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WHAT I LIVE FOR.
I live for those \ love me,
Whose hearts are kin,1 and true;
For the heaven that smiles above me.
And awaits my spirit, too.
For all human ties that bind me,
For the task by God assigned me,
For the hopes not left behind me,
And the good that I can do.
I live to learn their story,
IVho’ve suffered for my sake;
To emulate their giorv
And follow in their wake;
Bards, The patriots, martyrs, sages,
noble of all ages:
Whose deeds crown history’s pages,
And time’s great volume make.
I live to hold communion
With nil that is divine
To feel there is a union
Twixt nature’s heart and mm05
To proilt by affliction.
Reap truths from fields of fiction,
Grow wiser from conviction,
And fulfil each grand design.
I live to hail that season
By gifted minds foretold,
When men shall live bv reason,
And not alone by gold;
When man to man united.
And every wrong thing righted,
The whole world shall be lighted
As Eden was of old.
I live for those who love me,
For those who know me true;
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit, too,
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do.
—C . Linnaeus Banks, in the American.
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VEREKER’S VAN DYCK.
<;*
* AD you been liv¬
ing in Bristol in
the year 1890,
you must fre¬
■Ui J quently have run
w v mvggy- - 11 ; up against old
■ Vereker, w ho
ITiM'Mri
the streets of that, prowling about
tropolis. He west-country me-
was a man who could
not fail to attract attention, by reason
both of his striking old-fashioned at¬
tire—of the style which John Leech
has made immortal and of his disre¬
gard of such every,lay amenities as
barber’s scissors and soap and water;
for a more unkempt and dirty, looking
old aristocrat than Jan Vereker was
surely never seen in the public streets.
He was a younger sou of Sir Hudibras
Vereker, seventh baronet, whose fam¬
ily was among the best in Gloucester¬
shire; though to be sure, this seventh
baronet’s lady, anaLd-ms's mother, was
a somewhat obscitj® foreigner, a native
if Antwerp.
In.his youth he had been a painter,
who, but. for his desultory disposition,
might have achieved great success;
and he had studied in half the art
schools of Europe. But he had now
practically abandoned this profession,
and devoted his whole time and ener-
gies to his pet hobby—the collection
of curios. No sort, of. rarity came
amiss to him. Old paintings, old
china, old coins, gems, furniture, what¬
not, appealed to Lis antiquarian tastes.
Indeed, at one time or another, he had
been over a great part of Europe in
quest of such treasures; though latter¬
ly his efforts had been chiefly confined
to his native land. He never fre¬
quented the large shops or the em-
poriums of professional dealers, for
his purse was not long enough to 1*11-
able him to buy recognized articles of
vertu at fancy prices. But he was ever
exploring little ad-sort shops, and the
cottages of working men and country
villages, where he stood some chauce
of picking up a good thing for next to
nothing. With this end in view, he
was perpetually traveling about and
working from different centres, until
be became conversant with half the
towns and villages in Great Britain.
"Whenever he went away for a tour
of exploration, ho was always careful
to transfer his most valuable articles—
such, as least, ns were likely to he
stolen—to tho safe custody of his
bankers. These were chiefly in the
way of old coins, gems and plate. But
besides these there was one thing
which always went to the bank, aud
which he evidently regarded as by far
the most precious of all his posses¬
sions—a small and very cracked and
grimy portrait in oils. His acquisi¬
tion of this painting was a source of
unbounded pride and self-congratula¬
tion to old Vereker. He had picked it
up at a little emporium of rubbish in
Antwerp for a few florins. When he
bought it, the canvas had presented a
flaring aud abominable daub of the
Madonna. But Jan Vereker’s prac-
ticed eye had told him that this was
only a secondary use to which it, had
been put. He took it home; he care-
fully cleaned oft the the upper daub,
Another painting—a landscape—ap-
peared beneath. But even this was
not the original, though, apparently, a
hundred years older than the first;
and he cleauod this also off. Then he
came upon the real thing; and he un-
derstood that he had experienced a
marvelous stroke of good fortune,
There was no doubt about it. The
painting which he had unearthed was
an unmistakable Van Dyck.
But to make matters perfectly sure—
though, in his own mind, he was at-
ready satisfied—he submitted the
painting to half a dozen independent
experts in London and Paris. All
were agreed in one verdict. They un-
hesitatingly pronounced the piece to
be a genuine Vau Dyck. Old Vereker
was on the 1ip-toe of elation. And
well he might be. For to acquire a
Van Dyck on any terms is, nowadays,
Hard enough. But to have picked one
up for nothing, as he had done, con¬
stituted a simply phenomenal achieve¬
ment.
He took it down with him to his
home ai Bristol, where he nursed aud
cherished it with extraordinary solici-
tnde. It .as the darling of his heart,
tlie apple of his eye. No fond old
husband ever doted more upon a fair
young bride than Jan Yereker upon
his Vau Dyck. Profane people
averred that he said his prayers to it.
That he worshiped it, in a metaphori¬
cal sense, could admit of no dispute;
and whenever he went off upon a col¬
lecting tour he not merely, as has been
said, deposited this precious picture
with his bankers for safe custody, but
always accompanied it to the bank him¬
self, and, with his own eyes, saw it
consigned to the security of the strong
room.
The firm with which lie banked was
a private house, having many branches
in the West of England, and its head¬
quarters at Bristol. They shall here
be introduced as Messrs. Hosier &
Sons. Mr. James Rosier, the head of
the business, lived at Bristol, and was
chief manager of the bank. He was a
personal acquaintance of old Vereker’s,
whose family had hanked with Rosier
& Sons for upwards of a century. But
besides this business acquaintance, he
found himself drawn occasionally into
Jan Vereker’s company by their simi¬
larity of tastes. For James Rosier was
himself something of a virtuoso and a
collector of curios and was enabled,
moreover, by his wealth, to gratify this
taste pretty freely.
One morning, after an absence from
Bristol of about three months, the old
fellow turned up at the bank, and
asked to see his friend the manager.
He was shown into Mr. Hosier’s private
room. When they had exchanged the
usual greetings and a few mutual civili¬
ties, Jan proceeded to unfold the na¬
ture of his business.
“The fact is, Mr. Rosier,” said the
old gentleman, “I want some money.
I have an opportunity of buying some
extremely valuable works of art at a
figure far below their real value; but it.
is necessary that I should pay cash
down for them. Unless I can produce
the money to-morrow I may very likely
lose them.”
“Umph! How much do you want
to overdraw?”
“Two thousand pounds.”
The manager whistled. From a man
of old Vereker’s means such a request
seemed to him to border* on the auda¬
cious.
“A tall order,'my dear sir. We could
not possibly allow such an overdraft
without security.”
“No. I did not suppose that you
would. I propose to offer you security,
though I admit that the security is of
a somewhat unusual character. You
already have my Van Dyck portrait in
your custody. Whatever its value, it
is considerably in excess of £2000.
Will you allow that to stand as jny se¬
curity for the overdraft?”
“I’m afraid not, Mr. Vereker. It is
contrary to our practice to accept se¬
curity of this description. If you could
deposit scrip with ns, now, or title
deeds, or obtain a satisfactory personal
guarantee—”
“I cannot,” interposed-old Vereker,
“Not, at least, at a moment’s notice.
Besides, this picture is worth as much
as all the rest of my effects put to¬
gether. Only four days ago a Bristol
firm offered me £4000 for it—the
Messrs. -
With this assurance the manager
consented to interview Messrs. -,
with the result that next morning Mr.
Vereker had a note from Messrs. Hos¬
ier & Sons, advising him that, oil the
strength Van of Messrs. ——’s valuation of
his Dyck, they were willing to
hold the picture as security for the
proposed overdraft of £2000, and re¬
questing him to call at the bank and
comply with certain requisite formal¬
ities. This he duly did, and the ar¬
rangements for the overdraft were
completed.
Now, Jan Vereker, as has been men¬
tioned, had named two months as the
period of his overdraft. He made it
good, however, within six weeks and
took his Van Dyck hack to his house.
From a commercial standpoint, his
promptness should have been hailed
with satisfaction by James Hosier. As
a fact, however, it was not. Truth to
tell, the banker bad cherished a half
hope that old Vereker might fail to re¬
pay the advance; and that he (Rosier)
would get the chance of obtaining the,
picture at about half its market value.
A month or so later, Jan Vereker
started off on one of his periodical
journeys, having, as usual, deposited
his Van Dyck again with Hosier’s for
safe custody. Boon after his return
he paid another visit to the manager
of the bank and ask for another loan
of £2000 on the picture, which was
readily granted him for three months.
The three months went by without
any communication from Jan Vereker
being received at the bank. By the
terms on which the overdraft had been
allowed, Messrs. Rosier & Sons were
empowered—did they so wish it—to
deal with the security when fifteen
days after the specified term
elapsed. During these last
days the manager*remained in a
of scarcely concealed restlessness
excitement. He was expecting a
or a communication from Vereker
day, and at the same time hoping
he should not receive either. He
determined to stand upon the letter
the agreement. To do so might,
doubt, be considered rather
practice.
And James Rosier’s wish was
ally fulfilled. The fifteen days of
elapsed. No communication
from Jan Vereker. On the
of the sixteenth day, the manager
his stand upon the strict letter of
j agreement. He paid £2000, plus
i terest, into the partnership account
of his own pocket. And thus ho
quired old Vereker’s Van Dyck at
than half its value.
There was no need, as it turned out,
for the banker to have been in such
hurry. For days and weeks went by,
and still Jan Vereker remained
and silent. Of this Rosier was glad,
because now, when the old*fellow
back, he could scarcely complain
POPULATION AN D DRAINAOE.
MORGAN, GA.. FRIDAY, JUNE 4. 1897.
his security having been dealt with;
whereas, if he had turned up within a
day or two of the limit, he might
reasonably have been incensed at find¬
ing his Van Dyck already sold.
But it was not long before the true
explanation came. Rosier & Sons one
day received a rather startling letter
from a well-known banking firm in
Manchester. They (the Manchester
baukers) had learned a few days since,
from something seen by one of the
partners in the newspapers, that Mr.
James Rosier had, in the course of a
business transaction, acquired posses¬
sion of the Vereker Van Dyck, This
news was heard by them with aston¬
ishment, for they the themselves (as they
believed) held picture in question
as security for an overdraft allowed to
their customer, Mr. Jan Vereker.
Their suspicions being thus aroused,
they called in an expert, and he had at
once declared that their present
security was merely a cleverly forged
substitute. They had, therefore, placed
the matter in the hands of the police,
and had thought it their duty to com¬
municate with Messrs. Rosier & Sons,
in case they might have been similarly
imposed upon.
James Rosier was in a fine state of
mind after he had read this letter. He
lost no time in dispatching a messenger
to Messrs. -, the art publishers
above mentioned, asking had them to send
up their Mr. ——- (who previously
valued the Van Dyck) to his private
residence, at the earliest possible mo¬
ment. When he arrived, the painting
was submitted to him. He unhesita¬
tingly pronounced it a forgery.
In the course of inquiries it trans¬
pired that ten other banks in various
large provincial towns Jliad been simi¬
larly duped. In each case precisely
the same method had been adopted.
The first step was the depositing of the
real Van Dyck at the bank for safe
custody. The second, the advance
made upon the genuine work, and duly
repaid. The third, the depositing of a
skillful forgery, so artfully executed as
easily to pass for the original. The
fourth, the advance obtained on the
security of this forged subtitute. The
last, the disappearance of Jan Vereker
with £24,000.
So far as could be ascertained,he had
no confederates, and there was little
doubt that all the twelve forgeries were
the work of his own practiced hand.
Though every effort was made to run
him down, he still remains among the
number of the “wanted.”—London
Truth.
WISE WORDS.
Silence seldom makes a mistake.
To have a had habit is to have a
hard master.
Some of our happiest moments are
spent in air castles.
The shortest way to do many things
is to do only one thing at a time.
If you are looking for trouble tell a
woman that her new wrap is unbecom¬
ing.
A woman’s reason may not convince,
but it often puts an end to the discus¬
sion.
Women seem to think that husbands
never have any need to reform their
wives.
The man who goes out of office as
pleasantly as he does in is a very rare
individual.
When you are in trouble, people who
call to sympathize are really after the
particulars.
A person under the firm persuasion
that he cau command resources virtual¬
ly has them.
There are others, but people never
find it out until they are married, and
it is too late.
Talk] what you will of taste, my
friend, you will find two of a face as
■oon as of a mind.
Fortune’s ladder has no top. No
man has ever stopped climbing for
want of another rung.
An egotist may be defined as a per¬
son who is so wrapped up in himself
that he pays no attention to us.
After a girl has heard some one say
she has a sad face she always goes
around tryiug to look sorrowful.
Since a woman can’t make her hus¬
band like her ideal, why not try to
make her ideal like her husband.
Give self power to move a mountain,
and it will put a big sign out on it to
show who did it, as tho house movers
do.
The one who works the hardest re¬
ceives the most blame. The idle, do¬
ing nothing, are responsible for noth¬
ing.
There is such a thing as knowing too
much. I have seen people who would
be wispr if they could forget half they
know.—The South West.
Eleetrio Light as Bait.
William Johnson, who has just re¬
turned from Binghamton, N. Y., from
a trout fishing trip to Delaware County,
made a successful experiment with a
number of small incandescent light
bulbs, which he used as bait. He at¬
tached a bulb about the size of those
used by physicians, to his line near
the hook. Then he made a trip up
the stream at night, throwing tho
lighted bait into the water, the current
being furnished by a pocket battery,
His success was phenomenal.
Tbe fish attracted by the light would
flock around the strange object and
snap at the baited hook. Mr. Johnson
says he has consulted counsel, and
finds that this manner of fishing is not
prohibited by the game laws, and ex-
perience satisfies him that it is most
remunerative from a fisherman’s point
of view.—New York Press.
She Knew.
Minnie (whispering) — “Mampio
isn’t Colonel Grimshaw ugly?”
The Colonel—“Don’t you know, m/
little girl, that it is rude to whisper i!
company?”
Minnie—“ Well, it would lee ruder to
say it out loud!”—Punch.
II ARP’S III HIE
PHILOSOPHER VISITS TENNESSEE
CENTENNIAL EX POSITION.
MUCH PLEASED (IT WHAT HE SAW
And Proceeds To Give Die l*ul»1ic the
Benefit of His Observations.
B ill Otf Again.
Man never gets too old to learn, and
if he is a Sliakoi, good learner he is a good
teacher. eare says “knowledge
is the wing with which we fly to heaven, ”
and ns heaven is where we all wish to
go, it, becomes us to acquire knowledge.
Lord Bacon said ‘ ‘knowledge is power, ”
and so it was a day well spent, for I
learned much in one day at the Ten¬
nessee Centennial—so much that 1 am
going to return very soon and take
more time and acquire more knowl¬
edge. I sometimes think it a great
pity that by the time a man becomes
fit to live his time is out,’and ho has to
die. If the old men who have mode
good use of their time and talents Were
given a now lease—another three score
years and ten, and had the vigor of
their youth restored, what a world of
wisdom would they accumulate. We
would all be Solomons and write pro¬
verbs. What farmers we would make;
what inventors; what teachers; what
preachers; what scientists. Maybe
providence cut us down to 70 years
for fear wo would learn too much of
His mysteries and once again cat the
fruit from tho tree of knowledge.
I ivas ruminating about this while
listening to the earnest discourse of
Colonel Killebrew, who has charge of
the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis and tho Western and Atlantic
railroad exhibits at the exposition.
Now- there is a man who as Paul said
to Timothy magnifies his office. It, is
like going to school to hear him ex¬
plain and expatiate and philosophize
upon things that ordinarily would at
tract no special attention. If every
man in charge oi a special exhibit had
his enthusiasm tho exposition would
not only ho a grand success, but,
would diffuse jnore knowledge among
men than any similar display lias ever
done.
Now, for instance, when w-e paused
to look at, sofiie tobacco that was hang¬
ing Irom the rods he said: “That, to¬
bacco grew on very poor land. The
best tobacco always grows on poor
land.” Indeed it seems providential
that poor land is good for something.
Tho sandy, gravelly land of Cran¬
berry county, in north Georgia, grows
the finest tobacco in the world, and it
commands the highest price. The
soil is not rich enough to give it a
dark color, and hence it is pale and
sickly, and has the consumption, so to
speak. This tobacco grew’upon land
that is 80 per cent, silica—sandy laud
—poor, white land, as your Bartow
county farmers call it—you have lots
of it down there. I have seen it, and
it can be bought for a song, hut there
is more money in it than in your val¬
leys and river bottoms. The sand
that is in Florida soil will make tobac¬
co growing a success there. I have
been experimenting in tobacco grow¬
ing and curing for years, and know
whereof I speak. There are thousands
of acres in north Georgia that aro just
suited to- it, and all those poor white
lands in Gobi) county are just waiting
for it. Some of that laud along our
railroad that will not grow corn high
enough to shoot an ear or make a tas
sel, would grow the most aristocratic
tobacco.
We paused again to look at some
little pyramids of broken rock, and I
learned that it was phosphate—a re¬
cent discovery in counties contiguous
to the railroad. “There are millions
of it and millions in it,” said tho col¬
onel. “As is usual, these discoveries
were accidental. Some mineral ex¬
perts were prospecting for zinc, and
were at a loss to account for these sin¬
gular deposits. They have had them
analyzed, and they are pronounced by
reliable chemists to he the very finest
grade of phosphate rock, running
from 64 to 85 per cent, and some of
the strata are twelve feet thick, and
underlie thousands of acres. There
are no phosphates in Florida that will
compare with them, anil most of it can
be mined with a pick—-a single hand
taking out six tons a day.”
After inspecting many kinds of ores
and minerals such as iron, maganeso,
bauxite, gold,silver, ochre; corundum,
etc., much of which was from our
county of Bartow, we were shown the
greatest variety of useful and orna¬
mental woods that, has ever been ex¬
hibited in this country. And also the
variety of farm and garden products is
admirable/ Just think of one farmer,
on a little plat of twenty-five acres ex¬
hibiting seventy-eight specimens tbat
were grown upon his farm. Seventy-
eight different products, useful for
man or beast. And another man se oh
specimens of sixty different woods that
grow upon his land. Then there are
several hundred botanical pictures of
the flora of Tennessee that were gath-
ered and painted and framed by
General Kirby Hmith. But it would
take too much space to describe or
even to catalogue tho hundreds of
intereslings things in this magnificent
railroad show. F: would make a good
exposition of itself. Of course it has
cost money—much money to get up
such an extensive collection, but it in¬
dicates the far-seeing policy of Mr.
Thomas, the best railroad magnate of
tiie south. For two years past ho has
had in his employ Colonel Killebrew,
who is without doubt the most efficient
and best educated teacher and promo¬
ter of agriculture and mineralogy in
the state, a man of large and liberal
onlerpi I :e, a cultured scholar who can
talk science wi ll the scientist and
practical favmii g with the humblest
farmer. He had charge of both these
departments in the first Atlanta expo¬
sition. He has traveled mule-back
over Mexico, inspecting the silver
mines for their owners. He bai more
recently invaded the homes of the set¬
tlers in Colorado and Kansas and other
northwestern states and communed
with them about our climate and lands
and laws, and they, listened to
him gladly, and theff result has
been the location of 1,500 fami¬
lies along the line of this railroad from
Nashville to Atlanta. Fifteen hun¬
dred families within the past two
years, and the cry is, “Still they
come.” He is the most ardent and
the most successful colonizer in all
the south. He is the best talker I
ever listened to, (lie most earnest, con¬
vincing and entertaining; and yet ho
has no land for sale nor any interest
in the sales. His work is for the
railroad and for humanity, Tho
condition of thousands of those west¬
ern settlers is most pitiful. Think of
100 horses selling at auction for $87,
less than §1 ahead. Think of 1,000
selling these people for less than closing $3,000. And so
are out and com¬
ing to Tennessee and Georgia and buy¬
ing small tracts of laud within easy
reach of the railroad, and in five
years time thf.se 1,500 families will
probably ship their products of grain
and hay and meat and mules to ail
amount that will givo for each family
an average of $100 in freights to the
road. This alone will make $150,000
per annum to be. added to the freight
business of the road. This is Mr.
Thomas’s far-seeing policy. Within
five years’ time it is expected that
10,000 families will he located—trans¬
ferred from the cyclones and droughts
and blizzards of the west to the genial
climate of the south.
Wo see that the Seaboard line is
now pursuing the same policy. The
Georgia Southern and Florida railroad
began it years ago, and improved
Cyclonetta us an object lesson to emi¬
grants to show them what could he
lone. Tt, was a successful experiment,
and Mr. Sparks showed his wisdom
and sagacity, hut the road’s creditors
forced it into the courts arid crippled
its resources, rind even made war upon
Mr. Sparks for his so-called extrava¬
gance.
But I had only a day to spare at the
centennial, and all of that was spent
in one building, fyr -f- could not. get
away from it. ft, is a thing of beauty,
ns well ns of interest and instruct Uni,
for the ornamental work that, graces
the arches and pillars and cornices is
most, lovely and elaborate—a master’s
hand has planned anil executed. There,
loo, is the plaster bust of Mr. Thomas
and his handsome portrait on the
wall, that were presented to him by
his • employees as a graceful tribute
and an evidence of their devotion to
him,, What a blessed., tiling it, is in
these days of strikes, ami wrecks, and
receivers and of war to the knife be¬
tween capital and laborer, to find a
man —a magnate who controls thou¬
sands of men, doing it so peacefully
and .considerately, and at all times
sharing their respect and their devo¬
tion.
I shall return again next week and
take in the exposition. I wish to
spend one day in that Parthenon, the
most exquisitely beautiful gem of
architecture I ever saw, and its walls
are adorned with paintings—groat
works of art by the modern masters,
and that many of them that, cost thou¬
sands of dollars, have been loaned by
their owners to encourage the exposi¬
tion and implant a love of art among
our people. Let everyone who can go
visit this admirable exhibition. Lot
every family man take his wife, or his
son, or his daughter, for it will pay in
the long run. Sidney Smith said that
tho companionship of a beautiful and
virtuous woman was a classic educa¬
tion. Just so it is an education to
visit the exposition and study these
object lessons and listen to the sweet
and soothing music and rest under the
shade of the trees.—Bum Aiu* in At¬
lanta Constitution.
Sun’s Rays Ignite Coal Dust.
Our German contemporary Gluckauf
mentions an instance of the ignition of
coal dust by the sun’s rays. The sur¬
face works of the Maybach Colliery,
near Friederichsthal, in the Saar Dis¬
trict, are chiefly of iron. On certain
girders, the floating dust, duo to the
Upping of coal on to the jigging- de¬
screens, became, in course of time,
posited in a layer more than an inch
thick. On a mechanic burning his
hand—while repairing a pipe running
through tho corrugated iron forming
one of the south walls—the official in¬
quiry showed that, the layer of coal dust
had been formed along tho whole
length of tho wall Although the dust
contained a proportion of pulverized
rock—tho motal plates heated by tho
sun had ignited it, the layer of white
ash on tho top proving that it had
burned for a considerable period. This
circumstances affords, in addition
fresh proof of the remarkable ease with
which coal dust may ho brought to ig¬
nition.—Engineering and Mining Jour¬
nal.
During the year 1896 Great Britain
imported 1,589,387,000 eggs. Russia
and Northern Italy are now the great¬
est egg-producing countries in Europe.
A member of the Woman’s Press
Club, of New York City, gives the fol¬
lowing original recipe for ending a war
before it is begun; Let the other fel¬
low know you can lick him. Then
there will lie no necessity of doing it.
This country is capturing all the good
things this year. The King of Siam
is about to visit us, and he will he
lowed later in the summer hy the Rajah
of Kazamataz. There’s a name to con¬
jure with.
T. P. GREEN, MANAGE! .
SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE CAM¬
PUS THE SCENE 0E A RIOT.
BROKEN SKULLS AND BLOODY MUGS
Militia Wanted to Brill and Students
"Wanted to Play Ball On Saute
Grounds at Same Time.
A special from Columbia, S. C., says:
South Carolina college-students, police
and militia came together Friday af¬
ternoon.
•Columbia companies had permission
to use the college green for annual in¬
spection on Wednesday evening.
They postponed the inspection until
Friday but did not get a renewal of
permit.
The-college men had arranged a
game of ball for tho (lay and held the
grounds. Two companies of the Pal¬
metto regiment, under Colonel Jones,
and accompanied by Adjutant General
Watts and staff, come on for annual
inspection.
The parties did not interfere till tho
troops were marching off the field,
when they attempted to out across the
diamond. A hundred students blocked
•the way. Got oral Wat ts ordered them
to move, but they stood firm. Thou
ho suggested to Colonel Jones to
charge with a squad. The color-
guard charged and tho students
knocked the colors down.
Several students were clubbed and
the soldiers attempted no further in¬
terference. The town is greatly stirred
over the incident.
The students and townspeople blame
Adjutant General Watts for precipitate
ing the riot. He first backed his
horse in among the boys, and when
they closed around him, called in a
loud voice:
“I will have these grounds cleared;
Colonel Jones, advance your battal¬
ion.”
Watts is a very young man and what
might have been obeyed in an older
officer, even when the right, of posses¬
sion was on their side, was resented
by the students.
AVlien thecompnnies advanced, the
color guard in front, a gtndent, with a
baseball bat waving, ran down their
front. He was seized by policemen
and these were immediately rushed
upon by a body of students. Bats and
dubs rattled for a moment, then tho
policeman used his club.
Professor Davis ran in with out¬
stretched arms, imploring peace, and
it, now develops that, a policeman,
blinded with a blow, struck him in the
forehead. This farther infuriated the
students, who beat, down the officers.
Tho militia in the meantime seemed
paralyzed. They took no part, and
for their non-action the police are in¬
censed.
The president, Dr. James Woodrow,
of evolution fame, immediately sum¬
moned tho students together, and,
standing on his steps, go' made a speech,
imploring them to no further.
Their rights in the premises were not
questioned by the president, and lie
said there was no question of their
courage to maintain them, but if an
attempt was made to arrest them ho
begged that they submit quietly.
D. D. McCall, one of the most se¬
riously injured of the students, will
probably dio. His skull is crushed.
Policeman McDowell is also in a
precarious condition.
Professor Davis is receiving medical
attention, lmt is not dangerously hurt.
The friends of the college fear that
although tho students may have been
in tlie right, the affair will give its op¬
ponents in the legislature an excuse to
cut off state aid, and so close the in¬
stitution.
INVESTIGATION I'KORABLE.
Tillman's Charges In Relation to Sugar
Trust May Be Looked Into.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, chairman
of the committee on contingent ex¬
penses of the senate, has not yet call¬
ed a meeting of his committee for the
purpose of considering the Tillman
resolution making sensational charges
in relation to the sugar schedule of the
tariff bill.
It is believed to be probable that the
resolution will be reported back to the
senate and the senate will order an in-
vestigntion.
SEAREES C ASE NOT DECIDED.
Pefemlanl’H Attorney Mako Motion For
An Acquittal.
A Washington special says; The trial
of John E. Searles, secretary of the
American Sugar Refining Company,
Friday followed that of President
Havemeyer, who was acquitted Thurs¬
day by order of Judge Bradley.
The government presented its case
very briefly, whereupon the defense,
following the tactics pursued in the
Havemeyer ease, moved that the judge
order an acquittal.
The motion was argued at length by
the counsel on both sides, after which
the court adjourned until Tuesday,
when Judge Bradley delivers ruling.
SPAIN DECLINES MEDIATION.
It Ih KvtU«rate<l That 81m Will Allow
No Interference.
A special from Madrid says: A semi¬
official denial is given of the published
statement that President McKinley
has made overtures to Spain on tho
subject of Cuba. impossible
It is reiterated that it is
for the Spanish government to accept
mediation in a question ” “which con¬
cerns Spain alone.
ABOLISHED EDUCATIONAL BOARD.
Atlanta, Gn., City Fathers Create a Sensa¬
tion at a Council Meeting.
The city council of Atlanta, Ga.,
sprung a sensational coup Friday by
abolishing the old city hoard of edu¬
cation, consisting of seventeen mem¬
bers—with one exception.
A i -,v board, with only one single
member of the old organization was
then elected to administer the aflai s
of the public schools.
This action, the most astounding
sensation that lias developed in city
affairs in many years, was taken at a
special meeting of the council Friday
afternoon, for the qstensible purpose of
passing on a plumbing ordinance.
The real purpose of the action
laken, as it appears to disinterested
onlookers, was that, the mayor and
general council thought the old board
of education was organized on a wrong
principle, and took tho foregoing meth¬
od of bringing about a change.
TILLMAN AFTER SUGAR TRUST.
South Cnrolinn Senator Mal<os a Sensa¬
tional Speech in tl»o Senate.
Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina of¬
fered a resolution in tho senate Friday
making sensational charges in relation
to the sugar schedule of the tariff bill
and asking for an investigation of the
mysterious methods employed by tho
sugar trust in its control of tariff leg¬
islation.
Senator Tillnjan made a speech
which was no less dramatic in its de¬
livery than sensational in its allega¬
tions.
Ho preceded it by presenting a reso*
lution for the appointment of a investi¬ special
committee of five senators to
gate charges of speculation by senators
while the tariff bill was before the
finance committee. In advocating the
resolution Mr. Tillman threw aside
the usual conventionalities of the sen¬
ate and with a plainness of speech sel¬
dom heard about the halls of congress
called on bis associates to investigate
the published charges of senatorial
speculation, and if they wore found tyi
be true, to purge the senate of those
who debauched it.
The senator had published articles
read from the desk stating that sena¬
tors bad recently made large sums o¥
money in speculating in sugar stock
and in one instance the name of a sen¬
ator was mentioned. Air. Tillman
spoke for nearly ah Jiour, every line
of his speech beu*g> pHimtmiJmd with
intense iuveetiv®
The Tillman resolution jyis refewaul
to the committee on contingent expen¬
ses of tho senate.
.HE N A TO R UTMUJMV ACC E PIS.
In ilis LcKer To Governor Fllorbe, He
Favors Senatorial Trim ary.
Tho new appointee for senator for
Mouth Carolina, lion. John L. Me-
Lauriu, lias forwarded his letter of
acceptance to Governor Ellerbe.
MoLnurin comes out squarely for a
senatorial primary. Jn his letter he
says:
“I desire to say that I believe that
United States senators should bo elect¬
ed by a vote of tho people; and as the
constitution debars us that privilege,
1 sincerely trust that the democratic
executive committee will, at its conve¬
nience, order a primary and give
every democrat tho chance of having
a voice in tho selection of one to fill
this, the highest office in the gift
of the people. If am not
selected I will humbly acquiesce
in the wishes of a majority of my fel¬
low citizens. If I am selected I will
have the proud consciousness of know¬
ing that 1 am in fact truly tho repre¬
sentative of the people—the whole
people of the state of South Carolina.
It is peculiarly gratifying to
me to receive Ibis appointment
at your hands, but had not the
exigencies of the situation in tho
senate demanded the immediate
appointment of one somewhat
familiar with the situation I would
have requested you to hold the matter
of appointment in abeyance until a
primary election is ordered, which, I
hope, the executive committee will see
proper to do and other candidates see
fit to enter. I shall at every meeting
insist upon no one voting appointed for me
merely because I have been
to the position.
“I resign an office but little infe¬
rior in dignity and honor, If I am to
be continued in the senate I want it to
be given me in ail election where every
citizen, however humblo he may he,
can have an opportunity to say so at
the ballot box.”
NEW TOWN PROJECTED.
Colony of “I'liir.ay” to Be a ltlval of Fill-
guraltl, Ga.
Ex-Governor Northen, of Georgia,
lias organized a new colony town
which will rival Fitzgerald. have
Fifty thousand acres of land
been secured at Hardaway, near Al¬
bany, and a model farmers,colony will
be established there in accordance with
Governor Northen’s long cherished
plans. will be called Putney.
The new town
The farms will he divided into small
areas, ranging from ten to one hun¬
dred acres, and so laid out ns to allow
families to bo located near each other,
on the community plan.
EARTHQUAKE IN NEW YORK.
A Number of Towns In the State Are
Shaken Slightly.
An earthquake, lasting about 45 sec¬
onds, occurred at, Walthall, N. Y., at
10:20 o’clock Thursday night. Reports
from Plattsburg, Port Henry, Ticon-
deroga and other places state that the
shock was felt. No damage is reported.
The shock was felt at Govehenr.
Houses were shaken and loose articlip
on shelves were thrown to the floor.
An hour later another shock was felt.