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The Morgan Monitor
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A SONG FOR OLD FRIENDS.
The earth to (ho songs ot the poet
Resounds in a deathless iuue,
Though hearts be upon or below it—
Though the winter be here or the June.
Of the numberless songs that aro ringing,
Let the cadence of one song flow
Tor the Aprils fled and the living and
dead—
The friends of the Long Ago.
'' -V u
Sing the charms of tho winsome Molly,
And the graces ot Madeline fair—
The heart of Sue that was jolly,
And Jean with-her glory of hair.
Sing of John and of Jim and the fellows,
Confessing we did not know
That so much of pun gold tho bosoms
could hold
Ot tho friends of the L-mg Ago.
The red oE the Aprillg blooming,
By the whispers ot Springtime fanned,
Cannot shine where the gloom ts ontomb-
ing— .
But they’ll know and will understand!
They will know of one heart that is yearn¬
ing
For tho old years’ genuine glow,
And their dust, long still, it will tromble
and thrill—
The friends of the I.tng Ago.
—AVill T. II lie, in Nashville American.
A MODEST HERO.
HE officers of
Her Majesty’s
Twenty fourth
and Eighty-
fourth Infant¬
ry were sit¬
ting around
their mess-ta¬
ble in Castle¬
town, the cap¬
y ital of the Isle
7/ SU?-' of Man, one
evening more
than thirty
that is, all of them years ago—
then, that except one; but
minded was only Jones. Nobody
Jones; even his peculiarities
had begun to bo an old subject for
“chaffing,” .and, indeed, he had paid
each small attention to their “chaf¬
fing” that they had come to find it
little pleasure, and, after some weeks
of discomfort, Lieutenant Jones had
been allowed to choose his own pleas¬
ures without much interference,
i Theso were not oxtravagant. A
uvorite book, a long walk in all kinds
of weather, and a sail when tho weath¬
er was favorable. Ho would not
drink—he said it hurt his health; he
would not shoot—he said it hurt his
feeiiugs; lie would not gamble—he
said it hurt his conscience; and he
did not care to flirt or visit the belles
of the capital — he said it hurt his af¬
fections. Oueo Captain de Beuzy
lispingly wondered whether it was
possiblo to “hurt his honor,” and
Jones calmly answered that "it was
not possible for Captain De Reuzy to
do so.”
Indeed, .Jones, constantly violated
all these gentlemen’s ideas of proper
behavior, but for some reason or other,
no one brought tiim to account for it.
It was easier to shrug their shoulders
and call b in “queer,” or say, “it was
only Jones,” or even to quietly assert
his cowardice.
Ono evening Colonel Underwood
was discussing a hunting party forjthe
next day. Jones walked into the
room, and was immediately accosted:
“Something new, lieutenant. I
find there are plenty of hare on the
islnnd, and we mean to give puss a run
to-morrow. I have hoard you aro a
good rider; will you join ns?”
"You must excuse me, colonel;
such a thing is neither in the way of
duty, nor my pleasure.”
“You forgot the honor tho colonel
does you,” said young Ensign Powell.
"I thank the colonel for his courtesy,
but I cun see no goo l reason for ac¬
cepting it. I am sure my horse will
not approve of it; and 1 am sure the
hare will not like it; uu.l I am not, a
good rider. Therefore I should not
enjoy it.”
“You need not be afraid,” said tho
colonel, rather sneeringlv; "the
country is quite open, and these low
Manx walls aro easily taken.”
“Excuse me, colonel, I am afraid.
If I should be hurt it would oause
my mother and sisters great alarm
and anxiety. I am very much afraid
of doing this.” /
What was to be done with a man so
obtuse regarding conventionalities,
who had boldly asserted his coward
ice? The colonel turned away, half
contemptuously, and Ensign Powell
took .Tones’ place.
Tho morning proved to be a very
bad one, with the prospect of a rising
storm ; and, as tho party gathered in
the barrack yard, Jones said earnestly
to his colonel:
“I am afraid, sir, you will meet
with a severe storm.”
“1 think so, lieutenant; but we
promised to dine ntGw.ynuo Hall, and
wo shall get that far, at any rate.”
So they rode ratbor gloomily away
in tho rain. .Tones attended to the
military duties assigned him, and
then, about noon, walked seaward. It
was hard work by this time to keep
his footing on the narrow quay ; but,
amid the blinding spray and mist lie
saw quite a crowd of men going rapid¬
ly toward the great shelving Scarlet
Rocks, a mile beyond the town. He
stopped an old sailor and asked:
"Is anything wrong?"
"A little steamer, sir, off tho Calf
of Man. She is driving this way, an’
indeed I four sho will be onta rooks
afore ta-night.”
Jones stood still a moment, and
then followed the crowd as fust as the
storm would let him. When he joined
them they were gathered on tho sum¬
mit of a huge cliff, watching tho
doomed cralt. She was now in sight,
and it was evident that her seamen
had almost lost all control of her.
Sho must, ere long, be flung by the
waves upon the jagged rocks toward
which she was driving. In the lulls of
the wind, not only the booming of tty»
minute guns, but also the shouts of the
imperiled crew, could be heard.
“What can be done?” said Jones to
an old man, whose face betrayed the
strongest emotion.
“Nothing, sir, I am afraid. If she’d
managed to rount ta rooks, she would
have gone to pieces on ta sand, and
there are plenty of men who would
have risket life to save lifo. But how
are we to roach them from this
hight?”
“How far are we above water?”
“This rock goes down like a wall
forty fathoms, sir.”
“What depth of water at the foot?"
“Thirty feet or more.”
“Good. Have you plenty of light,
strong rope?”
"Muoh as you want, sir. But lot
me tell you, sir, you can’t live three
minutes down there; ta first wave will
dash you on to ta rocks, and dash you
to pieces. Plenty of us would put yon
down, sir, but you can’t swim if you
do get down.”
“Do you know, old man, what surf
swimming is? I have divod through
the surf at Nukuheva.”
“God bless you, Bir. I thought no
white man could do the same.”
While this conversation was going
on Jones was divesting himself of all
superfluous clothing and cutting out
the sleeves of his pea jacket with his
pocket knife. This done, ho passed
some light strong rope through them.
The men watched him with eager in¬
terest, and, seeing their inquisitive
looks, he said :
“The thick sleeves will prevent tho
ropo “Ay, cutting my body.”
ay, sir. I see now what you
are doing.”
"Now, men, I have only one re¬
quest ; give me plenty of rope as fast
as I draw on you. When I get on
board, you know how to make a cradle,
I suppose?”
“Ay, ay, sir. But how aro you
going to reach the water?”
“1 am going to plunge down. I havo
dived from the mainyard of tho Ajax
before this. It was as high a leap.”
He passed a double coil of tte ropo
around his waist, examined it thor¬
oughly to see that there was plenty to
start with, and saying: “Now, friends,
stand out of the way, and let me have
a clear start,” he raised his bare head
one moment toward heaven, and taking
a short run, leaped, as if from tho
springboard of a plunge bath.
Such an anxious crowd as followed
that leap. Great numbers, in spite of
the dangerous wind, lay flat on their
breasts and watched him. He struck
the water at least twenty-five feet be¬
yond the cliff, and disappeared in its
dark, foamy depth. When he rose to
the surface he saw just before him a
gigantic wave, but he had time to
breathe, and before it reached him he
dived below its center. It broke in
passionate fury upon tho rocks, but
Jones was far boyond it. A mighty
cheer from tho men on shore reached
him, and ho now begau in good earn¬
est to put his Pacific experience into
practice.
Drawing continually on the men for
more deafening rope—which they paid out with
cheers—he met wave after
wave in tho same manuer,diving under
them like an otter, and getting nearer
tho wreck with every wave, really ad¬
vancing, however, more below the
water than above it.
Suddenly the despairing men on
board heard a clear, hopeful voice:
“Help at hand, Captain! Throw mo
a buoy.”
And in another minute or two Jones
was on deck, and the cheers of tho
little steamer were echoed by the
cheers of tho crowd on land. There
was not a moment to bo lost; sho was
breaking up fast; but it took but a
few moments to fasten a cablo to the
small rope and draw it on board, and
then a second cable,and the communi¬
cation was completo.
“There is a lady hero, sir,” said the
captain, “we must rig a chair for her ;
she can rover walk that dangerous
rope. ”
“But we have not a moment to waste,
or wo may be all lost. Is she very
heavy ?”
“A slight little thing; half a child,
sir.”
“Bring her here.”
“This was no timo for ceremony ;
without a word, save a few sentences
of direction and encouragement, he
took her under his left arm, and,
steadying himself by the upper cable,
walked on the lower with liis burden
safely to shore. Tho crew rapidly fol¬
lowed, for in such moments of ex~
tremity the soul masters tbe body and
all things boeorao possible.
There was plenty of help waiting for
tho half-dead seamen nud the lady, her
father, and tho captain wero put in
tho carriage of Braddon and driven
rapidly to his hospitable hall. Jones,
amid tlio confusion, disappeared; ho
had picked up an oil-skin coat and
cap. and when everyone turned to
thank their deliverer ho was gone. No
one knew him; the sailors said they
believed him to be “ono of the mili¬
tary gents by his rigging,” but the in
dividuatity of the hero had troubled
no one until tho danger was over. In
an hour tho steamer was driven on
the rocks, and wont to pieces; and, it
being now quite dark, everyone went
home.
The next day the hunting party re¬
turned from Gwynne Hall, the storm
having compelled them to stop all
night, and at dinner that evening the
wreok and tho horo of it were tho
theme of everyone’s conversation.
"Such a plucky fellow,’’ said Ensign
Powell. “I wonder who ho was?
Gwynno says he was a stranger, per¬
haps one of the crowd staying at tho
Abbey. ”
"Perhaps,” says Captain Alarks “it
was Jones.”
“Oh, Jones would be too afraid of
his mother.”
Jones made a little satirical bow and
said, pleasantly: “Perhaps it was
Powell,” at which Powell laughed and
said, “Not if he knew it.”
POPULATION AND DB.AINAGH.
MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 14. 1897.
In a week the event had been pretty
well exhausted, especially as the*o
was to be a great dinner and ball at
Braddon, and all the officers had invi¬
tations. The ball had a peculiar in¬
terest, ior the young lady who had
been saved from the wreok would be
present, and rumors of her riches and
beauty had been rife for several days.
It was said the little steamer was her
father’s privato yacht, and that ho
was a man of rank and influence.
Jones said he should not go to the
dinner, a3 either he or Saville must
remain for evening drill, and that
Saville loved a good dinner, while he
cared very little about it. Saville
could return in lime to let him ride
over about ten o’clock and see the
dancing. Saville rather wondered
why Jones did not take his place all
the evening, and felt half injured at
his default. But Jones had a curiosity
about the girl he had saved. To tell
tho truth, he was nearer in love than
he had ever been with a woman, and
ho wished in calm blood to see if she
was as beantifni as his fancy had
painted her during those few minutes
that he had held her high above tho
waves.
As he passed, the squire remembered
that he had not been to dinner, and
stoppod to say a few courteous words,
and introduced his companion.
“Aliss Conyers.”
“Lieutenant Jones.”
But no sooner did Miss Conyers
hear Lieutenant Jones’s voioo than she
gave a joyful cry, and clapping her
bunds together, said :
“I have found him! Papa! papal
I have found himl”
Never was there snob an interrup¬
tion to a ball. The company gathered
in excited groups, and papa knew the
lieutenant’s voice, and tho captain
kuow it, and poor Jones, unwilling
enough, had to acknowledge the deed
and bo made a hero of.
It was wonderful, after this night,
what a change took plnco in Jones’s
quiet way. His books and boat seemed
to have lost their charm, and as for his
walks, they were all in one direction,
and ended at Braddon Hall. In about
a month Miss Conyers went away, and
then Jones began to haunt the post¬
man, and to get pretty little letters,
which always seemed to take a groat
deal of answering.
Before tho end of tho winter ho had
an invitation to Conyers to spend a
month and a furlough being granted,
ho started oil in groat glee for Kent.
Jones never returned to the Eighty-
fourth. The month’s furlough was in¬
definitely lengthened—in fact, ho sold
out, and entered upon a diplomatic ca¬
reer, under the care of Sir Thomas
Conyers.
Eighteen "months after the wreok
Colonel Underwood read aloud at the
mess a description of tho marriage of
Thomas Jones, of Milford Havon, to
Mary, only child and heiress of Sir
Thomas Conyers, of Conyers Castle,
Kent. And a paragraph below stated
that “tho Hon. Thomas Jones, with
his bride, had gono to Vienna on dip¬
lomatic service of great ^importance. ”
“Just his luck,” said Powell.
“Just bis pluck,” said Underwood;
“and for ray part, when I come across
ono of those fellows again that are
afraid of hurting their mothers and
sisters, nud not afraid to say so, I
shall treat him as a hero just waiting
his opportunity. Here is tho Honor¬
able Thomas Jones and his lovely
bride. Wo are going to India, gen¬
tlemen, next month, and I am sorry
tlio Eighty-fourth has lost Lieutenant
Jones, for I havo no clonbt whatever
ho would have stormed n fort as ho
boarded the wreck.
The President and His .Salary.
“I shall not attempt to answer the
question, llow mneli of his salary doeR
the President expend? But those who
think he oan live at his ease after his
retirement on tho income from his
savings should take account of several
things: First, that tho net iucomo
from safe investments does not exceed
four per cent, ; second, that tho
amount invested in a home yields no
income, and third, that ho must, have
a private secretary, for his mail will
be so large that he cannot deal with it
himself. A son of one of our most
eminent Presidents, who had lost all
his means, told me that it was pathetio
to see his father, who was in ill health,
laboring beyond his strength to an¬
swer the letters that came to him.
Bat if tlia President retains a fair
measure of hoaith he will take care of
If he was ever capable of
dirocting the affairs of the Nation ho
bo trusted to administer his own
business; and if he has won tho es¬
of his fellow citizens, and has
valued it, he will not barter it
riches. To any vocation from
a man may be suitably called
tho Presidency ho may suitably re¬
turn.”—Ex-Prosidont Harrison, in
Home Journal.
Long Ago.
Tho Count Saint Germain, who ap¬
in Paris in the reign of Louis
XV., and pretended to bo possessed of
elixir of lifo, had a valet who was
as great as liis master in tho
of lying. Once, when tho count
describing at a dinner party a cir¬
which occurred at the court
“his friend King Biehard I. of
he appoalod to his servant
the confirmation of his story, who,
the greatest composure, replied :
forget, sir, 1 have only been 500
in your servico.” “True,” said
master musingly, “it was a little
your time.”—Household Words.
Many Brothers of One Name.
When John Zimmerer at Towson,
County, ALL, brought John
as a witness to prove his
and right to naturalization
be had to explain to the Jndge
he had three brothers named
three brothers named George,
three sisters named Alargaret.
SIXTEEN PASSENGERS ON THE
LEONA LOSE THEIR LIVES.
WERE PENNED UP BELOW DECKS.
Tlio Fire Was Subdued In Time to Save
Others—City of Augusta to
the Rescue.
The Mallory line steamer Leona,
which left her pier at New York on
Saturday, bound for Galveston, took
fire at sea, put back and arrived in
port Sunday night with Sixteen corpses
on board.
The dead were thirteen steerage
passengers and three members of the
ere w, who succumbed to a terrible fire
which occurred off the Delaware coast
Sunday morning.
Details of the horrible story are
meagre.
Those who are dead were penned up
below decks, and although frantic ef¬
forts were made by the officers of the
vessel to save them the fire had gained
such terrible headway before the dan¬
ger was discovered that all escape was
cut off.
The steamer carried in her cargo
many bales of cotton. It is not cer¬
tain bow the fire originated, but when
it was discovered, it burst forth with
such fury that it was impossible to
reach the steerage. Even the steer¬
age mindful passengers of tlio danger, apparently were un¬
else the smoko
and flames had not reached them. The
saloon passengers were first aroused,
and in such a manner as to occasion
little alarm.
When it became apparent that the
fire had cut off the steerage passengers
the captain and his men poured great
quantities of water down the ventila¬
tor and heroic attempts were made for
the escape of those penned up.
In this way eight, of the steerage
passengers made their escape.
The dead steerage passengers are:
Bridget Sullivan, B. Caliane, Miss
Guzza, Mrs. G. C. Guzza, Miss Han¬
nah Solomonson, Mrs. Valiricks, Miss
Yaliricks, Sophie Schwartz, Marie
Wade, two unknown children, and
two unidentified.
Of the crew: Alfred Hardy, waiter,
forty-one years old, N#w York; Alfred
Lang, waiter, nineteen years old, New
York; H. Hartmann, butcher, twenty-
seven years old, New York.
Captain Wilder was in command,
with First Mate Wallace and Second
Mate Sweeny assisting. The chief en¬
gineer was below with three assistants
and a crew of about seventy-five men,
including firemen and deck hands.
After a hard fight, tho flames were
finally subdued.
The surviving passengers were trans¬
ferred to the steamer City of Augusta,
of the Savannah line, which came
upon the scene in answer to signals of
distress.
ROBINSON STEPS DOWN.
Agricultural Department Has a Now Sta¬
tistician from Nevada.
Henry A. Bobinson, of Michigan, of
the agricultural department, tendered
his resignation to Assistant Secretary
Wilson Saturday.
Air. Bobinson is a free silver man,
and says he deemed it only right that
the administration should have the
office at its disposal. The office pays
$3,000 per year, and is protected by
the civil service law.
John Hyde, of Nebraska, now ed¬
itor of the year book of the agricul¬
tural department, has been appointed
to succeed Air. Bobinson.
DISASTROUS RESULT OF FIRE.
Horses Run Into a Railroad Trestle and
Wreck a Freight Train.
At Manning, S. C., Friday night,
lire destroyed Bradham’s ginnery, the
county dispensary with its entire stock,
Shradham & Thomas’ big stables and
two big warehouses, one full of ve¬
hicles.
Two horses from the staliff; ran
down the railroad and, becoming fas¬
tened in a trestle, wrecked the night
freight, pitching the engine in Black
river and wrecking three box cars. No
lives were lost.
Want Six Millions Indemnity.
A dispatch to The Alorning PoBt
(London) from Constantinople says it
is possiblo that Turkey will demand a
war indemnity of over £0,000,000.
CAPT. STRONG ASSASSINATED.
Was Known as a Famous Fighter In
Kentucky.
Captain AVilliam Strong, aged 72
years, was shot and instantly killed
near his homo in Breathitt county, Ky.,
Sunday morning by unknown persons.
He bad left home to go to a neigh¬
bor’s and when not more than a mile
away was fired upon from ambush,
seven bullets entering liis body.
A large number of his friends aro
searching tho mountains for the assas¬
sins, and if caught they will be sum¬
marily dealt with.
Captain Strong was one of the most
famous fighters in eastern Kentucky.
He was a captain of the federal army,
serving four years under Woolford.
TOBACCO HOUSE BURNS.
It. Content. Valued at *70,000, Partly
Injured.
At a late hour Saturday night
immense tobacco prize house of
& Fleming, at Wilson, N. C., six sto¬
ries high, was discovered to be on
in the top story.
The fire had gained too much head¬
way for the fire companies to
guish it. The building cost $15,000,
was full of tobacco valued at $70,000,
»artly covered by insurance.
BIMETALLIC COMMISSION SAILS.
They Go To Confer With Heads of Euro-
Government*.
Ex-Vice President Adlai Stevenson,
General J. C. Paine and United Ststes
Senator Edw ard O. Wolcott, who were
recently appointed by President Mc¬
Kinley as a commission to confer with
the heads of European governments
relative to the holding of an interna¬
tional bimetallic conference, sailed
from New York Saturday for Havre on
the French liner La Touraine.
Before their departure Mr. Steven-
son said that the commission would go
direct to Paris and, after conferring
with the French government, would
visit London, Berlin, Vienna and tho
capitals of other European govern¬
ments.
He expected that much good would
be accomplished by the commission
and did not anticipate any trouble
in inducing the governments to ap¬
point delegates to the contemplated
conference.
WILL ABANDON CRETE.
Report That Greeks Will Gradually With¬
draw From (lie Island.
Advices of Sunday from Athens,
says: “Tho government has informed
the ministers of the powers verbally
that following the recall from Creto of
Colonel Yassos, twenty-five officers
and two companies of sappers, the
gradual withdrawal of troops from the
island of Crete will take place.
After a brief delay the powers will
offer to mediate between Greece and
Turkey.-. The powers will insist, how¬
ever, that Greece shall confide her in¬
terests unreservedly to their hands.”
The-correspondent of tho Associated
Press at Alliens learns on the best au¬
thority that Greece has made a written
application to the powers, through
their representatives at Athens, for
mediation.
All the representatives have prom¬
ised in their replies to use their best
offices, except tho German minister,
who has merely acknowledged the re¬
ceipt of the note from the cabinet.
Tbe porte is inclined to support the
powers, with a view to the facilitation
of negotiations, but it declines to con¬
sent to an armistice, on the ground
that this would enable Greece to reor¬
ganize her forces.
GOVERNOR TAYLOR TO RESIGN.
Tennessee’s Chief Executive Will Return
to Lecture Platform.
A report is going the rounds that
Governor Tayior will resign October
1st and again go on the lecture plat¬
form. Under the constitution Hon.
John Thompson, speaker of the sen¬
ate, will succeed to the governorship.
It is known that Governor Taylor
has contemplated this action and the
fact that he entered into the lycenm
convention with Hon. Henry Watter-
son, General John B. Gordon and
others some weeks ago seem to indi¬
cate that ho will return to the lecture
platform, where ho mado ten or fifteen
thousand dollars per annum, while his
salary as governor is only four thous¬
and.
While tho governor refuses to talk
for publication concerning the reports,
it is known that he has so made up his
mind, and has told several gentleman
that the reports were correct.
MINERS SIGN NEW CONTRACT,
A HeiluclIon of Two and One- Half Cents a
Ton Is Accepted.
Representatives of the .3,000 coal
miners working for tlio Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad Company at Pratt
mines and West Pratt, met with Gen¬
eral Alanager G. R. McCormack, ofthe
company, in Birmingham, Ala., and
signed a contract for mining to begin
on Alay 10, 1807, and to extend to
July 1, 1898.
The minimum price to bo paid for
coal mining will be 37$ cents per ton,
which is 2J cents below what is being
paid The now.
sliding scale was adopted again
with No. 1 foundry pig iron, $7.50 per
ton, as a basis, and for every 50 cents
advance of 2j cents per ton on coal.
The company agrees to abolish the
sub-contract system and regulate other
complaints in mining objected to by
miners. A representative from each
mine at the places named signed the
contract.
The minors working for tho same
company at Blocton, Adger, Johns and
Sumter have refused to accept any re¬
duction and will not consider any new
contract until the expiration of the
present one.
THREE MEN DROWN.
A Tug and Schooner Collide AVIth Fatal
Result*.
The tug Paoll, Captain Harding,
brought news to Vineyard Haven,
Alass., Sunday afternoon of her collis¬
ion with and sinking of tlio schooner
Annie E. Rudolph, of Camden, N. J.,
off the Nauset lights early Sunday
morning and the loss of her skipper,
Captain Gardiner, Alato Snell and a
Norwegian seaman called Bob.
An Invitation To Gage.
Secretary Gage has accepted an in¬
vitation to attend a dinner at the Union
League club at Philadelphia on May
14, as the guest of Christopher S. Pat¬
terson.
POISON IN SPRING WATER.
Five People Head and as Many More In
Hying Condition.
A special to Tho Louisville Post
from Pikevillo, Ky., says some flond
put poison of some kind in Hall Creek
spring, several miles above Louisville,
and as a result five persons died and
live more are dying from drinking wa¬
ter from the spring.
The victims suffered terribly, vomit¬
ing and being seized with most violent
convulsions.
DISCUSSES CHARACTERISTICS OF
FRUIT AND MEAT EATERS.
A DISSERTATION ON GARDENING.
lie Tells How Couple Lived Before tho
Introduction of Flesh ns an
Article of Food.
And now the potato bugs have come
again—come early—ahead of time, and
I have to wage war on them. There is
always something to prey on everything
that is good. Eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty and just so it is the
price of a good garden. The weeds
outgrow everything you plant and
nothing hurts them. Briers and this¬
tles and crabgrnss and dogfennel and
ehiekweed grow right along just like
little sins and bad habits. It. takes
constant work and constant watching
to keep down weeds and original sin.
Hoe, every one that thirsteth! I bought
a dime's worth of paris green and dis¬
solved half a tablespoonful in half a
bucket of water and sprinkled the
beetles carefully last evening and this
morning they are dead. But this does
not end it., for they have just begun to
come. It is not much trouble anil will
save tbe potatoes, I tried it last year.
Be sure and mark the paper that eon-
tains the powder “poison” and put. it
where tho grandchildren can’t get it.
Put the mixture on with an old whisk
broom and ivbat is left in the bucket
hang it. up high somewhere till wanted
again.
We had a fruit growers’ convention
hero last week and learned a good deal
about exterminating theso pestiferous
things, both visible and invisible. It
is a right good education to hear such
experienced men talk as Mr. Miller,
Colonel Nesbitt and Mr. Starnes. I
wish the convention would meet here
once a month. My respect for horti¬
culture and horticulturists is very
great. The Berckmans and Mr.Bumph
and Dr. Jones have done a world of
good in advancing the growth of fruit
trees tho people. and diffusing knowledge among
Air. ATiHer, too, though
already more recently domiciled among us, is
a household word in this part
of Georgia.
The growing of fruit is no doubt the
oldest occupation known to man. It
most happily combines physical labor
with scientific study and the reward is
useful, gratifying and refining. There
is no doubt but fruit and vegetables
wore the only food of mankind for
1,500 years after man was created. I
alluded to this in a little talk I deliv¬
ered to the convention, and some of
questioned my Bible-reading friends have since
me about it and asked for
that my authority. Abel’s They reminded me
sacrifice was from liis
flocks and was more acceptable than
Cain’s offering of tlio fruits of tho
ground. It does not follow, however,
that the flocks were for food. Only a
few of the animals were fit for any¬
thing and theso few, such as domestic
cattle, were required for beasts of bur¬
den and tilling tlio soil and furnish¬
ing clothing.
“And the Lord made coats of skins
and clothed them.”
“Before tho fall, and while Adam
and Eve lived in the garden of Eden,
the fruit < f the trees and tlio herbs
therein were their only food. After
they were driven from the garden the
Lord said:
“Thou shalt eat the herb of the
field. In tbe sweat of thy face shalt
thou cat bread. ’ And God sent him
forth from the garden to till the
ground whence he was taken.”
There is nothing about eating flesh
up to that time. Before Eve was crea-
ted the Lord said to Adam:
“1 have given you every herb and
the fruit of every tree and to you if,
shull be for meat.”
Ho, gave Adam dominion over the
animals and Adam named them, but
nowhere isit intimated that they xvero
for meat.
Now let, us pass down the genera¬
tions until after tlio flood, “And God
said to Noah, The fear of you shall be
upon every beast of tlio earth and
every fowl of the air and the flslies of
sea; and every moving thing that
livetli shall be meat for you. Even as
tho green herb liaye I given you all
tilings. But flesh, with the lifo there¬
of, which is the blood thereof, Khali ye
not eat.”
When Aloses came bo limited the
kind of nnimals that might bo used
for food. Swine were especially pro¬
hibited and to this day no Jew will
make a hog of himself by eating hog.
Flesh eating has never boon consider¬
ed refining or spiritualizing in its in¬
fluences upon our nature, and yet
there is no doubt that the laboring
man needs animal food. Solomon says,
“Go not among the riotous eaters of
flesh. ” The children of Israel chided
Aloses for bringing them away from
the flesh pots of Egypt, and so tho
Lord sent them quails to eat for sup¬
per and inaima for breakfast. Even
some of our teeth are called canines,
from “canis,” a dog, because we tear
flesh with them like a dog. As a man
grows old he cares less for flesh, but
liis appetite for fruit never leaves him.
But if ho dident lose his liking for
flesh he couldn’t cat much of it 110 -
now, for about that time be loses his
teeth and Providence admonishes him
that it is time to prepare for that spir¬
itual food that cometli from above.
There is a food of the gods called am¬
brosia, but it is made of fruit and not
of flesh. Cannibals love flesh—raw
flesh, bloody tlesli, and even eat hu¬
man flesh, and they are next to dogs
in the scale of creation. No, there is
no refinement in flesh eating, and yet
T. P.
I 'am free to confess that I am not vet
old enough or saint enough to refuse
to dine on turkey or fried chicken or
quail on toast. Goldsmith’s . hermit
was said: dreadfully heartbroken when lip
“No flocks that roam the valley freo
To slaughter I condemn;
Taught by that power that pities mo,
I learn to pity them.”
That was all right until he found bis
Angelina and then T reckon he killed a
chicken for breakfast. But it is a fact
that most kind-hearted people willcon¬
fess, that if they had to kill their own
sheep and bullocks and chickens for
food they would do ■ without Jle.slr for a
long time. It takes a hard heart and
a strong man to butcher a lamb, and
yet it has to be done. I don’t mean a
hardened heart, but a heart
that will not , , faint at
sight of pain or blood. My mother
would not kill a chicken', but she would,
dress it and cook it without objection.
I have wrung their heads off, but I
wouldn’t do it now for my own sake.
As we grow older wo grow kinder and
have more respect for the lifo that God
gave to all his creatures. That is, except
•snakes. I never hesitate about kill¬
ing snakes. Uncle Sam killed a little
one in the lower corner of the garden
last week and my wife hasent been in
those parts since, for she still insists
that were there is one there are two.
But I don’t blame woman for her
antipathy to snakes. They gave old
mother Eve a great trouble and it has
survived tool! her daughters. “In sor¬
row thou shalt bring forth children
and thy desire shall be to thy husband
and lie shall rule over thee.” What
an awful curse! especially the last.
It was hard, very hard, on Eve; for
the command not to eat of the tree of
knowledge was not given to her, but
to Adam before Eve was created.
Maybe Adam did not tell her in an
impressive manner.
Nevertheless the curse is 111)011 her
and will remain so until she joins the
angels, I reckon.—B ill Amp in Atlan¬
ta Constitution.
TO AID INI* .. FAMISHED,
A Monster Mass Meeting Held r.t Chicago.
Ttil inn go .Speaks.
Four thousand people attended a
mass meeting at Chicago Monday
night in f lic interest of the famine suf¬
ferers in India.
llev. T. DoAVitt Tul mage, who has
been travelling through the country
for several weeks and 1ms already
raised $100,000 and 500,000 bushels of
corn, was the chief speaker at the
meeting. Tho vast audience testified
its willingness to help by reaching
deep into its pockets.
Ten thousand dollars in rash and
twenty-five carloads of corn are the es¬
timated substantial fruits of the eve¬
ning.
NORFOLK RANK FAILURE.
The AsK«*ta Ovorbnlaucsi 11 1 Liabilities
«»<! iho Untile Wl 11 Pay Out.
Business circles at Norfolk, Va.,
woro startled Tuesday by tho news of
tho assignment of N. Burniss, Son &
Co., ono of tho most prominent and
widely known banking firms in the
south.
A deed was filed transferring to
Judge Theodore 8. Garnett, assignee,
all properties held by Captain Burma
individually or as a firm to secure
creditors.
The liabilities amount to between
$340,000 and $350,000, and the assets
are stated by tlio firm to be $400,000
available, with nominal assets much
more.
ATKINSON GUEST OF KLLEIiBE.
Georgia’s Governor Inspecting Soulli Caro-
llna’s Convict System.
Governor Atkinson was in Columbia,
S. C., Friday as the guest of Gover¬
nor Ellerbe.
Georgia’s chief executive spent sev¬
eral houris li inspecting the peniten¬
tiary, tho hosiery factory within its
walls and inquiring into the details of
its management.
During tho day tho two governors
took a train for Camden, Kershaw
county, near whore the big state farms
are situated, on a toni' of inspection.
It is supposed that Governor Atkin¬
son is contemplating recommending a
change in the Georgia convict system.
ATLANTA MARKETS,
CORRECTED WEEKLY,
Gl’OCCM’ieS.
Boasted cofToo $12.00 per 100 lb eases.
Green coffee clioico 14; fair 13; prime
11%. Sugar standard granulated 4%o;
New Orleans white 4joC; do yellow 4%o.
Hyrup, New Orleans open kettle 25(5)400;
mixed 12'.j'(a)‘J0<‘; sugar house 26<5)85c.
Tens, black 30(5)65c; gro m 20(5) 50e.
lMco, head 6j£c; choice 5%@0a; Balt, dah
ry sacks 1.25; do hbls. 2.25; toe cream
'Me; common (15o. Cheese, full cream 12 l tca>
19c. Matches, 05s 60c; Crackers, 200s 1.80@1.75; 300s
2.75. Kudu, boxes 6c. soda 5Jqc;
cream 7c; gingorsnaps 7c. Candy, common
stick 5Kc; fancy 12ffi>13c. Oysters, V. W.
1.65: L. VV. 1.20.
Flour, Grain un<l Meal
Flour, first patent, $0.00; second s< patent,
$5.50; straight, $4.80; fancy, , $4.70; extra
r a nily, $4.60. Corn, white, 47c; mixed, 45c.
Oats, white 33c; mixed 31c; Texas rustproof
40c. Rye, Georgia 75c. Hay No. 1 timothy
large bales 95c; small bales 90c; No. 2 timo¬
thy small bales 85c. Meal, plain 45c; bolted
12c. Wheat bra n, large sacks 83c; small
shfI n 85c. Shorts 95c. Stock meal 90c.
Cotton seed meal 95c per 100 lbs; hulls $5.00
per ton. Peas 90(S)$1.*25 per bushel, accord¬
ing to kind and quality. Grits $2.50.
9(S>9%* Country Produce.
Fg's ic; Butter, western creamery,
20(5/2 fancy Tennessee 12)^(5)150; choice
12%c; Georgia 12(5) 14c. Live poultry, turkeys
6(®7c: hens 203p221£c; spring chickens
25(5)350; ducks, puddle, 18(5)20c; Peking
22V£(a>25c. Irish potatoes, Burbank *1.50(5)
1.75 pir 1)1)1; 60®65c d>u.; Tennessee 30(5)
40c per bu. Swe'et potatoes, 50(5)60c per bu.
Honey, strained 7(g>8c; in the comb 9<S>10c.
Onions, new crop, $1.60@$1.75 per bu.:
5.00(5)6.00 per bbl.
Provisions,
Clear ribs boxed sides 5% ; clear sides
r>f 9 'e; Ice-cured bellies 7>£c. Sugar-cured
hams ll(®12j^c; California 7J^o; breakfast
bacon I0@l1c. Lard, best quality sec¬
ond quality 5; compound 4,Vc.
Potto II.
.Market closed nominal, middling 7 3-16.