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The Morgan Mon VOL, II. NO. - Sj PER YEAR, . 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.