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The Morgan ONII \ VOL. II. NO. 21 SI PER YEAR. 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. g|se:e^©i©!e;e-:eieie-:e!©i^©-:eie:ei'e!e:e;e-:eiei<||5 | | 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.