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The Morgan Monitor
VOL. II. NO. 20. SI PER YEAR.
“CLEAR THE WAYI»
Men of thought! be up and stirring
Night and day;
Sow the seed, withdraw the curtain,
Clear the way.
Men of action, aid aud cheer theta
As ye may!
There’s a fount about to stream,
There’s a light about to beam,
There’s a warmth about to glow,
There’s a (lower about to blow;
There’s a midnight blacknoss changing
Into gray;
Men of thought and men of action,
Clear tho way.
Once ihe welcome light has broken,
Who shall say
What tho uuimaginod glories
Of the day?
What ihe evil that shall perish
In its ray?
Aid the dawning, tongue and pen;
Aid it, hopes of honest men;
Aid it, paper—aid it, type— !
Aid it, for the hour is ripe;
And our earnest must not slacken
Into play;
Men of thought and men of action,
k Clear tho way.
Lo! a cloud’s about to vanish.
From the day,
And a brazen wrong to crumble
Into clay.
Lo! the Eight’s about to conquer—
Clear tlie way!
■With the Eight shall many more
Enter smiling at tho door;
With the giant Wrong shall fall
Many others, great and small,
That lor ages long has'e held us
For their prey;
Hen of thought and mon of aelion,
Clear tha way!
—Charles Maekay,
'■A.
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fS. GOOD WEIGHT."
N HOPE DATUXO.
Jr ■ Jgggk ILIAN SNELL,
v llfjll? % teacher first grado of the in
■xtr'» §j=* building No. 3,
-g; jjg|g| ,t~ gl : (§M public schools of
- ' Windsor, turned
<l aickl y Horn tho
k * ftckl50ftr< l where
^ on she had been
wren swinging drawing a pert
“Who on a spray of clover.
firm is crying?” she asked, in a
sweet, voice.
“It is little Agnes Gregory, ” volun-
leered a dimple-faced boy who sat
uear ;
Miss Snell crossed the room and
bent over tho child.
“Agues, what is it? Can you not
Zell mo all about it ?”
Sobs were Agnes’s only reply. Miss
Snell kissed her gently, then went
back to her work. When it was fia-
is’ned and tho children all jirovided
with work, she lifted the Sobbing
child and tenderly carried her to
the teacher’s desk. Here, somewhat
zemoved from the curious little ones,
Lilian sot about soothing her pupil.
Agues was a pretty fair faced child
of six. She had sunny blue eyes and
her hair, a golden ohestnut, curled
about her face and neck. Her cloth-
ing was clean, but well worn, and Lil-
inn noticed the gaping hole in the tiny
shoo as welt as the thinness of the
faded dress. Noticed it with a sym-
pathetio thrill of tho heart that
throbbed with something of the divine
spirit of motherhood toward the chil-
dren in her care.
Agnes’s story was soon told. Her
widowed mother hud had no breakfast
for her little ones.
“I don’t care so much about my-
self, Miss Snell,” the child went on
artlessly, “ ’cause I’m mamma’s brave
girl, but when little brother Royce
wakes up he will be so hungry, and he
is only three years. He does not know
he mustn’t cry.”
A little more questioning and Lilian
learned that someone owed Mrs. Greg-
ory lor sewing, also that she hoped to
have dinner ready when Agnes came
home.
Lilian looked out into the driving
storm knew Mrs. of a Gregory, January forenoon. She
and her heart
ached for the pale young mother.
Miss Snell was quick of thought and
action. Ten minutes later Agnes was
in the warm cloak room feasting on the
dainty lunch Mrs. Snell had prepared
for her daughter’s midday meal. The
young teacher had written a note and
a list of articles of food and was at tho
door of the room across the hall.
The teacher, Florence Fox, listened
sympathetically to Lilian’s story and
to the suggestion that her own twelve-
year-old brother be called from tho
sixth grade to deliver the note,
“Of course Fred can go,” she cried,
“And Lilian, you say you have written
to Mr. Davis the circumstances and
asked him for good weight. I’ll send
an order to cousin Hugh for a half
cord of wood, tell him the story, and
ask him likewise for good weight.”
A faint crimson finshstainedLilian’s
cheek, but she warmly thanked her
friend and hnrriod back to her work,
Mark Davis was a stout, genial-faced
man of thirty-eight. Ho tat in his
office, his morning’s work at hfs books
just finished. Through the open door
he could see brisk clerks stepping
about in the grocery store from which
the office opened. There was an odor
of spices, coffee, fruit and fish in the
air.
"Eight hundred dollars more profit
this year than last,” tho grocer said to
himself. “Somehow it don’t do a man
any good to pile up money, when he
has no one to spend it on.”
Here his reverie was cut short by
tho entrance of u clerk, who handed
him an envelope, saying, “A boy just
brought this.”
Two papers dropped from the en-
velope as he tore it open. The first
was a list, including a loaf of bread,
potatoes, crackers, dried beef and a
&>w other articles. He glanced over
metr4 opened the other. It was Lil-
home, a l Ulv
Bear Mr. Davis— A little girl in my room
Is crying because she has had no breakfast,
Her name is .Agnes Gregory, and her mother
is a poor widow who lives on the third floor
of 4 Hampton street. Please send tho things
ordered at once. I wil! come in after sehool
g?vo good weigh?' Truly’ vo^™’ ^
“liiuAu Snei/l.”
Mr. Davis had been a friend of the
Snell family for years, and it was not
the first time that Lilian had appealed
to him for holp in her charitable work.
So that was not the reason that so
strange a look came into his honest
brown eyes.
“Agnes Gregory and lives on Hamp¬
ton street,” he murmured. “It surely
must be Margaret’s child. Good God I
Margaret and her child wanting
bread!”
A half hour later Mark Davis was
floor making his way up the stairs to the
upon which Mrs. Gregory’s rooms
were situated. His knock at the first
deor was answered by a red-faced
woman.
“Mis’ Gregory it is you air want¬
in’?” she asked sharply. “And it’s no
bad news you air after bringin’ her, I
hope.”
“I wanted to deliver some groceries
a friend has sent her.”
The clouded faoe cleared as if by
magio. “Heaven’s bliesin’ be on your
head then 1 Mis’ Gregory, she’s gone
out, but I’ve her key here, and will
unlock the door. That’s her by, and
aswate child he is.”
Mark looked eagerly at the pink and
while faco of the boy. He held out a
great golden orange, and little Royce
spang for it, his childish laugh echoing
through tho room. Then the grocer
followed Mrs. Donavan to the home oi
Margaret Gregory.
It was a bare place, but clean and
neat. Mark sighed ns he noted the
signs of abject poverty. While the
deliveryman was bring up the parcels,
Mrs. Donavan volubly explained that
Mrs. Gregory had gone to try to get
money duo her. The warm hearted
Irishwoman had surmised that for-
tune was at low ebb with her noighbor,
partly becauso of little Royce’M unu-
sual fretfulness, which had been
quieted by a hugo slico of broad aud
butter.
“She’s worked her precious fingers
’most to tho bone,” slie concluded,
“but work’s searco, and I don’t know
what’s ever goiu’ to become oi her and
her babies.”
The wood soon came. Florence’s
half cord had been reinforced by a
whole cord, perhaps because she had
written her cousin that the needy
widow was a protege of Miss Snell’s.
As to Liliau’s order for groceries,
Mr. Davis had added to it a sack of
flour, a ham, coffee, tea, sugar, apples,
cookies, cheese, canned fruits and
moats, and a big bag of caDdy.
Mrs. Donavan went back to her own
room, and the wagons rolled way.
Mark hastily built a fire, then sat down
to think how best to explain the liber-
he had taken.
The baro room faded from his vision
as he sat there. In its place came an
old country garden overgrown with
roses and clematis. Jt was June, and
the air was heavy with the scent of
many blossoms. By his side was a
beautiful girl in whoso curls the Bull¬
shine seemed entangled. lie bent
lower, and the rose-red lips of his
companion murmured, “I love you,
Murk.” Still lower his head sank un-
til his lips touched the ones that had
uttered tho sweet words,
A start, aud he sat upright,glancing
around him. That was ten years ago.
He was poor then, and Margaret,beau-
tiful Margaret Henson, had been tho
only daughter of a wealthy home. So
their engagement had been forbidden,
They parted, vowing eternal constancy,
A year later Margaret became tho wife
of Vance Gregory, but it was not until
months after that Mark learned of the
treachery and deceit that had been
employed to urge her to that step.
It was too late then. There was
nothing to do but to endure,
Ho had known for some time that
Margaret was a widow and lived in the
city. He knew nothing of her poverty,
To supposing that her means were ample,
go to her now with a story of love
had never occured to him. She knew
nothing of what had parted them. He
could not blacken the memory of the
man who had been her husband, the
father of her children,
He sprang to his feet. Thero was no
need of an explanation. He passed out,
pausing for a final word with Mrs.
Donavan.
“TellMrs. Gregory the things came
from the teaohers at No. 3.”
“To be sure, Mr. Davis,” responded
the woman, who had recognized
Mark. “I’ll tell her all ’bout it. And
may the blissin’s of all tho saints rest
on your dear head!”
Mark hurried away, leaving a shin-
ing silver dollar in Royce's hand,
It was only a few minutes after his
departure that a thinly clad woman
came toiling wearily up the stairs. It
was Margaret Gregory. The woman
who owed her was out of town. The
needy mother had applied at several
places for work, only to meet with
refusal. Then she had gone to a store
and begged for credit, but in vain,
She had reached the end. There
was but ono way open. She would
ask Mrs. Donovan to give her children
their dinner. When she had rested
aud oonquered the bitter rebellion in
her heart she would go out again and
apply to the city for charity.
Margaret Gregory was proud. She
was already faint for the want of food.,
yet she turned in loathing from the
thought ol a meal obained in that way.
It would be worse than death, but
death does not come at one’s call, and
there were her babies,
A dry sob burst from hor lips. She
passed Mrs. Donavan’s door in silence,
She must have a moment to herself
before she could ask charity of one so
poor as her kind neighbor. Hurrying
on, she pushed open her own door,
A bright firo was blazing in the
cracked stove. Mrs. Donavan had
prepared slices potatoes for tho oven and
out ready for frying from the
POPULATION AND DHAINAG33.
MORGAN, GA.. FRIDAY, MAY 28 1897.
ham. Tho open door of tho wood
nlnset ”?? et showed snowed a » liinro nugo pile, niio wliiln wmio tho tno
table Mas heaped high With food,
Bor a moment she Btood gazing
wildly around her. Then she dropped
?. ueved p her overwrought ^ nerves. ° f t0ar8 r °'
The next day’s mail brought a letter
from Margaret to Mr. Davis. Tho
writer had gone to Miss Snell to thank
her. From the young teacher she had
learned of Mark’s connection with tho
affair.
It was an earnest grateful letter,
blotted here and there with tear stains.
She accepted his generosity, for her
children’s sake she could not refuse
charity. She referred to the friend¬
ship that had existed between their
parents, but Mark was glad that she
was too womanly a woman to ° even
hint at tho relation they had once
borne to each. When ho finished
for reading the letter, his heart was light,
he understood that Margaret knew
of the treachery that had blotted tho
sunshine out of his life.
Mtwk went straight homo and told
his aunt, who was also his housekeep¬
er, all about it. Mrs. Everts was knit¬
ting before the open coal fire. She
was a bright-faced old lady with soft
white hair and a serene faoe. When
he had finished, she laid down her
work and sat for a long time, gazing
into the dancing flames.
“The only daughter of my old friend,
Rebecca Henson, in want of food,” she
said, a note of pain in her voice.
“Mark, you and I both have plenty of
money. There is room in this house,
aud in our heart, for Margaret and her
babies. But she is proud. Go and
ask her to come and sew for me. Tell
her 1 am lonely and ask her to bring
her little ones to brighten me up.”
Mark bent to kiss the placid face.
“Thank you, Aunt Elsie, I seo you
understand.” A few hours later ho
knocked at Margaret’s door and saw
that years had changed her. The wild-
rose bloom had faded from her cheeks,
tears had washed the joyous light from
her blue eyes, yet it was surely the
Margaret he had loved, that stood be¬
fore him.
She met him frankly and with un¬
disguised pleasure. Her voice trem¬
bled when she undertook to express
her gratitude. Mark made light of
the whole affair and insisted on talking
of their childhood days. The fruit
and nuts ho brought provod an open
sesame to the hearts ot Agnes and
Royce, and they were soon on the best
of terms with the caller.
Margaret wa3 very grateful for the
offer of work. She hesitated a little
over vitation, accepting Mrs. Everts’s kind in¬
fearing lest the children
prove an annoyance. But when Mark
drew a touching picture of the loneli¬
ness of his aunt she gladly consented
to come. It was arranged that tho
carriage come for the Gregorys the
following afternoon.
One morning, two months later,
Florence Fox tripped across tho hall
of No. 3 and entered Miss Snell’s
room.
“Of course, you arc going to tho
wedding reception Thursday evening,”
she began. “I think it such a lovely
marriage, dou’tvou?”
“Indoed I do,” Lilian replied warm¬
ly. “Yes, I am to go in the afternoon
and help with the decorations. The
whole house is to be in green and
white, smilax, ferns, roses and carna¬
tions.’ Mrs. Everts says Mr. Davis
cannot do too much for his bride,
‘our dear Margaret,’ the sweet old
lady calls her.”
“And I believe it all came about
from your begging him to give her
good weight,” “Florence cried, mer¬
“Ho is obeying your request in
an extravagant manner. And Lilian
is not that pretty pearl ring and tho
beatific expression on cousin Hugh’s
face the result of my efforts along the
same lice of charitable work?”
The bell rang then, and the blush¬
ing Lilian was spared the necessity of
reply.—'Womankind.
Worry anil Indigestion,
It is so remarkably easy to offer the
advice to persons whose lot is not
altogether cast in pleasant places, and
with whom things do not go well, to
refrain from worrying, but how hard
it is to follow this well-meaning ad¬
vice! None the less, worry is a fruit¬
ful source of many of the ills that
flesh is heir to. It imprints lines on
the face, and seams it with furrows,
and has a most depressing effect upon
the Btomacb. Tho worry and anxiety
which depress tho brain prodnoe a
semi-paralysis of tho nerves of the
stomach, and the result is indigestion.
Indigestion is a terrible enemy to
temper, and this affects our happiness,
and, of course, to health, for this
affects our appearance. One unmis¬
takable sign of mental health is
serenity of temper and a self-control
that enables us to bear with equanimity
and unruffled temper the trials and
troubles of life, more particularly
those arising from contact with soold-
ing, irritating and irritable people.
Coflec Blindness.
Dr. Snaitken says: “It is well
known that the Moors are inveterato
coffee-drinkers, especially tho mer¬
chants, who sit in their bazaars and
drink coffee continually during the
day. It has been noticed that almost
invariably when these coffee-drinkers
reaok tho age of forty or forty-five
their eyesight begins to fa’l, and by
the time they get to be fifty years old
they become blind. One is forcibly
impressed by tho number of blind men
that are seen about the streets of the
city of Fez, the capital of Morocco.
It is invariably attributed to the ex¬
cessive use of coffee.”
Indian Ocean Sharks.
Although the waters of the Indian
ocean are filled with voracious sharks,
the inhabitants of tha numerous isl¬
ands near Ceylon swim about in tho
water with impunity, the sharks re¬
to molest them, while a
would bo instantly devoured.
,1
AN EPISTLE TEEMING FULL OF
“GINGER.”
POLITICS MRKES PHILOSOPHER MHO
Presidential Appointments .Stirs His Ire.
The G. A. It. and t-lie Republican *
Party Roasted.
Horace said in one of life philosophic
odes that* ‘anger is a brief-fit, of lunacy. ”
Then I ain ready for the asylum
right now, for I am mad—mad with
McKinley, the and Buck, and Bullock,and
Grand Army, and the Republican
party, and everybody else who is try¬
ing to impose on our people. The
Grand Army demands the publishing
of a school history that will make
southern treason odious to the genera-
Hons to come. This is not the Grand
Army for they are about all dead ex-
cept the pensioners,but it is the grand
do7t want
General Grant said: “Let us have
peace,” aud Lincoln said so, too, place. but
these politicians are afraid of
Peace would wet all their ammunition,
It is a very late date to revive this cry
of treason. The argument has been
long since exhausted and now nothing
is left but disgust and contempt
for the political schemers who
seek to perpetuate discord. Treason
is a favorite cry among pretended pa-
triots. Athaliah murdered the sons
of the king and usurped the throne,
and when the prophet ordered her to
be slain she rushed forth and cried
treasou, treason! When Patrick Hen-
ry in liis first great speech denounced
George the IV the judges cried trea-
son, treason! Well, I reckon that
Patrick Henry and Ben Franklin and
Jefferson and Adams and Payne were
the first traitors this country pro-
dticed, and we don’t mind being in
their company. In fact, we are proud
of it. I get awful mad when I read
the vile slanders of the northern pa¬
pers. The scriptures tell us to love
there our neighbors, but, those fellows up
not forbidden are not our neighbors, and it is
to hate an army, is it?
My contempt for that grand army is
not limited by time or distance or the
statute of limitations, but I had made
up my mind to let them alone if they
would let me alone. Of course there
are some clever men Belonging to it
justl ike there are some clever men in
the Repnblicun party, but that don’t
prevent, me from hating both of the
and concerns categorically; as organizations, collectively
derers, schemers and plun¬
and scalawags and slanderers
run both. Nobody but an unprinci¬
pled politician would seek to put a
negro in the postoffice at Augusta or
in any other southern town. It is an
insult to onr people, and thero is no
excuse for it—no palliation. Of all
the offices in the gift of the government
there are none about which the people
have such moral, social and political
rights as the postoffiees. Every man
and woman in the community sl-cild
Vie consulted, if it were possible But
as it, is not, then the public sentiment
should be considered and the business
men be consulted, and nobody should
be appointed who would not be
acceptable to a large majority of
the people, In fact, thero should
be no partisanship about, it. In a
Democratic community a Republican
who could not, get a majority vote
should not ask for nor receive
the office, but inasmuch as the rule
now is that to the victors belong the
spoils, of course we must submit. We
in the south must take the best Repub¬
lican we can find, but no president
who is a gentleman will seek to pnt a
negro in this office and no politician
who is a gentleman will ask him to do
it. It is an office that emphatically
belongs to the people of the communi¬
ty. No It concerns them and them alone.
doubt but that DO per cent of all
ihe letters and papers and money or-
ders that go and come from Augusta are
haps it is the pate of a politician, one
who would circumvent God.” And it
doesseem as if they become hardened I
to all sense of the proprieties of life.
A hundred years ago Sheridan wrote:
“Conscience has nothing to do with
politics.” Our people have been do¬
ing their best to think well of McKin¬
ley and esteem him as a clever,upright
gentleman, but the fact that he enter¬
tains the idea of appointing Lyons to
Augusta has wiped out all respect for
him. The mugwump Democrats who
voted for him have all become cross¬
eyed and can’t look you straight in the
fa“e. Why did he single out that
bright little town of Hogansville to in¬
sult her people with a negro postmas¬
ter? Why does ho not, appoint negroes
to the northern towns where they
claim there is no color line?—towns
whose white and black go to the same
school and sometimes intermarry.
And now thero is another trouble
here in Cartersville. A Michigan man
moved here not long ago with his fam¬
ily and went into partnership with a
negro blacksmith and they all lived to¬
gether on terms of social equality and
oat at tho same table, and as the Mich¬
igan man’s children go to our public
school he has been notified that they
cannot go there any longer. So be
has taken his children away, and says
he don’t care a damn what cur people
think and he will do as he pleases, for
it is a free country. Well, that is
hard on the children, but the time is
not yet passed when the sins of the
father will not be visited upon the
children. He may conclude to send
them to the colored school, ns that
would be more consistent with his prin-
ciples, but it is hoped that he will pack
up and go back to Michigan. The
line is drawn and will remain. Thirty-
fonr years Rave passed sin.ce
and there is no change, neither in
tels nor chinches nor public convey¬
ancer or places of amusement.
races would he content if it were
for the politicians. As long as the ne¬
gro has a vote he will he made a fool
of 1 y the candidates. They say that
Lyons is moral and capable. Suppose
that he is —he is an impudent idiot to
want, to thrust himself where he is not
wanted. No gentleman will do that,
cither socially or politically, and no
gentleman will help him doit. Thank
heaven, we will now be rid of Buck for
fonr years to come. I wish that more
of his sort would leave the country
for their country’s good. And now I
think I feel better.—B ili, Am* in The
Atlanta Constitution.
A TAME WILDCAT.
An Arizona Sheep Rancher Has Chosen a
Dangerous Pet.
* . sheep „ ^her , near Ash , , Fork _ ,
H ; Absuvc discovered
! f ' ' M f ts aiu b ««^stbAted, ; and
p
r r both u fo,, protector T r and T rompan- ywhere *
’ * ‘ * 1 big ’ 8trip f and 8pot A ed
7 ; ( *'
*« rB llke Po *' Cuplne quills nml a tail
as g!oSS , : v apd " Us ,n *■ * ,ndln ®»
jungle tiger s
Ho v d,dI bappetl t °„ take a
f . ° , a h “. old P“8sy? replied Mr.
A ” durta * V« con t U,t ? rv
‘ e w -
“ hoep } 11 tel1 yox da } about *• 1 I '/as hording ,
on ® f’ and ft f din S on
lh ? top ! ,f a ?>*• *J Dok ta> W “ “
Tocl ' s proJflct ‘ , ,1K fn,m ,lle
cHffs ,el ° w ‘ 1 sa ' v a very lar , e e fei °'
cious-ooking *
wildcat. , She had tas-
f!? tal fl " u om her S ( ® ?f ar8 t0 ‘ apd Slde was and ,ashing glaring hor at
, rowlln angrily.
® S 1 stood star-
t,e(J for a minute, and not having a
f 1111 1 wa8 at a J oss to 1(11 ow "’hat to
do ’ 1 8pled a h " se bowlder on the
edge of a ledge right over this cat,
and using all my strength I pushed It
over. She was too quick for it and
dodged. When I looked down again
she had disappeared.
“I concluded there must be a cave,
and perhaps a nest of kittens, so I lay
in wait a few minutes to see if the emt
would make her appearance again. 1
was ready for her at this time, as I
had secured a lot of rocks and intended
to shower them upon her. I did not
have very long to wait, for out she
came looking fiercer than before. I
let the rocks go, and that time there
were too many of them for her to
dodge. One struck her on the back
and broke it, and after that I easily
put an end to her. X then crawled
down the cliff a short distance and
peered over as far as I could, ar.d dis¬
covered there were two very small kit¬
tens in the cavern. 'Their eyes were
not yet open. I made up my mind 1
would have them. It took me some
time to plan how to got thorn, as the
cliff waa almost perpendicular, it
was with great difficulty that I finally
captured my prizes. I took off my
coat and wrapped it around them and
started for home. When I readied there
1 laid them down at the base of a big
juniper tree. My largo hound, Adam,
came bounding up, and, to my sur¬
prise, seemed as pleased over my kits
as I was. He at once began to lick
them, and lay down beside them. The
kittens crawled over him and seemed
to think he was a good substitute for
their mother. I gave them sheep’s
milk, which they seemed to thrive on.
They would He all day under the trees
with the hound, and he would never
let my shepherd dog come near them.
They grew very fast, and we all be¬
came very much attached to my strange
pets.
“At sheep-shearing time we drove
the sheep into Ash Fork. I packed the
burros and made a box for the wild
cats and lashed them on top. When
we reached town that evening I let
them out to run around the sheep
shed. While Adam was eating his
supper a large dog came in and killed
one of the cats. Next morning as we
were passing down the street, with
Adam and the wild oat following we
created quite a sensation. Some peo-
pie were afraid of the cat—other’s were
anxious to pet him, seeing mo caress
him, but he objected to strangers and
arch his back and spit furiously.
“While we were at a saloon near the
depot the passenger train came in.
of the Eastern tourists came
over to the saloon for a drink.
just, poured out whisky all
when they turned and saw the
cat sitting there looking at them.
started for the train on a run.
whisky standing and not get¬
their change. I shall try to keep
out of sight of tenderfeet after
I don’t want to scare them to
death, but the cat is all right and the
pet I have ever had. I wouldn’t
with him at any price. He is
on coyotes, and keeps all those
rascals away from our
Francisco Examiner.
A GOOD W'At TO IIANG.
First Tramp—\\hat do they mean by
bangin’ a man in effigy •’
(Second Tramp That's when they just
string up a stuffed figure of him. goin’
First Tramp -Well, if l ter
be hung I’d like lo have it done that way.
Wore One Collar 250 Years.
Near Essegg, In Slavonia, where
eagles abound, ono ot them was shot
last week wearing a svcel collar on
which was engraved the partly oblit¬
erated coat-of-arms of a noble family
of Slavonia and below 1646, prov-
; rl g ^at 250 years had elapsed since
j,e was captured and collared.-Phiia-
ddphia Ledger.
T. P. GREEN, MANAGER.
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FRUIT STEAMER PHASED BY SPAN¬
ISH MAN OF WAR.
CULLED DOWN BY STORM OF SHOT
The Hold-Up Was Attempted On the Out¬
bound Trip and tho Return.
Captain’s Story.
After being twice chased by Spanish
gunboats and passing through a per¬
fect storm of shot, which splashed in
the water across tho vessel’s bows, the
British fruit steamer, Ethelred arrived
at Philadelphia Sunday night, after a
five days run from Port Antonio, Ja¬
maica.
When tho Ethelred left Philadelphia
May 12th, it, was the intention of Capt.
>T. 1). Hftlt to accompany her, but lie
was arrested as lie was about to go
aboard. As it was, his invalid daugh¬
ter was a passeugor. It is supposed
that the agents of the Spanish govern¬
ment in the city had notified the Span¬
ish authorities in Havana to watch for
tho Ethelred in Havana waters.
The first encounter with the Span¬
ish cruisers occurred off Cape Maisi,
on the trip down. Just after dusk
on boat Sunday without evening, May Kith, a gun¬
der lights shot out from un¬
the Maisi capes and crowding on
all steam steered directly for the fruit
vessel.
After steaming for an hour without
gaining an inch, the gunboat turned a
search-light on the other vessel.
All steam was crowded on the
Ethelred, which was beginning to show
the Spaniards a clean pair of heels,
when a small white cloud of smoke
belched from the cruiser’s side, and a
second later a solid shot cut the water
a half mile ahead of her bows. Then
came a second and third shot, each
nearer than the other.
Captain Israel kept on his course,
and after another hour’s hot chase,the
Spaniards dropped from the race.
The seeond chase happened last
Thursday which in almost the same spot in
the attempt to hold ihe vessel
up occurred. Just as the Ethelred
rounded Cape Maisi an immense Span¬
ish gunboat,of the newest type,started
out from under the cape and gave
chase. For two hours the chase was
kept up, enlivened now and then by a
solid shot, throwing up a sheet of white
spray just ahead of the swift vessel’s
bows.
It began to look as if the Spaniard
meant to chase the Ethelred clear to
the Delaware capes, when another
steamship was sighted aud tho big
gunboat, steered off and gave vigorous
chase to the newly discovered vessel.
cbockett soiimrr death.
Flnml Mu7.7.1« of Gun In IIIh Month and
Rloir IIIm Mend Oft*.
James P. Crockett, who is said
he the second wealthiest citizen in De-
Kalb county, Ga,, and who has always
enjoyed the respect and esteem of that
section, placed the muzzle of a double-
barreled shotgun in his mouth Sunday
morning aud blew bis head almost en¬
tirely from his body.
The cause is shrouded in
mystery. Some say it was mental
aberration; others believe his poor
state of health had something to do
with it. Crockett had been ill for over
six months, suffering with rheuma¬
tism.
There was no cause for despondency
or discouragement in his business af¬
fairs. Ever since ho started his little
grocery store in Decatur, when Atlan¬
ta was fl ame swept by Sherman’s torch,
his success has been unhindered. He
later speculated in real estate, making
a fortune of nearly $200,000, which he
now leaves to his family.
YOUTHFUL HANK THIEF CAUGHT.
The If« Had Taken Found on Iflu
Phthoii.
Albert M. King, tho Boston hank
messenger, who disappeared from that
city a lew days ago with $30,000 of
the bank's money, was arrested at
Farmington, Ale., Sunday.
King reached the place on a train
from tho Rangeley lake region and
was taken into custody immediately.
When searched at tt jail all the
money taken from the 'k as found
in King’s pockets.
AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY
To Hold Golden Jubtlea in Philadelphia
June lnt to 4th.
The golden jubilee meeting of the
American Medical association will be
held in Philadelphia on June 1st, 2d,
3d and 4th, and promises to be not
only the most important meeting ever
held by this gre.at organization, bnt
also the largest gathering of noted
medical men ever before brought to¬
gether in the city.
Apart from tho largo attendance of
physicians from all parts of the coun¬
try, the numerous able aud interest¬
ing papers placed upon tho program
insure a meeting of important scien¬
tific results.
DEATH IN FLAMES.
Two People Killed and Three Seiioimly
! ti,I lived I n a York Firo.
Two persons were killed and three
injured in a fire at New York Sunday
morning in the four-story and base¬
ment brown stone building at 149 West
Twenty-third street. Several persons
narrowly escaped death. The dead
are: Mrs. Catherine Mossway, 33
years, died at hospital from suffocation
and burns; Beatrice Mossway, 4 years
old, daughter of the former, suffoca¬
ted in her room.
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HISTORICAL CHURCH BURNED.
Wan Flrnt I’<1 inco For Worship Built In
Savannah By John Wesley.
Christ church, t-lie mother of the
Episcopal union in Savannah, the first
and only church founded and built in
America by John Wesley, tho founder
of Methodism, before he left the Epis¬
copal church, the ground for which
was ceded by King George III, has
been destroyed by fire.
The fire broke out at 12:30 o’clock
Saturday night and the church was
soon a mass of ruins.
The cause of the fire was tho care¬
lessness of the porter who pumps tho
organ. He keeps a candle back of his
bellows gtiage at night so that he can
read tho indicator. After the choir
practice Saturday night he went away
and forgot to put out this candle,
which burned out and started the con¬
flagration.
The church contained the records of
Savannah and much of those of Geor¬
destroyed gia from 1810, the time when it was
theso by a hurricane, and all
were burned. The records be¬
fore that time were destroyed by the
hurricane
Tho original church was founded
soon after tho settlement of Savan¬
nah. The first edifice was begun in
1713, but was not completed until
1750.
In 170(1 it was destroyed by fire and
was rebuilt, upon an enlarged plan in
1803. The next year it was partly de¬
molished by a hurricane and was not
rebuilt until 1810.
In 1838 the corner-stone of the pres¬
ent edifice was laid, the old church
having been torn down, and the build¬
ing was completed in 1810.
The founder of Christ church was
Rev. Henry Herbert, who came over
from England with Oglethorpe. John
Wesley was its third rector, and on the
site of the present edifice stood the
rude chapel in which lie administered
as chaplain to the colonists.
It was in Christ church that the first
Sunday school was established by
John Wesley, nearly fifty years before
Robert Ilaikes, who is honored as the
founder of Sunday schools, originated
the scheme of Sunday instruction in
Gloucester, England, and eighty years
before the first Sunday school in
America on the Raikes plan was es¬
tablished.
PREPARING FOR QUEEN'S JUBILEE
London In Taking On a “Strictly Busi-
nosH 1 ’ Aspect.
London, according to advices, is al-
rqpdy plunged into the queen’s jubilee
preparations and for the next six
weeks, it promises to lie the most un¬
comfortable city in Europe.
Along tho route of the procession
the fronts of the buildings are disfig¬
ured by hideous scaffoldings, prepara¬
like tory to building seats. Even churches
St. Martin’s, in the fields, have
been sold to speculators, who have al¬
most completely covered the edilico
mentioned with building preparations,
a little sign reading “Services as
usual” being about the only indication
left of the church proper. St. Paul’s
cathedral is likewise disfigured by
huge stands.
The price of provisions lias already
advanced and everything has at least
doubled in cost.
For the jubilee week several of the
large hot ois refuse to make any definite
arrangements for rooms, even to old
patrons, until a week before the jubi¬
lee. Every person who has been able
to do so lias let his or her house for
the celebration and is preparing to flee
to the country The fact is that every
one in London is, to use a slang ex¬
pression, “op the make.”
110VSS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED.
Blind Millionaire’** Gift to Confederate
Veterans f« Accepted.
The monument given by Charles
Broad way Rouss, the millionaire Now
York merchant, to Confederate Vete¬
rans camp was dedicated Saturday
afternoon in Mt. Hope cemetery, in
West Chester county.
After the dedication the graves of
the veterans of the southern army were
strewn with flowers. After an hour
the visitors returned to the city,where
a reception was given to Mr. Rouss in
the evening.
The monument is the finest in the
cemetery. It cost $5,000. It is Now
England granite, sixty feet high on a
base of ten feet. The pedestal is com¬
posed of only three pieces and is nine
feet high. The following inscription
is at the base of the monument:
"Sacred to the memory of the heroic
dead of the Confederate Veteran camp
of New York.”
WILL PARDON REI)WINE.
Attorney ticneriil Hal Ordered Ills Case
Reopened.
A Washington special of Sunday
says: Lewis Redwine, the wrecker o I
the Gate City National bank at Atlan¬
ta, and who is serving a term in the
Columbus Ohio, penitentiary, will b«
pardoned.
The attorney general has givon or¬
ders for the reopening of his case,
which was closed when President
Cleveland refused to grant the pardon
upon the former application. This
was done at the instance of Colonel
Buck, who went to Attorney General
McKenna to urge that action.
LIST OF NEEDY AMERICANS.
Connul Uee Places the Number In Cuba at
1,200 More Than tlie Estimate*
A telegram was received at the state
department Sunday morning from Con¬
sul Genera! Lee indicating that the
number of Americans in need in Cuba
is much larger than was supposed at
first.
The consul general says that the
number may reach 1,200. The consul
at Matanzas reports 250 there and the
consul at fc-agua 450.