¬
hend poor George’s varying moods of
late. She lias broken the boy’s heart,
and cares no moro for it than if sho
had cracked ono of the china cologne
bottles on her dressing table. Well,
this is afjtrange world. If Paulino had
taken a handkerchief or purso from
George's pocket the iron hand of tho
law would be down upon her immedi¬
ately, but she steals his heart right
out of his bosom and society looks on
with smiling faco and folded hands.
Why is there no law made and enacted
to punish such heartless crimes as
these? For crimes they are, black,
treacherous crimes, even though per¬
petrated so charmingly by beauties
like Pauline Mooro and her sister co¬
quettes! And this fair, innocent boy,
whom I loved like a brother, tho cold¬
est heart might havo spared him. By
Cupid, and ail his attendant deities, I
will bo aveugo 1 on Paulino Mooro for
this.”
* At almost tho same moment George
Crane came slowly up the piazza steps.
The lightuoss and elasticity of his gait
were gone ; ho walked like ono who had
received a mortal wound.
“George!”
Crane started at his cousin’s voice.
“You here, Harry?!’
“Yes, all alone. Bit down beside
me, old fellow; why aro you not with
the boating party?”
“I did promise this morning to make
ono of them; but—but—somehow I
don’t feel like it to night.”
Livingston took his cousin’s hand
and pressed it with a firm, loving
grasp.
“I know all about it, George,” he
said mildly. “Don’t bo cast down;
sho.isn’t worlh ono pang of memory.
The world is wide, life is long; you
will outlive this blow if you only have
patience to wait.”
Crane’s head dropped on Harry Liv¬
ingston’s shoulder.
“Oh, Harry I I did lovo her; I loved
her dearly!”
“Take courage, sho is not worth
it.”
And the stalwart soldier, soothing
away his boy cousin’s woe, was as geu
tlo as a woman, even whilo ho won
dered to sco that George took it so
keenly and bitterly to heart.
From that day the gay little world
of tho fashionable watering place was
astonished at the devotion accorded by
Major Livingston to Miss Moore.
Paulino herself was more than aston¬
ished, she was elated and overjoyed.
Major Livingston was a man who was
sought and courted by all tho belles of
sociot.y—a man whose “magnetic
eyes.” us sho herself had phrased it,
and tenderly modulated voico were
enough to sot any feminine heart in a
blaze. Ho walked with her, ho sat
with her, ho rodo with her, ho read
poetry with her, he sat with her dur¬
ing the long golde i September twi¬
lights, until Paulino felt that life be¬
sides him was tho brightest boon
Providence could acoord. Sho haugh¬
tily discarded her other suitors; she
cared no longer for ballroom or pic
nic parties—to her tho whole world
held but one man, and that was Harry
Livingston. *
But still bo kept just outside the ;
charmed circlo And of iovo Pauline, making; ho did j j
not propose. growing
almost sick at heart, counted the days j
that “Ho still will remained of the to-morrow, season. | j
tlio propose after,” or
perhaps herself. day she whispered J
to “Oh, surely it must come
soon.” i 1
POPULATION AND DRAINAON.
MORGAN, GA„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY!26, 1897.
It was the evening before the break¬
ing up of tho guy party that had on
livened the seaside hotel all summer,
nud to a celebrate brilliant ball bad been gotten
up tho brief, happy sea¬
son. Paulino Moore had dressed for
this festivity with unusual care—some¬
how she felt that it was to bo a crisis
in her life. She wore a lemon colored
silk, like a fair, aureate cloud, and
her hair was looped up iu its shining
braids, by sleuder chains of gold. Her
toilet, she know!by tho murmur that
pervaded tho bail room the moment
she entered, was a success—and Harry
Livingston’s handsotno eye3 rested
upon her with evident admiration.
But tho evening passed away, throb¬
bing its brilliant hours in music and
perfume, aud Harry never came near
her. She hud cavaliers in abundance,
the was the cynosure of ail eyes, but
ho, tho man of all men, kept obsti¬
nately aloof.
“Take mo to tho balcony. I am stif¬
ling for want of fresh air,” sho said,
almost pottishly, to tho partner with
whom sbo hud just glided tho redowa.
“Thank yon. I need detain you no
longer.
And Mr. Graham, feeling himself
irbrubtly dismissed, left Pauline by
the side of Major Livingston and
stalked away in high dudgeon.
“Harry," she breathed Boftly, with
a pleading glanoo upward into his
oyes, “you have not been near mo all
tho evening.”
“I have been very busy with the
ho companionship of my own thoughts,”
answered coldly. “I start for
Europe to-morrow morning—”
“For Europe 1”
“To be gone I hardly know how many
years. I may visit India and tho East
before I return.”
“Harry!”
lie bent his head in cold courtesy.
“1 beg your pardon Miss Mooro—
did you speak?"
“You will loavo me, Harry?”
“I shall be obliged to leavo many
dear friends,” ho returned indilfor
ontly.
Thero was a cold chill at Paulino’s
heart—a dizzy blindness before' her
eyes, but still sho comforted hor.solf.
With her it was no longer a matter of
etiquette—it was a straggle,for life or
death.
“Aud you can leave mo so calmly,
Harry?”
Ho lightly whispered the bars .of a
popular tuuo:
Be ware, beware of tflo gay cavalier,
Who loves and ri ios away.
“Harry,” sho cried, forgetting in
the moment of agony all her feminine
training, all her womanly impulses,
“I thought you loved me? Oil,
Harry, I cannot let you go!”
“I am not aware, Miss Mooro, of
ever having given you any encourage¬
ment —”
“Encouragement!” sho answered,
bitterly. “What has this livelong
summer been? What has your whole
course of conduct toward mo been?
Oh, Harry, if you leavo me now you
will break my heart.”
“Pauline,” ho said, sternly, “try to
recall a-night iu August when George
Urnue, pleading for moro than life,
stood beforo you. As you said to him
then, t now sav to you: ‘One must
amuse one’s self at a placo like this,
and you certainly ought to understan 1
the difference between a moro flirta¬
tion and sober earnest,’ I am holding
to your lips tho bitter cup that ho
drank to the dregs. How do you
relish tho flavor. Mtay3M&re, I have
the honor to bid you adieu—forever?”
And Paulino was alone on tho flower
wreathed balcony—alone, with tho
stars abovo tho sorrowful musio of
Strauss’s waltzes throbbing and moan¬
ing from within. Truly, sho had re¬
ceived her losson!
Harry Livingston was gono and sho
never saw him again.
Paulino was never married; sho is
an old maid now, with her glorious
beauty faded, and her temper irrita¬
ble aud exciting. Who knows what
sho might have been if—
Ah, this world is full of ifs I—Hiber¬
nian Magazine.
Will Made In Jest.
A resident in Yevey, Switzerland,
lately died, and bequeathed a largo
property, which he was supposed to
possess, to tho “local hospital of the
town.”
There being two local medical chari¬
ties—the Town hospital and tho Hos¬
pice do Samaritan—a lawenit was en¬
tered by tho former in order to de¬
cide its right to the legacy. After
considerable oxponso had been in¬
curred the dispute was abruptly
brought to a eloso by tho discovery
that tho deceased had indulged in a
most unseasonable jest, and in fact,
did not possess a penny to bequeath,
Delacing Old Dies at tho Mint.
The work of destroying the old dies
at the Mint, as provided by Jaw, was
accomplished this week by Coiner
Morgan and his assistants, under tho
supervision of Assuyer Eekfeldt and
Superintendent Krotz. So far thero
have been G51 dies destroyed, repre¬
senting tho total number used in
stamping tbo coins, from pennies to
doublo eagles, including thoso for
both tho obvorso aud reverso sides.
In destroying the dies they aro heated
to a whito heat, placed on an anvl!
aud mashed out of all semblance by a
blow from a heavy sledge.—Philadel¬
phia Times.
Mio is a Live Wire.
der Georgia has another electrical woi
in the person of Miss Fannie lies
ter, of Oconee-County. She is a liu
man dynamo of remarkable power-<.
By running her hands through her
hair she can produce ft shower of elec
trio sparks, aud in the Clark the trucks
of her shoes can be seen sparkling as
if in flames. Miss Fannie- is young
and.pretty, and is a splendid attraction
for some young man who thinks ho
cau handle a live wire without getting
hurt,—Borne (Ga.) Tribune.
TWO THOUSAN D REPORTED KILLED
BY CHRISTIANS.
TURKS REFUSED TO SURRENDER.
The Wholesale Slaughter Confirmed at
Constantinople, But the News lias
Not lie ache (l Athens.
Rumors of a wholesale massacre of
Mussulmans at Sit.ia have reached
Cauea, soroo of tho reports placing
the number of killed at 2,000, which
includes almost tho entire Moslem
population of the town. It is said
that men, women and children were
killed indiscriminately.
It is impossible at present to con
firm tho reports, but the rumors have
created the deepest anxioty among the
populace. General Bor, who is in
command of the gendarmerie at Canea,
has sent two Italian officers of the
gendarmerie to Sit.ia in a gunboat to
inquire into the truth or falsity of the
reports.
The fort at Voucouis, which is gar¬
risoned by 500 Turkish troops, has
large been besieged for several days by a
force of well-armed insurgents.
Wednesday sieging the commander of the be¬
force called upon tho Turkish
commander to surrender and promised
safe conduct to any of the garrison
who chose to accept it.
The Turks refused to surrender on
any terms, It is stated that the gar¬
rison has provisions enough to last for
twenty days and tv plentiful supply of
ammunition. •
It is reported that Greek troops have
started for Voucoulis to aid tho insur¬
gents in capturing the place.
Tho Noivs in Constantinople.
The Neue Freie Prosse says
2,000 Moslems have been massacred
Sitia in the extreme extremity of Crete.
The paper adds that the Greek forces
the are surrounding the Moslem village on
island. The foregoing is
announced in Constantinople, where
the intelligence has created much ex¬
citement.
Stopped the "Warship Hydra.
A cable dispatch from Athens says:
The non-concurrence of the powers in
Greece’s action in Crete does not ap¬
pear to have had the deterrent effect
that was anticipated, and Greece is go
ing ahead as though she had the full
consent of the powers to licr anuexa
ation of the island.
It is stated that the Greek warship
Hydra, which was conveying provi
sions to tho Greeks, was stopped by
British aud Italian torpedo boats.
YELIOW PINE MEN MEET.
Seventh Animal Meeting; of Lumber Man
ufaetarcus’ Association.
The seventh annual meeting of tho
Southern Lumber Manufacturers’ As
sociation, or yellow pine men, was
t ailed to order at Memphis, Tenn., by
President J. J. White, of McComb
City, Miss. There was a larger at¬
tendance than at any preceding meet
ing.
In his annual address the president
dwelt upon the pleasing fact that not
a member of the association had failed,
despite the adverse business conditions
prevailing the past year. He urged
the necessity of action calculated to
stop ruinous prices and especially com¬
mended the adoption of a resolution
urging upon congress a duty of at
least $2 on rough lumber imported
from Canada. He also cordially recom¬
mended the clearing house project for
the association.
The secretary’s report declared the
grading rules adopted two years ago
eminently wise and beneficial; like¬
wise the clearing house experiment
ordered by a special meeting last No¬
vember.
SUGAR MEN WERE MUM.
'{'hoy Hold u Consultation Hut AVoro Roti
ceiit as to Their Conolusions.
The directors of the American Sugar
Refining company held a meeting at
New York Wednesday. After tho ad¬
journment Treasurer Searles declined
to state wlmt action tlio directors took
regarding the request of the Lexow
committee for permission to examine
the company’s books.
Jobn E. Parsons also declined to
make any statement, saying it would
bo contempt for him to do so.
TANNERIES SHUT DOWN.
Over Two TIioiihh ml Hmployoa of Chicago
Tanneries Locked Out.
Two thousand tanners and curriers
employes of tho half dozen big tan¬
neries in Chicago have been locked out
until the trouble between employes
and employers', which was precipitated
by a strike a few days of the B00 men
employed by W. N. Eisendratli k Co.,
lias been settled. All the companies
affiliated with the Hide aud Leather
Maniifacruvei;-’ association have united
in declaring a reduction of from 10 to
20 pci cent iu wages and raising the
working hours from eight to ten hours
per day, and when this was put into
effect at the Eisendratli tannery a
strike occurred at once.
SALES OF AUSTRALIAN WOOL.
Fifty TIiouBaml Riilu* Lcmh Last- Year
TJiaii In JHU 3 .
The Australian wool sales closed
December 21, lust, and, according to
United States Consul General Maratta,
at Melbourne, showed u falling off of
50,000 bales, compared with those of
1895, though they were identical with
those of 189-1 and 1899.
Tho sales were 007,180 bales. Of
that purchased in Victoria,35,000 bales
were for the United States and Canada.
MILITARY GUARD FLANAGAN.
Tho Sheriff feared Lynching and Called
For Troops.
As a result of the attempt made by a
mob to take Edward Flanagan from the
hands of the sheriff at Decatur, Ga.,
Wednesday militia night, two companies of
from Atlanta were stationed
around the court house Thursday
while the trial was being conducted.
The sheriff asked tho governor for
this protection to guard against a repe¬
tition of an attempt to lynch Flana¬
gan.
The little court house in the public
square was surrounded by the militia.
Armed soldiers with bayonets fixed
patroled the square, aud no one was
permitted to approach.
Not more than a score of spectators
were permitted to enter tho court
room, of including -the visiting members
the bar.
When court opened Thursday morn¬
ing Judge Gaudier ordered the grand
jury brought before him. He then
made special charge in regard to the
attempt to take Flanagan from the offi¬
cers. He told the grand jury it was
their duty to look into the matter fully
and indict tho guilty parties.
Flanagan’s attorney announced that
he had a motion to make. lie told of
a crowd which attempted to catch tho
prisoner, which attempt failed merely
from lack of organization on the part
of the mol). Ho mentioned tho fact
that soldiers were stationed around the
courthouse in plain sight of the jury.
The members of the jury could not
help but know tho feeling against the
prisoner. He then moved for a mistrial
and a change of venue. Judge Candler
overruled the motion, saying that lie
believed in the principle of states’
rights. He was opposed to federal in¬
terference in criminal cases in state
courts.
George W. Alien, who was on tho
stand Wednesday a fternoon when tho
court adjourned, was tho first witness
Thursday morning.
NEBRASKA EX-TREASURER SHORT
Governor Holcomb Asks tli« Legislature
to Make I u ventigut ion.
A special from Lincoln, Nob., says:
The immediate effect of the special
message of Governor Holcomb to the
legislature, asking for an investigation
of the state treasury, has been the cir¬
culation of sensational rumors of
alleged heavy shortages in the offices
„f ex-Treasurer Bartley and ex-Auditor
Moore.
Ono report went ho far as to say
that a warrant had been issued for tho
arrest of ex-Audi tor Moore.
In his message Governor Holcomb
pointed out that over half a million
dollars yet remains to bo accounted
for by the ex-treasurer. In a snbso
quent statement Mr. Bartley admits
that the figures of the governor are
nearly correct, but says tho delay in
turning over the money is the result
of an agreement with the present
treasurer in effecting a settlement.
Tho shortage of ex-Auditor Moore,
which is acknowledged, amounts to
something like $25,000. Mr. Moore
and his bondsmen have bee A pressed
for payment for several days and legal
action may sopn be taken.
MURDERED BY INDIANS.
Tho E’.otlirs of Six JVi*moi»n Found on n
North Dakota Rancho.
The bodies of ltev. Thomas Spicer
and wife, tlieir daughter Mrs. Wil¬
liam House, with her one-year twin
boys, and Mrs. Waldron, mother of
Postmaster Waldron, wore found on
the Spicer plantation near Winona,
N. D., Thursday.
All were horribly mutilated and tho
tragedy is supposed to be the work of
Standing Hook Indians. Tho bodies
were found scattered all over the ranch
indicating that the victims had fled
from their assassins.
Tlio condition of tho bodies leads to
the belief that tho work was done liy
Indians and the suspicion is strength¬
ened by the fact that one Indian waB
seen near tho ranch shortly beforo tlio
massacre.
WILSON SIGNIFIES ACCEPTANCE.
I»oHlinasier (ieiif'ml Will he Prcnlflttiit of u
Virginia University.
A Washington special says: Post¬
master General Wilson Thursday after
noon announeod that lie had accepted
tlio Lee presidency of the Washington
University at Lexington, made Va.
Tlio formal tender was to him
a week ago at a meeting of tho hoard
of trustees. The board fixed July 1
as the date oil which the now prosi
dent assumes charge.
MONEY FOR BLACK AND WATSON.
Congress Allows Them #2,000 Each for
Contest Expenses.
A Washington special sayH: The
general deficiency bill reported to tho
house Thursday morning carries an
appropriation of S >,000 for tlio widow
of tlio late Charles F. Crisp. Two
thousand dollars each is appropriated
for Thomas E. Watson and J. 0. C.
Black on account of expenses incurred
in tlieir contested election eases.
Consideration of the Black-Watson
rase will not be long delayed, though
no time is set for it. It may come ip
a t any time. Members of the commit
tee are uninformed as to whether or
not Watson will be heard.
CUBAN FARMERS AT WORK.
Minister l>t,r.om< (JrinriiiiK Hays Thai Sugar Hula
<*r:4 Ait <’suio.
Honor Dupuy do Lome, tho Spanish
minister, at Washington, has received
tho following telegram from the presi¬
dent of the chamber of commerce of
Havana:
“The sugar planters in the larger
manufacturing districts are grinding
cano. Railroads and telegraphic com
munication we regular.
(Signed) “FunNANDEZ.”
T. 1>. GREEN/MANAGER,
Bill IP’S WEEKLY LETTER
SAGE OF BARTOW PASSES HIS
SEVENTV-l’IUST MILE POST.
QUOTES A FEW NURSERY SONGS.
Declares That Moses Experienced Many
Trials and Much Tribulation—'What
Julius Caesar Said.
“How many miles to Mtlybright?"
“Three score aud ten.”
I can’t help thinking of that old nursery
song, for I have just passed my soventy-ilrst
old. birthday Tt and an#t herefora just seventy years
is like crossing tho Rubicon, aud
like Ceosar I may say “The die is cast.” i
have reached the allotted age, and now every
day that I live is a personal privilege—a fa
vor not promised nor deserved. Thero is
something for solemn and serious in tho word,
have scripture made and ancient history seemed to
it significant. There were seven¬
ty elders of Israel and the Lord sent out sev¬
enty lated missionaries; seventy learned men trans¬
the Old Testament, and man’s age was
cut down by degrees from 000 to seventy,and
thero the Lord called a halt, and Moses saith
that all the excess is labor and sorrow.
Moses was feeling very Muo when lie wrote
that. The old (man lived to bo 120 and had a
troubled time,but 1 know some men and many
women who lived past eighty and whose last
lived days were their best days. Those who have
flsh right or tried to nud have been unsoJ
and aro blessed with a good wife or a
good husband and loving children can take
all the risks that attach to four score
years. Labor and sorrow do not nee
essarily when follow old ago. Sydney Smith said,
ho was seventy-four: “1 am at ease in
my circumstances; in tolerable health; a tol¬
erating laughing churchman- -much given to talking,
and noise; 1 am, on tho whole, a
taining happy man, havo found the world an enter¬
world and am thankful to Provi¬
dence for the part allotted mo in it.”
he Longfellow lived to be seventy-live. When
“It was is seventy like climbing lie wrote his friend ( Holds:
the Alps; you reach a
snow-crowned summit and see behind you
tho deep valley stretching miles and miles
away, and before you other summits, higher
and whiter, which you may have strength to
climb or you may nob Then you. sit down
and meditate and wonder which it will be.
This is the whole story.” *
l)r.Holmes saw so wnoh fun in everything
that ’ ' couldn’t help making funny rhymes
about an old man:
*’ But now bin nose is thin
Ami it rusts upon Ms chin
Like a stall';
Ami a crook is in bis back,
Au>’ melancholy crack
is in hi ni’.'h.
Then ho w Sorrv that ho wrote it, for ho
says:
“Liuc nv it i» a .sin
Jwr mo to ,slt anil grin
jggy At him hero.”
eightft /Th e jlp ctor didn’t expect to live to bo
brains for long ago lie said: “Our
nv<* seventy-year clocks: the angel ot
life wtnils them up once for all, then doses
tb«- ^ :md gives tho key to the angel of
tic u-reetion.”
Bur; nil old man is not obliged to have o'
crook in his back nor a crunk In iiis laugh.
We, see many aged men who are straight as
an I ndian and have not lost the musical tone
of their voice. Habit and pride of person
havo much to do with this. 1 know an aged
matron, is a neighbor of ours, who when sho
chair, sitting hardly touches the back of n
and yet she is not stiff or awkward
always kind graceful, always beautiful. Who is
and gentle in her age, ami lias a warm
welcome wherever she visits. If she cannot
hear all that is said she is not embarrassed,
for she says wlmt sho lacks in hearing she,
makes up in seeing and reading and is
thankful for the faculties that an* still left
her. though*! 1 never saw her with a troubled look,
know she lias had trouble and deep
grief. Now, contrast such a woman with
one who is always complaining of her hard
lot, her or saying something disparaging about
Hut neighbors!
the old-time mothers had some excuse
for bent shoulders, for it was the fashion, to
sleep fashion on pillow and holster, and it was the
to lean tho child while it was nurs¬
ing. Habits begun in childhood and con¬
tinued in motherhood will never be broken
in the decline of life. I believe that the
habits of the glrJs of this generation are an
improvement not on those of the past. They do
lace like they used to, and tb - v carry
themselves more gracefully. They * * e bel¬
ter fitting shoes and corsets. They have
moro comfortable seats at school and are
not allowed to loan forward to their hooks
or slate or writing pad. The IjjV, insurance
companies have at last discovered that wo¬
men Jive as Jong as raoit , if not longer, and
policies arc issued to them on equal terms.
The longevity of both sexes is increasing,
slowly intemperance but surely, and the only drawback is
-whisky and opium. Were it
not for thoso the three-score-and-ten limit
would soon he advanced to four score and
give us a stronger and handsomer race of
that Bnakespearogave us some types of old age
seem to have fitted the time in which he
lived, but they are very rum in ours. I’rlnce
Hal said to Falstaff: “ Havo you not all tho
characters of age a moist eye, a dry hand,
a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing
leg, an increasing corporosity? Is not your
voice broken, your wind short, your chin
double, your wit single and every part about
you bloated with antiquity?”
I deny the picture. As somebody said, I
deny There the allegation and defy the alligator.
is some, of it that does not (it me, I
know. ’These poets are too fond of poking
fun at old man. Tho sho hears ought to
come along. Tho scripture says that old
age is honorable and that the young men
shall rise UP when the uhl asm coins tn at.
the gate. The old men are the balance
wheels of all the machinery of government.
If it were not for them, the, boys would run
away with the wagon. There must he
wheel horses with breeching on to hold
back when going down hill. Wlmt
are we hero for? Wo can’t climb a
tree or jump a ten rail fence any
more, nor kick a college ball nor ride a bi¬
cycle, but these tilings ..are non-essentialM
and don’t have to bo done. We <*an look
after the grand children and point a moral,
and teJI them a tale and teach the young
idea how to shoot without carrying a pistol
in a hip pocket. Solomon says that the
glory dren, of an old man is his children’s chil¬
and ho might have said that the chil¬
dren who havo no grand parents did not
havo their share of happiness in this world.
Jiut old age fim ltn tr/umphs and consola¬
tions. It has passed nil selfishness and vain
ambitions and takes comfort in momorhrs
aud philosophic meditation. Tt realises the
wonderful progress of art and invention, for
we old men remember when there was but
one little railroad in the United States and
no ried telegraphs; the mails when the old stage coach car¬
and postage was 25 cents a
letter; when there was no kerosene oj) and
no of matches, no steel pens and but few books
any kind. Old ago is not alarmed about
politic or tho downfall of the government,
for these same periodica! excitements have
agitated the country as far hack as we can
remember. It is the same old song, but it
does not disturb our serenity. When our
old cook concluded to quit, she advised my
wife to look’round and “get a settled wo¬
man to take her place.” “Dene young nig¬
gers hain’t got s« use enuf to stay anywhere
long and dey will bo runnln’ off after every
scurshion and funeral and plonto dat comes
along. Better get a settled woman.” Age
does settle us wonderfully and It looks like
a pity that wo have to shuffle off this mortal
coll about the time wo have gotten some
sense and learned the lesson of life.
Rut.wo must accept our destiny with grace
and gratitude, and may the Lord give ns
1 An n :'' that molts in uuperceived decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.”
—Bilu Anr, In Atlanta Constitution.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
Tn compliance with a request some
time since by the principal keeper of
the penitentiary, Governor Atkinson
issued an order dismissing L. M. Gib¬
son, a from whipping boss at Glenwood
camp, further service.
Tho convention of Sea Island cotton
growers at Valdosta is for the purpose
of discussing all matters that effect the
cotton send industry delegation in the section and to
a to congress to urge
upon the ways and means committee a
tariff on Egyptian cotton,
* * *
Bruce Wilson, a prominent young
man and a son of Captain Dick Wilson
doorkeeper of the house of representa¬
tives, was shot and killed at n country
dance near Augusta Tuesday night by
a man named John Welch. During a
general tight, a pistol was put to Wil¬
son’s head and tired, the bullet going
in one ear and coming out of the other,
lie died in five minutes.
Tito special committee to arbitrate
all matters of controversy in which
the Western and Atlantic railroad is
concerned has been reappointed by
the governor. The appointees ai'o
Judge John L. Hopkins, of Fulton;
T. It. .1 ones, of Whitfield, and H.
Warner Iliil, of Meriwether. It is
the continuation of the old commis¬
sion appointed in 1895.
The South Georgia Normal college
ai Douglas opened under most, flatter¬
ing auspices. The matriculation is
full and the prospects are glowing.
The college will consist of literary,
musical, normal and business depart¬
ments, besides the usual preparatory
and intermediate grades. The faculty
has been employed at great expense,
and consists of some of tho best edu¬
cators in the state.
' Tjio ttorncys for Lester Echols,
T' rrMU'der, have discovered
'a failure in flic uidictirient (>. which
Eeliols was found guilty. It ac nns the
indictment failed to allege
crime was committed in Floyd 1
Tho. case will e.omo before
(Hot for anew hearing and the d
is confident of.securing imoil-.* *■
There are many other grounds i -no
motion.
S. H. Hardwick, assistant general
passenger agent of the Southern rail¬
way, who recently returned from
Washington, where he wont to appear
before tho senate ooiumitiee in charge
of the anti-scalper bill, is very confi¬
dent of its passage. He says all the
Georgia- congressmen but ono are iu
favor of the measure, and that Con¬
gressman 'flack has happily character¬
ized the scalper business as tioket
moonshing.
The hearing of an application for a
receiver for the Southern Mutual
Building anti Loan Association, which
was set for hearing before Judge New¬
man, of the United States court, at
Atlanta, has been postponed until
after the stockholders convention
which will 'meet in Atlanta on Febru¬
ary 25th. No date was fixed and it is
supposed that the further course of
this lib ration will depend somewhat
upon rim action taken by tlio stock
hi :ders.
Judge Joel N. Mathews, Crawford
cot'nty’s ordinary, has been exonerated
and the charges preferred against him
by two of tho sureties on his bond
were not substantiated. His attorney
was on baud at Atlanta to give proof
of tho innocence of Judge Mathews.
The two bondsmen who were to have
been present to substantiate their
charges, did not appear on the scene,
and Governor Atkinson issued an or¬
der denying the application for release
from bond.
The litigation under which tho ef¬
fects of tlio Corbin Banking Company
iu this state were placed in tho hands
of a receiver at Macon some days ago
is in a fair way to lie settled. An un¬
derstanding seems to have representing been ;- 4 v».d
ed, and the attorney the
Corbin Banking Company in this state,
says lie lias assurances that the settle¬
ment will he consummated. The suit
was one of great importance, both be¬
cause of the immense value of the
property involved, said to include
o ver a million dollars worth of securi¬
ties on Georgia land, and on account
of issues involved which affect tho
vitality of mortgages taken under this
system of loans.
« * * f"
■ •
lion. Wm. Tate, the fathofm Con¬
gressman Carter Tate, and one of tho
wealthiest and most prominent citi¬
zens of north Georgia, died suddenly
at his home, at Tate, iu Pickens coun¬
while ty, Wednesday dressing morning. Ho expired
at (i o’clock in the
morning. He appeared in the very
best of health, and had just remarked
that ho.had hail a delightful night’s
rest. Iterccled suddenly, fell and was
dead in an instant. Hon. Carter Tate,
who was at his post in Washington,
was wired at once.
NOT KXACTI.T.
Mr. Snagga-My dear, isn't the grocer
on tlio next corner a Celtic gentleman?
Mrs. Snaggs—No, indued: lie sells
for cash only.
DRV WIT.
Blyuktos—That fellow Do Soaque says
aonu- NYynkins—Yes, very dry things, doesn’t he?
I’ve beard him say
“Don’t care if 1 do” rooeatedlv.