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The Morgan Monitor
VOL. II. NO. 15. $1 PER YEAR.
SOME DAY.
In tho Somewhere region that’s ever bright,
In the glow of the Someday sun,
Is a castle that rears its columned height.
Where the mirroring waters run:
Where the tranquil moments like music flow
To answer each longing the heart can know,
And tho air grows sweet with the gontlo
Of the roses kissed as the zephyrs fly.
Like the fabled tokens of magic’s power
It rises, as swift as thought.
Irom the wistfulness of an idle hour
Are its dazzling srlendors wrought.
But alas, to dust are its glories flung,
by the passing jest of an idle tongue!
They are gone, those beauties of form
hue
That were built of tho things you meant
rlo.
’ There’s another place wlioro the roses are,
Though it boasts no arch nor spire;
It rests to tlie hitherward, by far,
Qf tho iamV.of tho Heart’s Desire.
’Tis built of the things that you’ve
done,
And the hours smile bask at the gliding sun,
And yon lovo it well—though you sigh
For the IIouso of tho Things You Meant
Da.
—Washington Star,
MAGGIE’S BRACELET;
fr OU’RE tho
* punctual girl alive,
A Maggie; and how
sweet you look!”
Lady Carew
veyed her
figure approvingly,
Mrs. Fawcett’s
^ put (ho last
to her toilet.
“Do you really
me?” and Maggie Fawcett turned
slowly round that no item of her dainty
ball gown might be lost.
“My dear, you’d bo the success of
the evening ; and oh, what an exquisite
bangle that is?” and, with an exclama¬
tion of delight,Lady Carew caught her
cousin’s wrist, on whicn glittered a
magnificent bracelet set with diamonds
and emeralds. “Surely that’s new,
isn’t it? It wasn’t a wedding present,
was it?”
Mrs. Fawcett flushed nervously.
“No; you haven’t sceu it before—I
only had it yesterday.”
“You lucky creature, to get promis¬
cuous presents like that! Who gavo
it you?”
Tlie flush on Maggie’s cheek deep¬
ened. “Eric, of course,” she replied,
with a laugh. '“He spoils me dread¬
fully, yon know.”
Lady Cnrew’s lips quivered into an
indefinable expression.
“My dear,” sho answered, smiling,
“beware, of a husband’s unprovoked
.presents.”
“What do you mean?” asked Maggie
quickly.
“Only that their source is more of¬
ten a guilty conscience than an over¬
flowing affection.”
• "Laura, why will you say such
things? Come, the carriage is ready.”
“So am 1 ; biit isn’t Eric coming?”
. “Not wiih ns ; he was lunching with
the .Delawares, and sent over for his
tilings, liewill,go with (hem, and he
, goes back there to sleep.”
The two women took their places in
tho snug brougham. It was a fairly
Darshire long drive to Treloar Hall, where tho
Hunt Ball was to take place;
but there was absolute silence in the
carriage, 'partly because, as cousins
and intimate friends, there was no
necessity for conversation between its
occupants.
■ Maggie Fawfcett’s appearance at the
fiflnt Ball was something of an event.
Sho was the bride of the occasion.
Early Eric in the spring she had married
Fawcett, and this was tho first
winter she had spent on his estate in
Darshire.
Now and again Lady Carew glanced,
at her cousin. Maggie leaned back in
her corner, the white fur of her wrap
nestling round her .throat,. and her
smallhead resting against the cushions
of the carriage. It struck her com¬
panion that the young wife’s face was
a little pale, and that is wore a look of
suppressed excitement, mingled with
■something which seemed almost like
anxiety. “What can be the matter
with tho girl?” murmured Lady Carew
to) herself. “She it evidently dis¬
turbed , about something. How she
plays with that bracelet I I wonder —
but, no 1 Maggie is the best little
soul alive; and, besides, thoro isn’t an
eligible man within a dozen miles.
Still,, Erio I never should have expected
Fawcett to have turned out a
model husband;” and she laughed
softly to herself.
Laura Carew was a good six years
older than her cousin, and she remem-
• bered very distinctly that at tho same
hall last year before Maggie bad flashed
upon his firmament, Eric Fawcett had
been her very devoted slave, and natu¬
rally she smiled at the recollection —a
httlo pityingly, perhaps, for Lady
Cftrew could not quite understand an
admirer deserting her for Maggie ; and
though she was fond of her cousin, she
was rather sorry lor Eric. Women
generally are sorry for the men who
marry some ono ehe.
Bnt, in spite of Lady Carew’s mod-
erate estimate of Maggie’s powers of
attraction, her card was full beforo sho
had been in the room ten minutes—as |
be; full, for that she is, valiantly as she would resisted allow all efforts it to j
to till up two spaces which she insisted
on preserving. husband
She was standing by her in
the midst of a group of people. She
put her hand gently on his arm.
“Eric,” two*waltzes.” she whispered, “I’ve kept |
yes* “Two!” laughed bo looked
and he as ,
down at her. “Why, littlo woman,; |
wc enn’t dance together twice—it
would- be ridiculous! Here, I’ll take !
this one I don’t suppose You’ll have
nnv difficulty in ttiline in the other;
you’re looking very pretty to-night.
I must go, dear; this is uiy dance with
L aurai ’>
Maggie Fawcett bit her lips. She
wouldn’t have minded people seeing
that she was in love with her husband,
and that she thought him the hand¬
somest man in the room; but men
were her heart different—very swelled different—and
as a rush of mem¬
ories came upon her. She answered
her partner’s not very abtruse re¬
marks mechanically. It was doubtless
bad form, but her eyes sought her
husband’s figure; he was waltzing
with Laura—it seemed to her that he
was always waltzing with Laura. But,
then, perhaps, Eric might bethinking
the same thing of her, for she had
certainly danced a great many
with this Mr. Dobson —Dodson—she
was not at all sure of his name, and
she really did not care at all who was
hor partner. The Darshire Hunt Ball
was not amusing, she thought, and it
was a little embarrassing that so many
people noticed and admired her ban¬
gle ; she touched it doubtfully, twist¬
ing it on her arm so that the diamonds
flashed in her eyes. It was very
pretty, but-
“Maggie seems to bo putting in a
very good time to-night,” observed
Lady Carew as she strolled into tho
conservatory with Eric Fawcett;
“she appears to be enjoying herself
tremendously.”
“Not half as much gs I am,” replied
Eric, with a laugh. “It is quite like
old times, isn’t it?” he added, draw¬
ing a low seat forward for his com¬
panion.
“Oh, my dear Eric, don’t try to be
sentimental! But really, I begin to
think my warning to Maggie was not
uncalled”——
“Eh! what warning?”
“Well, it rather seems to me that
the old Adam is returning, my friend ;
that domestic joys are palling, and
forbidden fruit is becoming terribly
attractive.”
“Is that a challenge?”
“Not at all; besides, Maggie is my
cousin and my friend, and 1 think it
right to warn her.”
“Are you in fun or in earnest?
What do you mean by warning her?”
Lady Carew broke into a luugh.
“Ouiy that I told her to beware of
a husband’s presents—t-lmt a magnifi¬
cent diamond and emerald bracelet
often meant more than met the eye.”
“Really, I haven’t the smallest idea
of what you mean 1”
“Mean? Why, the lovely bangle
you gave her yesterday !”
“I gave Maggie a bangle yester-
day?”
“Certainly. Sho is wearing it to¬
night.”
“You must be dreaming 1”
Lady Carew looked into her com¬
panion’s face with frank astonishment.
“I am very sorry,” she said quietly.
“1 am afraid I have been indiscreet;
but how was I to guess?—oh, what are
you going to do?”
For at that moment Mrs. Fawcett
entered the conservatory on the arm
of her partner, and Eric immediately
rose to his feet. Laura caught his
arm.
“Eric, don’t be ridiculous, it is
some absurd mistake ! I’ll take that
man away. Speak to Maggie, but for
Heaven’s sake don’t look like that 1”
Bat, in spits of La lyGarew’s ef¬
forts, it was not so easy to “take that
man away;” and while the fntiie, friv¬
olous consternation rippled on, Eric
stood by, bewildered, and stunned.
Maggie, the soul of truth and sim¬
plicity, had told a lie. Tkero was not
tho faintest doubt that Laura had
spoken the truth, and spoken it with¬
out arriere-pensee. The stones of the
mysterious bracelet glittered mali¬
ciously before his eyes, and yet, had not
his attention been drawn to it, most
probably he would not have noticed it.
The details of any other woman’s dress
were always more obvious to Eric
than those of his wife’s, and Maggie
might have presumed on that.
But, Maggie !—he was very much in
love with her when he married her,
but he was uncomfortably conscious
that be had paid very little attention
to her of late. But then, Maggie—
who would have dreamed—
At last tho music struck up, and
Lady Carew led off the intruder, hav¬
ing succeeded in persuading him that
his calculations were out, and that it
was precisely this dance she had given
him.
Maggie rose, too, but hor husband
his hand on her arm.
“No; stay here, I want to speak to
yon.”
“But—”
“J. can’t help engagements or any¬
thing else. I must speak to you
now.”
“ lYhat is it?” asked Maggie, looking
up at him. “Why, Eric, what is tho
matter?”
“I wish to know who gavo you this
bangle.”
Tlie'color flew over Maggie’s throat
and face and her lips trembled.
“I—I can’t tell you.”
“So I suppose, or you wouldn’t have
lied to Laura Carew about it.”
“Eric!"
There was something so pathetic
about the girl’s expression as his name
burst from her lips—she looked so
childish, so helpless and so miserable
—that the anger in Eric’s heart died
suddenly. A wbolo world of thoughts
surged up in his mind. AVhy had he
left this child so lonely? The fault
was his. “Maggie, dear,” ho said
gently, “I know I’ve not been as I
to tho be3t little wife in the
world. I’ve set you n bad example,
and y° n aro 80 J' oun £ you don’t un-
derstand things—yon don’t know what
men are; you’ve been a little foolish,
perhaps, but that’s all, I’m sure—do
you hear, dear?—I’m quite sure of
that. But you must tell me tho story I
of that bangle.’ !
“I—oh, Eric, I’m ashamed!” and
she turned her face away.
“Tell mo, dear.”
There was a moment’s pause.
“Well, then, 1 bought it myself!”
“Maggie!”
“Yes. Ob, don’t think I want to
blame you, Eric, but the other women '
POPULATION AND DR.AINAGH.
MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1897.
I know were always having presents
from their husbands—flowers and
sweets and trinkets—and so as yon—
as you did not think of them, I bought
them myself and said you’d given them
to me—"
Eric held her at arm’s length. She
raised her face suddenly and looked at
him.
“I wanted people to think you
spoilt me—that you were in love with
me still. ”
Eric Fawcett did not return to the
Delawares, and a couple of dav3 later
the diamond and emerald bangle had
a companion, which was clasped on
Maggie’s arm by her husband himself.
—London World.
About the Spices.
Jamaica has the allspice which gets
the credit of taking the place of many
different spices; South America re¬
joices in the chile, which is used in
great quantities. Cinnamon, a smafl
portion of which was once held a
present which kings were glad to re¬
ceive, is a native of Ceylon and has
been known from the most remote
time. It was first carried to Europe
by the Arabs. Cassia bark is a rela¬
tive of cinnamon, and is prized for
flavoring liquors and chocolate. Tho
Malabar coast of India furnishes the
natives with cardamom, and mustard
comes from the East Indies.
The Spice Islands have given the
world few things more popular than
tho dried buds of a tree smoked and
dried in the sun, named in Latin,
from their resemblance to a nail,
clavus, and called by us cloves. In
the same group of islands a s nail col¬
lection of islands are planted entirely
in nutmeg trees. Caraway comes from
the northern and central parts of Eu¬
rope and Asia, is need as flavoring in
cooking and drinks, in cheese, cakes
and bread. Sweet marjoram, native
to Portugal, and capers originally
grew wild in Greece and Northern
Africa. Asafoetida, which has an un¬
savory reputation among us, is highly
prized as a condiment in Persia and
India and is used in France.
Sugar, which we class among the
indispensables, was wholly unknown
among the ancient nations, and for
that reason they used honey as we use
sugar. Honey was therefore a vory
important article of diet. Salt was
almost oatirely produced by evapora¬
tion of sea water. If the entire ocean
wore dried up it would yield no less
than 4,119,300 cubic milesof rock salt,
or about fourteen and one-half timet
the entire bulk of Europe abovo higk
watermark, mountains and all. Eva
poration is still practiced on tho sea’
board, Portugal pro luces annually
350,000 tons; Spain, 200,000 tons,
Italy, 165,000 tons; Austria, 100,000
tons.
Salaries of the Church of England.
As matters now stand, it costs a
pretty penny to maintain the pomp ol
-that church of which “the Queen iii
the supremo governor on earth.”
The salary of tho Primate (Arch¬
bishop of Canterbury) is tho goodly
sum of $75,000 per annum, punctually
paid. The Archbishop of York has
$50,000; the Bishop of London,
$50,000; the Bishop ot Durham, $35,-
000; the Bishop of Winchester, $32,'
500; tho Bishop of Bangor, $21,000;
the Bishop of Bath and Wells, $25,-
000; tho Bishop of Ely, $27,500; of
Gloucester, $25,000; ol Chester, $21,-
000; of Exeter, $21,000; of Here¬
ford, Lichfield, Liverpool, Llandaff,
Manchester, Ripon, St. Asaph, $21,030
each; of Carlisle, Lincoln, Norwich,
Peterborough,St. Davids,$22,500 each ;
Oxford, Salisbury, Worcester, $25,000
each; Newcastle, $16,000; Rochester,
$19,000; St. Albans, $10,000; Sodor
and Man, $9,000 ; Southwell, $17,500 ;
Truro, $15,000; Wakefield, $15,000;
and then think of the army of deans,
Bishops suffragan, canons, etc., and
infer that the Church of England
is an expensive institution, represent¬
ing a very high average of co-st for
each soul brought to grace.—Chicago
Times-Herald.
A HushauiPs Dilemma.
He had bought himself a fashionablo
pair of trousers. On trying them on,
they proved to be considerably too
long; so be took tho trousers to his
wife, and asked her to cut off about
two inches and hem them over. The
good lady, who was not very well
pleased with the pattern, brusquely
refused. The same result followed an
application to the wife’s sister and his
daughter.
But before bedtime the wife, relent¬
ing, took the bags, and, cutting off
two inches from the legs, hoinmed
them up nicely, and put thorn on a
chair. Half an hour later hor daugh¬
ter, seized with compunction for her
unfilial conduct, took the trousers
and, cutting off two inches, hemmed
and replaced them. Finally the sister-
in-law felt the pangs of conscience,
and sho, too, performed an additional
surgical operation on the garment.
When ho appeared at breakfast tho
next morning those around tho table
thought a Highland chieftain had
arrived.—Tit-Bits.
Cruelty to Gild Fish.
It may not bo generally known that
there is cruelty iu tho keeping of gold
fish. Half of such captives die from
want of rest. As fish have eyes
so formed that t) ey cannot endure the
light, in a glass vessel they are in an
entirely wrong place, as evident from
tho way in which they dash about and
go round and round until fairly worn
out.
Usel the X Kays.
An English woman recently lost her
ring in some cake she had baked. In-
stead of cutting up all tho cako to find
it, or running the risk of endauger-
ingher family’s lives by leaving it to
ba swallowed, she put the onko under
the X rays and marked the place
where the ring was bidden.
HIS OPINIONS AS TO HOW CHIU-
I)REN SHIULI) HE BROUGHT UP.
A LITTLE WHIPPING 13 NECESSARY.
Unless Children Are Made to Fear Pa¬
rents They Will Never Make Good
Men and Women,
An esteemed friend requests that I
write a letter about how to raise a
family of children so that they will all
behave, the boys mal s good citizens,
good husbands, good fathers and the
girls make good wives and good moth¬
ers. “Is it possible to do iliis?” he
asks.
When the lawyers determine that a
thing cannot bo legally done they say
it is “ultra vires,” which means be¬
yond strength. In the first place, it
is not possible to devise any plan or
method by which all children can be
raised or trained to do right and be¬
have. It is “ultra vires” and even if
it were possible, it is “ultra vires”
with me to make it known. Ever since
the failure of Adam to raise Cain, this
thing of raising all the children to be
good has been an unsolved problem.
■Whether the difference in children of
the same family is due to the laws of
heredity or the doctrine of election or
to different environments and associa¬
tions or to the devil himself we can¬
not tell, but one or more of these
causes have been at work, My
wife and I were discoursing
about this last night and in all our ac¬
quaintance of half a century wm could
not name a single family of six or
more children of whom were good.
Anxiety and grief and trouble because
of children is the common lot. It be¬
gan with Adam and came on down to
Noah and Jacob and David and Solo¬
mon, and yet these men had the spe¬
cial favor of God and were blessed by
Him in everyway except in the conduct
of some of their children. Poor old Eli,
the high priest and judge of Israel for
forty years, was cursed with two bad
boys and God at the last cursed him
for not restraining them. “There
shall not he an old man in thy house
forever, and all the increase of thy
house shall die in the flower of their
age.” Because his sons made them¬
selves vile and ho restrained
them not. What an awful curse
was that! These sons of Belial!
This word means worthless,had,naugh¬
ty, v’ile, and fits many a bad boy in
our day. It is a fact, that reflects on
our sex that the sons of Belial are
mentioned more than a dozen times in
the scriptures, hut there is no daugh¬
ter of Belial. “He restrained them
not.” Well, the good old man did
talk to them and reprove them most
earnestly. “Why .do ye sueli things.
It is no good report that I hear. Ye
make the Lord’s people to transgress.
If one nmn sin against another the
judge shall judge him, but if a man
sin against the Lord who shall entreat
for him?”
I wonder what kind of restraint the
Lord expected or required of Eli. It
was not talking or pleading with
them, of course, for he did that. I
wonder if the old man diilent experi¬
ment on the modern Atlanta plan of
raising the boys on his love and their
honor, for fear of breaking their spir¬
its. It makes an old man very tired to
read the wise utterances of the mod¬
ern Solons against corporal punish¬
ment of had hoys in the public
schools. I had rather go and ask tho
convicts in the cliaingnng for an opin¬
ion. Nine-tenths of them would say I
began in disobedience and was not. re¬
strained. The lamentable fact is thnt at
least one-fourth of the boys at these
schools have no restraint at home and
if they'are not punished at school they
get it nowhere, and so these sons of
Belial go to the bad very early and
become victims to the rigor of the law
and tlie courts. There is many a boy
in these schools who is right now on
his way to the chningang. These
Bblons say that corporal punishment
is brutal and barbarous and must givi
away to the progress and refinement
of the age. About wliat time did the
youths of this generation become better
than those of half a century ago? Bead
the daily papers and answer. How
many houses in Atlanta are in mourn¬
ing because of the bad conduct of
their boys? What good results can
como from expulsion of a bad boy
from school? He is not wanted any¬
where by decent people, and so he
associates with his kind and becomes
worse and soon comes to grief and
and brings sorrow to his kindred.
Obedience to law, to government, to
parents is absolutely necessary for the
peace and welwaro of society. This
obedience is enforced among bad men
by the fear of tlie law. It cannot, bo
enforced among bad boys except by
fear of corporal punishment. Their
honor or their shame is too feeble a fac¬
tor to be considered. Obedience must
begin early, even in infancy. My lit-
two-year-old grandchild loves to
ploy in the dirty coal box. “Caroline,
you must not do that,” her mother
says, and enforces her command by
washing slapping them. her little hands and then
That Is corporal pun¬
ishment, and is just as severe to the
little child as the rod is to the boy of
ten, and both are right and both effec¬
tual. The enforcement of obedience
in early childhood saves nil necessity
for punishment in later years, and it
saves a sight of scolding. What a world
of worry bad children are to other peo¬
ple! What a comfort are good ones
at home and abroad. Homo mistaken
parents say that their boys are too
highstrung to he whipped. Yes, and
those boys arc in danger of being still
higher strung when in a fit of passion
they kill somebody. The poet Shelley
said “Obedience is tliebane of genius,
virtue, freedom and truth; makes
slaves of men and of the human frame
a mechanical automaton.” He was one
of these highstrung sublimated creat¬
ures whose rule of life was to do as lie
pleased, to follow liis own sweet will.
What a miserable life ho lived, and was
drowned when only thirty years old.
He alarmed his schoolmates by his
storms of passion. Was expelled from
Oxford when nineteen. The same year
he eloped with a hotel keeper’s daugh¬
ter and married her at Gretna Green.
Three years later he abandoned her
and she drowned herself from grief.
Soon after this he married another wo¬
man, with whom he had been living
previous to bis first wife’s death. He
was the intimate friend of Lord Byron
and Leigh Hunt, and they witnessed
the cremation of his body and depos¬
ited the ashes near the grave of Keats,
in the Protestant cemetery at Rome.
No, I cannot tell anybody how to
raise their children. It is a fearful
responsibility. I have known preach¬
ers to undertake tlie task and fail, and
the congregation smiled inwardly at
the preacher’s failure to raiso his own
in an exemplary and orthodox way.
I said something about (he laws of
heredity coming in as a factor in the
rearing of children. I knew tivo good
men in Rome before the war who hail
a like number of boys growing up,
and these two families were close
neighbors, and their hoys mingled to¬
gether and went to the same school
and Sunday school and church. One
set of these boys was good, manly,
industrious and a comfort and an
honor to their parents. The other set
was bad, mischievous and untruthful.
In fact, they were several times caught
stealing or with stolen goods in
their possession. And yet tlie
parents in both familios wero
always exemplary in their conduct
and conversation; I asked Dr. Miller
how he accounted for that. “Heredi¬
ty,” said lie. “Ono set of theso boys who
have bred after their grandfather,
w as a very bad man. I knew him
w ell, and be was a terror to tlie com¬
munity. These grandsons have started
out on his line. Bad blood in horses
will some times skip a generation and
then crop out. Just so it is witli hu¬
man blood.” “Can it not be eradi¬
cated?” said I. “Oh, yes,” he replied.
These boys should have had more re¬
straint in infancy and youth. It takes
more for that sort. The whippings
they are getting now come too late,
and I fear will not reform them. But
most any disposition to vice can be
reformed if begun in time. It is the
same in animal and vegetable crea-
tions. You can cut off a kitten’s tail
from one litter to another until they
will ultimately be born without tails.
You can dwarf a peaehtree or enlarge
a tomato.”
Now, while I have my settled con¬
victions on these things, I do not wish
anybody to suspect that there has been
any brutality at our house. Some of
our boys received corporal punishment
at rare* intervals. Others had none—
not a stroke, except a spank or two
from their mother. Like most parents,
we thought that other people’s chil¬
dren needed more than ours. But
even the punishment they did get they
have not forgotten and still talk of it
as a big thing.
Now, as to the girls, of course they
should not suffer corporal punishment
in the schools. In the first place, they
do not need it. Secondly, if they did,
there is no natural and suitable place
to receive it, and if there was, it cannot
be found with propriety.—Bin, Ann,
in Atlanta Constitution.
To Hoad Off the Jail-Breaker.
A water tube jail is one of tho latest
-clilevements of Yankee ingenuity. P
a no longer necessary to make th»
rir.on bars so heavy and so hard that,
utting through them h ecomes very
kfficult; hut, instead, they are made
limply of pipes, forming part of a high
nessiue water system. Should any
mo of these pipes be severed, tho water
would escape and quickly give warning
if tho break.—Oassier’s Magazine.
Cleaning Gloves.
Gloves may be cleaned at home. Of
course the white chamois skin gloves
that aro worn in summer are easy
to wash by slipping them on
hands and rubbing them in luke¬
water, filled with suds made from
ivory soap, White kid, and even
may be Cleaned hy gently rub¬
them all over with pumice stone
powder. Another way equally good
to brush them with benzine or gaso¬
line, and hang them out in tho air.
must be careful in this lattei
to avoid being near a fire,
near a flame or heat, on account of
the explosive quality of the gasoline.
Another method Is to put on the gloves
and to wash them in a basin ol spirits
of turpentine, White gloves may he
a good tan by wetting them with
and water, which have beer-
aud standing ten or twelve
Remodeled British Ironi.lajs,
The Monarch, rated as a third-class
.urret-shlp in the British navy, built In
IS09, has been thoroughly refitted and
rc-englncd at a cost of ?500,000, ana
was commissioned last month as a
'Hardship in Simon’s Bay, Cape of Good
Hope. The hull, built of iron at tho
Chatham dock yard twenty-seven years
Is still in excellent condition, and
jo are the Warrior, built in 1881; the
Northumberland, 1868; Devastation,
1873; Sultan, 1871, and Thunderer of
1877, all of which have either been re¬
cently refitted or are now at the dock
yards being put in condition to meet
present requirements of that class of
ships.
T. P. GREEN, MANAGER.
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OLD MRS. NOBLES GETS A NEW
LEASE ON LIFE.
WRIT OF ERROR FROM HIGH COURT
Which Acts as Snpercedeas—Gns Fum¬
bles Will Be Given an Indefinite
Respite by the Governor,
Mrs. Nobles, the Georgia woman
sentenced to hang April 23, for the
murder of her husband, has obtained
a new lease on life. It came from
Judge Harlan, of the supreme court of
the United States, who allowed a writ
of error in the case Thursday morn¬
ing to net ns a supercedeas. It was
presented to the justice at his resi¬
dence in Washington.
Tho writ was granted on the repre¬
sentation of Mrs. Nobles’ counsel that
she is insane, and will operate as a
stay of proceedings and postpone tho
case for at least eight months. This
move in the case came unexpectedly
and news of it will be received with
surprise.
Governor Atkinson will probably
grant an indefinite respite to Gus
Fumbles, her accomplice in crime,
since he lias announced his intention
of allowing the negro to live until the
case of Blrs. Nobles has been finally
settled.
The news of the action of Judge
Harlan in the Nobles case will come
as a glnd surprise to those who have
been working for the old woman’s life
since she was first sentenced to death.
It was understood that the case
would go to the supreme court of the
United States, but the prompt action
of Justice Harlan was entirely unex¬
pected and will encourage those who
are at work for the woman’s life.
The case of Mrs. Noble’s has un¬
doubtedly caused more interest and
lias hail more influence brought to
bear in it than any c se over before
carried to tho supremo court from
Georgia.
The fact that she was sentenced to
die on the gallows cafised those who
are opposed to capital punishment for
the sex to begin work for her life.
Prominent attorneys were obtained
and they did all in their power to stay
the proceedings. The case went through
every loophole allowed by law. It went
from the superior court to the supreme
court and from the supreme court back
to tho superior court. It lias shifted
many times and a few weeks ago was
finally decided by tho state supreme
court.
Arrangements we’ e made for the
execution to take place on time. Those
who had been working for the old wo¬
man were beginning to work desper¬
ately and despairingly. The last
chance was the supreme court of the
United States, and here it was intend¬
ed to carry the case.
The case will not be reached until
the second Monday in October. At
that time a motion of advancement
will probably be made and the case
will be heard in either January or
February. This gives Mrs. Nobles
about eight months of life.
THE DAWES COMMISSION
Appointed I?y Cleveland Will Bo ltcorjjftn-
Izrd By McKinley.
President McKinley 1ms under con¬
sideration tlie question of reorganiza¬
tion of the Dawes Indian commission.
There are five members, each of whom
draws a salary of $5,000 per annum.
For the present only two changes are
contemplated.
One of the appointees will succeed
ex-Congressman Cabaniss, of Georgia.
There are many applicants, but no ap¬
pointments have been determined fi¬
nally.
The Dawes commission was ap¬
pointed hy Mr. Cleveland, and is call¬
ed tho Dawes commission because ox-
Bcn&tor Dawes, of Massachusetts, is
the chairman. The duty of the com¬
mission is to sit as a court in the
Indian Territory and determine the
rights of the members of tho five civil¬
ized Indian tribes.
Devolution in Honduras.
United States Consul Little tele¬
graphs from Toguoigappa, the capital
of Honduras, that u revolution 1ms
broken out and that tho republic is
now under martial law.
RESEMBLED MYERS,
But Hits Itlabo Alim Was Not tlie Youth¬
ful M iirtlei’or.
Once more a rumored capture of
Will Myers, tho condemned murderer
who escaped from tho Atlanta juil last
year, has been dissipated. The man
reported is under the arrest murderer in Boise Forrest City,
Idaho, not of
Crowley, but a young man w ell known
hi the far western state,
Tobacco Dealer Bobbed.
John Ogden, a prominent tobacco
dealer <>f Kentucky, on route home
from Mayfield, was waylaid and robbed,
He was badly beaten aud cut.
WOULD INTERRUPT SERVICES.
Good Friday Proved u Huelty Day to
Frank Meyers.
Good Friday gavo Frank Mycrp,
sentenced to hang in Georgetown, S.
0., on that day for arson, another
week of life.
The jail is next the Episcopal
church, where services were held dur¬
ing the hours fixed for the execution.
On the petition of tho church authori¬
ties, Governor Ellcrbe granted a re¬
suite.
HUNTER’S FRIENDS ARE FIRM.
Balloting for Senator In Kentucky Shows
No Change.
A special from Frankfort, Ivy., says:
It is reported on what is believed to
be excellent authority that there is a
serious breach between State Senator
Henry Senator L. Martin and ex-United States
I. G. S. Blackburn, of the
silver democrats. Martin, who has
worked like a Trojan for Blackburn
during the past few years feels that ho
now has a chance to win the prize
himself, it having been conclusively
demonstrated that Blackburn cannot
be elected. Blackburn and his lieu¬
tenants have so far declined to dis¬
countenance the movement, and have
even gono so far as to bitterly de¬
nounce Martin for bis alleged treach¬
ery-
But all this was dono in private,
while openly tho Blackburn mon were
assiduous to Martin.
At 9 o’clock Thursday morning
Judge Cantrill, of the Franklin circuit
court, ordered the grand jury to report
at once on the bribery charges which
it has been investigating.
Later Judge Cantrill called the
grand jurors into open court and in¬
structed them an to their duly in the
case beforo thorn. Ho said he regret¬
ted that the matter came up before
the adjournment of tlie legislature,
and felt that it was the duty of tho
legislature to wash its own dirty linen,
but having attempted investigation, it
tom, was their-duty and to probe it to the bot¬
in so doing “I command you
to not show any favoritism.”
This unusual step on the part of a
circuit judge was received with sur¬
prise by both republicans and demo¬
crats alike.
The first ballot resulted as follows;
Huntor, 58; Blackburn, 43; Martin,10;
Boyle, (i; Stone, 1, leaving Hunter
still two votes short of an election. A
motion to adjourn was lost, and the
second ballot was ordered.
The second and third ballots result¬
ed as follows:
Hunter, 57; Blackburn, 42; Martin,
10; Boyle, C; Stone, 1.
A motion was then made that the
general assembly adjourn, which pre¬
vailed.
LAST HONORS TO VOORIIEES.
Tho Kx-Soimtor’H BonmiuH Uakl to llcsfc
sit Tori*o ’-Haiite.
The funeral of tho late ex-Senator
D. W. Voorhecs, took place at Terre
Haute, 1ml., Thursday afternoon from
St. Stephen’s Episcopal church, Rev.
John E. Sulger, the rector, officiating.
This is tho church in which ho was
confirmed a number of years ago and
which ho attended when in tho city.
During the two days his remains
were in the city, the funeral having
been delayed awaiting tho arrival of
bis eldest son, Charles S. Voorliees,
of Spokane, Wash., they lay in state
in tho parlor of the Terre Haute house
where u steady stream of people passed
through the flower-embroidered room
and looked upon the face of their
dead friend. All classes and condi¬
tions of people wet’., represented and
their tearful eyes have told tho story
of the universal sorrow.
Senator Yoorhees was a Mason and
the various Masonic lodges participa¬
ted in tho funeral exercises, while the
city council and many civic and mili¬
tary organizations followed his remains
to the grave in Highland Lawn -ceme¬
tery, where lie was laid beside liis
wife, who died several years ago.
IS WOLCOTT ELIGIBLE?
Tho OursUon KatHFii Rf‘ftav£HT)# His Mem¬
bership On Commission.
A question has been raised as to tho
eligibility of Senator E. O. Wolcott to
nerve on the monetary commission.
Sec. fi, article 1, of tho constitution,
contains tho following provision:
“No senator or representative shall,
during tho time for which lie was elect¬
ed, lie appointed to any civil office un¬
der the authority of the United States
which shall have been created or the
emoluments whereof shall have been
increased during such time.”
I’OWELL GETS SEVEN YEARS.
Killed W. C. Sloan and 1* Found Utility
of Mamilnliifhtnr.
G. W. Rowell, a wood merchant,
was sentenced by Judg; Aldrich, at
Columbia, S. 0., Thursday to seven
years in the penitentiary for killing
W. C. Sloan.
In finding him guilty of manslaugh¬
ter, the jury compromised, all signing
a paper asking the judge for a mini-
mum sentence, which was expected to
he two years. The sontonco has been
accepted without appeal.
FOR MINISTRIES OF WAR.
Tho Grecian Boiile \sl<a For Govern-
nlent Aid in War Preparation*.
On the reassembling of the Grecian
boulo Wednesday M. Delyannis, the
premier, introduced in (be presence of
it crowded chamber a bill granting the
government a credit of 23,000,01-1)
drachmas for the ministries of \far and
marine. The premier asked tho house
to expedite tho passage of the budget.
Ridiculed By London Papers.
The Gobc, St. James Gazette aud
Pall Mall Gazette (London newspa-
pors) all ridicule tho idea of the Uni-
ted States bimetallic mission having
any practical result.
ERRING TREASURER FREE.
A South Dakota Ex-ORUilul Heaves tho
State Fen! ten I Jury.
South Dakota’s erring slate treasurer,
William W. Taylor, was released from
tho penitentiary at Sioux City Thurs¬
day, after an imprisonment of one
year and a half. Good behavior re¬
duced his two years’ sentence six
months. Ho left at once for his old 1
homo at Redfield, where he will stay a
few days, aud then g' > to Indiana t-
visit friends.
