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The Morgan Monitor.
VOL. II. NO. 23. *1 PER YEAR.
THERE'S NO ONE LIVING THERE.
Thp c ld home is deserted and there's no
And one living signs there;
the of wreck and ruin are
about it everywhere.
The stables all have fallen down, the
meat-house—all Is gone;
And through the broken windows, day
The and night the wild winds moan.
palings all have rotted off, the yard
shows lack of care,
For the old home is deserted, and there’s
no one living there.
The stove’s gone from the kitchen, where
1 hurried in li.nppy days of old the
in to warm me, when after¬
noons were cold.
Gone are the fragrant odors which in
those days used to greet
The men folk as they waited, while
Kitty fried the meat.
And the fire’s out in mother’s room, the
For big old room place up the stair— and there’s
the is deserted,
no one living there.
A Missing “M.”
NE Saturday morning
I w’as sitting at my
desk opening my cor-
respondence, when I
^5 came across a letter
‘ w’hieh conveyed to me
new’s that considera¬
bly shocked me. My
old friend and client,
Sir Douglas Renwood, was dead, and
the letter announcing the sad intelli¬
gence w’as from his nephew, and ran
thus;
”Deau Mr. “Cottaoe, Gf.ary— Staines, .Tune 1.
I have to inform you
of the sad death of my uncle. He passed
away at JO o’clock last night. It was nil
terribly sudden. He caught a violent chill
last week, which developed into infiamntion
of the lungs. We sent for Dr. Holmes, the
good, leading doctor hero, but lie could do no
and the end camo last evening.
“I write to you because I think it desir¬
able that you, as the family adviser, should
come down hero at once and arrange for
tho funeral, and also to go into other mat¬
ters connected with my poor uncle’s estate.
Yours faithfully, Mark Renwood.”
“Ah!” said I to myself, as I con¬
cluded tho reading of tlie letter. “The
other matters which Mr. Mark refers
to are closely connected with himself.
He is the next of kin. Sir Douglas
died unmarried. This means £20,000
a year for my young friend. ”
I then proceeded to continue my
work of .opening the morning’s letters,
and finding that there was nothing of
urgent importance therein I deter¬
mined to act on Mark Renwood’s sug¬
gestion and go down to Staines with¬
out I delay.
sent to my head clerk and told him
of my intention, bidding him also to
find out when there was a train from
Paddington. He soon returned with
the information that I could catch a
good one at 12.30, aul I accordingly
drove to Kensington -and collected
what I required for my journey, aud
an hour later was seated in a first class
carriage on my way to Staines.
I had announced my coming by tel¬
egraph from. Paddington, aud I was
therefore, not surprised to find when young
Renwood waiting for mo I
alighted.
Ho was a tall, thin young man, with
strong, aquiline features and small,
gray eyes. I had known him since ho
was at Eton, and be held out his hand
to me with a cordial smile.
“I am delighted to see you come so
soon, Mr. Geary,” he said, speaking
in a hearty tone, “hut I wish you had
come on more joyous business. This
is a sad affair indeed. ”
“Sad enough,” I’enjoined, “audyet
we must all die some day or
else where would the young ones come
in?”
The cottage was about half a mile from
tbe station, aud our journey took
along the river bank. As we
the boathouse on the slope he said
a low voice:
“This is the spot where my poor
uncle contracted the chill which
his end. He and I were walking
this path one evening, when we
a cry for help and the next moment
child’s head appeared above the water.
I, of course, would have plunged in,
but as you have perhaps noticed I urn
suffering from a temporary sprain,
I could not swim an inch. My uncle,
knowing this, threw off his coat,
swimming to the .spot where the
was fast sinking, rescued it just as
youngster came up for the third
“A heroic aot, indeed,
his time of life,” I said.
“It was a heroic action, but it
him his life. I begged him
we'aeached home to go to bed, but
refused, saying that he would
change his clothes and have a batli,
and then bo as fit as possible. Alas,
he was mistaken. Next morning
said he had caught a cold and in
evening he was so shaky that I
for the doctor. Then followed
mation of the lungs—aud
death.”
“This Dr. Holmes,” I queried,
ho a really good man?”
“I believe he is the best doctor
these parts. Had I known
were so serious I would have wired
town for our own man, but I
dreamed that such was the case. ”
“Poor old gentleman!” I said.
he was to have been married soon,
he not?”
“Yes. That is the saddest part
the business. He looked forward
much to giving up the state of
ordom in which he had lived, and
—well, it’s uo use talking of the
I followed him into the cottage
up the stairs until we came to the
where the dead baronet lay.
^1 went slowly °ld toward friend the and bed
rest^ r^nxa P oor drawing aside the
T- c
c °x«d the dead face took
Long ago the light left mother’s eyes,
and we laid her down to rest,
In quiet and unbroken sleep ’neath the
green earth’s grassy breast;
Long ago the nest was broken up, and
each one went his way.
To seek his fortune far afield, and I,
alone to-day,
Stand and view the spot where once I
But the roamed, old a boy without a care,
home’s now deserted, and
there’s no one living there.
So sadly now, I turn again to where the
great world lies,
■With its struggles and Its burdens, but
the tears are in my eyes
To see the wreck which time has wrought
with what I loved so well,
And something rises in my throat and
seems t© choke and swell,
For soon there will not be a trace of what
Ere the was old passing fair,
home was deserted—when we
all were living there.
last, long look on the features I knew
so well.
I was aroused from my reflections
by the entrance of young Renwood,
who came up to the bedside and
pulled out his cigar case, several
papers time. dropping from his pocket at the
“Have a cigar,” he said as I stooped
to pick up the papers. And then see¬
ing a shade of annoyance that I <• -old
not conceal cross my face at the
thought of smoking at such a time and
in such a place he said hastily: ‘Per-
hap3 we’d bet*er not smoke, though.
I t’s hardly decent in a room with death
in it. ”
His sudden glow of proper feeling
did not impress me, and I merely
handed him the papers he had dropped
in silence.
One of these he handed back to me.
“You’d better look at that, Mr.
Geary,” he said abruptly. “That is
Dr. Holmes’s certificate of death.”
I glanced at the document, Yes, it
was all in order. “Douglas Kenneth
Kenwood, aged 65,” and so Oil. But
when I came to the heading, “Cause
of Death,” I gave a violent start.
“Good heavens, ” I said to myself.
“Can this be possible? Can this be
possible?”
For something I had seen in that
certificate had connected itself with
something I had seen in another docu¬
ment that morning, and the sight of
the two things filled me with an awful
suspicion.
And I determined to act on that sus¬
picion and to act at once. Asking Ren¬
wood to excuse me for half an hour, as
I wanted to call on a legal friend who
lived in town, I hurried away.
I was going to call on Dr. Holmes,
whose name was at the foot of the cer¬
tificate recording the death of Sir Dou¬
glas Renwood.
I had to wait some time at tbe physi¬
cian’s house, as he had numerous con-
sultations in progress. After an hour
of terrible anticipation in tbe dull wait¬
ing room I was at length ushered into
the doctor’s presence.
“Dr. Holmes,” I said, “I have not
come to see you professionally, but
rather to ask you a question. Did you
sign a certificate of the death, through
inflammation of the lungs, of Sir Dou¬
glas Renwood, who now lies dead at
the place called-Cottage?”
He jumped from his chair in his
amazement.
“My dear sir,” he cried, “what on
earth are yon talking about? I know
nothing whatever of Sir Douglas Ren¬
wood except that he was reputed to be
a man of eccentric habits, a 3 lie re¬
fused to have any servants in his
house.”
The suspicion which had been dark¬
ening in my mind grew darker as he
spoke these words.
In a moment I had risen from the
chair, and, walking quickly to the doc¬
tor’s side, I said:
“Doctor, there has been some foul
play in this business. Sir Douglas
Renwood lies dead, and I havo just
seen a certificate of his decease bear¬
ing The your name at the foot.”
doctor looked astounded. '
“Then it is a forgery,” be cried.
have never signed a certificate of this
man’s death. More than that, I did
not know even tbat be was ill.”
I thought for a moment and then
said:
‘Our way is clear. We must go at
once to the police station and get
warrant for tbe arrest of the man who
produced that certificate as coming
from you. That man is Mark Ben-
wood, Sir Douglas’s nephew and—
heir.”
The doctor gave me a quick glance.
“His heir, eh?” he said. “Come,
perhaps we are on the brink of a dis¬
covery. It seems to me that there is
more in this business than meets
T I ii thought , . too. ,
so >
A i hour ater Dr. Holmes, a couple
mitered fi « the 0 he cottage ( 8 ( I1O ,<! T?r Bidding ftni tbe , myS two ° if
l ® n IL ’t C ‘ 08e “I !‘ aud ’ u
need, i the doctor and I went straight
upstairs in search of Mr. Mark Ren-
" tt"
He did i;i not, i seem in . the least as-
tounded at the appearance of tho
doctor. Evidently he imagined that
lie was the legal friend on whom he
a<1 gon 0 lo call, for he held
out his hand , with a smile
.
Any friend of yours, Mr. Geary,’
he said, is welcome here. Introduce
me. please.
Wondering whether he was merely
playing apart or was sincere I forma!-
ly introduced the two men.
“Lr. Holmes—Mr. Mark Renwood.
POPULATION AND URAINAGB.
MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY. JUNE 18 1897.
PRESIDENT OF FRENI H REttlDLIC
HAS A NARROW ESCAPE.
BOMB THROWERS WERE AFTER HIM.
Several Parties Are Arrested on Suspicion
of Having a Ham! In
tho Affair.
A special from Paris says: An at¬
tempt wits made Sunday to assassinate
Felix Faure, president of the French
republic, while he was eu route to
Long Champs to witness the grand
P nx ’
While M. Fame’s carriage was pass-
big a thicket near La Cascade restau-
rant near the Bois de Bolounge, a
bomb, which subsequently proved to
he a piece of tubing about six inches
long and two inches in diameter, with
a thickness of half an inch, charged
with powder and swan shot, exploded,
No one was injured by the explosion.
A man in the crowd, suspected as
the prime mover, was arrested. He
gave his name as Gallot and made
only the briefest replies to questions
put to him by the police. Gallet said
that, ho had no occupation, but resided
at Levellers-Pere.
The police are making a thorough
search of his lodgings. He is believed
to be insane, for he shouted as tho
carriage passed along so loudly as to
attract general attention in the crowd,
The police have made another ill’*
rest in the case—a youth—but it is
thought probable that tho actual cul-
prit escaped in the thicket,
The news of the attempt spread like
wildfire through tbe city, and when
M. Faure returned to the Elysee the
streets along the route where it w as
known he would drive were crowded
with people who cheered vociferously,
It was at first reported that tlie
would-be assassin w’as a young man,
about twenty-five, who stood in the
crowd a hundred yards or more from
the race Faure course and discharged a pistol
at M. as he drove up to the
entrance; and there was another report
that both pistol and bomb were used.
But the police now believe the sup¬
posed pistol shot was merely the noise
of the bomb.
The bomb was a clumsily made af¬
fair, to which a piece of fuse was at¬
tached, aud the fuse was probably
lighted by a paper fixed in the end of
a stick as soon as the head of the pro¬
cession came in view. The presump¬
tion is that the moment the fuse was
lighted the culprit fled. In any case,
the bomb could not have done much
harm.
In the thicket whore the police found
the remnants of the bomb they also
found a pistol, upon which were en¬
graved the words, “Morta Felix
Faure,’ aud the names “Alsace-Lor¬
raine” and “Cologne.” Near the pis¬
tol was a small dagger bearing a simi¬
lar threatening inscription, and a few
feet away the police found a newspa¬
per with a cartoon grossly insulting to
tbe president. This contained an of¬
fensive inscription hinting at the ex¬
ecution of M. Fnure.
The police made three arrests on
suspicion of complicity in the bomb
explosion, among them being tw’o
brothers, Galbel and Lanvin Gainier.
They were closely questioned by M.
Athalin, tlie examining magistrate,
but as they gave satisfactory accounts
of themselves and their movements,
they were released about midnight.
The attempt on the life of M. Faure
was made on the very spot where
Berezowsky tried to shoot the czar
while driving to tho military review
at Long Champs in 1867, and where
Fancois, a lunatic, last year fired his
revolver at M. Faure on 14.
A terrible change came over Ren-
wood’s face, and he clung to the table
for support. He tried to Bpenk, but
words failed him. The look on his
features told what I had already
guessed, 1
But there was no time for idle
thought or conjecture. I touched the
bell, and the two constables appeared
in a moment.
“I give this man in custody,” I said
in a loud voice, “for uttering a forged
death certificate. Whether a further !
charge and a more serious one 'will be I
added remains to be seen.”
itenwood uttered not a word. With
a white, scared look he suffered him¬
self to bo led from tbe house, and
thence into a conveyance, Ouf way
lay in the direction of the police
station, •
A Coroner’s inquest was held dn the
body of Sir Doiiglas Benwood, and the 1
Verdict of the jury, following on the
doctor’s post mortem examination, was
“w’ilful murder against Mark Ben- ‘
wood.”
He was accordingly committed for |
trial at the next Assizes.
The incident w’hieh served to convict |
him was the forged certificate. He j
and could therefore assign no the reason jury for had the forgery, option j
no
but to conclude that the man who had 1
administered to the deceased death the sub- |
tie poison which caused his was
his nephew, the man who stood in the
dock.
Sentence was passed accordingly,
and on tho night before his execution
lie sent for tlie chaplain and made a
full confession.
It ran thus:
“I killed my uncle by means of a
drug w’hieh the natives use irt certain l
parts and which of India leaves for the medical features purposes, calm and |
composed after death. My undo was
about to marry, and in the event of
his doing so, and having issue, I knew’
that my chance of a great estate was
gone. So I brought him down to
Staines and kept him under lock and
key in the cottage.
“Having killed certify him, I knew’ that no
physician would the death with-
out some sort of inquiry, and I there-
fore forged a certificate of the death
myself. I sent for the solicitor,Geary,
in order that he might see for himself
that all was fair and square; otherwise
I appreciated the fact that there
might be some awkwardness about
the transferring to me of the property.
How Geary discovered that the in¬
strument w’as not genuine passes my
understanding. It is that discovery
which has put the rope around my
neck. ”
How did I discover the forgery? By
the fact that I knew Dr. Holmes’s
handwriting and detected the differ¬
ence? Not a bit of it. The doctor’s
handwriting w’as as unknown to me
as the first Pharaoh. No. It w’as
simply on account of tlie fact that
the death certificate bore the cause
of death, “inflamation of the lungs,”
with the word “inflammation” being
spelled with one “m.” Renw'ood
In the letter from Mark
with which this history begins the
word occurred with the letter omitted,
»nd it struck me as being very curious
that tw’o men should make a mis¬
take over the same word. So curious
was this apparent coincidence that I
pursued the inquiries which ended as
I have described. If Mr. Mark Ren-
u'ood had been a better speller, he
would, in all probability, be alive at
this hour.—Cassell’s Journal.
What Street I? ail ways Cost.
The cost of construction and equip
ment of each of the street railways of
Philadelphia must be reported from
time to time under oath to public offi¬
cials there. From these reports it ap¬
pears that the entire cost of the 447
miles of track in that city in 1896 was
reported by the companies themselves
at only $56,300 a mile aside from pav¬
ing. Now the paving in Chicago mi
tbe 390 miles, other than cable, be¬
longing to the three main systems,
does not average over 75 cents a square
yard, or about #3500 a mile. This
paving is almost entirely wooden
block, cobble stone aud macadam. As
for the paviag, chiefly of granite block,
of the eighty-two miles of cable track,
the superintendent of the Chicago City
Railway, Mr. Bowen, declared before
tbe recent convention of street railway
engineers in St. Louis, that the cost
was $12,708 per mile of double track,
or $6354 per mile of single track, more
than for wooden block. A general
average of the cost of all kinds of pav¬
ing done on the Chicago street rail¬
ways is about $4500 a mile of single
track. This, added to tho $50,300,
returned by the Philadelphia compa¬
nies, would give $60,800. To be sure,
there is not quite as large a percent¬
age of expensive cable track in Phila¬
delphia as in Chicago, but, on the other
hand, the fall in the price of all street
railway material has been so great
tho last five years that doubtless the
Philadelphia roads could be duplicated
to-day for much less than their cost.—
Chicago Record.
Two Famous Giants.
Two foreign giants, one French, the
other Spanish, became London lions
when they were shown. Bothap-
proached eight feet, but they were
ecli P« adb y Robert Hales, a native of
Great Yarmouth. He came of a family
of giants, bis father being six and one-
half, His mother measuring six feet
and his five sisters measuring considor-
ably over six feet, with four brothers
nearly ns tall as their father, Robert
overtopped them all, measuring nearly
ciR ht feet and had a frame strong and
well developed. His chest measure
was sixty-two inches and the calf of his
)e; , twenty-one. It took seven yards
of broadcloth to make him a suit of
<; l„thes. At thirteen he entered the
royal navy. Barnum brought Hales
t„ America in 1848.
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New London, Conn., rejoices in the
capture of a 600-pound swordfish,
GLADSTONE IGNORED.
Official i'i ; ograntrriti rif Queen's if utiI let)
Offends Liberals.
A London T cablegram says: The
53K - grsr^%sa'*£;
given umbrage to the liberals, owing
to the utter absence of recognition of
the civil and industrial side of the
(pieen s reign.
The Daily Chronicle is very out-
spoken on the subject, especially at
the omitting of Mr. Gladstone, and
asks;
11 What f kind of a show is it, that
gives a prominent place to the soldiers
of Emperor William and to tho repre
Sent rttiVes uf Turkish barbarism and
excludes tho greatest living English
speaking statesman of tlm world?"
Continning The Chronicle remarks'
“The Victoria inthe'progress^ era is Conspicuous °laI)or "and
above all of
the steady growth of self government.
Yet tin- working classes are ignored A
still S more striking o? fact X is that h,S,es the ore
officers two ' „
parliament are not recognized. The
spcnrker’B office is centuries old. He
is the first commoner in England, pre-
sides over its most famous represent a-
five institution and is the figurehead
of democratic government, yet he has
procession, '
no place in the Wlmt will
the colonials, who are wedded to pure
democracy think of this’”
In conclusion, The Chronicle says:
“If the crown has done something
for the country, it is also true that the
country had done much for the crown,
for its own progress and for the gen-
oral cause of human welfare.”
INDIAN OUTLAWS IN I.IMRO.
They Arc Under Arrest anil Will Be Tried
For Murder.
The Indian office at Washington has
received from Captain Stouch, of tho
Tongue river, Montana agency, a de¬
tailed report on the recent troubles
there, arising from the murder of set¬
tler John Hoover by David Stauley, a
Cheyenne brave.
After much diplomacy on the part of
the agent, Stanley, with his two ac¬
complices—Sam Crow and Yellow
Hair—are now lodged in jail *in Miles
City, and will be tried by the civil
courts.
Captain Stoucli’s description of the
trouble is interesting in that it shows
constant conflict betw’een federal offi¬
cers and the state authorities in the
arrests of Indians. In this case the
presence of tbe sheriff and a large
posse the came near causing a conflict with
Indians.
WHOLESALE ARBESTS.
Nineteen Negroes Were Charged With the
Murder of Jackson.
The sheriff of Georgetown, S. C.,
carried nineteen negroes there Satur¬
day charged with the carving to death
of Jackson on an adjacent island, when
he attempted to kill their pastor.
They were arrested without any
trouble, although while the tragedy
was being enacted the negroes are said
to have been in a religious frenzy. Six¬
teen were released on bond, the others
committed for trial.
WOMEN AND ('HILDRKN SLAIN.
Negro Desperado In Mississippi Does
Bloody Work With Ills (inn.
News has been received of the mur¬
der of five negroes in tho extreme north¬
western portion of Kemper county,
Miss., Sunday night.
A negro named Wildey, while drunk,
secured a gun and started out to kill
every person he met. He came across
five negroes, three women and two
children. He shot them down. He
also shot at six other negroes, who
narrowly escaped.
As soon as the bloody work of Sib¬
ley was discovered a mob was organized
to lynch the murderer. Sibley took
to the woods, carrying his gun with
him.
A DEGREE FOR GROVER.
Princeton Will Probably Give Fx-Prcsl-
dent Cleveland a Title.
A dispatch from Princeton, N. J.,
says: In reference to the rumor that
an honorary degree of DL.D. will he
conferred upon Grover Cleveland, the
university authorities are reticent in
giving information and confirmation
or denial cannot be obtained. It is the
prevailing opinion among the profes¬
sors and students that the report is
true.
ALDRICH TO TAKE A REST.
The Senator’* I’hyaiclan Orders Him To
Take a Vacation.
Senator Aldrich, republican mem¬
ber of the tariff bill committee, left
Washington Saturday by order of his
physician. Ho has been confined to
his mom at the Arlington almost all
the time since the first week of the
tariff’ debate w’ith an aggravated attack
indigestion with other complications.
He was able to he present at the
first caucus on the sugar schedule and
was taken with a relapse afterwards.
As he did not improve, his physician
dir - cted that he slyrdd go where he
would have absolute rest and bo freo
from the possibility of any consultation
with him on the tariff. The senator
accordingly went to his Rhode Island
home.
TO WATCH FOR FI LI BUSTERS.
Treasury Department Sends Instructions
To Patrol Fleet In Florida.
The treasury department has re¬
ceived,by reference from the secretary
of state, a communication from the
Spanish minister to tbe effect that he
has information that an important
filibustering expedition is being or¬
ganized on the coast of Florida, and
asks that steps bo taken by tlie gov¬
ernment to frustrate it.
The department communicated this
information to all collectors and mas¬
ters of the patrol fleet on the Florida
coast with instructions to be on the
alert to prevent the departure of any
suspected expedition.
MILES IS HONORED.
II« Will Hide Near Queen Vie In tlie Jubi¬
lee Farade.
A special to The New York World
from London says:
General Miles, who recently came to
Europe to witness the
war as tlie representative of the United
States army, is to ride mounted in the
queen’s jubilee parade in a position
very near to the queen’s carriage.
CHURCHES CALLED ON
To Devoto Fourt < of July 8«rvl<;o lo Cu¬
ban Cause.
The Cuban League of the United
States has called upon the churches of
the land to devote the principal ser¬
vice of Sunday, July 4th next, to tho
cause of God, liberty and humanity,
as represented in the struggle of Cu¬
ba for independence, devoting tbe col¬
lection taken to the Cuban cause.
The league also requests that tho
public half school teachers devote the last
day of tbe spring and summer
session to the story of Cuba.
The league calls upon
societies of America to make the 4t,h
July, 1897, a “Memorial for Cuban
freedom.”
TURKS IGNORE ARMISTICE.
The Sultan Hus Been Busy Mobilizing His
K«-Fnforce*nenl§.
A special dispatch from Athens
the Exchange Telegraph company
ports that the armistice
Greece and Turkey has been
by tho Turks mobilizing
monts, fortifying Volo and
and sending troops to various islands.
Tbe dispatch reports that the
ish fleet passed out through
Dardanelles Saturday night.
T. P. GREEN. MANAGER.
Bill ARP’S WHY LIIIIR
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,u « ‘ the
country. Every politician l.a .1 a rem-
b "‘ «<»»<*how the people have
lost, confidence m our so-called stares-
men and their medicine won’t stay on
tho stomach. A first-class politician
can argue the leg off an iron pot or ^
the spots off a leopard. I heard Aleck
Stephens make a great speech away
back in the 40’s and lie proved that
the Democratic party was responsible
for all tho calamities that had befallen
the country for twenty years, even to
tlie high price of coffee and the low
price of cotton and the yellow fever
in Savannah.
1 was ruminating about this because
I have been traveling around a good
deal of late, and if the times are not
better then all signs deceive me. Farm¬
ing is claimed to he the foundation of
ali prosperity the mudsills of the
building—and times if so, then I know the
farmer are is improving, for tho diligent
prospering outside everywhere in the
sunny south of floods and
cyclones. The crops in South Caroli-
mi are well advanced and promising.
Harvest is at hand in north Georgia
and Tennessee, and was never better.
Everything tlie, farmer grows com-
mands a fair price, and everything he
has to buy is cheap. The price of
wheat and corn and bay is better than
it was from 1880 to 1890* wheat at $1
per bushel, hay at $1 a hundred, corn
at 50 cents, sweet potatoes at 75 cents,
Irish potatoes at 00, chickens from 15
to 20 cents, and wood at #1.50 a cord.
What is the matter with the farmer?
Suppose his cotton is down to 7 cents,
he can make money on it at that. A
man at Union, S. C., told me he made
last year 800 bales on 800 acres, and
cleared $ 8 , 000 . How is that? When
I was a young merchant Cotton aver¬
aged about 8 cents a pound; corn 40
cents a bushel; wheat 75 cents, pota¬
toes 25, wood $1 a cord. Shirtingand
calico were 121 cents a yard, sugar
and coffee 1 2 j cents a pound. Iron
was 5 cents, and steel 75 cents and
nails 8 cents. Now all these things
except coffee are half price, and all
that the farmer grows for sale is 25
per cent higher, except cotton. But
still he is not happy. Up north, of
course, it is different, for it takes all
they make in six months’ summer to
support them the six winter months.
I am sorry for those people, that id
for all the clever ones, and wish they
could sell out to the fanatics and fools
and come down hero to this blessed
land. Their laboring class who have
no land and work about for wages say
they are not coming, for they can get
$25 a month up there and we pay our
negroes only $10. That’s so. That’s
the way it is put down in the last
census. But the census don’t tell how
the farm laborer up there is only
wanted three months and the other
nine he jobs it around for little or noth¬
ing, anil it takes his last, nickel to keep
from freezing to death. And the cen¬
sus don’t toll how our negro laborers
on the farms get their wages all the
year round and get a comfortable cabin
rent free nml have no firewood to buy
and every family lias a garden and they
raise chickens and eggs and a pig or
two and have scraps enough from their
table to support two hound dogs and a
flee. Besides all this, they bait holes
in tho creek and catch suckers by night
and hunt rabbits on Sunday.
Talk about our cheap labor. There
isn’t a respectable negro man in Bar¬
tow county who isn’t better off and
happier tlian tbe average farm
at the north. That is one good
the negro has done for the south. He
has intimidated the northern scurf
the foreign scurf and kept them away.
1 saw in tho columns of The
tion not long ago a statement in
that was taken from a Boston
showing that since 1890 the
population, inclusive of their
born since their arrival, has
78 per cent in New England, while
natives have increased but 6 per
in all that time. The exact
wore giw.n. isn’t that awful? New
England lunl just as well give up their
time-ho icred and historic country re¬
ligion and all to these foreigners.
When I was in Nashville the other
day I looked with pride at the exhibits
of our southern industry that greeted
made me everywhere. In a former letter I
special mention of the magnifi¬
cent display of the Nashville and Chat¬
tanooga railroad; that includes the
Western and Atlantic railroad of ou r
state. But our other southern roads
are emulating Major Thomas’s exam-
i
pie especially the Georgia railroad,
whoso exhibit makes every Georgian
feel proud. Besides the beautiful sh ow
°f grain, fresh from the harvest Gelds,
there are minerals of almost every
selsy.'S. stones of Hall sateVS:
county. Just i in -
agine a solid granite obelisk split
out in the rough mid unhewn that is
forty feet high and five feet square at
tho base and that weighs 70,000
pounds. Then there is the Louisville
and Nashville, and the Plant system, f
am , Scftbonr( | Ajl . Linp tl a t the
wondering visitor will not fail ' to SCO.
J w ' 0 'j, 1 °"’ ° . f con N e e*«yhody ,
’
Its -1^7 , "r C 0 I l >0ra t,o “
and a J H ate I "*» «ip the very 1 best
V bav ® S ot > for bat » b !"" a '‘;
;\ the n cleanest f K,<1 oIcl eggs country and the woman finest will apples put-
* be "l
“*“• Bot “ tbe “'«•«« products of
01,1 >«"lu«t.ry 1 and resources arc nearly
nti K 00 * m thosB exluLits there we have
a "ondcrfnl country. Let a Granger
a ?”« “ d *?! le t ^', Wlnd .°7 b « a * surprised he r ! f,ea
' > he gets to Nashville, for just now
'l , ' arvefit Rml tbo sce " ery « a *
Pretty as a picture. I T remember that
«M U 01 os ' b,ei1 turn tbe but propriety it proved of itself the Atlanta
a Wise
.““T® and now the. Ten-
"(ssen r Centennial is already a grand
“«< »«<1 »«" ffow into greater im-
mrtauce as the weeks roll on. Soon
be J»™iers wil have more leisure and
l b « low *’ f tr »T el 7 1 aval1
th ^ s kindergarten ’T" . for r their I ”' wives U , g6_ and ;
children. And my faith is that of all
c,asses > the farmer is the best able to
R°> ,uul "’ill reap Use greatest profit
f rom his visit. Just think what is
thrown in free to delight the senses-
" bat beautiful grounds and shady
" a 'ks; what beauty of architecture,
' B ' bat wonderful paintings and works
°/ tbe sculptor’s art, and wliat grand
fireworks by night, and what delicious
music by day! Where else can ho
bear Sousa and limes with their or-
chestras without going a thousand
miles—-and where that sweetest of all
music, tho piano, when it is touched
by a master’s hand? Aivay back in
tho forties I thought my wife could
charm even the angelg when slie
touched the chords of her old-fashion¬
ed piano, and subdued men to her will
and wish with the power of music.
But I was desperately in love with liev
then, and I reckon would have mar*
, her anyhow, music music-
i or no
tbat 1H 11 R he would have had
me < Bnd I reckon she would. Holl¬
otli " cre <*asy. • But “music hath
charms to soothe the savage breast,”
and she soothed mine. “Ob, music!
what is it and where does it dwell?”
". v " ife sti11 plays when feeling sad,
can’t tell why. One of our daugli-
t,,rs baH recently bought a baby Grand,
a,1(1 my wife plays on it a good deal,
fnr her fingers, though not as angolic
aH tbe .Y used to be, have not lost there
“'"Rio touch, and she declares that if
H,1C ba<1 ono ,il( e tbat in the house it
would renew her youth. assured
Well, it is comforting lo fee!
that after all our troubles and appre¬
hensions, the south is again on top.
As my friend Colonel KiHebrew says:
“She is on top- aud if iliere is any
higher pinnacle, slie will be on top of
tbat.” Binn Ann in Atlanta Consti¬
tution.
Wild Horses of Montana.
Almost anyone may own a horse in
Montana. If he has not the $5, #10,
#20 or $50 necessary to pay for the
blood and culture with which any par¬
ticular animal may be endowed bo may,
if he has the necessary agility, go out
on tho range and take one, for there
are plenty that don’t belong to any
one else.
Since the prices on horses fell below
tlie paying point many ranchmen havo
neglected branding their stock or keep ¬
ing any track of it, and in fret, there
have been a good many local efforts
made by the owners themselves to ex¬
terminate or drive the horses off tho
immediate ranges that there might be
better grass fer cattle and sheep. It
is very repulsive business, to a Western
man more especially than anyone else,
to shoot a horse, and a man who is
capable of it is regarded with rather
more circumspection than one who has
killed his man.
Bo, being protected by a spark of
sentiment, the herds of wild or mave¬
rick horses are really increasing and a
right royal breed of animals they are.
When the business was good, a few
years back, the Montana and progressive breeders were of
tho most energetic bought sires of-
any in the west. They blood
thoroughbred and trotting in
Kentucky uud turned them loose with
their herds.
Others who desired size rather than,
endurance went to Illinois and Canada
and purchased great. Norman and
Clydesdale stallions. While the prices
ruled high the two classes were bred
separately but of late years they have
been allowed to run into one uniform
and homogeneous herd. The new breed
is of good height and strong-boned,
with lung power and endurance that
are suggestive of a greyhound.
If conditions were to remain the
same for, say, a period of thirty yearn
longer, without any new admixture of
blood it is reasonable to expect that
these herds would gradually assume a
uniformity of size, shape and color to
as great an extent as is noted in any
other wild animals.—Chicago RecorcL
A Champion Came Slayer.
Earl de Grey holds the championship
among the world’s hunters for the
quantity of game killed by ono man.
He is now thirty-five years old, ami
during the past twenty years has aver-
aged 20,000 head of game each. year.
On one occasion he shot at fifty phea¬
sants in three minutes and killed all
hut one of them. He has killed eleven
tigers, a number of elephants and
rhihoceroees, bears and lions,