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The Morgan Monitor VOL. II. NO. 17. $1 PER YEAR. WORTH WHILE. T'ls easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; Cat the man worth while Is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong; for the test of the heart is trouble, And it always como3 with theyeare, Aud tho smiie that is worth the praise of earth Is the smile that comes through tears. I* is easy enough to bo prudent, When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within no voice of siu Is luring your soul away; Bat it's only a negative virtue Until it is tried by (Ire, Aud the life that is worth tho honor of earth Is the one that resists desire. By '.he cynic, tho sad, the fallen, ? Who hal no strength for the strife, Tho world’s highway is cumbered to-day; They make up tho item of life. But tho virtue that conquers passion, Aud the sorrow that hide3 in a smile— It is these that nro worth the homage of __ earth, For we And them but once in a while. —Elia Wheeler Wilcox. MY FIRST PATIENT. BY MARC BOYRff. N HAD been a week in my ^ new apartment. A week o°‘ —a short time—and yet it seemed in the retro¬ s o'® spect like an endless V S' succession of days, each one of which contained the dreams and hopes of an entire lifetime. For a whole week the white porcelain sign of a practic¬ ing physician had shone in splendor at the street entrance and upstairs on .be glass door of my neat little flat. For a whole week my small reoop- ion room, with its dark curtains and *s straight-backed chairs, had waito 1 •r patients to avail themselves of the lidvice and help of “Dr. Max Er- hardt.” It really did not surprise me at all that t office was empty for a few days, because, as I told myself, con- Come «iingly, tho neighborhood must bo- familiar with the fact that it bad good medical advice right horo in its * midst. After I had sent away my first patient completely cured,things would V •assuredly be different. Then—after my growing reputation had been an¬ nounced to tho neighborhood, or better still, to the whole city by a •“•owd of patients in offioe hours, as ’ as by a neat little coupe, which a fird coachman would drive ,th the principal streets —then, •.then— And sol caruo to the dream ich occupied me most. 1 fancied my- again with my cousin Mary, who - tor’s , tainly would fit tho role of a doc- • wife most delightfully. T as in love with my little golden- :ousin. As a boy I had shown ose little knightly attentions mssiblo from the stronger in tho house and on the ul. As a junior I had dedi- oo tier my first poem, and as a had nearly ruined my unformed voice by continually singing Mie “flaxen haired maiden.” came home, after passing my amiuation, the young medical t became sure that the “Haxon- maideu” returned his lovo with heart; yet not a word was iversity course was finished, r 1 was working unusually '.gbting successfully the tire- tlo of a final examination, in my preoccupation, my doar yes iud wero constantly in my seetaed to be taking the iterest iu the results of my Vlicu my little cousiu, greet- e-coming,whispered hardt,” softly, — I looked deep into •eyes and whispered, just ns ’• Doctor Erhnrdt. ” Then right blush pass over her face, ew quickly back into the win- talk ollowing days I had oppor- j with Mary about nil the astles which a young physician in —i ompty offioe has abundant time to , build; but I did not venture yet to 1 discuss my dream of the futuro doc- ' tor's wife. There lay at times in sweetheart’s blue my which drove the eyes an expression words back even when A- they wero trembling on my lips. Not that I doubted in the least that Mary’s heart belonged unconditionally to me; no, it seemed rather as if n lack of confidence in my professional ability lay in her glance, and my pride in- duoed me to keep silent, until a re¬ port of my first iridependent case shoald call forth Mary’s fuli approba¬ tion and unlimited confidence iu my chosen vocation. I sat in my consulting room buried in such thoughts as these on the after¬ noon of this dull November day. I had barely heard the timid ring with which some one begged admittance. I rose to open the door in place of the little page whom I had sent on an errand. During tho few steps t^.t I had to take, I confess that I was over¬ whelmed by a flood of the wildest fancies. Here was a caller who needed my help. Of course, it was an aristo- cratio patient, with ringing praise, and fame, and—ah, there I was again, \ ' thinking of the doctor’s wife. I opened the door. A poorly-olad . \man stood bofore me in the dim ht of the late fall day. A pair of dark eyes looked beseeohingly • mM\ JmrS coal from dirt. a face thin and streaked Mr “Doctor.” she said, in a trembling “oh, Doctor, be merciful, I you 1 My little Mary is bo sick.” That name atoned, to some extent, for tho disappointment which the woman’s poverty-stricken appearanoe had caused, for it did' not harmonize with my recent dreams. “Who are you? NVho sends you to mo?” I asked. “No one sends me,” replied the woman, softly and rapidly. “Oh, Doctor, do come 1 Ever since morn¬ ing I’ve been carrying coal from the wagon to the next house. I live over opposite in the court. My child has been siokxsinee yesterday, and I found her si/ much worse when I hurried home for a minute just now.” I hesitated somewhat, the disap¬ pointment was so great. The woman wiped with her grimy hand a face that already showed the traces of tears. She sobbed painfully. “I suppose I ought to call in the charity doctor; but your servant is a son of the cobbler in our court, and he has told all the neighbors that you were so kind-hearted. Oh, help my little girl!” “Well, of courso, the woman must be helped. I was human, and surely knew what was due to humanity. So I weut with her, after first taking out, with an importance that surprised and half-shamed me, most of the necessary instruments of a physician. Across the street to a great court lying behind a long row of houses, up five flights, each darker and steeper than the last, through an ill-fitting door into a little chamber with a slop¬ ing ceiling and one tiny window, and there on a poor but neat bed, with feverish limbs, and wandering, uncon¬ scious eves, lay a child about fourteen months old. The woman knelt down by the bed. “She doesn’t know mo any more,” she moaned. The child coughed hoarsely. That was croup of the worst kind. I tore a leaf from my blank-book and wrote my first real proscription. “Go to the nearest apothecary’s,” I said. She looked at me with some embar¬ rassment. “Gan’t I take it to King street?” she asked. “No, indeed,” I cried. “Why do you not wish to go to the apothecary in this street?” The women reddened visibly in spite of the coal dirt. “I think,” she stam¬ mered, “at the Eagle Pharmacy, in King street, they may know me. I carry coal there, and perhaps they will —I have no money.” A large tear fell onto the paper in her hand. “Ob, these people who can’t pay for doctor or medicino either!” I said, impatiently, to myself. I took out some money and said aloud: “There, take that and hurry!” The woman pressed her lips on the little one’s hand, and then, before I could stop her, on mine, and hastened away. I looked around tho room for r jeat. A poor chair, a rough box, an old table, some cheap kitchen utensils on the low, cold stove, which took the place of a range; in one corner, hang¬ ing on the wall, a threadbare woolen dress, and near it a child’s gown and a little hat trimmed with a bine rib¬ bon ; on the narrow shelf near the tiny window a curled myrtle plant, a scarlet geranium, aud a hymn book with bright gilt edges; that was all that the room contained. I brought up the chair and sat down near tho littio sick girl. She was evidently well nourished; her little limbs were plump aud shapely, the golden hair soft and curly. Sho breathed painfully, but she was not conscious; and her blue eyes stared straight before her, as if she were looking into a distant, unknown coun¬ try. It was cold in the room. I wont to the stove, but found only a few chips—too few to build a lire. So I sat down and waited for the woman and tho medicine. Again and again my glance wan¬ dered about the poverty-stricken room. A poor, hard-working woman who carried coal on tho street, while her child lay sick and suffering; and yet she certainly loved her little one tenderly. Suddenly a thought shot through my mind that I should not be able to save tho child; that per¬ haps I had not been decided enough to take on my own responsibility the extreme and energetic measures which would have wrested the littio sufferer from death. My heart grew hot as 1 hurried to the door and listened for the mother’s footsteps. There she was at last. To my re¬ proachful look she only answered, humbly : “There wore so many people in the store. Folks like me must stand back. ” An hour of torture passed, Tho medicine did no good; little Mary could not swallow it. Neither did it avail when, with trembling heart, but a steady hand, I used the knife on the slender, helpless throat, The little golden-haired girl died—died bofore my eyes on tho lap of her stricken mother. The woman looked up as if startled when a tear fell on to her hand, for she had not wept. “You are crying, Dootor? Oh you must not do that. You will have to stand by so many sick beds where God sends no relief.” She looked earnestly at the little body. “I loved her so. I did every, thing for her that I could, being so poor. When I came homo from my dirty work loving. I always found her so pretty, so For hours sho would lie on the bed or sit on the floor and play with almost nothing, and then she would laugh for joy when I came home. God has taken her; He loved her better than I—but oh, how lonely it will bo for me 1” I pressed the poor woman s hand.; I could not speak, but I laid some money on tho table and went out softly. Once at home, I laid my case of instruments away, and sat down overwhelmed. I could eat no supper ; I went to bed and hoped to sleep, but the picture of a dismal nttio room, of a dead child, and a humble, devout woman would not let me rest, any more than tho torturing recollection of my own part in that scene. Early the next morning an old col- lege friend came to seo me ns ho was passing through the city. He dragged me through the crowded streets, to the museums, to ail sorts of restaurants, and POPULATION AN"D DHAINAGE. MORGAN, GA.. FRIDAY, MAY 7. 1897. complained of my lack of spirits. 1 pleaded a headache, and so escaped going to see a popular play at the theater. Tired and exhausted, I weut at last alone to my room. As I passed a florist’s brilliantly ligthed windows, I stepped in and bought a costly white camellia and some fragrant violets. I climbed the five flights to the home ol the poor woman. I found the attic room unlooked. It was dim¬ ly lighted; a small coffin stood in tho middle of the bare room, and the child lay there in a white shroud. The rib¬ bon from the hat on the wall had been worked over into two little bows; a myrtle wreath rested on the fair hair, and the geranium blossoms were scat¬ tered over the body, On tho table near by wes a lamp, and tho open hymn book was beside it. I laid the beautiful white blossom in tho stiff little hand and fastened a bunch of violets on the breast of the silent sleeper; then I looked at the open book. “I joy to depart”—the old hymn that I had learned at school and half forgotten: “To my dear onos who grieve, Do not mourn for mo now; This last message I leave, To God’s will you must bow.” I laid the book away with a sigh. The words of tho old hymn, tho sol¬ emn stillness, tho peaceful little child oppressed me. I went home, after inquiring about the hour of the burial. I retirod early. I was weary, and all my unrest had gone. As,if called forth by a power higher than my own, the words of an earnest prayer came to my lips, of the prayer that Godi would bless me in my hard profession, and would change my haughty self- confidence into a humble trust iu His protection, wherever my small knowl¬ edge and my faithful ottorts would not avail, when I must stand, as on the day before, helpless to aid. In tho early morning I awaited tho littio coffin at tho door of the house. A man boro it before him, aud tlio mother followed in her poor blaok gown. Sho pressed my hand with a gratoful look, when sho saw that I had joined the little procession. The way was not long, the streets wero al¬ most empty, anil the air was unusually mild for November. When the iron gato of the cemotery opened, tho weoping woman bowed her head still lower. A young clergymnn stood besido the gravo. "I havo undertaken, as far as I am able, to pronounce a last blessing over all tho Bleepers of my congregation,” he said, softly, as ho mot my surprised look. That evening I went to see my rola—- tives. I did not find the parents at home. Only Ooujiu Mary was there to receive me. We sat by the window where tho moonlight fell on us, and then I told her of my first patient, and what I had learned from it. Mary said nothing in answer to ray confes sion; but suddenly I felt her arms thrown around my neck. She looked at me with wet eyes. “Don’t you see, Max?” sho said, “now you know your¬ self what was lacking in your prepara¬ tion for work ; but, thank God, it has come to you with your first patient. Now I believe that you will make a good physician who will bring help, even where his own skill does not work a cure.” I kissel my doar one. “And now, what do you. think?” I asked. “Have yon tho courage to become the wife of such a doctor?” She smiled through her happy tears. And so at last wo were betrothed. As it happened, tho very next day, 1 was called to a child that wns suf¬ fering intensely with croup, and was so happy as to be ablo to savo it. Since then God has bIiowu much favor to the sick aud miserable through my efforts, anil my work has grown ever dearer to me. But the mother of my first patient moved into my house to be my house¬ keeper until my sweetheart became the doctor’s wife. Even after the wedding, she remained ns cook, until she decided later to make still another change, aud came to nurse our littio first-born daughter, Mary. She wept over our baby for joy, ami in thankful remembrance of tho littio golden¬ haired girl who had found a happy home for her mother and had made a doctor worthy of his high profession. —Translated for tho Independent. Stout Hearts, These. The heart is not always the delicate organ it is generally believed to be. Dr. William Turner records in the British Medical Journal a few cases which point to tho fact that wounds of the heart aro seldom, if ever, imme¬ diately fatal. A child two years old was brought to him with a sewing needlo driven into its heart, and tho needle was extracted without evident harm resulting to tho heart of the child. Another caso described is that of a soldier in whoso heart a bullet was found imbedded six years after he had been wounded, ho having died from quite another cause. Several instances aro also given of persons living for months and years after their hearts had been terribly lacerated. Indeed, neither gunshot injur¬ ies nor penetrating wounds bring the hoart at once to a standstill; so that this part of the animal organism is apparently not its moat vital struc¬ ture. An Eagle as an Alarm Clock. Mr. W. Lo C. Beard, in St. Nioho. l as , tells of a tamo eagle ho had as a pet in Arizona. Mr. Beard says • The half-breed iu whose charge ho had been left told ns ho was far bettor than an alarm clock, for no ono could sleep through tho cries with which ho greeted the rising sun and his notion of breakfast time; and while an alarm would ring for only half a minute Moses was wound up to go all dav or until he got something to eat. “ But his guardian treated him kindly, and Moses grow and thrived, soon putting on a handsome suit of brown and gray j j feathers, which he was verv proud of. and spent moat of his spare time iu preening. THE OKLAHOMA TOWN SUFFERS FEARFUL DISASTER. SCORES OF PEOPLE ARE DROWNED. Hundreds of Homes Destroyed By tho Great Flood Wave—Damage Will Beach Over a Million Dollars. A special of Wednesday night from Guthrie, Okla., states that tho Cana¬ dian valley is a dreary waste. At sun¬ rise Wednesday morning a mighty wall of water from six to eight feet high, and a mile wide, broke upon West Guthrie without warning, crushing houses, sweeping away property and drowning people by tho score. Every movable thing was swept be¬ fore the, wave, which passed on into the valley with resistless force, wreak¬ ing terrible destruction to life and property wherever it reached. Dozens of human lives are known to have been sacrificed; how many may not he ascertained for weeks. Hun¬ dred of houses were wrecked; for miles farms were completely ruined, bridges and tracks were washed out and rail¬ road traffic in every direction is at a standstill. The efforts of rescuing parties have in many cases proved in vain. Many people floated down stream before they could be reached and their fate is unknown: others passed (he night in trees in midstream or perched on house tops. The property loss is planed at some¬ thing over $1,000,000. Business has been suspended in Guthrie. As thor¬ ough an organization for relief as is possible has been made, but all aid has been necessarily retarded by the con¬ fused condition of things. It will be impossible the explore the houses un¬ til the water subsides, ns many of them are submerged. As darkness gathered many overturned houses could be seen far out into the flood, but it could not be learned whether their occupants had escaped. The river is thirty feet above its ordinary level. A heavy rain began falling during the afternoon. A threat¬ ening bank of clouds enmo up from the northeast and many persons fled to their tornado cellars fearing that anoRiafA'MTsaster was upon them. Luckily, however, the damage was slight. Tho Cottonwood river, a small stream that winds between steep banks in West Guthrie, was full from a heavy rain. About 6 o’clock waters from a cloudburst above addod to those already nearly- up to the level of the high banks and the flood was sweeping through West Guthrie, a section popu¬ lated mostly by colored people. Water In Great Waves. Persons who saw the first wall of water said that it was about eighteen feet liigli, spreading entirely across the valley. There was no water in front of it save that .in the river’s channels. The first wave was followed by oth¬ ers in quick succession,until the whole settled into a bank of water from six to eight feet high. Many had already begun carrying their household goods to places of safety, but few had made more than one trip when they were forced to flee for llieir lives before a raging, resistless torrent. The main supply pipe of the water¬ works system burst where it crossed the Cottonwood in the southern part of the city and all file water in the reser¬ voir poured into the river. The houses and barns began to drift down stream, each freighted with ono or more hu¬ man beings; boats or rafts shot out here and there from the shore and des¬ perate efforts were made to rescue the people. Improvised rafts were quickly thrown together and started out into the mad stream. Before many of them had been propelled a couple of yards from shore they were twisted and broken Ivy the waters and the would- be rescuers thrown into the stream. Half a dozen rescuers were drowned, even before those they had tried to save had been reached. SAYS HE’S THE FIREBUG. I.inn Implicates Several Others In the Burning of Portsmouth. Frank Linn, one of the five men un¬ der arrest charged with having origina¬ ted the fire at Portsmouth, Ya., in March last, has confessed, implicating tho men in custody. LIVES LOST IN FIRE. Mother Tries to Savo Children l?y Throw¬ ing Them From Window. Four lives were lost in a fire in South Brooklyn, N. Y., early Wednes¬ day morning. Tho dead are: Mrs. Cecelia Bar¬ nett and her two children, aged throe and five years; Mrs. John Newel, aged thirty-eight years. Before she was suffocated Mrs. Bar¬ nett threw her two children out of the window into the street. The injuries they received resulted in death soon afterwards. A blaze started in a tenement crowded with people. The tenants, aroused by the flames, hurried to street. Several jumped from windows. WORRYING THE NEW LINE. J'flfort To Prevent Ohio Kivor anil Charles¬ ton Railroad From Knterlny Gaffney. There is a little railroad war Gaffney, River York county, S. C. The and Charleston is building spur to that town from Blacksburg. Gaffney Air-Line. is on tho Atlanta and Wednesday night the was invaded by a large force of who began laying side tracks to vent the Ohio River anil entering town on their right of way. ROADS IN NEW COMBINE. “Southwestern Passenger Association** Organized at Washington. Representatives of leading railroads of the south met at Washington Wed¬ nesday and concluded the formation of a new passenger traffic association, to he known as the "Southwestern Pas¬ senger association,” aud elected offi¬ cers for the ensuing year. The articles of the association were tentatively formed at n recent meeting in Atlanta, Ga., subject to the concur¬ rence of four absent members. These members were present at the meeting aud after some minor changes in the articles they were formally adopted. The roads entering the association are the Atlanta, Knoxville and North¬ ern railway; Atlanta and West Point railroad; Atlantic Coast Line; Central of Georgia railway; Florida Central and Peninsula railroad; Florida East Coast railway; Georgia and Alabama railway; Mobile and Birmingham rail¬ road; Pennsylvania railroad; Plant System of railways; Richmond, Fred¬ ericksburg and Potomac railroad; Southern railway; Tifton and North¬ eastern railroad; Western Railway of Alabama. The Seaboard Air Line system has not joined the association. The election of officers resulted in the choice of Henry Walters, presi¬ dent of the Atlantic Coast Line, as president, and Joseph Richardson, formerly commissioner of the South¬ ern States Passenger Association, as chairman of the conference committee of the new association. The articles adopted set forth the ob¬ jects of tho association in the following preamble: “For the purpose of interchanging authentic information in regard to the tariffs of tho respective parties, mem¬ bers of this association; for consulta¬ tion and mutual advice in regard to the reasonableness of tariffs, and the publicity of the same; and to aid in fulfilling the purposes of the laws of the states and of the United states af¬ fecting the commerce and especially with the view of preventing illegal and Unjust discriminations between per¬ sons and localities, or kinds of traffic.” DEItOE ELECTED SENATOR. End of 21* Contest. That Cost tho State of Kentucky SI00,000. The Hon. W. J. Deboe, of Critten¬ den county, and a republican, was elected United States senator in the Kentucky legislature Wednesday, to succeed Hon. J. C. Blackburn. The vote stood: Deboo, 71; Martin, 12; Stone, 1; Blackburn, 50. Confusion began when the (?8th vote for Deboe was passed. He had 71 when the roll called ceased. The Blackburn people called for the ab¬ sentees and voted solidly for their man. After the official declaration of the election of Deboe, there were such loud demonstrations that even the tel¬ egraph offices in the lobby had to BUS- pend business, and nothing but the bare ballot could be sent out at the time. The excitement was intense, as it ended a contest that has been waged since last year. Senator Blackburn and his friends, after fighting hard for over a year in tho regular and the ex- tra sessions, went down with their colors flying. The silver democrats concealed their disappointment and the gold democrats joined in the jollifica¬ tion. There never was such a scene in tho Kentucky stateliouse. Governor Bradley lias written out the certificates of election for Senator Deboe and lie will proceed to Wash¬ ington at once with his credentials to assist in organizing the United States senate and in the passage of the tariff and other measures on which the lines are closely drawn. The crowd that filled the house chamber, isles, lobbies and galleries long bofore noon was the biggest seen in ten years in this historic hall. Everyone believed that a senator was at last to be elected, after a struggle that lias lasted through two legislative sessions, through 112 ballots and at a cost to tho state of more than $100 000 . The Blackburn people hoped to the last that they would succeed. Democrats Will Hold On. The North Carolina state supremo court has passed upon the act of the late fusion legislature, which attempt¬ ed to take possession of all the insane asylums, and pronounced it unconsti¬ tutional. The superintendents, all of whom are democrats, will serve out their full terms. MET COMPANY HALF WAY. Miners Agree to Accept Bodiietlon of Two and a Half Cents Per Ton. The miners at Pratt City, Ala., one of the largest mining camps in the district held a largely attended meet¬ ing Tuesday to discuss tho proposi¬ tion of tho Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company looking toward a reduction of wages. The meeting was harmonious. It was decided to accept a reduction of ‘21 cents per ton on coal mining, provided tho company would abolish tho individual contract system now in vogue at Pratt City. The proposition offered by the min- ers meets the company half way in its request for change in prices of digging. ROOM FOR GREENVILLE TOWN. A #300,000 Klccfric Street, Kail way Plant Projected. Greenville, B. C., is soon to have a $200,000 electric street railway plant. The city council S. has Lawrence passed and an onli- his nance giving J. associates, the wealthy concern which has just completed an electric system in Charleston, a thirty-seven year frarn hise.on condition that they equip within twelve months a system in Greenville. T. P. GREEN/MANAGER. (JUEEN REGENT SIGNS A VERY IMPORTANT DOCUMENT. REFORMS ASSURED FOR THE ISLAND Considered By Washington OftielalH Ah a Kealiz.aiion of Plans Which Have Been Pong Under Consideration. The queen regent of Spain had a cabinet meeting at Madrid Thursday and signed a decree providing for the application of the agreed-upon reforms for llio island of Cuba. Her majesty's action was due to the receipt of a cable message from Captain General Weylev aunoui icing that the western part of the island is completely pacified. News Deceived in Miivmui. The nows of the queen regents’ ac¬ tion in putting in operation the scheme for reforms in Cuba already agreed upon, Havana. was immediately transmitted to A mail steamer was detained twenty-four hours at Cadi/, in order to carry the decree establishing the work of reform which will begin in the provinces Matanzas and of Pinar Santa del Clara. Rio, Havana, Opinion at Washington. A Washington special says: The an¬ nouncement from Madrid that the queen regent has signed a decree ap¬ plying tho reform laws to Cuba is con¬ sidered by officials at tho capital as a realization of the plans under negotia¬ tion for many months to give Cuba an autonomous form of government, or homo rule. The home-rule plan about to be applied was made public in detail by Minister Dupuy de Lome on February (5th last. A council of administration is creat¬ ed for the government of affairs of tho island, This council will be in the nature of a parliament made up of tliivty-one members, a majority of them being elected by the Cubans and a lesser number appointed by tho throne. The council of administration is giv¬ en island, practically supreme control of the subject to certain supervisory authority by the home government. One of the important features of the plan is that of allowing Cuba to revise her liti iff schedules. The reform ftiw was passed March 15th, 1895, but never applied to Cuba owing to the uprising. On last New Year’s it was promul¬ gated by the queen regent and gazetted in Havana as a concession of tho new year. Its actual application was still withheld, however, until General Wey- ler couid announce that the island was pacified. On the king’s fete day tho plan was amplified. The decree signed by the queen ap¬ pears to be the best step toward act¬ ually applying the law to Culm. THE WORK OF RESCUE. Unfortunates of llio Gutlirio Pinaster In a ■tail flight. In the flood-stricken valley of the Cottonwood river Thursday was a day of heroic efforts toward the rescue of these unfortunates whose lives were still endangered and for the relief of the hundreds of destitute and hungry. It seems now a certainty that the loss of life in the deluge will not ex¬ ceed twenty. Missing people, supposed to have been drowned, have been found cling¬ ing to bushes or driftwood down the stream of the west bluffs anil gathering in farmhouses for miles. For miles along the scene of devas¬ tation, 1,500 people are homeless, half ill from exposure anil hunger; many of them too weak to give much assistance either to themselves or otlifers. The scene in the flood-swept district is one of desolation. WILL BLISS RESIGN? A ‘Mooted Oih’hUoii That Is Agitating tho Domiciling. A Washington special says: Tho story that Secretary Bliss will resign shortly is on the rounds again. The story has been going in different forms since Mr. Bliss entered the cabinet, arising front tlie fact that tho Now York man was strenuously urged to take the place and did it under pro¬ test and with an intimation that when the administration got its work well in hand lie might lay down the reins. In official circles there is no belief that Mr. Bliss has any idea of resigning. DELYANNIS ASKED TO RESIGN. Kin# Uuorgo Entrusts tho Opposition With Formation of New Cabinet. A cable dispatch from Athens says: The king summoned M. Delyannis, the premier, Thursday morning and called upon him to tender hia resignation. llis majesty subsequenty entrusted to tlicf opposition leaders the task of forming a new cabinet. Following is tho official list of the new cabinet ministers: Premier and Minister of Marine— M. Ralli. Minister of War—M. Tsamavos. Minister of Finance—M. Simopoulo. Minister of Education—Carapanos. Minister of tho Interior—-M. Leot- taoki. EMBEZZLED STATE’S FUNDS. Ex-Treasurer of Nfibranka to Bo Arrested for Stealing # 300 , 000 . Sheriff McDonald left Omaha, Neb., Wednesday for Lincoln to arrest J. 8. Bartley, ex-state treasurer, on a charge of embezzing $210,000. Bartley, it is charged, drew a war¬ rant for $180,000 to reimburse the sinking fund, so that the warrant to the Chemical National bank, of New York, and lutev took the paper paying the interest, . bringing up tho, sum of $300,000. Yy THROUGH GEORGIA. Governor Atkinson and Judge Tur ner will visit all of the states within the next few weeks for the purpose of securing all the information possiblo upon the serious question of managing convicts and every camp of importance will be inspected for this reason. The officers elected at the recent meeting of the State Medical association at Macon are as follows: President, J. B. Morgan, Augusta, Ga.; first vice-president, L. G. Hardeman, Har- nion y Grove; second vice-president, J. L. Hiers, Savannah; censor, Charles Hicks, Dublin. The report of the committee appointed to revise tho constitution and by-laws was adopted. The book commission, recently ap¬ pointed by Governor Atkinson by au¬ thority of an act passed at the last session of the legislature, will proba¬ bly hold its first meeting in Macon about the middle of next month. Tho result of the meeting will be awaited with much interest, as a commission has in charge a work that will affect the entire public school system of Georgia. The third annual convention of the Georgia division of the Travelers’ Protective Association of America met in Atlanta, elected its officers, ad¬ journed, banqueted and the delegates left for their homes Sunday morning. Mr. E. E. Smith, ex-chairman of the state railroad committee and chairman of the national railroad committee,was elected president. Mr. D. P. O’Con¬ nor, of Augusta, holds the important office of slate secretary and treasurer, and Augusta captures the state head¬ quarters. Savannah gets the next an¬ nual convention of the slate division. The Epworth League convention ad¬ journed at Atlanta last Sunday night, after a highly successful and enter¬ taining meeting. The following offi¬ cers were elected for the ensuing year: Pres dent, Mr. Leon Smith, of La- Grange; first vice president, J, IS. Me-, Ghee, of Valdosta; second vice-presi¬ dent, Mis,s Daisy Davis, of Atlanta’; third vice president, Mrs. J. B. Bus¬ sey, Cuthbert; secretary, J. A. Stimu¬ li an, Macon; treasurer, Mrs. T. P. Graham, Rome, editor, Mrs. J. Lester ., Dillon, Augustus The next meeting ’ place will be Macon, but ti e exact date has not yet been fixed. The great council of Georgia Im¬ proved Order of Red Men will assem¬ ble in Atlanta May 11th and hold their pow-wows. The business of the coun¬ cil will be rushed and the Red Men will leave Atlanta on the night of the 11th and go to Nashville to see the big exposition and to participate in (he celebration of St. Tamina’s day liy tlie Red Men of Tennessee. Preparations are being made and by the Atlanta Red Men to receive entertain the dele¬ gates and visitors to the great council and tlie men of tlie whoop and scalp will he royally cared for during their Atlanta war dances. It is very probable that the general assembly will he asked to enact a law changing the present system of justice court procedure, at least so far as it applies to Fulton county. There is at present a strong movement w orking in opposition to the old custom and it looks as if a war to the death is to be waged on the old system. It is charged that the practices of some'of the courts in the county are irregular, question¬ able and at variance with a good sys¬ tem of government. It is claimed that there has grown up a belief that tho courts aro being used for wrongful and improper purposes and that they are fast becoming sources of evil instead of temples of justico. The Northeastern railroad will soon he placed upon the market to bo sold to the highest bidder. Governor At¬ kinson will bo the niltiqneer ami tho property will be sold under the special act of the legislature which was pass¬ ed last fall. When the legislature took action in the matter the governor was authorized to make the sale within six months from that time, the limit expiring on June 24th. The minimum price named in tho bill was $287,000, which is nt tho rate of about $7,000 per mile, the road being a little more than forty miles in length. Upon tho sale of the Northeastern hinges a num¬ ber of very Important things which havo been contemplated for quite awhile. The road, when sold, will probably bo bought in for the purpose of extending it and developing tho country through which the proposed line has been surveyed. Secretary of State, Allen D. Candler, has received a letter which brings to light a gigantic land fraud perpertrated 100 years ago. There was a forged grant of 00,000 acres in Laurens county and heirs of claimants to some of this land under the forged title aro trying to sell it in New York. John Davis, a lawyor of New York, writes the secretary of stato that persons there are trying to sell a client of his 5,000 acres in Laurens county on a title derived from a grant to Geflrge Nayler on January 5th, 1795. Tlie grant purports to havo been made to Georgo Nayler by the governor of Georgia, and the endorsement states that it is recorded in hook I, page 625. Secretary Candler turned to book I, page 625 and found a grant of 250 acres by George the Third, through James Habersham, president of tho council, to Isaac Ford. The date is net 1795 but 1774, 20 years before, when Georgia had no governor. Tho alleged grant,to Nayler is thejatfore a palpable forgery. *0^