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THE FLIGHT OF THE YEARS.
When one by one the sllont stately years
Glide like pale ghosts beyond our yearning
sight,
vainly we stretch our arms to stay
So flight,
soon, night! so swift, they pass to
We hardly learn to name them,
To praise them or to flame them,
Tn knew their shadowy faces,
Ere we see their empty places!
Only Only onco the glad spring greets them,
onco fair summer meets them,
TeJJs Only once lor the autumn glory
them its mystic story.
Wears Only once the wintry hoary
for them its robes of light!
Tears leave their work half done; like men
alasl
With sheaves ungathered to their
And they pass.
Lives are for forgotten. What they strive to
a while in memory of a few
Then over all Oblivion’s waters flow—
The years are buried in the long ago!
■—Julia C. B. 1 )orr.
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C THE WRONG MAN.
tooo-jOoooooo
N
mm f horrified
• —and N e II i
m sg) Joyce back with
% \A bright bins h,
m "’^hing that
earth would
low her up
* and there,
before her, like a culprit, stood an
tonished young man.
“Good heavens, I
then Nellie stopped short,
realizing how impossible it was to
plain to this stranger that it was
another man those kisses had been in¬
tended.
‘ ‘I am the I perceive.
You have young man,
mistaken me probably
my brother,” ho remarked with
gravity that was highly commendable
under the circumstances, aud thinking
in his own mind what a lucky fellow
was Dick.
Nellie made a frantic effort to re-
cover her lost digniiy, but merely suo-
ceeded in appearing what she was—a
S—rj-ydy " You—you embarrassed- should have little stopped girl!
in me
time,” ^ior she began, reproach
from violet eyes, and then she
tried to glare at the wretch as she saw
that his gray eyes were twinkling.
“1 apologize; but, you see, you took
me by surprise, aud when I realized
that I was a victim of a blunder it was
too late. The—the mischief had al¬
ready been done.”
Nellie drew herself up to her full
height, which, (o tell the truth, was
nothing very startling, and regarded
the culprit with what she intended for
chilling hauteur.
“Then, since the ‘mischief,’” with
an emphasis which hinted at resent¬
ment, “is irreparable, the only thing
u#v to be done is—to forget it.”
Jack Yereker looked down at the
winsome face, at the long-lashed Irish
eyes and the rosebud of a mouth, the
sweet, soft lips that just now had
pressed his, and he wished it were
possible to obey her. He was no
“lady’s man”-—into his lonely life
women did not enter—and he had not
known till now the thrilling power of
a kiss.
“Your wishes are commands,” he de¬
clared, with a curious look in his ex¬
pressive gray eves, “and now permit
me to introduce myself and explain
my presence hero. I am Jack Yereker,
and have just come from London to
see my brother on business, and fail¬
ing to find him at his hotel, came on
here, where they told me I should be
certain to see him.”
“He was to have been here now,”
said Nellie, struggling with the shy¬
ness which was fast overpowering her.
“I am Nellie Joyce, Mr. Joyce’s
granddaughter.”
“So I presumed. And now, Miss
Nellie, will you not shake hands with
me on the strength of our future rela¬
tionship?”
Nellie was furious with herself for
the color which, in spite of her efforts
to look cool, would persist in invading
her cheeks; yet wa3 she not accus¬
tomed by this time to being pointed
out as Dick Vereker’s fiaucee?
“I see no necessity for doing so,”
she answered, taking refuge in an at¬
titude of defiance, and telling herself
that she hated this man, “for I am
quite sure we shall never be friends.”
“And why not? What have I
done?”
"Ton know what——” and then
again she stopped short, for the curious
smile on his lips and the odd look in
his eyes were things that could no
longer be ignored.
“But I must ask you to remind me
what I have done; my memory has be¬
come a perfect blank.”
Nellie flashed a swift, wrathful look
on him; then she turned and fled ig-
nominiously, and in the seclusion of
her bedroom sat down to think over
the situation.
What a wretch he was, to be sure—a
nasty, conceited—-.roll, no—he didn’t
look conceited exactly. And then she
wondered what Dick would say when
he heard of it—as hear of it, of course,
he would.
longer Reflections of this kind were no
endurable, so, changing tlieir
feature. Nellie bounded tti her feet,
and carefully inspected herself in the
mirror, to see if her hair was “tidy.”
'•.was not, of course—being of that
»V langlisV ijjj-mbs eider and of chevelure, brushes—yet which for
all that, ti.v , latter refieetious gave
her more comSyMliau the others, and
N
she congratulated herself on
had on her “pale blue.”
It was so necessary to create a fa¬
vorable herself impression at first, she told
gravely, for when one was
about to enter a family in the aggres¬
sive capacity of—anything at all in
law--first impressions mere distinctly
valuable.
“My dear Nell,” exclaimed Dick
hour later, as the young lady entered
her grandmother's private sitting-
room downstairs, “I have been wait¬
ing for you for nearly an age, and my
brother here—Jack, Miss Nellie Joyce
—had made up his mind that you
must belong to the race of myths.”
“Indeed!” said Nellie, with a cold
bow in the direction of the tall figure
in the background, and
why she had never before noticed
what a provokingly complacent Bmile
her fiance’s was, “But you know you
were to have been here at 4.30,” and
then she sat down on a stool at her
grandmother’s feet.
“Dick, will yon ring for tea?”
smiled the old lady, softly stroking her
darling’s curly head, and then, turn¬
ing to the silent figure on the hearth¬
rug, observed that she had never seen
so fore extraordinary a likeness before be¬
between brothers.
It appeared to Nellie that Dick
seemed anxious to change the subject,
but when Grannie was once launched
on a topic it was not easy to
her, and presently she was giving her
opinion on the mysterious tie existing
between twins, and the wonderful love
they had for each other, Dick endeav¬
oring whispered meanwhile to enter into a
conversation with his fiancee,
an endeavor that was distinctly a fail¬
ure.
‘ ‘And how long are you going to
main in Rostrevor?” asked the
lady at last, smilingly looking at Jack,
as he turned over some prints on the
table. “The season here, if there is
season, is almost over. ”
Jack glanced at his brother before
replying, aud it was Dick then who
answered for him, airly remarking
that an hour’s stay ought to be suffi¬
cient, if it was business that had
brought him there.
Nellie looked from one to the other,
and wondered at the uneasy expression
on the face of her
still more why she had ever
him good looking.
Whatever the nature of Jack Vere-
ker’s business at Rostrevor, it was
finished quite as soon as Dick ap¬
peared to think it would be, for two
weeks passed and he was still at the
quiet seaside resort, Mrs. Joyc o was
hospitality itself, constantly inviting
the two brothers to luncheon and din¬
ner at the little hotel where she had
put up, but Jack seldom made his ap-
pearance.
It was evident to Nellie that it was
she whom he avoided, aud considering
her hatred of him it was strange how
indignant she was at the thought.
His eyes haunted her continually;
she found herself perpetually longing
to bring that look to his face that it
had worn when she told him he was to
“forget,” and then she was always
comparing him, unconsciously, with
his brother, a comparison in which,
strange to relate, it was her fiance that
suffered.
“Jack is coming up to-night to say
goodby, ” remarked Dick one evening
at dinner, and Nellie was certain there
was relief on his face, but she allowed
her grandmother to say the necessary
polite things, and only longed for the
meal to be over.
It was easier far, she told herself,
to climb to Rostrevor Stone in the
gathering darkness than to meet the
gaze of those gray eyes, easier the
stillest accent than to utter a formal
goodby to the man who had shown her
her own heart!
She was engaged to Dick, and Dick
was Grannie’s favorite, and the Joyces
never broke faith--but she must be
away when Jack came to-night.
Rostrevor Stone is more easily
climbed in broad daylight than in the
dusk of a late autumn evening, and
presently Nellie, whoso thoughts were
far distant, found herself embracing
Mother Earth.
Her fall, coming so unexpectedly,
together with the intense loneliness of
the scene, caused her to close her eyes
for a moment, and then—then a most
wonderful thing happened. Strong
arms her were suddenly placed around her,
auburn head was pillowed on a
broad chest, and in a tone of ineffable
tenderness a voice whispered in her ear
three little words--but t hree words
which made all the world seem glori¬
fied.
“My little gid,” it was all he said,
but Nellie lay still with cosed eyes,
wondering could heaven hold greater
rapture than this.
‘Jack,” the violet eyses opened, and
reminded him of his treachery to his
brother, and the next moment the two
stood facing each other in the dusk,
and an anguished cry burst from him.
“God forgive me, I never meant you
to know,” looking into the sweet young
fnc8, which now reflected his own
misery, “but I am going away, and I
forgot myself. ”
“It was not your fault,” she mur¬
mured, while despite the pain of the
awakened there thrilled through her
the exquisite delight of loving and be¬
ing loved. “But take me home now
to Grannie, and do as I shall try to do
--forget.”
“It is the second time you have
told me to do so—then as now. I am
the wrong man—it is the fate in the
life of some. ”
“Life itself is wrong, I think,” she
cried, struggling for a moment against
temptation to bo true to her heart at
all costs. “Bnt there—let us go home,
I am tired.”
“Have you heard the latest?” ex¬
claimed one gossip to another six
months later. "You know the firm of
Vereker & Go.? Well, it turns out that
one of the nephews of the head of the
firm—Dick Vereker—has been for
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months defrauding his uncle, and try¬
ing Jack’s to put it all down to his brother
account, taking advantage of
the likeness between them, The fel-
low was engaged to a pretty heiress in
Ireland, and thought to Have got her
before the bomb anything burst, was and found out, but
has everything is
known,"
'‘And the girl is heartbroken, of
course?”
“By no means, for this morning her
marriage is in the papers; she has con¬
soled herself with the brother.”
“Just the way of women all over the
world,” is the sententious remark of
the man-about-town, but under a clear,
starry sky on the veranda of a foreign
hotol, a violet-eyed girl is murmuring
to her husband, as he bends fondly
over her this slight form, "Not the wrong
man time, Jack, thank God.”—
The Daughter.
WISE WORDS.
Every noble activity makes room for
itself. —Emerson.
Be charitable before wealth makes
thee covetous.—Sir T. Brown.
It is not by the gray of the hair that
one knows the age of the heart.—Bui-
wer.
Loving kindness is greater than laws!
and the charities of life are more than
all ceremonies.—Talmud.
Who does the best bis circumstance
allows; does well, acts nobly, angels
could do no more.—Young.
The inheritance of a distinguished
and noble name is aproud inheritance to
him who lives worthily of it.—Colton.
Never shrink from doing anything
your business calls you to do. The man
who is above his business may one day
find his business above him.—Drew,
There i» a maxim of unfailing truth,
that nobody ever pries into another
man’s concerns, but with a design to
do, or to be able to do him a mischief,
—South,
General Forrest’s Sword,
Among the Confederate relics sent
from this city to the Tennessee Cen¬
tennial Exposition are the sword,
sashes and pistol of General N. B. For¬
rest and other mementoes of the fa¬
mous Confederate chieftain. The sword
may be considered the most famous
blade of modern times, as with it its
owner literally hewed his way to fame,
starting his military career as a private
and winning his way step by step to
the rank of Licutenaut General of
cavalry, the highest in the cavalry ser¬
vice. The sword, unlike most of those
worn by military officers of high rank,
was vice evidently intended for actual ser-
and not merely as a part of the in¬
signia of rank. The blade is long and
sharp, and bears upon its polished sur¬
face the marks of actual service.
General Forrest’s pistol, the one
worn by him throughout the war, is a
Colt’s navy revolver of thirty-six cali¬
ber, the ivory handle of which is dis¬
colored with age. Like its companion,
the sword, it has seen much service
aud is responsible for many lives cut
short in battle. Besides the sashes
worn by the Confederate there is in
this collection of Forrest relics the bul¬
let which was taken from the General
after he was so severely wounded at
the battle of Shiloh. Ail these relies,
together with a tiny silken Confederate
flag presented to General Forrest by
some lady whose name is unknown to
the surviving members of his family,
are William the property Forrest, of his son, Captain
who was with his
father from the age of fifteen years till
the surrender two years later. In ad¬
dition to the military relies of General
Forrest, there is his pardon from the
President of the United States. This
is signed by William H. Seward, Secre¬
tary of State.-—Memphis Scimitar.
A Turkish Prayer.
What better index of a nation’s
character can be furnished than the
one presented in its supplications?
The instinct of worship is divinely
implanted in every human breast, and
there is no race of people, how¬
ever savage or brutal, that does not
recognize this inherent principle, and
that does not instinctively worship
something. Even the murderous
Turks are intensely religious, as the
following remorseless prayer offered up by these
persecutors of the Chris¬
tians plainly exdnces:
O Lord of all creatures! O Allah! destroy
thine enemies; tho enemies of religion; 0
Allah! make their children orphans and de-
fllo their bodies; cause their feet to slip;
give them and their families, their house¬
hold and their women, their children and
their relations by marriage, their brethren
and their friends, their possessions and
their race, tlieir wealth and their lands, as
booty to the Moslems—O Lord of all crea¬
tures!
This prayer is not only sanctioned
by the Moslem Government, but every
Turkish soldier is required to pros¬
trate himself in the dust at least five
times a day with this outrageous peti¬
tion upon his lips. Is it surprising,
then, in view of the religious frenzy by
which the Turks are actuated, that
scores and hundreds of Christians
should fall under the brutal knife of
the Sultan, and that Crete should re¬
fuse longer to endure the yoke of
bondage xvhich such a nation puts
upon her?—Atlanta Constitution.
Tho JliglioKt Bridge*
The highest bridge of any kind in
tlie .world is said to be the Leo River
Viaduct on the Antofagasta Railway,
in Bolivia, South America. The place
where this highest railway structure
has been erected is over the Molo
Rapids in the Upper Andes, and is be¬
tween the two sides of a canyon which
is situated 10,000 feet from the level
of the Pacific. From the surface of
tho stream to the level of tho rails this
celebrated bridge is exactly 636} feet
in height, the length of the principal
span is eighty feet, and the distance
between the abutments is 802 feet.
Tho gauge of the road is twenty-seven
feet six inches, and the trains cross
the bridge at a speed of thirty miles
an hour.—Tit-Bits.
ANOTHER BIRTHDAY AtYVKENN
HIM TO REM 1 NISCDNCtS.
AN INVENTORY OF HIS PAST LIFE.
Sage of Bartow U Thankful That Ills Life
Has Been Allotted to a Progressive
and Enlightened Age,
Another paternal birthday ill my
family. They seem to come about
twice a year to me now. How every¬
thing shrinks as we near the goal.
The trees are not so tall nor the hills
as high as they used to be. That is
very natural, and is nothing new, but
how is it that, even time should shrink
—time that is so exact, so unchangea¬
ble and that is measured by the same
ticking of the clock, and that is meas¬
ured by the rising and setting of the
sun and that by the revolving earth
and that by its annual course around
the sun? I can’t see why time should
seem to shrink at all, or if any change,
it should expand, for we can do more,
think more, learn more in a day than
when we were children. Seventy-
two years ago today I came
into this sublunary world and
have had my share of joy and
sorrow, and am content with my lot
in life, As David said, “The lines
have fallen to me in pleasant places.
Yea, I have a good heritage.” But
poor old Job took it hard when Satan
despoiled him, and he cursed his day
and said in the anguish of his soul:
“Let the day perish wherein I was
born. Why died I not from the womb,
for then I should have lain still and
been at rest, for there the wicked
cease from troubling and the weary
are at rest?” Poor old man; his sad
story always excites my sympathy.
Then there was Jeremiah, who ex¬
claimed: “Oh, that my head were wa-
tors aud mine eyes a river of tears.
Cursed be the day wherein I was born;
cursed be the man who brought tidings
to my father saying a man child is
born unto thee.”
I don’t like these sad people nor sad
stories nor tales of misery. I never
read a romance that ends sadly. I
don’t like the company of people who
wear sad faces and are never happy
unless they are miserable, I wish
that Robert Burns had never written
“Man Was Made to Mourn,” for I
don’t believe it. Of all God’s creat¬
ures, man is tbe only one that can
smile, aud he should smile as often as
he can. Cowper was a sad poet, but
lie'does say:
“Behind a frowning Providence
He wears a smiling face.”
That is better. The Creator who
beautified and adorned the earth with
fruits and flowers aud gave us birds to
sing and music to charm, and studded
the heavens with stars, did not make
man to mourn, If He had given us
only buzzards for birds and dog fennel
for flowers and the howling of the
winds for music, we might have
mourned; but I rather like that poet
who, in the gush of his gratitude,
said:
“This world is very lovely. Oil, my God
I thank Thee that I live.”
Young was another sad and solemn
poet, and says:
"Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.”
Sidney Smith was more genial and
says:
“Man wants hut little here below,
As beef, pork, lamb and venison show.”
I wish somebody would tell rue
where I can find a parody on that
same text that was written by John
Quincy Adams about half a century
ago. It was a charming poem, and
began:
“Mnn wants but little hero below,
Nor wants that little long,
’Tis not with me exactly so,
Tho’ ’tis so in the song.”
Then he sets forth a delightful cata¬
logue of what he does want, and it ac¬
cords with our desires and excuses as
for indulging them. Let a man, and
especially a woman, wish as much as
he or she pleases, but no good comes
of a distressful longing for things we
can’t get. Woman is peculiar about
that. She can want pretty things ever
so badly and do without them ever so
graciously. During the war and about
its distressing close tbe wives and
mothers who had lived in luxury came
down to poverty and hard times with
more fortitude than the men—I knew
many men who gave up and pined away
aud died, but their wives didn’t. They
held up their heads and struggled on.
I remember how crushed and he I pikas
I felt when I got my family back home
and found nothing but a shelter—not
a bed to sleep on—not a cow in tho
county, no flour, no sugar nor coffee
—not a chicken nor an egg, and no
money to buy with, if there had been
anything to buy—no wood to burn no
fence around the house, and so we had
to burn the stable that the yankees
built on our lot for their horses. It
was desolation, and with ino was al¬
most despair,but my wife never surren¬
dered, and she hasn’t yet. .She wants
as many good things and nice things
as anybody, but when trouble comes
she can suffer and be strong.
It is a good time about now for a
man of my years to look back and take
a kind of inventory of what I havo
done all this time—what has been ac¬
for tho world’s good or
good, not for my own good,
that don’t count up yonder. Be¬
I go into the receiver’s hands it is
for me to make up an invoice.
When a schoolboy we used to debate
whether or not tiiere was such a thing
disinterested benevolence. I thought
then that there was, but it seems tome
now that almost every good thing 1
ever did was very much mixed with
selfishness and that all that will exi u u?
me will be on the line of the poet who
says,
“They who joy would win,
Must share it happiness was born in twin.”
There is some comfortfifl that, for I
believe I have taken pleasure in divid¬
ing with others the blessings that God
has given me. The retrospect is, how¬
ever, not free from clouds aud blurs,
and I would that I could live
parts of my life over again,and live them
better. Dr. -Johnson said to Boswell
that a man who lived for himself lived
ill vain, aud that it was every
duty to do something for his fellow-
mttn and also for those who were to
come after him, “Our fathers and
forefathers,” said he, “wrote books
and invented useful contrivances, and
planted trees aud vines for us, and so,
as we cannot pay them for it, we
should do something for posterity.” I
am about even on that line, for \ have
planted trees both for shade and fruit
wherever I have lived, and my wife
still keeps me planting vines. I have
written many sketches and a book or
two, without malice aforethought, and
can say with Byron:
“What is writ i< writ
Would it were worthier.”
On the whole I am grateful that my
life has been allotted to the last three-
quarters of this century—seven de¬
cades that have witnessed more prog¬
ress in science, art, invention aud
Christian civilization than any pre¬
vious thousand years in the world’s
history. A great leap forward has
been made since I was a hoy, for I
remember when there were but few
books and fewer newspapers in the
United States—when there were hut
two or three little short railroads, and
not there a telegraph or telephone—-when
was no light but. candle-light,
and not a friction match in the world,
nor a steel peu. Rut progress always
brings a train of evil tilings along
with it. Every light has its shadow.
The devil is a lively cuss, and keeps
up with tlio procession.
“Man never builds a house of prayer
But what the devil has a pulpit there.”
Aud his pulpit, though invisible, is
at the other end where the sinners
love to congregate. I remember wlion
there wore no hip p ickets nor pistols
to put in them, l remember when
there was no whisky in this country,
and the only spirits drank were wine,
peach brandy, cognac brandy,
was made from grapes, and New Eng¬
land rum that the yaukees made from
molasses. They made ihe rum to buy
niggers with in Africa, but some of
got down south. Whisky came later,
and was originally usheybaugh, a gas-
tie word that, strange to say, means
water of life. The last syllable was
happily dropped in course of time, for
it means life—and uskey was pro¬
nounced weesky.
Bat it would take a book to tell all
the changes that have marked the Inst
sixty'years—the good of it and the
bad of it. I would blot some things
out if I could, and set the clock back,
but God knowetli. Especially would
I blot out every bad thought and every
bad deed of my own—every act that
gave pain or anxiety to those who
loved me. The worst word in the
language is remorse. I am free from
that, I knoiv, but not from regret. I
wish that all the young people would
stop and think—sometimes stop and
think and resolve to do nothing that will
follow them like Banquo’s ghost when
they get old.—Bum Arp, in Atlanta
Constitution.
A Clever Canine.
There is a dog at Paris (Tex.) that
can tell the time of day, and calls his
master for breakfast every morning
He belongs to H. 0. Peterson, a
workman in the cotton seed mill at
Paris. It is Nick’s duty, besides wak¬
ing his master in the morning, to take
his dinner to him in a little pail every
day. Should Mrs. Peterson by any
mischance, overlook the matter, the
dog is sure to remind her in proper
time, by bringing ths pail to her and
urging her to (ill it. At first it was
supposed to Vie the dog’s intuition
which enabled him to know the hour,
but he has many times been seen
watching the clock, and once when
Mrs. Peterson set the hands ahead to
test the matter, Nick brought the din¬
ner pail promptly on the stroke of 12,
although in reality it was ouly 11
o’clock.
Human Density.
A French scientific writer points out
that a mere gain in weight should not,
tn itself, be taken as an indication of
improved bodily condition. It is, ac-
cording to him, rather a question of
the density than of the quantity of
tissue that covers the hones. When
increase of weight results from in¬
creased density, then tho health is
really improved, Tn order that Ibis
principle may be practically applied,
he suggests the use of baths contain¬
ing a known quantity of water, and
supplied with appliances for measure¬
ment whereby tho density of the im¬
mersed body may be calculated, in
the manner in which Archimedes as¬
certained the density of King Hiero’s
crown of adulterated gold.
Ai.l tho guns, standards and other
trophies captured by tlio French from
the Russians during the Crimean War
were returned to Russia more than a
year ago. Emperor Nicholas prom¬
ised at the time that lie would return
tbe compliment, But, in spite of this
assurance, no steps have as yet been
taken to restore to Franco the guns
and the flags which she was com¬
pelled to abandon to tho Russians
during her terrible retreat from Mos¬
cow in 1812. The delay is exciting
both surprise and irritation at Paris,
anil is tending still further to cool off
the enthusiasm which, until the be¬
ginning of this year prevailed in
France in favor of everything Russian.
T. P. GREEN, MANAGER.
SAYS PROPOSED ANNEXATION IS
AN INJUSTICE TO HER.
FILES A PAPER WITH SHERMAN.
Senators Favoring the Treaty Say They
XiHck Only Three Votes to Secure
Ratification.
Queen Lilioukalani filed a protest
Thursday afternoon in the office of the
secretary of state at Washington.
It was delivered into the hands of
Secretary luhe, Shennau by Joseph Hele-
representing the native Ha-
waiians, duly commissloned( with two
of their patriotic leagues.
The protest in part reads; “I Lilio¬
ukalani of Hawaii, by the will of God
named heir apparent on the 10th day
of April, A. D. 1877, and by the grace
of God, queen of the Hawaiian islands
on the 17th day of January, A. D.
1893, do hereby protest against tbe
ratification of a certain treaty which,
so Washington I am informed, has been signed at
Kinney, by Messrs. Thurston and
purporting to cede those is¬
lands to the territory and dominion of
the United States. I declare BUch a trea¬
ty to bo an act of wrong toward the
native and parnative people of Hawaii,
and an invasion of the rights of the
ruling chiefs, in violation of interna¬
tional rights, both toward my people
and toward friendly nations, with
whom they have made treaties, the
perpetuation of Ihe fraud whereby tbe
constitutional government was over-
thrown and finally an act of gross in¬
justice to me:
Because the official protests made
by me on the 17th day of January,
1893, to the so-called provisional gov¬
ernment was signed by me and aro
received by said government with the
assurance that the case was referred
to the United States of America for
arbitration:
“Because that protest and my com¬
munications to the United States gov¬
ernment immediately thereafter ex¬
pressly declared that I yielded my au¬
thority to the forces of the United
States in order to avoid bloodshed and
because I recognized the futility of
conflict with so formidable a power.
“Because the president of the
States,the secretary of stateand an
voy commissioned by them reported,
in official documents, that my govern¬
ment was unlawfully coerced by
forces, diplomatic and naval, of the
United States, that I was at the date
of their investigations, the constitu¬
tional ruler of my people.
Because said treaty ignores not only
all professions of perpetual amity and
good faith made by the United Slates
in former treaties with the sovereigns
representing the Hawaiin people, hut
all treaties made by I hose sovereigns
with other and friendly powers, and it
is thereby in violation of international
law.
Tbe protest closes as follows:
“Therefore I, Lilioukalani of Hawaii,
do hereby call upon the president of
that nation to whom alone 1 yielded
my property and my authority to with¬
draw said treaty (ceding said islands)
from further consideration. I ask the
honorable senate of the United States
to decline to ratify said treaty and im¬
plore the people of this great and good
nation from whom my ancestors learn¬
ed the Christian religion, to sustain
their representatives in such acts of
justice and equity as may be in accord
with the principles of their fathers and
the almighty ruler of the universe, to
him who judges righteously I commit
my cause.
States “Done at Washington, I).C.,United
of America, this 17th day of
June, in the year 1897.
“LlBIOUKAT/ANI. ”
Need Only Three Votes.
It is announced that there aro fifty-
seven senators who can lie counted for
the ratification of the Hawaiian annex¬
ation treaty—just three less than the
requisite There two-thirds.
are eleven other senators who
are undecided as to how they shall
vote. There are twenty-one senators
opposed to tho treaty.
This is tho result of a careful can¬
vass of the senate. The advocates of
annexation are confident of their abil¬
ity to secure at least three more votes
and thus bring about the ratification of
the treaty.
OIE MEN IN SECRET MEETING.
2‘robablo That Tliey I)1 hcidimc(I
of QmuhI Trust.
A Chattanooga telegram says: A
secret meeting of cotton oil men
just been held at Lookout Inn, the
proceedings of which tho
members have declined to give out.
Enough has been learned, however, to
state that the question of prices and
production was under consideration,
and that a quasi trust was discussed.
Whether it was formed or not is not
definitely known.
MONEY IN VAULTS COUNTED.
Experts Find tl.e Hum of *1100,383,000 In
New York 8ub«Treasury*
A New York dispatch says: The ex¬
perts who came on from Washington
some three weeks ago to count the
money in the vaults of the sub-treas¬
ury, completed tlieir labors Tuesday.
They counted exactly $195,383,000,
composed of: Notes, $04,465,000; gold,
$77,940,000; silver coin, $52,739,000;
minor coin, $239,000.
Tho weight of the gold handled was
156 tons and the silver weighed about
ten times as much.
The accounts were “straight” save
for a discrepancy of something like a
dollar in the petty cash.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
The Ptltndra Bides, Company E,
Second regiment, infantry, Georgia
volunteers, has been disbanded. The
company was organized before the war
at Eatonton. In May, 1801, it was
attached to the famous Third Georgia
regiment.
* * *
A Washington telegram stales that
Congressman Livingston has been in¬
vited to speak for Georgia at the
Fourth of July celebration to be held
under the auspices of the democratic
clubs in that city. Each of the orig¬
inal thirteen states will be represented.
Secretary of State Candler has grant¬
ed a charter for a railroad to he known
as the Augusta Northern and Gulf
Baihvay company and to run from
Sylvester to Worth with the general
direction northeast and southwest.
The eompnny has a capital stock of
*100,000 and the charter is for a term
of 101 years.
* * *
For some time the citizens of the
suburbs of Columbus have been com¬
plaining because they were not afforded
ample fire protection by the city,
and a number of property owners are
considering the advisability of not
paying any more taxos to tlio city until
the municipal government gives them
water.
The Catholic clergy of the state aro
in open, declared revolt again at Bishop
Becker. They have filed a protest
with Archbishop Martinelli, the papal
delegate, against, the policy of the
bishop in administering liis duties in
Georgia. The clergy are up in arms
against the bishop and what promises
to become a revolt of far-reaching im¬
portance to the Catholic church has
been started.
A long series of litigation, involving
over $130,000, has been settled in the
United States court at Atlanta. By
the decision Architect Grant Wilkins
wins a suit for $130,500 and hund¬
reds of holders of certificates « '
the receiver of the Marietta and North
Georgia were assured of a payment
on the certificates. Judge Newman
signed an order directing that Captain
II. J. Lowry begin at once tlio pay¬
ment of the receiver’s certificates.
A meeting of the greatest import¬
ance to the mining interests of Georgia
was hold in Atlanta tlio past week.
The delegates from this’state to the
international gold mining convention,
to convene at Denver on July 7tb,
were assembled to arrange for a good
display of Georgia ores at that con¬
vention. It is proposed to send at
least fifteen delegates from Georgia,
and the state will lie called cn to move
Georgia’s mineral exhibit from Nash¬
ville to Denver for the few days dur¬
ing which the convention will bo in
session.
Advices from Macon are to the
effect that the suit against the South¬
ern railroad will be pushed and that
the lawyers are disposed to criticize
Governor Atkinson for giving out his
letter without making their letter pub¬
lic also. They do not approve Gov¬
ernor Atkinson’s course, and say that
his action in publishing liis letter to
them without also giving their letter
to him was unfair to the public. The
letter written by the petitioners to •
Governor Atkinson in withdrawing
tbe petition was to the effect that they
did so because bo could not give them,
any definite idea as to the time when
the matter would bo considered and
decided.
The University of Georgia lias the
champion ball team of the south for
the season of ’97. It took the cham-
pionship from the great Virginia team
the past week at Atlanta. In this
connection the faculty of the Univer¬
sity of Georgia will have a hard ques¬
tion to decide next fall when the mem¬
bers of the ’97 ball team apply for ad¬
mission to the university. The day
of the last game the faculty had a
Meeting and decided that if any of the
students played on a team with the
suspended players they could not re¬
turn to the university next year. This
decision was telegraphed to the team,
but the order was ignored. The ques¬
tion now is, wliat will the faculty do
in September when the college opens?
* * +
Captain Thomas M. Swift, of tlio
legislative investigating committee,
who has shown peculiar zeal in prose¬
cuting tlio investigation of the agri¬
cultural department, is out in a letter
attacking Colonel R. T. Nesbitt, the
commissioner of agriculture. The El¬
bert county representative accuses Mr.
Nesbitt of a number of things, among
others, tlio alleged wasto of larga
amounts of the state’s money. Captain
Swift makes a strong attack on Mr.
Nesbitt’s tag buying methods. AcV
cording to Captain Swift, the tags for
the fertilizers could have been bought
for 65 cents per thousand, whereas
Mr. Nesbitt has been paying $1.00
per thousand. Captain Swift also
stales that lie can get tags at 20 cents
per thousand,wliieli iK only one-eighth
of the jirice heretofore paid. Mr.
Nesbitt has already stated that he
could buy the tags cheaper in the last
two weeks owing to the expiration of
the patent on the'tags.
Baniato Buried In Willisden.
A London dispatch says; The in¬
terment of the late Barney Barnato,
the South African diamond king, took
place Sunday afternoon at t-ko Jewish
cemetery in WilUsden.
Anti-Foreign Riots In China.
Anti-foreign riots have broken out
in the province of Kiang-Si, China.
The English mission at Wuchen has
been destroyed and the refugees have
arrived at Kin-Kiang.