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The Morgan Monitor.
VOL. II. NO. 16 $1 PER YEAR.
*TIS YOU*
The woft J is waiting for somebody,
Waiting and watching to-day,
Somebody to lift and strengthen,
Somebody to shield and stay.
Do you thoughtlessly question, “Who?”
’Tis you, my friend; ’tis you!
The world is waiting for somebody,
Somebody brave and strong,
With a helping hand and a generous heart.
With a gift of deed or song.
Do you doubtfully question, “Who?”
’Tis you, my friend; ’tis you!
The world is waiting for somebody.
The sad world, bleak and cold,
Where wan-faced ch.ldren are watching
For hope iu the eyes of the old.
Do you wond’ringly question, “Who?”
’Tis you, my friend; ’tis you!
The world is waiting for somebody,
And has been, years on years,
Somebody to soften its sorrow,
Somebody to hee 1 its tears.
Then doubting question no longer, “Who?’
For, oh, my friend, ’tis you!
The world is waiting for somebody,
A deed of love to do,
Then up and hasten, everybody,
For everybody is you!
For everybody is you, my friend,
For everybody is you!
—Ida Iddings G tie.
RIGHTED,
AVO years
A, after my
father’s
death m y
ij mother
died. The
A i \ long, wast¬
ing disease
took an
acute form,
and after three months of painful ill¬
ness she left me to join my father.
My uncle came to me at once, and
took me home. We had a funeral
from the large house, and then I
folded my hands and prayed to die.
There was nothing for me now, I said,
in my wicked repining; other hands
could distribute my money among the
poor, and I could die and meet all I
loved in heaven. No words can des¬
cribe the bitterness of those days.
The old sorrow had been comforted
and soothed by the tender love that I
bad lost now. My mother, my lifelong
companion, was gone, and I was alone
in the world.
Uncle Stanhope was very kind,
Lizzie and May affectionato, Harry
sympathizing; but they all had their
own interests and duties, while 1 stood
alone.
Lizzie was going to be married, and
had her trousseau to arrange, her
lover’s visits lo receive. Harry was
preparing for a tour; May was deeply
interested in the study of German;
uncle had his-business to attend to,
and the interests of three children at
heart. 1, only, was ftlone.
Judge, Mrs. then, of my deep gratitude
when Hall wrote to invite me to
make my home with her. She was
very feeble, and needed a daughter’s
love; would l lake her in my dead
mother’s place, and let her love aud
comfort me? Uncle grumbled a little,
but let me go.
“Remember,” he said, “Agnes, this
is only for along visit. Milford can¬
not spare you always, and this must
be your home. Promise me to think
of my house- ns your home. And,
Aggie, when you are able to bear
gayety, you will come to the New
Year’s party? Lizzie will come home,
them; May, loo, if she marries. Let
it be a family reunion for the future.
You will come?”
I promised nil his kind love de¬
manded, and then went to New York.
My welcomo there was a loving,
cordial one, but I found a new mem¬
ber in thequitt family.
« f My niece, Martha Hall,” said the
old lady, after greeting me; and a tall
figure rose up from a corner and
said :
“Good evening,” and then sat clown
again.
I did not get a good look at her un¬
til the next morning, when she burst
into my room. Then 1 saw a blonde,
tall, fair aud gloriously beautiful,
dressed in an eccentric way that my
experience did not recognize os
“fast.”
“Good morning,” she snid, ab¬
ruptly. “How do you like it?”
“Like what?” was my astonished
inquiry.
i ( Why, this slow, stupid place. Oh,
I forgot, you are in mourning, so you
can bear it. I suppose I am iu mourn¬
ing, too, or ougfit to be, but I won’t
wear black. AVhat’s the use? I never
saw papa for eleven years. AVent oft,
you know, to Russia, and left me at
boarding school, and there died aud
bequeathed me to aunt and GeralJ.
I’ve plenty of money somewhere, they
eay, and next year, being of age, I
mean to use it, aud be gay. Till then
I’ve got lo vegetate here. Oh, mercy,
I did hope when I heard there was a
young lady coming there would be
some life, but you look as slow as the
rost.”
“I have just lost my mother,” I
sni‘1.
"Dear me! have yon? That is bad.
Mine died when I was ushered
info this world, so I can’t bo expected
to feel much about it, being probably
more concerned about ’here wo go
up, np,’ ‘liltlo Jack Horner,’ and
literature of that description for somo
time afterward. By the way, what do
you think of Gerald? He’s to be my
husband, you know.”
"fio, I had not heard.” don’t
•’Bless j on, yes ; and if ho die
on account of it, it’s a mercy. The
old folks arranged it all. Papa wrote
to auntie, au l I’m to stay here till I
am , of age, and then marry Sir Prim.
If he were not so awfully solemn 1
might endure it, but the one ruling
desire of my life is to see him turn a
romersault, vault over a chair, or do
something else equally absuyd.”
“I am afraid you will never be grati¬
fied.”
“No, I suppose not, especially since
you are here to keep him in counten¬
ance. haps I Perhaps I’ll marry him, per¬
eha’n’t. Is the blue thing be¬
coming?” she said, abruptly, walking
to the glass to see the jaunty little
jacket indicated. “I like red, but I
can’t wear even pink without looking
like a Dutch milkmaid. You could,
now, with all that splendid black hair.
Where on earth did you get your com¬
plexion, with black hair and eyes?
You’re as fair as I am, though you
have no color. Bnt what a littlo.thiug
you are. I could carry you in iny
arms like a baby.”
“I was always small,” I said, scarce¬
ly knowing how to answer her.
“Well, I didn’t suppose you had
grown smaller at your age. Heigh-ho !
Shall we always stagnate this way?”
and she sat down and began to nurse
her own foot.
1 looked at her in perfect wonder.
In my quiet life, in our owu little
towu, I had never met with a speci¬
men of the fast young lady, and this
beautiful, vehement creature puzzled
me amazingly. All her hair was worn
in a little crop of short curls, wonder¬
fully becoming; her fair complexion
was tinged with glowing oolor, and
her tall figure was perfect iu all its
proportions; the little bands nursing
the pretty foot were small,and yet full
of nervous activity.
“You’ll read to auntie, now, won’t
you?” she said, “and I can practice
more. The only comfort I have is
making that piano ring.”
“I will read to her,” I said.
“Well, go then—it’s her hour—I
say—” and then she hesitated. “Kiss
me! I am not half suoh a heathen as
I look, aud your faco is as pure and
perfect as a Madonna’s. You must not
hate me. I am not half so bad any-
whero else, but I am half stiflod in
this horribly dull place.”
“I kissel her at once.
“You can oorne here,” I said, “and
talk, if it does you any good. I sup¬
pose it is rather sad for a young eirl
full of life.”
“Anybody would think you were
eighty at the least,” was the reply;
aud then she darted off, and iu a few
moments the great house resounded
with music. I oevor heard such a
voice, even in a concert room. A
pure, clear soprano, yet with the
deeper notes marvelously perfect.
She played brilliantly and sang ex¬
quisitely.
How can I describe the life that
opened for me? All the morning I
spent with Mrs. Hall, readiug, and
having, by her taste and desire, open
to me the real treasures of literature,
a complete course of the best authors.
We read history, poetry, liotion; we
wandered over the old authors; we
dipped into newer works; wo thor¬
oughly enjoyed the hours. What was
really a keen pleasure for her, was a
never-ending delight for me. The
afternoons were devoted to walking,
readiug or driving.
Martha, or Mattie, as she preferred
to be called, rode splendidlj', and l
attended a riding school, and soon be¬
came sulliciently accustomed to the
exerciso to join her and Gerald iu their
long rides. Our evenings were spent
in music, or else quietly in Mrs.
Hall’s room, for Mattie soon formed a
circle of friends, aud plunged into the
vortex of New York society. A rela¬
tion of her mother—Mrs. Mnrsfleld—
one of the votaries of fashion, under¬
took to chaperone the brilliant beauty,
and Gerald was often released from
attendance upon her, and joined his
mother aud myself in our quiet witting
room. I learned to accompany him ns
he played the violin, and to blend my
voice with his duets, and if we could
not translate melody as brilliantly as
.Matti<r, we, at least, enjoyed our
music ns fully.
I would like to pause boro, aud
leave the rest untold, and yet—well,
you will guess it. I who knew that
the cousins wero engaged, knew that
Gerald was willing to marry Mattie,
and considered himself bound to her ;
f, who was there because I was con¬
sidered true to my first love; I, a
double traitor to past and present-
loved Gerald Hall.
I did not know my own heart for
many long months. It was a dear
brother’s love I received, a tender
sister’s affection I gave, 1 said to my
heart; and so unconsciously 1 left his
image grow to my soul, till I could
not tear it away. Charles faded away,
and a face, his—and not his—took his
place. Thu merry, sunny laugh was
never so dear as was now the grave,
tender smile.
More than a year had gone by, and
December chill was in the air when
Mattie came to my room one morn¬
ing, with unwonted clouds on her fair
face.
“Here’s a confusion” said she,
taking me as usual into her confi¬
dence. “Auntie reminds me this
morning that next week I shall bo of
age, and you know all about Gerald
and me. I think myself he’s in love
with you I Gracious, don’t jump that
way, Agnes. Of course, I don’t sup¬
pose yon care for him, yon quiet
mouse; for you are infinitely too
proper to love auother woman’s
fiance, and then there was that won-
derful Charles. But he is fond of you.
If it wero not for auntie, now; but
you see she’s set her heart on the
match. Well, there’ll be ono suicide,
for Guy Howard will hang himself 1”
“Guy Howard?”
“You don’t know him, Mrs, Mars-
field’s nephew; a man after mylieart,
with some spirit. AVel), never mind
him!”
But she did mind him I saw for she
sat quiet for some moments.
“We’ll have to submit,” she snid, nt
last. “It is a mercy yoii don’t care
for Gerald, for it’s all arranged now.
You’ll come to the wedding, I
pose, and please wear white, for I am
superstitious about colors at a wed-
ding.”
And she went off, leaving mo in a
POPULATION" AMD DRAIWTAOB.
MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 30. 1897.
strange turmoil of pain and irresolu¬
tion.
I could not stay ! I loved him ! Not
with the girlish love I had given
Charles, but with a woman’s whole
heart. I loved him ! I could not stay
to see him married, and married, too,
to a woman who loved him not. Some
wild scheme of warning him of Mat-
tie’s feelings rushed through my brain,
but I discarded it, and resolved to go
away. I would go somewbero and
hide myself and my new sorrow irom
all eyes. Then I thought of my uncle.
Only two days more and ho would wel¬
come his guests to a New Year’s party
again. I had met Charles there; 1 had
first seen Gerald on that anniversary;
I would go, nad live one night iu
memory of happier days, and then—
then—well, the future would decide.
So I went to Mrs. Hall and told her I
was going to Milford.
“You will return soon?” she said,
wistfully.
“You will be alone,” I said, “when
Gerald takes his wife for a wedding
tour. Then I will return. ”
She held my hand a moment, look¬
ing into my face with a 'oving plead¬
ing gaze that nearly unnerved me.
“Yes,” sho said, “I will bo alone.
It was her father’s will, yon know, aud
I would like to see Gerald happy.”
I kissed her for answer. It was not
well to talk about it, aud then I bade
her farewell. I felt that-1 could not
meet Gerald again.
My uncle’s welcomo was cordial—
nay, more, it was very loving. He
was glad that I remembered his pet
anniversary, and I promised to lay
aside my mourning for that evening,
and try to forget sorrow for the time.
Lizzie was home with her handsome
husband by her side; May was en¬
gaged, and had another new face to
present to me; Harry was back again
from his tour, and uncle was in his
element. The evening was clear and
cold, pleasant as a winter’s evening
could be. Early hours were kept at
Milford, and tho rooms were well filled
by the time that Mattie would have
been dressing her hair, I wore a white
silk dress, aud Lizzie had twisted Some
jasmin sprays in my hair.
The dancers were all in motion,
everybody goy and full of life, when
1 stole out into the library for a mo¬
ment’s repose. It seemed as if my
heart would break. Tho rush of
memory and present pain was so keen,
so bitter, that I could scarcely keep
from crying.
So, standing by the window, press¬
ing my hot forehead on the cold glai*,
1 tried to still my anguish aud main¬
tain tho composure necessary for the
evening. AVliile I stood there a step
crossed the room. It was my uncle or
Harry I said, and did not stir till I
was drawn into a close embrace, and
the voice I loved best spoke :
“Agues, my darling, my love.”
“Let me go!” I cried.
He loosened bis hold at once.
“Ob, Agnes, do you not love mo?”
“Where is Mattie? How can you
come here?” I said.
“Mattie! Agnes, do you think 1
care for Mattie?”
“But your mother?” I said.
“My mother would not see me an
unloving aud unloved bridegroom.
Wo have had our explanations, Agne*.
Alai tie is engaged to Guy Howard,
and I have come to seek my wife here.
Is she hern Agnes?”
“I don’t know; shall I inquire?” I
said, saucy for the first time, in the
flood of happiness. And then I nestled
into his arms, and let him tell mo his
love, while he read mine, I am sure,
iu my face.
But this was not all. Uncle Stan¬
hope came in, Lizzie was called, a
long pause followed, and in a sort of
blissful dream I found myself under
Lizzie’s long, lace wedding-veil,staud-
iug by Gerald, the old clergyman of
Milford facing us, all my old friends
and neighbors surrounding us; aud
Undo Stanhope’s party was trans¬
formed into my wedding breakfast.
A AYntCii That lYiutN Ilself.
The latest novelty in tho lino ot
time-keepers will appeal to lazy and
forgetful people. It consists of a
watch which does not require any
winding. All that is necessary for its
owner to do, in order to have tho tiros
with him always, is to walk half a
mile a day. The wateh does the rest.
These novel watches are got out in
several varieties of oases, somo ex¬
tremely ornamental but the kind most
commonly seen iu Chicago is made
with a plain black case and an open
face. The winding mechanism con-
gists of an ingenious contrivance by
which a small weight is raised and
lowered from tho jar of walking. The
motion of the weight works a small
ratchet arrangement, which winds the
spring to its full tension, and then is
automatically held until more wini»g
is needed. A course of shaking up
aud down for a few minutes will an¬
swer tho same pnrposo as a stroll
afoot, while all tho jolts and j irs of
ordinary existence are likewise made
useful as a means of winding.—Chi¬
cago Tribune.
F.iimh Un lar (Hiss,
A popular lecturer, in estimating
the number of people who would iu-
habit this globe a thousand years
hence, was asked by one in the audi-
euco how suoh a vast multitude could
be fed. Iu reply to this question ho
is quoted as saying: t < tv a know not
what discoveries may be made to ren-
dor the earth more fertile, or to iu-
crease its productive power, but long
before that time enough of the sands
of Cape Cod and New Jersey may bo
converted into glass to place a roof
over the lands devoted to growing
crops, and beneath its shelter the
former, iu a climate of perpetual sum-
j mer, may grow his crops in continuous
j succession, and with tho waters of the
| deep springs and the lakes under his
coutroi, may he free from dangers of
j floods and drouth ns well as from tho
frosts and snows.”—San Franc isco Ex-
| aiiiiuer.
BILL ARP’S WEEKLY LEIIER.
PHILOSOPHER TALKS OF OLD TIME
POSTAL CHARGES.
HE IS BESEIGED WITH QUESTIONS.
v.-.
Correspondence "With Old Friends a
Croat Pleasure to the Sage
of Bartow,
There is perhaps no invention or
contrivance that has brought more
comfort to mankind than that of let¬
ters and their easy transmission by
modern postal service. How wonder¬
fully cheap they are and how swiftly
they come and go! Only 2 cents to
the utmost limit of the United States,
say 4,000 miles, and only 5 cents to bo
carried across the ocean. It takes only
2 cents to carry a letter to the City of
Mexico, but it tab.es 5 cents to bring
one back.
My besides wife says that it is hard on Carl,
for bis weekly letter to us, he
has many friends, and the girl lie left
behind him, and his postage is quite a
tax. She thinks I ought to write to
President Diaz and Mr. McKinley and
demand reciprocity, just for Carl’s
sake, but I compromised with her by
promising to inclose a dime in every
letter I wroto to the boy. In almost
every mail that comes she is on the
lookout for a letter from some of the
absent ones, and when she gets one
she rends it two or. three times aud
files it away on her side of the room.
The morning and the evening mail has
become as important an event in the
routine of our daily life as our daily
meals. It is an event that has grown
on us and become indispensable. Time
was when neither she nor I received a
letter a month, for she I ad no lover
but me, and I bad none but her and
our postal system was a darkey boy.
It was like that of Zeb Vance, who
received n note from some fashionablo
woman in Washington with the myste¬
rious letters, “R. S.V. P.” endorsed on
it, and when he answered, iti he put on
one corner “S. B. A. N.,” just to keep
up with society, he said. When she
afterwards asked for an explanation ho
smiled and said; “Oh, they stood for
‘Bent by a nigger.’ ”
I remember when the postage had to
be paid at the last end of the line by
the person who received it, and it was
23 cents if it came 500 miles. If less
than that, lmt from out the state, it
was 18;* cents, and if within the state,
it was 12* cents. We had no decimal
currency then, but we had the seven
pence (12J cents) and the thrip (6}
cents) and they were worn to the quick
from constant use. Nothing told their
value except their size. We received
the great United States mail twice a
week and the tootiug of the stage dri¬
ver’s horn as he rose to the brow of
the distant hill aroused all the people
of the little village, and most of them
gathered at the postofflee to hear the
news. Perhaps there were as many as
twenty weekly papers taken in the
town, but none of them made mention
of murders or suicides or lyncliings or
elopements or baseball or football or
bicycle races or the fashions or re¬
wards for guessing or advertisements
of celery compound or photographs of
men or women or babies or the arrival
of anybody less than a president or a
governor. But in our stato papers
there were some little pictures or cuts
of hasty departures—runaways—aud
all were uniformly advertised: “Ran
away from the subscriber, my boy
Dick, etc., and I will give $10 reward
for bis apprehension.”
But now the letters—all, the letters
that come every day! Besides the
family letters from kith and kin, there
are scores from good people who are
working for church or charily, or want
information about Florida or Mexico.
Very often am I comforted with com¬
pliments which I love to receive, and
very often I get a good, long letter
from somo old-time Georgian who for
half a century has been living in
Texas or Arkansas, or somewhere in
the great west. It pleases me to rt
ply to all and make the best answer
that I can. But perhaps I had better
say just here that I have long since
ceased to write compositions for the
school girls or to assist the boys in
their debating societies. I wish sin¬
cerely that I bad time to help them ,
but I have not. I know how it is, for
I used to get help myself.
But some of these letters are amus¬
ing. One received a few days ago is
very urgent to have my opinion upon
the propriety or impropriety of r Chris¬
tian man digging a storm pit and get¬
ting in it when the cyclone gives its
warning. Is it sinful or not to show
such lack of faith in God? He says
they are making a church question of
it in his community. I have had sev-
era! letters asking for assistance in
guessing the missing word that The
Constitution offers a thousand dollars
for. These letters, of course, aro con¬
fidential, and some beg me m > to
mention it even to Mrs. Arp. But the
delicious humor in one of them is flic
offer to give me half the reward if J
will disclose to her tho word. That
like the fellow _ who
s very generous would furnish
told the boy that if he
his own hooks anil lines and bait he
would give him half tho fish he caught.
Since ray last letter about how to
raise children was published I have
had several very comforting epistles
from friends and some from strangers.
Bev. William II. Strickland makes
mention of several families from old
Gwinnett whose children are all grown
and are esteemed by all who know
them as good people - Honest, law-
abiding and temperate. He names
the three sons and five daughters of
my eight old children friend Jim Dunlffy. Also the
of Rev. D. if. Moncrief,
one of whom now lives in Atlanta, and
has five sons and five daughters, all
grown up and all good men and wo¬
men. John and Mary B. Sammons,
his wife, had thirteen to grow to ma¬
turity and they were all goq How
rich these parents were I—richer than
Vanderbilt or Astor. And so were the
children of D. \Y. Spence and Wash
Allen. One had eight, and the other
ten.
Well, now, one of ihe reasons is that
all of those families came from old
Gwinnett, and most of the children
were from that old Sammons stock
that lived on Alcovy creek when I was
a boy. The first couple 1 ever saw
married outside of my father’s house
was Jim Dunlap and Rebecca Sam¬
mons, and Jim outmarried himself
when be got her. That was an old-
fashioned, country wedding, and it
was a big one. They had turkeys and
roast pigs and pound cake amazing,
and they had thousand-dollar candle¬
sticks all about, for every likely negro
boy had a torch. But my wife and I
left there forty-six years ago, and did
not know that these good people had
had so many children. May all such
be perpetuated. And I have a good
letter from Buena Vista, telling of old
Dr. Beese, who has raised seven boys
and two girls, and they are all good,
sober, industrious, Christian children,
and had a gentle, kind, loving, Chris¬
tian mother, who is now among the
angels. That is it, after all—the
mother—the mother—the gentle,kind,
loving, Christian mother.
So I am encouraged to recall my ap¬
prehension concerning the black sheep
being iu all large Hocks of children.
— Bum Arc in Atlanta Constitution.
CHARGED AVITH BRIBERY.
Minneapolis Grand Jury After Municipal
Officers.
Results of the new grand jury’s in¬
vestigation of municipal scandals at
Minneapolis were made apparent Fri¬
day when Alderman C. E. Dickinson,
of the Twelfth ward, was arraigned
on an indictment charging him with
agreeing to accept a $500 bribe from
the Penny Press company iu connec¬
tion with the city printing contract.
Henry F. Brown, a well-known cit¬
izen 'and politician, was arrested on an
idictment charging that he illegally
secured $7,500 belonging to the city
from ex-City Treasurer A. 0. Haugan,
who is also under indictment. Ilaugau
lot Brown have the money.
TO ASSASSINATE HUMBERT.
llespomlent Iron Worker Tries to Stab
Italy’s Kuler.
At Rome, Thursday afternoon,while
King Humbert was seated in his car¬
riage on his way to the races, a man
named Pietro Acciarito, an iron worker
out of employment, attempted to stab
hi; majesty with a dagger. The king
avoided the danger by rising from his
Beat.
Acciarito was immediately arrested.
King Humbert treated the matter
lightly aud remarked: “It is only one
of the little incidents of my trade.”
AYATERS RECEDING SLOWLY.
Ilrcalc at Hell a Has IniimlalcU 75,000 Acres
of Fine Vanning laimis.
A special of Friday from Memphis
statos that no new crevasses have ap¬
peared in the levees, but the current
of Ihe river is still beating against the
southern embankments with a fury
that causes the gravest apprehension.
Tho break at Delta has inundated
75,000 acres of the finest plantations'
in southern Louisiana, and the water
continues to pour through the opening
and is rapidly spreading over a greater
area.
BIG TRUST QUITS BUSINESS.
The Sash, Door anil I'lind Combine Ceases
Operations.
Twenty-four members of the Na¬
tional Manufacturing company, com¬
monly known as the sash, door and
blind trust, held a meeting in Oshkosh,
AVis., for the purpose of disbanding
and adjourning sine die. The author¬
ities have restricted the operations of
the organization to such an extent
that it was decided to discontinue op¬
erations.
HUNTER GIVES UR.
Goes Away Without- nictating an to Ills
JSueocBSor.
A Frankfort, Ky.,' dispatch says:
Dr. Hunter finished writing his
communication to tho caucus called at
his request and then left with his wife
on the Chesapeake ami Ohio train for
AVashington. He came out boldly
for Debos and ho had got all his
friends at work for him, but the latter
and his friends were evidently worried
that tho doctor should have gone
away beforo he had dictated his suc¬
cessor.
Russia Will Intervene.
The Paris Journal’s, correspondent
at Odessa telegraphs that all tho nec¬
essary measures have been taken at
Sebastopol for tho eventual interven¬
tion of Russia in tho war between
Turkey and Greece.
Assassin Confesses.
Joseph E. Kelly, the murderer of J.
A. Stickney, the aged cashier of the
Great Falls National bank, at Soiners-
worth, N. II., has been captured and
Las made a full confession.
To Break Up Intrigues.
A London cable dispatch says: It is
learned that the visit of a squadron of
eight warships to Delagoa bay was in¬
tended to frustrate the intrigues of
Germany, Portugal and Transvaal, to
change the status quo to the disad¬
vantage of Great Britain.
Colonel John Mushy Hurt,
Colonel John S. Mosby was thrown
from a buggy at the University Friday of Vir¬
ginia, at Richmond, afternoon
and received a serious cut about the
eye.
T. P. GREEN, MANAGER.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
The annual examination of appli¬
cants for teachers’ license will be held
in each county of the state on May
29th.
The southern branch of the Na¬
tional Association of Plumbers of
America met in convention at Atlanta
last Monday. Delegates wore present
from Macon, Augusta, Savannah, Mil-
ledgeville and other southern cities.
The annual session of the Georgia
Teachers’ association will be held at
Warm Springs this year, and will be¬
gin on June 26th, ending on June 30th.
An unusually li.rge attendance is ex¬
pected.
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The County School Commissioners’
Association of Georgia will convene nt
Hawkinsvillo on May 4th for a two
days’ session. In addition to the com¬
missioners, members of boards of edu¬
cation of a number of counties of the
state will be in attendance.
Mr. Cornelius R. Hanleiter, one of
Atlanta’s oldest citizens, and well-
known throughout the state as a vet¬
eran printer, publisher and writer,
died last Monday morning at the
mature age of 82. Mr. Hanleiter had
been iu failing health for some time
past, and his death was not unexpected.
Judge Speer has granted an order
confirming the sale of the Cuyler and
AVoodburn railroad and allowing J. D.
Harrell $2,000 compensation as receiv¬
er of the road; also an order allowing
Barrow A Osborn $1,500 and Marion
Erwin $1,000 as counsel for complain¬
ants and receiver, respectively.
The jolliest men iu Goorgia, and the
most genial, wU’ meet in Atlanta in
animal convention Friday and Satur¬
day. They are the commercial trav¬
elers, and their annual convention will
be one of the largest that Atlanta has
entertained in some time. For months
past the local members of the associa¬
tion have been hard at work prepar¬
ing for the entertainment of tho visi¬
tors.
The exposition building and fire en¬
gine house at Fitzgerald were burned
u few days ago. The loss is $5,600
with no insurance. The fire is sup¬
posed to have been of incendiary
origin. The exposition building was
a large structure in which the corn
and cotton exhibit was held last year.
The fire department building, which
adjoined yie exposition building, was
also burned. The engines were saved.
The program lias about been oom¬
ph tod for tho fifth annual Ocmulgeo
Chautauqua, villo which opens at Hawkins¬
April 29th, closing May will 8th, and
contains attractions that fully re¬
pay visitors from any part of the state
who may attend. The objects and
aims of this gathering are certainly
Commendable and should endear it to
Ihe heart of every educator through¬
out the state.
The eighth annual congress or con¬
vention of tho Christian Laymen
AVorkers’ Association will convene in
AVaycross Friday, May 7tli, and will
in session until Sunday night
following. This organization has an
interesting history. It is about twelve
years old and its memberhip has
grown from a mere handful to hun¬
dreds and perhaps thousands. These
people arc, as a rule, plain and unpre¬
tentious, but faithful and true follow¬
ers of the meek and lowly Nazarene.
The Merchants’ bank of Atlanta, is
ready to pay another 10 per cent to
creditors. The first payment was paid
several weeks ago and the second pay¬
ment, as per the agreement reached by
the receivers, falls due on May 1st.
The money lias been collected and is
now in the vaults of the bank ready
to be paid out upon the presentation
of the receiver’s certificate for tho sec¬
ond 10 per cent. This payment which
is now almost due will put into circu¬
lation between $30,000 and $49,000,
aud w ill bring the indebtedness of the
institution down to 30 per cent less
than it was on the day that the doors
were closed to business.
Ground has just been broken for the
new dormitory of the Georgia School
of Technology. This magnificent
building will bo known as the Knowles
dormitory in honor of the winning
fight Mr. Clarence Knowles, of Fulton,
put up in the legislature to obtain an
appropriation dormitory for its erection. The
will be of brick and will be
three stories in height. It will con
tain thirty-six rooms to ho used by the
students who attend tho school and
besides that there will be parlors ain't
reception rooms and apartments for a
matron. In the basement (lie cooking
apparatus will be located and here the
meals will be prepared. The mess
hall will also be iu the basement.
Two of the most important appoint¬
ments made by President McKinley in
Georgia were in tho selection of dis¬
trict attorneys for the Northern and
Southern districts of the federal court.
Mr. Ed. A. Angier, the Atlanta attor¬
ney, was selected by the new adminis¬
tration out of a large number of ap¬
plicants for the position. Mr. Angier
will no doubt ably fill the position
of attorney in the Northern district
and the appointment lias given general
satisfaction. The appointment of Mr.
Marion Erwin, of Macon, In* met with
ilie hearty indorsement of the party in
his section of tho state. Mr. Erwin
has been a loyal supporter of the party,
and he will enter upon tho discharge
of his duties under most auspicious
circumstances.
PRESIDENT NAMES DAY ASSIST.
ANT SECRETARY OF STATE,
WHILE STOVER GOES TO BELGIUM',
Two Appointments That XVero Unexpected.
House Proceedings—Scruggs
Is Coming Home.
Two genuine surprises were given
out to the office seeking contingent at
Washington Friday, Neither had
been hinted at, though now the guess-
ers are all wondering why.
The first of these is the appointment
of Judge AV. R. Day, of Canton, O.,
ns first assistant secretary of state.
Judge Day is the president’s dost!
friend and confidential adviser.
Bellamy Storer is taken care of lw
being sent as minister to Belgium; a
nice berth, but not the one he wanted.
These nominations were determined
upon aud announced at the white
house Friday morning. The announce¬
ment has created a good deal of com¬
ment.
House Proceedings.
The desk of the late Judge Holman
Friday was covered with a black pall
of mourning, upon which were strewn
lilies of the valley and hyacinths. The
blind chaplain in his prayer referred
feelingly to the loss the house and the
country had sustained in his death.
Mr. Bland offered the resolution
which he attempted to oiler last week
relative to the suits to foreclose the
first mortgage on the Union Pacific
railroad, calling on the attorney gen¬
eral for information as to what stepa
had been taken to protect the interests
of the government so modified as to
strike out the clause directing the
speaker to appoint immediately the
committee on Pacific railroads.
The house adopted a resolution for
the appointment of a committee of
twenty-five members, of which the
speaker is chairman, to attend the.
Grant tomb exercises Tuesday. The
house also agreed to take tlireo-day
adjournments during the week with
the understanding that no business
would be transacted.
Republican Caucus.
The republican senators in caucus
have decided to accept the proposith n
made by the opposition for tho filing
of the senate committees, leaving the
arrangement of ihe details to Sena¬
tor McMillan’s committee on com¬
mittees. “he caucus also considered
the question of tilling the relative of¬
fices of the senate, and the managing
committee was authorized lo negotiate 1
with the opposition to the end of se¬
curing a division of these places,
Colonel ScvtiKgs Coming Home.
The state department lias been in¬
formed that Colonel AV. L. Scruggs,
the agent for A r cneznela in tlto boun¬
dary negotiations, is on his way hack
from Venezuela and brings with him
the engrossed copy of the treaty be¬
tween Great Britain and Venezuela,
which the Venezuelan congress has
ratified.
I)EHOE IS RUT UR.
Tho Candidate fcolootod to Take Iiuntov'fl
Place.
As there was no quorum in the Ken¬
tucky joint legislative session Friday
tho balloting was merely a formality.
The first ballot proceeded and hod
no significant changes (ill the name of
Rev. Mr. Grider was reached. Ho
changed from Bennett to Deboe.
There were no other significant changes
though the anti-Poboe people scatter¬
ed to a field of new men. The ballot
stood: Deboe, 31; Holt, 16, F,vans,3;
Lewis, 6; Bonnot, 4; scattering 9;
necessary to U choice, 36.
The adjourned republican joint leg¬
islative caucus met again Friday night
to attempt the nomination of Dr. Hun¬
ter’s successor, and Deboe was named
on the 28tli ballot. The only ab¬
sentees at the opening were Deboe and
Bennett, the candidates paired.
TURKISH CONSUL BEFORE COURT.
Kastern AmlmssJulor at lloslon Charged
With Kmbezzlinjr *135,000.
Joseph Andrew Iasiagi, the Turkish
consul to the port of Boston, Mass.,
was arraigned in the superior court in •
that city Friday charged with embez¬
zling from Pierre Charles Pevieu and
Charles A. A. B. Do laVilladere. He
pleaded not guilty and was released on
$2,000 bail
TAX RATE WAS WRONG.
Sections of Norlli Carol I mi’s Itovenue Act
Unconstitutional.
The North Carolina supreme court
was filed a very important opinion in
a novel ease. The constitution requires
that the poll tax shall be thrice tho
property tax. but by carelessness tho
late legislature made tho rate of poll
tax $2,29 and property tax 46 cents.
The governor sought to compel tho
auditor to make tho poll tax $1.38,
which was the legislative intent. Tho
supreme court decides that both the
poll tax and general tax sections of the
revenue act aro unconstitutional and
void, thus leaving in effect the revenue
act of 1895, which makes poll tax $1.29
and general tax 43 cents.
SENSATIONAL ELECTION BET.
Supremo Court Will Deem© Novel B«t
Between Evans nntl Ellerbo.
A Columbia, S. C., special says: The
supreme court will have to sit in
judgment on the Ellerbe-Evans’ elec¬
tion bet before Sallie will be returned
to Governor Ellerbe’s stnbles.
Evans lias appealed. He has . re¬
tained as additional counsel General
LeBoy Youinans, ex-United States at¬
torney and former attorney general.