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NOT TO BE JV1ENDED AGAIN.
You can take a piece of china that’s been broken by the maid.
Ami can put tho thing together if you know the mender’s trade;
You That can Mend the thing so neatly that no one will ever know
it has e’er been shattered by an unconsidered blow.
You can take n heart that’s broken by some small flirtatious girl
And can mend the fractured pieces till they're smooth as any pearl
Ay, say that that heart’s possessor fools as sturdy as an oak ’
And forgets that e’er it happened that his heart was ever “broke ”
You can fall from a bicycle and make pieces of your nose;
You can break your collar-bone, or you can fracture all your toss’
You can crush your arm in splinters; you can smash your either lea
And a doctor ho will fix it till it’s whole as any “’
egg.
You can smash an ocean record, but that roconl still is there
You may break a trotting record with a rapid little mare, ’
And As when leave it the sent old the one jockeys standing a-huzzaing just ns whole, through quite the as co’mpioto ’
street,
But alas! if you are angry, and have angry words to say,
Beware a broken silence, or you'll surely rue the day.
Tor a silence that Is broken, by the women or the men
Is a thing that can’t be mended, can’t be rendered whol e again.
Ti-ib Cavern of Plies.
V \B| /pgJERA Wf Mexico, CRUZ, June
11/# 21
—At Fee oh,
A/-, State of Yuca-
-^j CB. tan, and at other
«pt places in that
ss\2r x
; fp a soured for sev-
clouds of flies, which eral days by
came from the
interior country.—The Now York Sun.
Is this the proof of the story told
by the late General Jo O. Shelby, tho
Confederate who never surrendered,
but who, nevertheless, died United
States Marshal for the Western Dis¬
trict of Missouri? Has the Cavern of
flflies broken loose?
1 It was near this same Fecoh, ac¬
cording to the General’s story, that
Walter Andrews Balister, formerly
Jiving near Kansas City, Mo., won k
fortune by entering the famous Caveiu
of Flies.
The Cavern of Flies is one of tlio
most wonderful and, at the same time,
one of the most hideous places in the
world.
Balistor’s adventure, in daring and
inexpressible terror, is not exceeded
by the most extravagant flights of Ac¬
tion. The memory of his experience
undoubtedly mind, wore upon Balister’s
for he packed up six years ago
and left his home, saying:
“I am going to Greenland, where it
is too cold for flies.”
It is not known in what year he
Went to Yucatan. By a strange whim
of fortune this tall, thin youth, from
tlio district of Missouri, where the
James boys had their haunts, found
himself shipping from New Orleans as
one of a party to explore the ancient
ruins of Yucatan.
When he returned to Jackson Coun¬
ty in 1830 his old friends did not know
him. His face and hands were cor¬
ered with countless tiny blue spots, ns
if he had been tattooed, He had
plenty of money, although ho went
from the Missouri hills with nothing
except the six-shooter iu his hip poc¬
ket.
He built a fine house. Each window
of the house was provided with firm
wire netting. A summer house in the
grouuds was built, enmeshed entirely
with netting. When asked why lie
used all this expensive wire netting,
Balister replied, gruffly:
“To keep out flies!”
Soon his black servants told a
strange story. Their master’s chief
requirement was that they should let
no flies into the house, If he heard
house one buzzing, every person in the
was ordered to kill that fly, to
do nothing until the fly was killed.
One day Balister found a black hoy
asleep with a fly perched on his nose.
Ho struck the boy a blow that all but
killed him!
> H was too near tho big up-to-date
town of Kansas City for black boys to
be struck down by thoir masters,
hence Balister was arrested for assault
with intent to kill.
i He declared he aimed at the fly, not
tho boy. This excuse was considered
a bit of grim humor.
It was this circumstance that led
the strange man to tell to the late
General J. O. Shelby the story of the
“Cavern of Flies.” General Sliolby
told the story several times iu con-
vivial moments.
Balister’s father was one of my
bravest soldiers,” said General Shelby,
“and rode to Mexico with me rather
than surrender to the Yankees. I met
young what Balister, but never asked him
made his face blue. Gentlemen,
that man wits blue all over! When he
was charged with trying to kill the
boy, he said to me:
“ ‘General, it is no joke—-I did aim
at the fly!’
“Then he told mo the story which,
he said, had never passed his lip/j be¬
fore, it was so painful for him to tell.
“It seems that somewhere in the in¬
terior of Yucatan, near Fecoh, two of
the expedition, accompanied by Balis¬
ter, found a lot of ruins covered by
forest trees. An immense hill of lava
attracted them, and it was around the
hill they found these ruins.
“Among the peculiar features of an
ancient temple was au underground
tunnel, which, by observation, they
found to lead into the hill of lava rock.
“Iu their efforts to follow this tun¬
nel the party was driven back by
swarms of flies! The walls and ceiling
of the passage were covered with a
species of flies which puzzled the ex¬
plorers. They had never seen nuy
flies of that sort in that land of flics.
“Determined to solve tho mystery
of the underground passage, the party
covered their faces and hands with
cloths and pushed resolutely on
through ever-increasing clouds of flies.
As they went further the ancient air
grew warmer and moist, and an intol¬
erable odor assailed them. They were
driven back,
“The next day they tried again, and
were rewarded by signs of light. En¬
couraged by the light-, they fought
through the swarms of insects and en¬
tered what- seemed the crater of an ex¬
tinct volcano. The terrible smell was
from masses of flies underfoot. Warm
fumes still arose from the rocks.
High above thorn were the apertures
through which came the daylight.
“ ‘It is a burial place!’ exclaimed
tho explorers.
“Balister know nothing of the de¬
light t of unearthing the traces of ex¬
tinct nations, his business was to man¬
age mules, but. he was filled with won¬
der to behold rows upon rows of erect
skeletons along the walls. The bones
of the mysterious dead were covered
with flies.
“The next discovery was that the
arms and ankles of the skeletons were
decorated with bracelets. Pendants
hung from grisly necks upon empty
ribs and diaphragms!
“It was Balister who cried, ‘Thev
are gold!’
“Almost blinded by the attacks of
insects, tho men began to wrest the
treasure from the spectres of an un-
known past.
“Balister knocked grinning skulls
of queens and nobles from their shoul¬
ders and strung his arms with rich
necklaces of virgin gold.
“Then arose a sound like the gib¬
bering of ten thousand fiends.
“Frightened and half running for
the mouth of the tunnel, the 1 men re¬
alized that it was not the angry mur-
umrings of the ghosts of a forgotten
race, but the uprising of countless
millions and billions of flies!
“The swarms blotted out the rifts of
daylight. The torches were extin¬
guished, and the men fell upon their
faces to escape the attack.
“Then, joining hands, they sought
to find the tunnel through which they
hail entered. The pests got under
their clothes, under the cloths over
tlicir faces, and they were bitten iu a
thousand
“Balister said his companions
screamed with agony!
“They groped along the sides of tho
cavern, but everywhere their frantic
hands felt nothing but the bony legs
of the dead.
“Balister, gentlemen, was not a fat,
spectacled scientist. He was a strong,
fearless young man of the stuff that
never surrendered, Yet he said that
he felt his mind melting like a snow-
ball in an oven. Ho wanted to scream
and gibber!
“But, observe Missouri instinct all
this time-—he clung to his booty!
“He does not know how long the
three men struggled in that avalanche
of insects that choked them, that bit
them in the gullet even as they were
swallowed.
“Balister lost hold of his com-
panions. Their screams, he said,
sounded muffled in the angry roar of
the myriads of flies which were eating
them alive!
“Almost ready to fall and have his
bones picked, Balister, by Missouri
instinct, drew his gun arid began to
shoot!
“Although shooting at flies was
mere madness, Balister "aid that the
act of shooting saved Vs sanity. It
was so natural au act for •> Missourian,
gentlemen!
“ ‘I yelled,’ Balister said to
‘when I by the flashes, me,
saw, the mouth
of tho tunnel!’
“ ‘Como on!’ ho shouted to his com-
panions, shooting as ho ran and stum¬
bled through the tunnel. The flies
pursued him every step.
ruined “Ho plunged into the court of the
temple,-threw down his booty,
and there tore off his clothes and
brushed from his flesh tho flics that
clung like leeches, He was black
with them, black and red—for the
blood ran in streams.
himself “Running to tho cam]) ho smeared
with ointment.
“Bp engrossed was Balister with his
own torments that he did not, for the
time, think of his employers.
“Gentlemen, they never camo out!”
“Balister assured me on his honor
that he weut back the whole length of
the tunnel, in vain, thinking he might
find them lying there unconscious.
“He told ine he remained among
the ruins several days. He couldn’t
sleep because, at night, he thought he
screams in tho tunnel.
“Once he screwed up his courage to
to the mouth of the passage and
when he heard the screams. lie
said he thought he heard mocking
in reply.
“Balister concluded that the Mexi¬
authorities would laugh at his
story, shoot him as a murderer and
his goid.
“Possessed with this idea, he hid
gold in the pack saddles of his
mules and made his way to the coast
expedition, attempting to find the rest of
which searched vainly
for the men who were eaten alive.
population and drainage.
MORGAN, GA.. FRIDAY. JULY 30. 1897.
‘"I am perfectly sane,’ he told mo,
‘but I can’t bear the sight of a fly.' ”
—New York Journal.
"SCOTTIE” WAS REVENGED,
Sure Vengeance For Iteing Duped InU
“Cooning” an Imaginary Dog*
‘‘I played a trick on one of the cow-
boys we called 'Soottie, » »♦ said the ex¬
cowboy, in good “But he got even with me
shape. Wo were on the round¬
up, gnd within two days’ drive of
Eaton, but ‘Scot-tie’ couldn’t st-and it
any longer, so he struck off for town
early in the morning to fill up. We
didn't see anything of him till night-.
After the cattle had beep bedded and
the night herders stationed ho came
into camp maudlin drunk. The boy*
began to tease him about being drunk,
but ho swore that he was perfectly
sober, and offered to bet that he could
walk a scratch.
“I noticed just then that the moon
cast my shadow like a log across the
creek. I said, ‘Seottie, I’ll bet you
can’t walk across the creek on this
log.’ Seottie looked at it a moment
rather dubiously, then said: ‘I don’t
know as I can walk it, blit I’ll bet I
can coon it.’ ‘All right,' I said, ‘coon
it.’
“So he got down on all fours to
‘coon’ it, and, of course crawled splash
into tho creek. The boys set up a
howl. He scrambled out, spluttering
and cussing, pretty well sobered and
swearing that he would ‘get even’ with
the kid for that trick.’ And he did.
“I had in my string of cow pouios
the meanest broncho in New Mexico.
No matter how often I rode him he
had to havo his pitch-out every time
he was saddled. I made it a point to
get off before the rest of the boys were
ready to start. Failing iu that, I
waited until they wore out of the way.
One morning, nearly two years after
‘Seottie’ had ‘cooned’ the log, I
saddled up and mounted. The broncho
put his head down to buck. I jerked
him up sharply, and t-lie bridle bit
broke and let the bridle off over his
head. Then he began to pitch and
run right toward a barbed wire fence.
“I heard ‘Scottie’s’ voice say ‘I
catch him for yon.’ Thon his lariat
whizzed by my head and caught the
horse around the neck. I glanced
over my shoulder and saw ‘Seottie’ set
his horse back. It came over me in
an instant that he was going to throw
my horse and ‘get oven’ with me. So
I jerked my feet out of the stirrups
and got ready to fall. I lauded about
thirty feet away, flat on my back.
After the boys had brought me around,
examined me and found me all there
and no harm demo, ‘Seottie’ turned to
one of the boys and said: ‘I told you I
would get even with tho kid. ’ ”—Chi¬
cago Times-Herald.
Moving Slo-.jilliils.
The railway hospital car is tho latest
novelty in foreign railroading. In the
event of a serious accident, theso cars
can be nm to the place of the disaster,
where the injured may be picked up
and carried to tho nearest largo city
for treatment instead of being left to
pass long hours at some wayside station
while awaiting surgical attendance,
ft also enables the railway companies
at certain seasons or upon special oc¬
casions to transport largo numbers of
invalids to health resorts or places of
pilgrimage. The interior of the car is
divided into a main compartment, a
corridor on one sido and two small
rooms at tho end. The largest com¬
partment is tho hospital proper; it
contains twenty-four isolated beds.
Each patient lies in front of two little
windows. Each bed is provided with
a movable table, and a ool’d servos to
hold all tho various small objects
which tho patient may require. The
corridors on the outside lead to tho
linen closet and tho doctor’s apart¬
ment. Various trap doors in the floor,
when opened, disclose to view an ico
chest, a compartment for the disinfec¬
tion of soiled linen, and a provision
cellar. If necessary, a portion of tho
hospital chamber may bo transformed
into an operating room for urgent
cases. Finally, ns customary abroad, 1
a small chapel for religious worship is
provided. This car will bo put in
charge of a surgeon and nurses, and
will bo chiefly used to carry invalids
from Belgium direct to the health re¬
sorts of Franco.
They Do Not Marry Young,
The average age at which people in
England marry has steadily risen for
n good many years. Sir Brydges
Hennikor, Registrar General for Eng¬
land and Wales, has only now com¬
pleted his detailed report for 1895, and
he states that the mean ages of those
who entered wedlock in that year were
about twenty-eight and a half years
for men and slightly over twenty-six
years for women. These figures, how¬
ever, include the ages of widowers
and widows who re-euter the matri¬
monial estate, and who ought properly
to bo excluded from tho calculation,
for the average age of widowers who
re-marry is over forty-four, while that
of widows is forty. If, therefore,
wo deal only with the case of bachelors
spinsters, wo find that the mean
ages half and on marriage aro twenty-six and a
twenty-five respectively. Tho
number of under-age marriages regis¬
in 1895 was the lowest recorded
for between forty and fifty yeurs.
Clime Jn Italy*
In Italy only half of the criminals
escape detection according do Signor
who has written a book on
“Clever and Fortunate Criminals.”
asserts that while 9000 crimes
authors were not detected were
in France fin 1825, tho
number of such crimes is now
A Ruslan Army Scandal,
Russiau artillery officers stationed
Otchaboff, on the Dnieper, have
detected in selling large quanti¬
of gunpowder and other stores tu
BURLESQUE ON A POEM
ON V DISCUSSION*
MRS. ARP EXPRESSES HERSELF.
William Realizes That llo Is Only a
Plain, Unrefined Specimen of tlio
Genus Homo.
The last, letter I had about the poem
was anonymous. Of course it was,
for it read—
“Man wants but little here below,
But So Young and Goldsmith say:
woman wants it all, you know
And wants it right away.”
Mrs. Arp was sewing ou some infun-
tile garment as I quietly laid the mis¬
sive on her lap. She neither smiled
nor frowned nor stopped the play of
her needle ns she remarked, “Maybe
they do, but they don’t get it nor ex-
pect.”
“I reckon,’’ said I, “that some stingy
old benedict wrote that; some fellow
who would spend more money on his
horse than on his wife.”
“No,” said Mrs. Arp, “it was some
old bachelor whose rejected addresses
have made him cynical and like Byron
he vents his revenge in doggerel.
When you go down town I wish you
would see Mr. Hicks about that dining
room chair. Maybe he cau put a now
cano bottom to it. YVe need i( some-
times when we have company, and
that old sideboard ought to be I't'YIll-
nished and have new knobs. Do you
know how old that sideboard is?”
“Yes,” said J, “Jim Sumter made it
iu 1852. He was one of the best men
and best workmen I ever knew. I
paid him $50 for the sideboard. He
was a well-read, well-bred man, a good
neighbor and a good citizen, and I
have respect for the sideboard. It is
like an epitaph on his tombstone and
seems to read, ‘Sacred to tlio memory
of —’ Yes, T will see Mr. Hicks ah',lit
the sideboard. Is there anything else
in his line that you want?”
“No,’’said she, “hut yon know we
are obliged to have another extension
table. We gave ours to Jesse when
she was married, and have been
using one that was left here three
years ago, and now the owner has
settled down and wants it. Y’ou had
better attend to this right away.”
“Right away, right away,” I mused.
“Jin!- woman wants it fill you know,
And wants it right away.”
Mrs. Arp looked ot me and re¬
marked, “T want tlie.se things for you
and the children. It’s precious little
that I want for myself now.”
J don’t think she admires the song
or the sentiment.
“I know it, f know it, my dear,”
said I. “There was a time when you
wanted a good deal for yourself and it
pleased me to gratify your every wish
and more than you asked for. Nothing
was too good for you when I had the
money. Silks and sables, lawns and
muslins, a carriage and horses, Wiltoif
carpets and damask curtains, and so
forth, and so on, et cetera, o pluribns
unum. But anno domini kept rolling
on and the war came and I discovered
that you were gradually losing your
concern for yourself, and all your oaro
was for your children, l was rami
liating about this while you were
stitching away so earnestly upon that
little garment, for now your love and
care havo lapped over to another
generation. The little grandchildren
have come in for a share of your
maternal love, and your persona!
wants have come down to a minimum.
Of course you must be clothed as
becomes the maternal head of nu-
merons and lovely offspring, for if
you are not a queen you have reigned
in our homo nearly as long as Queen
Victoria has in England and—”
“Well, that will do now,” said my
wife. “You had better go to town.
Aunt Ann r.ays the rice is out, and Iho
cowfeed too.”
“I was ruminating, ” said I, “how
fortunate it was that your ambition
surrendered about the time my money
<1M. You ceased to crave ns fine things
as I used to get you. You adapted
your wants to our misfortunes. Why,
forty years ago I would not have let
you go about in that grizzly gray mus¬
lin. I had a contempt for cheap things,
especially for you; didn’t I, my dear?”
“Yon certainly did,” she said with
a kind of sad, reminiscent smile in
her tone of voice, “lmt thin muslin in
good enough now. But you had hot¬
ter go to town. There are four little
grandchildren hereto dinner,and Aunt
Ann wants the rice right away.”
“And wants it right, away,” I hum¬
med to the tune of “Auld Lang Hyue.”
Homehow I can’t, get, that refrain out
of my mind—“And wants it right
away-”
Sometimes I think that, men don’t
understand nor appreciate woman’s
nature. She was created with a love
for the beautiful, for ornament, for
gems, jewels and gold and silverware
arid damask and fine linen.
She can’t, help her nature, and this
very nature proves that she is nearer
heaven than we are. What do I care
for diamonds? Not, a cent. I wouldn’t
give, a dollar for a bushel of them. An
old-fashioned tin waiter with flowers
painted on it is as good as a silver one
to mo. I wouldn’t wash the window
glass more than once.a year, and a
wash-pan suits me as well as a china
basin. But I recognize the fact that I
am a man with an unrefined nature.
Tho twelve gates of the new Jerusalem
that are made of precious stones are
no attraction to me; neither are the
gold-paved streets that St. John saw
in his vision. But still I have hope
of getting there and becoming mi re
refined, for I do love flowers and
pretty birds and orange trees and
luscious fruits and beautiful sce¬
nery and mountains mid the great
waters of the mighty sea. My
wife and my daughters can spend
half a day in looking at the beautiful
things in the show windows in Atlan¬
ta, but I never stop to gaze or to ad¬
photographer’s mire, except, perhaps, to look at the
models of display or the life-like
lovely women that seem
sin; ding at, my three-score and ten.
Reading and observation teach me
that all good men have reverence for
womankind and are conscious of her
better nature, her better morals and
emotions. Shakespeare and Scott
write of women as ministering angels.
Wadsworth says of her creation:
“A perfect woman nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort and command."
No great poet save such a rake as
Bvvon would have written:
“As well believe a- woman, or an epitaph,
Or any other thing that’s false."
Even Solomon in all his glory with
his wives and concubines said:
“Young mall, rejoice with the wife of thy
youth, her and be thou always ravished with
love."
Edward W. Bok says in The Ladies’
Homo Journal, “No economy is so
false and misguided as that which
seeks to withhold one pleasure from
the life of a good woman, a true wife
or a loving mother. The best home a
man can give her becomes tiresome if
■she is asked to live in it and stay in it
865 days in a year, The Lord knows
that woman’s life is hard enough. She
travels a path of endurance and suf¬
fering to which the average man is an
entire stranger. Then let ns make
that path as pleasant, as easy and as
bright as possible. Every dollar that
a man spends on his home for the
happiness and comfort of his wife will
come back to him four-fold.”
That is true—all true. Better mend
the broken pane or that sash cord or
that gate latch and sometimes take :■■-
hour off from business and take her to
ride. The Odd Fellows and Masons
and Knights of Pythias are good insti¬
tutions,hut should not come in between
a man and his wife. The mother wants
help with the children, for I tell you,
my brethren, there is no care nor
anxiety like nursing and earing for a
little child, and nobody but a mother
will do it willingly. A mother who
has reared eight or ten children from
infancy to maturity, and four years of
the time during a pitiless war, when
she had to flee from the foul invader
with her little ones and hide thorn,
half clad and always hiuisrrv, can say
with Paul, “I have fought a good
tight; I have finished my course. ” Yes,
Paul said t at, but ho was an old
bachelor, and knew nothing of wliat a
mother suffers. The most pathetic
line in nil poetry is that of Fitz-Greene
Halloek, where lie apostrophizes death;
“Gome to the mother when she feels
For the first time her first-horn’s breath."
The death of a young mother in child¬
birth is the saddest of all nature’s
calamities.
Maternal love—maternal interest!
What is it that so inspires a wo’man to
bear her fate —to suffer and he strong?
Binr, Am> in Atlanta Constitution.
BRUNSWICK CREW WINNERS.
They Ilefcnt Savnnniih’s Boat Crow In
Naval Reserve Drill.
Brunswick’s naval reserve’s crack
boat crew defeated Savannah’s boat
crew Wednesday morning and a crew
of trained men from the gunboat Wil¬
mington in the afternoon.
The courso was two miles, from the
sea lmoy to St. Simons sound buoy.
Brunswick pulled the American stroke.
Lieutenant Taylor, of Brunswick,
who promoted the races, was referee
of both. The race was witnessed by
two thousand people. All of the of¬
ficers of tho reserves and tho Wilming¬
ton were on the Wilmington’s deoks
watching its progress.
A QUESTION OK DATE
Auto When tli© N*'w Tnrlflf I>nw Hooohhi*
Operative.
The question of the day and hour
when the new tariff law will go into
operation, since it was signed by the
president before 12 o’clock Saturday
night, has been raised ut the treasury
department.
Tho question is a new one so far as
tariff hills are concerned. The mutter
has been considered by the treasury
officials anil it is very probable they
will hold that the now act went into
effect at 12 o’clock Saturday night.
The department, however, lifts ten
days before filial liquidation in which
to determine tho question.
ALL RECORDS BROKEN.
fttenmer R1 Rio Makes New Orleans t-i
New York in 4 Diiyn anil (1 Ifnin-M.
The steamer El Rio, Captain Quick,
from New Orleans, July 21st, with
merchandise, reached New York Sun¬
day afternoon, making the run from
liar to liar in three days, twenty-three
hours and thirty-seven minutes, arid
from dock to quarantine four days,
six hours and fourteen minutes,
breaking all records.
The best previous record from liar
to bar four days, two hours and ton
minutes, was made by the steamer El
Norte, on April 27, 1897.
FATAL OPERA HOUSE FIRE,
Tlio Aufllonco Panic Htrlcken ami Many
Were Trainplod Under F«8t.
The Casino summer theater at Ra¬
mona park, Paducah, Ky., was burned
Friday night. A performance was being
given to about 600 people when the
fire, broke out from a fireworks display
on the stage.
The audience was panic-stricken.
Probably over 100 persons were in¬
jured by being trampled.
It is reported that three or four
children perished in the flames. All
the doctors in the city were required
to look after the injured.
T. P. GREEN, MANAGER.
! STATE GEOLOGIST AND
GOVERNOR
HAVE A GOOD SCHEME.
BULLETIN TO EE ISSUED OH SUBJECT
Will Contain Valuable Information on
ltoiul Construction, and May Solve Con¬
vict Dense Pvolem.
Professor Yeates, state geologist of
Georgia, has inaugurated a movement
for the improvement of every road in
the state, and has already taken the
first stops toward the materialization
of his plans.
Professor Yeates is a strong believer
in good roads, and ho will exert every
effort to make every thoroughfare in
Georgia comfortably passable.
Considering the unsettled condition
of the convict question, the movement
is particularly opportune at this time,
and may aid in the solution of the
problem of disposing of the state
criminals. Professor Yeates has the
hearty indorsement of Governor At¬
kinson in his plan, and their efforts
may result in wonderful good to the
rural districts of the state.
Professor Yeates will soon issue a
good roads bulletin, which will largely
aid in llio progress of the work. The
bulletin will Vie compiled with great
care, and will be largely conducive to
the. future prosperity of the state.
Professor MeCallie, assistant state
geologist, will have charge of the bul¬
letin, and lias already begun securing
data with which to begin. He will
start soon on an inspection of the
whole state, and the report of his
observations will ho published in this
bulletin.
The bulletin will contain informa¬
tion exceedingly valuable toward the
construction of good roads. It- will be
handsomely illustrated, and will eon-
tain the most up-to-date methods for
road construction.
The pamphlet will contain practical
lessons on the details of roadhuihling,
will point out the best materials, and
the most approved methods for grad¬
ing. It will make tho work so plain
that every man can understand it, and
improve his property accordingly. Cop¬
ies will bo mailed to every farmer al¬
most in the state.
The soil of Georgia contains some
very line material for road construc¬
tion, which, if properly utilized, would
make the very bent highways in the
country. The red shale, near Rome,
is particularly liue for roadbeds, large
quantities of which are now being used
in and around that city.
Tho chert is also very fine for this
work, and the bulletin will locate and
describe these natural materials, giving
their quantity, how best prepared and
laid. The preparation of this pamphlet
means an immense amount of work
and a good expense, but the state will
no doubt bo fully repaid for the out-
lay.
If tho convicts are ever put to work
on the roads,and the directions of Ibis
bulletin followed, there is no reason
why Georgia should not have as good
roads as any state in the union. A
wheelman could then ride from one
end nf the state to the other without
any trouble, and general travel would
he made much easier.
FURNITURE WORKS DESTROYED.
Rlc Flu-lory Itiiinc.l („ AxIiiik nt. Cam-
bridge, Mhkh.
The furniture factory of Keeler <t
Go., East Cambridge, Mass., was vis¬
ited by a fire Wednesday night, and
although tho blaze was confined to the
top floor, the loss will be about
$25,000, fully covered by insurance.
The top floor was taken up by the
furniture just finished for J. Reed
Whipple’s new Boston hotel, La Toii-
raine, which was of special design and
very costly. This was all ready for
shipment and was destroyed.
Cobb, ISizzol & Go. had a large quan¬
tity of furniture stored on the floor
beneath and their loss will leach
$5,000.
Wholesnle Arrests For Murder.
Sit men and two women are under
arrest at Trinidad, Col., for the mur-
der of Deputies William Green ami
William Kelly, who were iu search of
cattle thieves, in 1.89(5. Officers are
in pursuit of two more men who ure
implicated.
MURDERED THEIR HUSBANDS.
Hungarian Wodipr to SuflVr Deuili for
WlioloHtilo Poiftonlng.
The trial of twelve women and
two men oharged with wholesale pois¬
oning, was concluded ut Buda pest,
Hungary, Friday and sentences were
passed upon fdx of the prisoners.
Four of them were condemned to
death, one to penal servitude for lifo
and one to u term of six years’ impris¬
onment.
The series of crimes which occurred
in the Hodmczoevasaholy district ex¬
tend over some years past. The vic¬
tims were in most cases married men,
who were killed by their wives, the
motive for the crime being generally
a desire to obtain insurance money.
LARGEST GEORGIA MELON.
Weigh* 78 Pounds, anil Will llo Presented
to President Mcklnloy.
The largest watermelon grown in
the south this season was shipped
from Atlanta, Ga., Monday, for Wash¬
ington, and will be presented to Presi¬
dent McKinley.
,'i he melon was grown in Georgia,
weighs seventy-eight pounds, and
took the prize of $25 offered by W. N.
Mitchell, southern agent of tlio Balti¬
more & Ohio railroad.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
At a meeting of the executive com¬
mittee of the Grand Lodge of Good
Templars held at Athens,it was decided
to put a lecturer in the field, and about
8-tOO was subscribed for that purpose.
The grand lodge will meet in Atlanta
■September 5th.
The commission in charge of Au¬
gusta’s proposed new waterworks sys¬
tem mid for organization a few days
ft go. New pumping stations and res¬
ervoir and filter will bo constructed.
The improvement will cost at least
0250,000.
The hoard of directors of the Eagle
and P he nix Mauufaeturing Company
met in Columbus the past week in an¬
nual session and elected the following
officers: President, Charles A. Collier,
of Atlanta; Secretary and treasurer, E.
N. Clemencc, of Columbus. Mi.
C'ollier succeeds Judge Bigby, who
was re-elected president two years
under the bylaws.
Ex-United States Marshal Harrell,
receiver of the Woodburn and Cuyler
railroad, has just taken possession of
the road, under orders from Judge
Speer. The railroad was sold to A. A.
Adams at public sale for $20,600 in
April. Only $-1,000 was paid in and
the failure to pay $22,500 in 90 days
resulted in the United States taking
charge of it again.
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Captain William Forsyth, of the
United States secret service, left At¬
lanta a day or two ago for Dallas,
Texas, where he goes to-assume his
duties ns superintendent of the Dallas
district of the secret service. Captain
J. M. Wright., who has held the post
of assistant superintendent of the At¬
lanta district for nearly a year past,
has temporarily assumed charge of the 1
superintendent's work and will held
the place until a permanent appoint¬
ment is made. The Atlanta district
embraces Virginia, North Carolina,
■South Carolina, Florida and Alabama,
and is one of the most important in
the entire secret service.
H. S. Perry, the murderer of Beley
Lanier, now iu DeKalb county jail,
must hung. Tho supreme court lias
handed down a decision iu which a
new trial is refused, Unless exeoii-
five clemency is shown him Perry will
pay the penalty of his crime on the
gallows in the little jail yard at Deca¬
tur. The decision was prepared by
Justice Lumpkin and assented to by
Justices Simmons, Little and Fish,
Just-ieos Atkinson and Gobi) dissent
iug. The <>n l.y b1 ho opinions
of Justices Cobb and Atkinson may
have on the case will be the influence
upon tho governor in any appeal for a
commutation of the sentence.
Comptroller General Wright ban
written letters instructing the tax col¬
lectors of different counties to investi¬
gate and collect any taxes due tho
slate and county under the provisions
of the act of 1896 which went into
effect in 1897, The law reqifires the
payment of $10 as professional tax by
all practitioners of medicine, dentistry,
law and president of banks, express
railroad, telegraph, telephone and
olootrie.aiid gas light companies. There
arc many defaulters and some aro be¬
hind as much as ten years, never having
paid anything since the passage of tho
law in 189(5, Of those who are behind
all back taxes will bo required before
they can legally perform the functions
of their professions and collect fees for
such work and bofore the heads of
corporations subject to such special
(axes tion can legally continue tlio direc¬
of tho affairs of their several in¬
stitutions.
The property of the Georgia Min¬
ing, Manufacturing and Investment
company was sold at public outcry at
Atlanta the past week for $24,805.
Tho properly is estimated by a promi¬
nent capitalist acquainted with the
iron industry as being worth $1,000,-
006 and is bonded for $500,000, with
$250,000 underlying bonds, making
nearly a million with other incidentals.
It was bought by Captain Clifford L.
Anderson, with tho exception of the
office furniture. It is understood that
Captain Anderson represented some of
tho heaviest certificate holders and
that the sum paid for the property was
just about enough to liquidate the costs
of court and to satisfy other small
demands with a view to preserving the
property intact Tho stockholders
concerned in the movement which was
represented by Captain Anderson will
proceed at once to reorganize and to
place this property on a paying basis.
* * *
The Waters of the Chattahoochee
river are to he bridled to furnish elec¬
tric power for the entire city of At¬
lanta. A strong stock company, con¬
sisting mostly of New York and Balti¬
more capitalists, is under way of or¬
ganization, and this company will in¬
vest something over a million dollars
in tho materialization of their plans.
They have carefully surveyed the
waters of the Chattahoochee, and the
engineers have pronounced the power
sufficient to supply a large current of
electricity for the city. The company
have decided to begin work at once,
therefore, and the surveyors are now
at work. It will be perhaps four or
five weeks before tho survey is com¬
pleted, when the construction of the
(■hints will probably he begun. There
will bo three separate plants at dif¬
ferent places in the river, each to cost
in the neighborhood of $500,000. Only
one of these plants will bo erected,
however, nt first. As soon as tho
power therefrom is all taken, the
others will bo erected according to the
demand. Tho company is not ham¬
pered for the lack of funds, and the
concern is one of the very biggest that
has ever been started in Atlanta,