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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. _______ 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 —— .»*»»* ................... BETTER TIMES ARE COMING -“ yir 1 It p b -T- in 10 fl n era CZZ3 =3 Hi «i IblN ip... LaJ j . j l __ Time UUvnunts Doctors Volitltlan. In | ov Mrin B iiig Ail Things Around iu B ht side Up. ___ ""tollman ,. tell 4 ,, us of , the , night.” 1,as 1 ,e f n that “old i , U ""’ )r " ff°°d doctor.” 1 he- Imve that he is about to cure the couu- 1 ! eltl,er ^ P olltu \ iaus } no. aot Certain logmlatum It, Is that has | <u,ne Rood. , The disease was not i even diagnosed, but the patient is get- j ! tin B "'«»• Neither Cleveland nor anti- Cleveland nor McKinley nor the tariff , , 10 f l o P uIlRm bas •'»«> "".Vtbing to do \“ 1 b l Tlme w the medicine, and whel tlmo : *j«»* b ,1 * good, 1 cu , rcs “ period, P a had « «fay« vnre a ong f rheu- m,lt ! R1, 1 BfiVeial years and the doctors ' vo f keil 1 °“ Ul « «»*« they got tired and along, 1 1 and , after °U t)o, a while : t ! ,r tho T,me rheuma- camo tisul i nst , l nit J tte a,ul *««“ *"’»? ot its ®*n neoord. For six years we have all !‘ee« about cussin tbe and ,llHBaR fussin’ tba and afflicted discuss- I ! ,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,