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The Morgan Monitor
VOL.II. NO. 19 SI PER YEAR,
THE BEST FOR THE COUNTRY.
Let’s hope for the best for the country, whatever the powers may be;
The birds still will sing in the blossoms—the rivers dash on to the sea;
! The storm feel the flush of the rainbow, however the thunders may fall;
; The same sun Is shining in splendor—the same God is over us all!
Let’s hope for the best for the country; there is joy for the night and tho day;
■ The ringing of bells In the cities and dells—sweet-singing our sorrows away,
J There arc stars for the gloom of the midnight, however tho shadows may fall;
. Tho same skies are bendiDg above us—the same God is over us all 1
IieGs hope for the best for the country; here’s spring with her banners unfurled—
Thebroath of the showering blossoms that are blown by tho winds o’er tho world;
The seed that climbs high to tho harvest, and musical voices that call;
Tho world’s in the light of the glory of the God that is over us all!
—Atlanta Constitution,
m GMTLEl’S DISAPPOINTMENT.
BY ANNA SHEILD9.
RS. GRANTLEY
was holding a long,
confidential conver¬
sation with her in-
# Dinsmore, timato friend, and Mrs. the
two faces looking
into each other
were full of cha-
grin.
“You remember
what a beautiful
child Amy was?" Mrs. Grantley said,
“the prettiest of all we saw, and we
were—how long, making a selection?”
“Dear me! I cannot recollect,”
said Mrs. Dinsmore. “We visited
every orphan asylum and ‘home’ we
heard of, I know. Yes, Amy was a
perfect “And little beauty.”
I was so careful in my direc¬
tion at every school where I have
placed her that she should be watched
and prevented from getting freckled
or spoiling her complexion in any
way. She has been most faithfully
cared for, and now, my dear, when I
come home, expecting to find a lovely
girl to introduce to society, I am
fairly stunned! Amy is positively
ugly 1”
“It is too dreadful!” said Mr3.
Dinsmore, with a sympathetic shud¬
der.
“Of course, I must do my duty by
her,” continued Mrs. Grantley, plain¬
tively, “after giving her the best edu¬
cation money could procure and all
the tastes and accomplishments of a
lady. I cannot turn the child away
for what is really no fault of her own.
Of course sho would be a beauty if
she could 1 But it is a bitter disap-
pointment!”
And it was. Mrs. Grantley was a
woman of society, bound r.p in the re-
quirements of fashion, lady manager
for a dozen or so of popular chari-
ties, patroness for many benevolent
schemes, keeping open house for balls,
parties, private theatricals and festivi-
ties of all kinds all winter, and lead-
ing society in a great measure at
Saratoga, Newport and some other re-
sort of fashion all summer. A child-
less widow, with a largo income, very
handsome, highly educated and re-
fined, she was a very queen in her own
circle for many years. Then, feeling
that her own beauty was waning, she
resolved to give a new charm to her
house, a new interest to her life, by
adopting a child.
The first, the most essential, reqnis-
ite in her eyes was beauty; the next
intellect, and with these she also re-
quired a child who was absolutely
friendless—one who would have no
nnpleasant relations claiming ac-
quaintanee at somo future date, how-
ever remote. It was not easy to meet
all these eon litions, but tho child was
found at last; she was very fair, with
a bloom like a peach blossom upon
each delicate cheek; she had fair, soft
hair that curled naturally, blue eyes
full of sweetness and delicate features;
her feet and hands were of aristocratic
proportions, and her figure slender
and graceful. A street waif, she knew
of no home beyond the asylum where
Mrs. Grantley found her, and had no
relative of whom sho had ever heard,
There was no difficulty about the mat-
ter, and Mrs. Grantley adopted the
child, calling her Amy Grantley, and
delighting to exhibit her in the dain-
tiest of costumes to her admiring
friends.
! When Amy was twelve years old,
having proved herself an apt scholar
with a good nursery governess, Mrs.
jGrantley decided to go to Europe,
She left her adopted child in i good
school, and corresponded with her
regularly, seeing with delight that tho
child’s mind and heart expanded and
showed cultivation and sweet, maiden-
ly teauty as her education advanced,
For seven years Amy remained at
school, a conscientious student, de-
lighting in music, and showing always
a gentle, lovable disposition.
In her heart there wag one shrine
where, next her God, wns ouo object
of absoluto worship—Mrs. Grantley.
She had never been deceived regard-
ing her own position, knowing that to
her adopted mother she owed every
pleasure and every advantage she en-
joyed. Every action of her life was
influenced by her gratitude. Loving
study for its own sake, sho threw fresh
energy into overy aeeomnlishment to
please her friend, her kind adopted
mother; she made music an absorbing
pursuit, because Mrs. Grantley loved
music, and her teachers assured her
her strong, pure voice must give pleas-
ure to any true lover of singing.
Year after year the strong hope of
her life was that Mrs. Grantley would
soon return, nnd she might in some
way repay what she owed her. Tho
day the summons came to her to meet
Mrs. Grantley in what was to be her
Vgdth Ji-tnrohome, the child was almost ill
excitement.
it Tidueatgd dui,. by a lady who considered
a check any vanity in her
pupils, Am; •’d never given much
thought to i ial appearance.
When scarlet fever robbed her of her
curls and left a straight mass of pale,
flaxen hair in their place, she thought
only of tho temporary baldness as an
inconvenience, and the care of the
straight hair less troublesome than the
curls. Sho did not heed the fact that
the same fever deprived her of her ex¬
quisite complexion, and left a sallow,
colorless one in its place.
Her second teeth were uneven, and
not very white, though sound nnd
useful. She was graceful in figure,
easy in movement, refined in voice
and tone, a lady in every impulse and
action, but Mrs. Grantley’s first ex-
claimation was:
“Can this be Amy? How ugly yon
have grown?”
The words were ungracious, the t one
still more so, and the sensitive, loving
hoart felt as if a heavy hand had
crushed all sweetness out of life. The
cold kiss, the few forced words of wel¬
come, added to her pain, and, lifting
streaming eyes, she faltered:
“I am so sorry! I will try to be
good 1” like a grieved child, harshly
reproved for a fault. Sho did try to
atone for that involutary crime, the
loss of her childish beauty, and while
Mrs. Grantley mourned over it, spoke
often of her bitter disappointment,
and vainly tried by every art of dress
to recall the lost charms, she yet felt
creeping into her heart day by day a
love and respect for this homely girl
she had never felt for the beautiful
child.
Sometimes sho sat aud thought of
Amy with a wondering admiration, as
of some strange specimen of humanity
that had never before crossed her path,
“Sho is like a flower,” she thought,
“that gives out its sweetest fragrance
when it is crushed. I have let her see
too plainly how she disappoints me,
and she is humbly conscious of my
chagrin, and yet she is so tenderly
loving, so anxious to please me, that I
believe I shall end by loving her as
well as if she were beautiful. Leonard
Gresham says she is the loveliest wo-
man in society this winter! And yet
she is positively homely!”
And Leonard Gresham was not alone
in his opinion. To Mrs. Grantley’s
amazement, Amy was the centre of a
circle in society that looked beyond
beauty to find attraction. A circle
that hung entranced upon the pure,
highly cultivated voico that was ul-
ways at the service of friends; a circle
that found a charm in conversation
that could touch higher topics than
dress or the merits of the latest prima
donna. Mrs. Grantley made dross a
fine nTt, and Amy’s toilettes were per-
fection, while the intellect visible m
her large blue eyes and low, broad
brow, tho sweetnees of her smile,
atoned in a great measure fordhe want
of beauty in face and complexion,
But her greatest triumph was not in
society. No praise there, no love of-
fered her by the many who sought her,
made her heart thrill as did Mrs.
Grantley’s gradual admissions of her
power to win love,
Leonard Gresham, a man of whose
love any woman might be proud,
sought her for his wife, and when she
gently refused his suit she was far
prouder of the adopted mother’s pleas-
ure than of the offer of one of society’s
most eligible partis,
“My darling, I cannot spare you
yet!” were words that echoed gladly
in her heart long after they were
spoken, with an emphasis that proved
they camo from the heart,
There were times when Amy won-
dered if tho pain tha rejection of
Leonard Gresham left in her heart
was not caused by a deeper love than
she had realized she felt when she gave
it, but the girl’s whole mind was bent
upon proving her gratitude to her
adopted mother.
It was a revelation to Mrs, Grantley
to find in so many ways her comfort
and happiness increased after sho once
allowed Amy to manifest her love. It
was a long time before this was accom-
plished, for tho girl’s sensitive nature
shrank from forcing her affection
where it was not needed. But, little
by little, tho humble offers of service
dictated by intense gratitude became
daily found duties, and the loving heart soon
new avenues of devotion. Well-
trained servants took every menial
care, but no servant could mako Mrs.
Grantley’s life overflow with new hup-
piness as Amy’s devotion soon did.
It seemed as if her heart would break
with joy tho first time Mrs. Grantley
drew her to her heart, kissed her lips
and said, fervently:
“My darling 1”
No lover ever gave his beloved a
moment of purer, more rapturous de¬
light than Amy experienced in that
hour. For two years after life flowed
on in a pleasant stream. Society be-
came secondary to home. "Dear
mamma" became a familiar title upon
Amy’s lips, and no mother was ever
more fondly loved than Mrs. Grantley
by her “darling.”
Then sorrow came in ghastly shape.
Mrs, Grantley was attacked by a can-
POPULATION AND DHAINAGEI.
MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1891
eerous affection that, despite skill and
care, .became an incurable disease,
loathsome to the sufferer and to the
nurse. No hired care could ever have
been as tender as that given by Amy’s
love; no paid nurse could have so
fought fatigue or diBgust, All day, all
night, the most watchful care enfolded
the patient. Every amusement her
state could bear—music, reading,
chatting, proved were given with such love as
heart, them au offering from the
and when the suffering was too
great to bear any recreation, Amy was
devoted in nursing and soothing the
sufferer. Her touch, firm and yet
gentle, never added to the pain, nnd
while she was slender, she had the
strength of perfect health. Mrs.
Grantley insisted upon haviDg a
trained nurse to assist Amy, but it was
to her adopted daughter she looked for
tho many attentions that alleviate suf¬
fering.
It was Amy who read precious words
of comfort from the Holy Writ, too
long neglected in a life of frivolity and
fashion. It was Amy who lifted her
voice in simple childlike words of
prayer daily and nightly.
Not many hours before the last
struggle life makes, Mrs. Grantley
was with Mrs. Dinsmore, and, lifting
her hand feebly to meet Amy’s, she
whispered:
“How little I knew the treasure I
was taking to my home and heart
when I tried to find a pretty child to
introduce to society 1 God hasj been
very good to mo in giving me such
love and care in my hours of pain.”
And Amy know then that she was no
longer in Mrs. Grantley’s eyes what
she had often heard herself called—■
“Airs. Grantley’s groat disappoint¬
ment.”
It was not until two years after the
death of her benefactress that once
more Leonard Gresham asked her to
be his wife, and she gladly consented.
“I loved you,” she told him, frank¬
ly, “when I sent you from me, but I
had given my life to my adopted
mother, and it was my one aim and
duty to repay her for what she had
given me, even although I knew that
my loss of beauty was one of the bit¬
terest disappointments of her heart.”
“It is not always beauty that wins
love,” Leonard said, tenderly.
“No, for without it I have won her
heart and yours.”—New York Ledger.
Dog That Can Test Metals.
No bank teller, crook or expert in
Iowa has a truer instinct for real,
genuine cart-wheel silver dollars
than has a Bock Rapids dog called
Silver Tip. Silver Tip is tan colored
and weighs about ten pounds. All of
his two years of life he has been the
property of Landlord Barber, of the
Lyon Hotel, at Book Rapids, but it is
only within the last year that his
power of immediate insight into the
nature of metals has become known to
his owner, says tho Chicago Times-
Herald.
The way Tip manifesls his power, as
his owner puts its, is as follows: If
one takes a pile of coins the size of an
American dollar—say, a trade dollar,
a Mexican dollar, a five-frauo piece
and somo counterfeit dollars—and put
one genuine dollar piece in the centre
of the pile. Tip will rummage around
among them for an instant aud then
snatch the good coin and proceed to
take oaro of it in approved dog fashion
to an accompaniment of growls and
bites. Or if one rolls a coin along the
floor Tip can tell every time whether
it is good stuff to be chased.
Tip never makes a mistake, and
there isn’t a bit of doubt about his
powers. He has been tested by
Chicago business men and by commit -
tees of Iowa scientists. He gets no
human help in his work. The good
coin is not marked in any peculiar
way for his benefit, nor is it scented.
Any one can use his own coin in the
experiment. Nor does Tip’s powers
depend on signs from his master. The
latter loaves the room without de¬
tracting from the dog’s ability in tho
least.
Mr. Barber has refused all offers for
the purchaso of Tip.
The Lead Worker. l
It is said that lead working disfig-
the human body more than any
other kind of work.
In this industry it is inevitable that,
sooner or later, the workers mnst suc¬
cumb to lead-poisoning, nnd there
would appear to be no part of the body
that the poisonous fumes and floating
particles which permeate the atmos¬
phere of the workshops do not affect.
The complexion takes on a ghastly,
corpse-like pallor, the gums turn blue,
tbo teeth decay rapidly and fall out,
the eyelids are hideously inflamed. A
scratch or an abrasion of the skin be¬
comes an unhenlable sore.
Later on, when nerves and muscles
become affected by the poison in the
blood, the eyeballs ' are drawn into
oblique positions, ami take on a dim
and bleared appearance. The joints,
especially the knee and the wrist, be¬
come is serai-paralyzed, and the whole
form gradually bent aud contortod.
—New York Journal.
The Irony ol' Fate.
Edward AVbymper, the noted moun¬
tain climber, who is well known on
this coast, has carried the alpenstock
for more than thirty years, and has
scaled the Chimborazo and the Mut-
terhorn, besides hundreds of lesser
peaks, and, although he has had num¬
berless thrilling adventures, including
a fall of 600 feet, he never fractured a
hmb or sustained any serious injury.
He did, however, tumble down a flight
of stairs in England recently aud
fractured his collar bone.—Ban Fran¬
cisco Chronicle.
Oldest University. —
The oldest university in the world
i El Azhar, meaning “the splendid,”
situated at Cairo. It is the greatest
Mohammedan school, and has clear
ecqxds dating 976,
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HE ASSISTS IN CELEBRATING A
BIRTHDAY I*ARTY.
HRS ft GOOD TIME WITH CHILDREN.
P ilosoplior Tires of the Sport and Writes
Of Dedication of Gen. Grant's Tomb
And Also of General Lee.
Another birthday in the family.
There are ten children and nineteen
grand-children aud somehow everyone
of them has a birthday about once a
year.
My wife remembers thorn all just
like she knows her alphabet, but the
alphabet keeps lengthening out as the
years roll on and she says her memory
is weakening.
There is but one orphan in all the
lot—a little black-eyed girl who lives
with us, and so it was agreed that she
should have a birthday party, for she
was just eight years old today. It was
a mighty big thing for a little girl and
will last her as long as she lives, I
reckon, and slio will never have a hap¬
pier one. She goes to school and all
her little friends had to be invited.
Forty little notes bad to bo written
and forty little envelopes had to be
backed and put in the postoffice and
this afternoon at 4 o’clock forty little
boys and girls camo up the winding
way through the grove and in course
of time were playing on the lawn
as happy and as noisy as a flock of
black bird’s. They played everything
except baseball and football and other
college curriculums and wound up
with “many, many stars are in the
sky.” I broke into the ring myself
in that game and kissed a pretty little
girl and got kissed by another. Age
lias its privilges and these are of them.
By and by the piano announced that
the party was prepared, the feast was
ready and so all these little folks were
soon circled around the long table and
the side tables, where the ice cream
and the strawberries and the cake and
the flowers were nestled in luxuriant
abundance. Eight little red wax can¬
dles were burning in the center and
eight vases filled with flowers signifi¬
cant of hope that the little girl might
have a light to her path and her way
be strewn with roses.
My observation was that all these
children behaved well and have good
training at home. Of course the boys
are always hungrier than the girls, and
it takes more to do them. It is said
that one time the queen of Sheba had
40 boys and girls all dressed alike aud
brought in before King Solomon to see
if his great, wisdom could pick out the
boys from the girls. And so the king
called for bowls of water and towels
and had them passed around for each
one to wash their hands in. The gilds
carefully turned up their cuffs, but the
boys just sloshed their hands in the
water regardless of spattering their
sleeves. But I would have sent iee
cream around in saucers, for I know
that the girls would be satisfied with
two, while the boys, as a general rule,
could bo persuaded to take one more.
I don’t blame them. Good strawberry
ice cream surely is a good thing and
harmless and three moderate saucers
have never hurt me yet. My wife will
have another birthday in two weeks
and I shall insist on more ice cream.
Well, we have had an evolution at
our house that has astonished the na¬
tives, We have five acres of grove in
front of our house, and it has long
been inclosed with 700 feet of fence
along the two streets that bound tiro
sid?s of our domicile. That fence was
getting old, and had been often repair¬
ed, but recently the city fathers passed
the cow ordinance for good, and forth¬
with in a day I had removed every
vestige of that fence. It looks very
odd; in fact, it looks like South Caro¬
lina. My wife does not know whether
she likes it or not; says the place looks
undressed, and she feels like taking
cold, but it will save me about, $50,
and that is a big thing with ns now.
So let the evolution go on. It is a sign
of progress. Since we have lived here
hogs have been abolished; next the sa¬
loons, and last, the cows have been
ruled off the streets, and the boys, af¬
ter 9 o’clock at night. We are going
to have a clean, nice, orderly town. If
I was rich I would have a fountain
down in the grove and a dipper chain¬
ed to it and some iron seats in the
shade not far away, where tho tliirs-
ty and the weary might have rest.
These little attentions don’t cost much,
and make both place and people at-
tractive. The little things make up 1
the sum of our life’s happiness. The
grand pageant that celebrated the ded¬
ication of General Grant’s new tomb
was over in a day, but his generosity
to Lee at Appomatox, and his kind¬
ness to the south after the war, eclipsed
all his victories. Grant had sense
enough to know that his triumph was
nothing to boast of, considering that
he had three soldiers to our one, and
lost near a million men, and now has
another million on the pension rolls.
AVhy not even old Jack Falstaff would
have bragged over such a victory. But
T liked General Grant. He. was a
soutnern man, and bis wife a southern
woman. He owned slaves up to the
very hire, day of freedom, and lived off their
James so says his biographer, General |
Grant AVilson, and Mrs. Grant
said in 8t. Augustine a few years j
ago that her sympathies had
to be smothered all through
the war for her husband’s sake. I
have said it before, and I say it again,
that most all professional soldiers will
offer their swords to the highest bid¬
der. They have a preference, of
course, but patriotism is not as big a
thing as personal success. If a man
could see behind the scenes he would
find many notable instances of this.
Then, what a lie is history; vfhat a
hypocrite is fame. Dr. Johnson said
that * ‘patriotism is the last refuge of
a scoundrel.” He meant pretended
patriotism, of course. Milton ex¬
pressed it better when he said that
“brave men and worthy patriots are
dear to God and famous to all ages.”
But a soldier of fortune can fight any¬
where for a cause that is respectable.
General Loring told me that he could
have fought against the khedive just
as and honorably as for him if the position
the pay had been satisfactory.
But I didn’t mean to ruminate on
this line. I have great respect for
General Grant’s memory, but when I
read all the gush and parade over those
ceremonies, and almost hoard the
* 0 ut8 ° f
ed f to think . of our side and the truth
of history. I wanted to make that
monument complete by chiseling on its
capstone some figures—only a few' fig¬
ures that strangers who visit it might
lead and wonder, aud inquire where do
those people live who fought that fight.
Verily, “Saul has slain his thousands,
but David his ten thousands.”
And now I will cool off on some ice
cream and go back and play with the
children. — Bin, Arc in Atlanta Con¬
stitution.
MARRIED lUP IN TREES.
Vlad Steer Drives Estranged Lovers and a
Clergyman Together.
Here is a romance that the cracker
barrel gossipers are telling without
swearing to its truth. Near Mont¬
rose, Penn., lived Miss Emma Swan¬
zer, and her accepted suitor, Charle.s
Bangs. One night not long ago they
went to a neighboring village to at¬
tend the wedding of one of their
friends. At the festivities that took
place Emma became jealous of Bang’s
attentions to another woman, and re¬
fused to speak to him. So when it
became time to go home they both
felt relieved when the Bev. Mr. Hunt¬
er, the village preacher, joined them.
The party were walking along the
highway at a rapid pace, the young
persons sulking, while the minister’s
face bore a wearied and hapless ex¬
pression.
In a field adjoining the road was a
Texas steer, the property of Mr. Stone
and a recent acquisition to his place.
The steer is ferocious, and no lover of
the human race. At the further end
of the field there is a set of bars, and
the trio reached the opposite side of
the exit ignorant of the impending
danger a second or so ahead of the
steer.
Bangs gave a cry of alarm and ran
for some trees t few feet ahead, close¬
ly followed by Miss Swanzer and the
preacher. Bangs shinned up one,
and Miss Swanzer proved her worth
by climbing another, assisted by the
preacher, who gave her a lift before
he sought safety in stilt another tree.
The minister had hardly cleared the
ground when the steer rushed up, bel¬
lowing. The infuriated animal ran
around and around the trees kicking.
A half hour passed thus, but no re¬
lief came. The steer still stood guard.
Thinking this an excellent time to re-
concile the couple, the minister be-
gan. His work was done, however,
almost before he had begun, The
couple desired to be married then and
there, thinking they were about to
meet a tragic death. And the minis¬
ter married them.
The lovers could just join hands
from where they clung, but they got a
grip and held while Mr. Hunter read
the marriage ceremony from his place
in a third tree'. The Texas steer bel¬
lowed the wedding march.
When the good man had concluded,
Farmer Stone and his two boys drove
up. An explanation was hastily
spoken, the bride and bridegroom and
minister were transferred to the ve¬
hicle, and the joyful party drove to the
home of Mr. Bangs.—New York Press.
A Queer Ostrich Egg Story.
An oBtrich egg with a romantic his¬
tory is the curiosity owned by Miss
Mvrie Lopez of South 40th street. The
egg was presented to Miss Lopez by
Joseph Pulsiver, to whom it was sent
by his brother, who Is superintendent
of an ostrich farm in South Africa.
Accompanying the egg was the fol¬
lowing letter from the sender: “I
send the ostrich egg, and know your
longing for peculiar curiosities will
receive a boom when you learn its his-
tory ' had » matl 08 !"?
naroed <' arr - who was noted for bis
skill in breeding and raising ostriches.
110 * la< * raiae< ttle Mother o e egg
I send, and she had been one of his
greatest pets. This was thought
strange, as she was known to be a
savage bird, and would allow no one
but Carr to go near her. Breeding
time came, and the ostrich was soon
watching over a setting of eggs. Our
farm hatches artificially, the eggs be-
Ing removed from the mother and
placed In an incubator, Carr was the
one selected to secure the eggs on
account of his great command over
the bird, He entered the pen and
began picking up the eggs. In an In¬
stant the treacherous pet became fur¬
ious and started to strike him with
her powerful feet. AVe had to shoot
the mothor before we could get her
away, and then found we were too
late, Carr’s skull having been battered
in In the struggle all the eggs were
broken, with the one exception, which
I send to you.”—Philadelphia Record.
The Los Angeles Herald says that
“a trust has beon formed for the pur¬
pose of making powner and dynamite
go up.” That is absurd: powder and
dynamite cannot be trusted.
T. P. GREEN, MANAGER.
FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE
TAKES RESOLUTION IN HAND.
FACTS WILL NOW BE REYEALED.
Republican Members of Committee Want
to Handle the Matter Cautiously,
Owing to Its Seriousness.
A Washington special says: The
committee on foreign relations did not
conclude its consideration of the Cu¬
ban resolution Wednesday.
The sub eommittee was unable to go
through all the reports that have been
received from Consul General Lee aud
other consuls and officers in Cuba.
It is possible that Senator Morgan
will consent to have the resolution
now pending in the senate to go over
without prejudice until the committee
can make its report. I
It is intended that all the reports of
consuls shall bo sent to the senate,
but the senate committee will select
certain documents bearing on tlie con¬
dition of affairs in tho island and on
these make its recommendations and
report.
This report will generalize the situ¬
ation without making public such
matters as the state department offi¬
cials and the committee think would
be prejudicial to persons on the
island.
One member of tlie committee, who
had listened to the summary of the re¬
ports in tho department, said that a
very serious condition existed in
Cuba, and that the inquiry now being
made by the committee would result
in bringing to light tho exact facts.
Some strictures wore passed upon
members of the foriign relations com-
mittee, who about, a year ago voted for
a resolution similar to the one pend-
ing, and who now ask for time to con-
sider the matter with more delibera-
tion.
Speaking of this criticism, Chairman
Davis, of tho foreign relations com¬
mittee, said:
“At the time the former resolution
was reported, Gomez was at the head
of a large army in the eastern end of
the island, and Maceo was at the head
of another army in the west. They
could march from one end of Cuba to
the other. Campos had been defeated
in a great battle and was shut up with¬
in solid fortifications and confined to
a small territory around Havana.
“Everyone knew that a state of war
existed. That was a year ago. Great
changes havo taken place. Maceo is
dead, and his army dispersed. Gomez
is at the head of but a small force, cer¬
tainly it is no such army as was re¬
ported then. There are conflicting
statements as to the strength of the
insurgents and the control which Spain
has over the island. It is right and
proper that the facts that have since
reached the stp.tn department should |
be laid before the senate aud the com¬
mittee so that intelligont action can bo
had.”
Mr. Davis says the sympathy with
the struggling Cubans is as great as
ever.
The republicans of tho committee
do not fuel justified in pushing the
administration until it has had time
to act. It has been pointed out that
only two months have elapsed since
tho administration came into power,
and it has scarcely had time to take
up and consider so important a matter
as that which has been presented.
The pending resolution, unlike a
joint resolution, will require the execu¬
tive either to approve or disapprove
of it.
This being the case, the republican
senators feel that they should act in
concert with the president. It is not
believed that in case the senate foreign
relations committee find, upon a
thorough examination of the reports
in the state department that the reso¬
lution is justified, that any effort will
be made to prevent its passage.
Members of the committee on for¬
eign relations feel that tho question
which confronts tho senate is serious,
aud any action that is taken by the
senate will have great weight with the
administration. In ease the resolution
should pass both senate and house,
there is no reason to believe it would
not be approved, aud that the United
States government would thereafter
conduct itself on the lines which it
lays down,
CAPTAIN RICE GOES TO JAPAN.
He Will He United States Military Attache
at Tokio.
Colonel Buck, of Georgia, the newly
appointed minister to Japan, called at
wai - department at AVasbington
AVednesday and secured from Beorerary
Alger the promise that Captain Edmund
Rice, of the fifth infantry, now station¬
e ,j a t, Fort McPherson, near Atlanta,
should be detailed as United Btates
military attache at the United States
legation at Tokio, Japan, An or¬
der was made ont later in the day.
This was tho post formerly held by
Lieutenant O’Brien, also of the fifth
infantry, during the war between
China and Japan.
VICTIMS OF POISONED WATER.
Three More Person* Die From Drinking;
From the Spring.
Three more persons died Wednesday
morning from drinking poisoned spring
water at Pikeville, Tenn. They are:
Edward Minnix, Miss Dorcas Alberts
and John Tompkins.
Tompkins’ wife and two children are
fatally ill from the same cause. As yet
chemists have failed to learn what
poison is being used, and there is no
clew to the identity of the guilty par¬
ties.
WATSON ASKED 10K MISTRIAL.
A Lively Tilt During Argument In tlie
Cooper Trial at LaGrange.
The argument in the Cooper murder
case, at l.aGrange, Ga., Wednesday,
was the occasion of a lively tilt be¬
tween Judge Lofigley of the prosecu¬ counsel
tion and Tom Watson, leading
for the defense.
Judge Longley told the jury that
“When Watson asked for ten or fif¬
teen minutes’ time on Tuesday asthe
state closed, that he might save the
court soveral hours if allowed that
time for consultation, you saw Cooper
and his counsel go upstairs. It was
up there where the defendant’s state¬
ment was arranged, and he was drilled
as to what to say.”
Watson sprang to his feet like a
flash, dramatically exclaiming:
“You’ve got no right to say that,
and I ask the court, to stop you and re¬
buke you and order a mistrial. In
point of fact, what you state is not the
truth. ”
Judge Longley retracted what he
said, begged Colonel Watson’s pardon,
and peace reigned again, but not for a
great while. As Watson sat down he
exclaimed:
“Hang my client if you can legally,
but not illegally.”
In n very few minutes afterwards
Judge Longley said:
“Gentlemen of the jury, I want to
say right here to you—and as for that
matter, before these ladies, too—this
kissing business has been going on for
a long time, and it’s going to continue,
and if people have to be killed for it,
you had as well commence with Tom
Watson.”
MOltGAN’S CUBAN RESOLUTION.
Senator S«ys No Agreement n» to Refer-
ence lias lieen Reached.
In the senate Wednesday the sugar
investigation of 1894 was recalled by
the introduction of a resolution by Mr.
Allen reciting tho circumstances of
the investigation.
Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, made a
statement relalivo to his resolution on
Cuba. Ho said the committee on for-
eign relations, at a meeting during tho
day, had considered the question of
referring the resolution to the commit¬
tee and had not reached an agreement.
A resolution by Mr. Butler, popu¬
list, of North Carolina, asking the pres¬
ident for information relative to the
sale of the Union Pacific railroad, was
presented and went over. The senate
then took up the calendar and passed
a number of bills.
NEGRO GIRLS LYNCHED.
They Wore Servant# In tho Unfortunate
Kelley Household.
As a sequel to the recent poisoning
cases in tho Kelley family at Jeff, Ala.,
the bodies of Moilie Smith and Mandy
Franks, negro girl servants in tho
Kelley household, were found swing¬
ing by ropes from trees on the side of
the road leading from Jeff, Ala., to
Huntsville, Wednesday morning.
The lynching was done at an early
hour by a mob of about twenty men.
The girls were suspected of poisoning
the family of Joshua Kelley at Jeff'.
Moilie Smith was arrested while
making her way across the Tennessee
line, and Mandy Trunks was captured
at home. The latter is said to liai'8
made a confession.
COAL COMBINE ANNOUNCED.
N«w Company Will liny the Output of
Jellic:o Mines.
At the conclusion of the four days’
session of tho coal operators of the
Jclieo district., at Jellico ; Wednesday,
one of tho largest coal combines over
known in Tennessee was announced.
Tlie Southern Jellico Coal company,
along with several other companies, go
out of business and a new company
with Russell A. Clapp, president, was
organized.
The purpose of tho Jellico Coal com-
pany, limited, will be to lmy the en¬
tire output of all the mines in the Jel¬
lico district.
Next week the miners and operators
will hold a conference at which time
a scale will be agreed upon for tho next
year.
MUMI'HREY HILLS TURNED DOWN
Illinois Legislature Stops Gigantic Street
Railway Steal.
franchises The Humphrey bills, extending the
of all street railways in Illi¬
nois fifty years, and vesting the con¬
trol of existing lines and new fran¬
chises in the boards of commissioners
instead of the aldermen of the various
cities, were killed in the Illinois legis¬
lature AVednesday.
SUGAR MEN TO HE TRIED.
Officers of Kcfning Company Refused To
Answer Questions.
President Hiivomeyor and Secretary
Wearies,of the American Sugar Refining
Company, will he tried at Washington
on tho 17th of this month for refusing
to answer questions put by the senate
sugar trust investigating committee.
Appointment of Yancott Confirmed.
The senate in executive session Wed¬
nesday confirmed Cornelius A ancott
to bo postmaster at New York.
Forsyth a Major General.
President McKinley has nominated
Brigadier General James AY. Forsyth
to be major general.
MINERS KILLED BY GAS.
Two Unfortunates are Found Dead at. Bot¬
tom of the Shaft-
The bodies of Adam Snyder and
Barney Rider were found at the bottom
of tho Eincore mine on the Rnub farm
near Oxford, N. J., early AVednesday
morning.
Tho men had been employ id by pros¬
pectors and went to work the evening
before. At 10 o’clock p. m. they wero
hoisted from the mine and after taking
their lunch returned to their work.
That was the last seen of them alive.