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The Morgan Monitor. >
VOL. II. NO. 30 SI PER YEAR.
THE TWO WORDS.
One day a harsh word, rashly said,
Upon an evil journey spod,
And like a sharp and cruel dart
It pierced a fond and loving heart;
It turnel n friend into a foe,
And everywhere brought pain and woo.
A kind word followed it one day,
Flew swiftly on its blessed way;
It healed the wound, it soothed the pair.,
And friends of old were friends again.
It made the hate and anger cease.
And everywhere broughtjoy and peace.
A Will and Tlie; Way.
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By GWENDOLEN OVERTON
8 XISTENCE der the guard¬ un¬
ianship of some
one who is doing
his duty by you
is not an un¬
: mixed pleasure.
Miss Bradford’s
latin, . sister, Mrs. Gal¬
Bradford. was doing her duty by Miss
The former was not at all
pretty. The latter was very, very
pretty—which is so much'more charm¬
ing than being very, very beautiful.
But Ylrs. Gallatin was married and
Miss Bradford was not. This came of
the fact that Mrs. Gallatin liad visited
at Fort Preble and had captured an
unfledged lieutenant by manoeuvring
and a miracle, and that Miss Bradford
had spent ligr twenty-one years in a
small Maine town.
Boys in the village had been in love
with Bessie Bradford, but she had not
been in love with them, and she had,
moreover, a decent appreciation of
her own value aud know she was far
too good for such as they. There had
been a college youth, also, once; but
ho and she had quarreled before the
end of his summer visit. And now
Bessie was one-and-twenty and the
family worried. It worried itself into
a state where even the raising of a
mortgage on the home did not ,seem
too great a thing, if it would but in¬
sure her marriage. With the money
thus obtained she was sent across the
continent, with instructions to get
herself wedded before she came hack.
She was told to marry a general if she
could. If not—anything, down to a
second lieutenant, But rank was to
be the primary consideration, Miss
Bradford agreed. She I picked out a
very nice general, mentally. He would
be about fivo-aud thirty, and hand¬
some aud dashing. That years went
with rank was one of the things the
civilian novels of army life she had
read had not taught her. Besides,
sho wo3 romantic—as a very pretty
girl should he. So she promised that
grade should govern her choice. Then
she departed to visit her sister at the
Presidio.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Gallatin lived
in the building known as the “Cor¬
ral.” If tho Corral were iu the city,
it would be called a tenement. But
Uncle Bam doesn’t quarter liis officers
in tenements. The Gallatins were
cramped for room—very cramped.
They had three children and second
lieutenant’s pay. So they were poor.
Therefore, faking Miss Bradford in
was not a pleasure It was a duty.
But Bessie felt tlie unpleasantness
of tlie situation the very day of her ar¬
rival.
“Captain Soutter is going to take
you to the hop this evening, Bess,”
Airs., Gallatin said; Bessie was cutting
paper bird-cages for her niece. Mrs.
Gallatin was mending a pinafore.
*■ . t’vo promised to go with Mr. Mil¬
ford,” answered Alias Bradford, stop¬
ping and looking up from the scissors.
“Mr. who?”
“Air. Milford, Colonel Milford’s
son, who lives in St. Louis.”
“Where have you met him?” Tho
“him” warned Bessie that she was
running on rocks.
“On the train. We got acquainted.
He’s in business in St. Louis, and lie’s
coming in to visit his people because he’s
had health. He is a very nice
man.”
“Alan! He must he about twenty-
three. A perfect hoy. And liis busi¬
ness is being a briefless barrister.
Now, let me tell you one thing, Bes¬
sie. You must learn from the first
that the civilian son of an officer is no¬
body at all in a garrison. You will
hurt your chances badly witl the of¬
ficers by going with him. How did
he know there was to be a hop?”
Bessie finished opening the cage,
gave it to her niece with a kiss, gath¬
ered the scraps of paper in her hand
and threw them into the waste-basket,
clasped her fingers behind her curly
brown head, and answered leisurely:
“He didn’t know there was to he one
to-night. He asked me to go to the
first one there should be after our ar-
rival.”
Airs. Gallatin thought how very,
very pretty Bessie was. and wondered
if her husband contrasted them.
“He probably will never think of it
again. Captain Soutter is going to
call to ask you, this afternoon, and
you’d better accept.”
“Can onego with two men out here
—ante-nuptially?”
“Don’t be vulgar. You needn’t
consider the Alilford boy.”
“Oh! hut I must, Genevieve, you
know. I promised.” Aliss Bradford’s
big gray eyes were guilelessly ear¬
nest.
“I’ve no doubt that pose is taking ,
with the men. But yon can’t make i
your devotion to promises succeed ,
with me, dear. I know you too well, j
I you, can’t with remember the hoys at that home. they worried |
,
“This promise doesn’t worry me.
Not a little hit.”
“Well, I should suggest that you
But yet the harsh word left a trace
The kind word eoulil not quite efface,
And though the heart its love regained,
It bore a scar that long remained;
Friends could forgive but not forget,
Or lose the sense of keon regret.
Oh, if we could but learn to know
IIow swift and sure our words cun go,
IIow would we weigh with utmost care
Each thought before it sought the air,
And only speak tho words that move
Like white-winged ’messengers of love.
—Great Thoughts.
take my advice aud be less flippant.
Recollect that you were not sent ’way
out here to flirt with penniless civil¬
ians and small boys.”
“If I forget, remind me, will you?
I’U make you a little red silk flag, if
you like. I can make flags, I made
one for a fair at home, mice. You
might draw it out of your bosom aud
wave it when you see me about to run
off the track you have all so kindly
and laboriously laid for me to run on.
I’ll teach you the signals. Mr. Mil¬
ford and I studied them from the back
of our sleeper, I think there’s some
one at the door, sister dearie. ”
It was Captain Soutter, come to for¬
malize the hop arrangement. He was,
obviously, For very glad that he had como.
Miss Bradford was pretty—ex¬
traordinarily pretty.
“I am happy in being a near neigh¬
bor of yours, Miss Bradford,” he told
her. He forgot—as men will-how
often lie had cursed tlie ill-luck which
threw him within hearing distance of
the Gallatin trio of infants.
“Yes?” said Bessie; “you are in our
vicinity, then?”
“A little above you in the Wvorld. I
live upstairs. When you want me you
have only to pound ou tlio ceiling.”
“The—what is it?—quartermaster?
Tho quartermaster mightn’t like me to
wear out his ceiling.”
“You flatter me by the implication,
Miss Bradford. But I’ll settle with
t-lie Q. M. if you will only pound. For
instance, will you pound to-night when
you is are dearest ready for the hop, to which it
my wish to be permitted to
escort you?”
He forgot what he liad wished when
Mrs. Gallatin had asked him to per¬
form this act of courtesy toward the
coming sister. But thou he had looked
at Mrs. Gallatin and had judged from
her of the sister.
“I would he only too delighted, if.it
were not that I have already promised
to go with some one else.”
The be trayed captain manifested liis
astonishmeutand resentment at having
./ceil subjected to refusal. Ho had a
high opinion of his dignity, had the
captain.
“Why, who on earth can have asked
you already?” lie cried.
Miss Bradford liad a cool little
Northern air, when she liked. She
considered the captain’s question in
bad taste. So she raised her eyebrows
and smiled most sweetly. “I shall
hope to have a dance with you, Captain
Soutter,” she said.
And sho had, not one, but three.
The captain forgot his wrath at the
sight of her. When, she came from
the dressing-room into the hallway to
join young Milford, the captain was by
the door. He looked at hex.
“Might I hope to be accorded tho
second and fifth and ninth, Miss Brad¬
ford?” ho asked.
“Oil! thank you,’’said Bessie. She
was grateful, and he was quite ap¬
peased.
Now Miss Bradford was a success.
She had what is known as a beautiful
time for three whole months. No girl
was remembered ever to have re¬
ceived altogether so much attention.
Sho always had lovers—and the two
don’t always go together. Captain
Soutter loved her, so did Lieutenant
Paxton, and so did young Milford.
Bessie loved young Milford. A girl
who prefers “cit. ” clothes to a uniform
is peculiar, to say the least. Bessie
didn’t say or show whom she loved,
except to Milford. She liad told him.
She had refused Paxton, and slie was
warding the captain off. But the last
she could not do much longer. The
captain liad a good opinion of him¬
self.
He also had a dignity which was not
to tie trifled with. Airs. Gallatin was
by no moans sure of Miss Bradford.
So one day sho spoke to her. The
process of being spoken to can rouse
tlio worst in a girl. But Bessie was m
a broken and contrite frame of mind.
She and young Milford had quarreled,
and she didn’t care what became of
her. She might as well marry any
old man and sacrifice herself for her
family. picture Bhe made a most affecting
of herself as an offering on the
altar of matrimony and filial duty. Bhe
would pine away picturesquely in a
year or so, and Will Milford—well,
perhaps he would go to the bad. She
hoped so. It was under this pressure
that she solemnly promised and swore
to Mrs. Gallatin to marry Captain
Soutter if he asked her. What Miss
Bradford promised aud swore slie
never broke.
Bo as soon ns she and young Mil-
ford made it up, sho set about won-
during how Captain Soutter was to be I
kept from asking lior. Yet sho could
not arrive at any plan. The captain ;
neither ' v<l . s an impetuous well-bred man, and nicely he dis- was j
over nor \
criminating. Bessie was worried. If !
it had been that she liad promised
and sworn anything to young Milford
and had had to choose which vow to
break, she would not, have hesitated. only' j
But she had teased him, and had
answered “maybe.” For wlqieh she
now suffered.
POPULATION AND DRAINAGE.
MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 8,1897.
But Fate came to her aid—as it al¬
ways should and always doesn’t in the
ease of a very pretty girl.
She was going to another hop, and
she was going with Captain Soutter.
He had invited her at the time that
she was practicing for the martyr role.
As she couldn’t, therefore, go with
Milford, she would wear the gown he
Irked, which was white silk. For it
she had to have white gloves; and her
white gloves were soiled. Therefore
they must be cleaned. Miss Bradford
was an adept at cleaning gloves. She
prepared a special mixture of a mini-
her of chemicals and powders, This
mixture liad to be whipped—as if it
had been the white of eggs—very light
and frothy. It had a most unpleasant
oilor, but it was pretty to look upon,
Because tile odor was so unpleasant
Miss Bradford opened the door into
the hallway and Btood just within it
beating.
There was air in the hallway, but
there was uone in the Gallatius* quar¬
ters, as the baby had a cold. Captain
Soutter had a cold, too—a frightful
one. If he had not had he would
would have noticed the smell of Miss
Bradford’s mixture. He came through
the hall on his way to his own quar¬
ters on the floor above. Colonel Mil¬
ford was with him. The captain did¬
n’t like the colonel particularly, on ac¬
count of liis being his son’s father.
‘‘Ah! Miss Bessie! What a pretty,
housewifely picture we make,” said
the captain.
Bessie smiled encouragingly.
‘‘What are we doing? Whipping
cream? How good it looks. If Hebe
would but feed us with ambrosia. ”
The colonel smelled the ambrosia;
but ho held his peace.
“I’ll give you a taste, captain,
if you want it very, very much. Open
your mouth wi-i-de. >Shut jffiur
eyes.”
She put a heaping forkful in his
mouth. Tho horrible taste made him
gasp. The gasp made him swallow
the froth. Colouel Milford laughed.
But Captain Soutter went to his quar¬
ters without a word.
Bessie went to the hoji that night
with young Milford. Afterward, while
she and her sister and Lieutenant
Gallatin were having their supper of
crackers and cheese, Miss Bradford
told them that sho was going to marry
the penniless civilian.
“But how about Captain Soutter?”
wailed Mrs. Gallatin.
“Hush! He might hear you. Oh!
I’m awfully afraid he’ll never speak
to me agnin.” And he never did.—
San Francisco Argonaut.
Al cut Like Hot Oaltes,
The Cleveland Plaindealer tolls an
aimqsing anecdote of tho ruse a mem¬
ber of the Ohio Legislature adopted to
get rid of a big pile of agricultural re¬
ports that had accumulated in his
office. One of his neighbors fixed him
up a placard reading:
i ALL ABOUT AGRICULTURE. ;
: IIow tlio Grassh ioppu r Makes
Gras: «i
How tlio Enttoi’llv Makes Batter.
: TAKE 'ONE!
The lawyer was pleased with this
work of art. He loaded down the
office boy with volumes, and put tho
card on top. Then the boy went
downstairs and laid the hooks by the
curb with the card leaning against the
pile. As he started upstairs for an¬
other load ho noticed that a small
crowd was gathering. When lie
reached tlio sidewalk with another
load there wasn’t a book left of tlio
original pile. The card was lying on
the walk, aud perhaps twenty people
were slaving at it. As he advanced a
number of them grabbed the books
before he could lay them down. They
met him at the foot of the stairs when
he appeared with the third load, and a
swaying forward mass of eager people pressed
for more. They wore on the
stairs waiting for him when he brought
tlie fourth load, and over the heads of
the people he could see men running
from various directions to find out the
cause of the trouble. Well, the books
were soon gone, and tho card went,
too.
The lawyer who planned tlio scheme
was delighted.
“Aly first annual free distribution
of books was a rip-roaring success,”
ho complacently remarked.
Supplying Pulpits.
One of the problems tho summer
season always presents to those inter¬
ested in the practical working of a
church and tlio one most difficult
to solve with satisfaction to all con¬
cerned is that of supplying the pulpit
during the absence of the regular min-
inter. The question of pulpit supply,
as it is known technically, sometimes
is take?) care of by the church officials,
but not infrequently it is left to the
minister, although in the latter enso
he is apt to he hampered throughout
his period of rest by anxieties as tc
whether the visiting minister is satis-
factory to liis congregation,
The compensation received for pulpit
supplying services varies greatly. As a
rule the rate is low when compared
to tlie character of the churches
served and the men who perform the
service. Probably the best paying
churches, as a class, are the Presby-
teriau and Congregational, their rates
running from $100 for a whole day’s
service to $5, with few at, the former
figure and a great many at the latter.
Methodist churches pay from $25 to
$5 for a whole day’s service, while
among the Baptist churches the rate
is from $50 to $5. Sometimes the
minister lias his expenses in addition
to this, but, as a rule, the lump mim
in expected to include the whole
transact ion. In some places no fixed
sum is stipulated, a slidiug scale bo-
ing in use and operated on a slidiug
ha. ; of one per cent, of the regular
salary of tlie pastor.- New York Press:
Berlin, Germany, includes iu Rn
population 00,000 Hebrews,
HE DID NOT CABLE RESIGNATION
AS WAS REPORTED.
HIS SUCCESSOR NOT YET NAMED.
Azcarraga Was Asked for Ills Resignation,
as the Queen Thought Him
Too Slow.
A special dispatch received at Lon¬
don from Madrid Saturday says that
Captain General Weyler has been re¬
called from Cuba. His successor, it
is added, has not yot been officially
announced.
It was rumored the day following
the fall of the old cabinet that Weyler,
anticipating his recall, had resigned;
this proved, however, to be untrue.
The head of a government army can¬
not, according to military precedent,
resign during a state of war.
The recall is the result of the estab-
ment of a liberal cabinet under Senor
Sagastn, Weyler being a representa¬
tive of the conservatives.
A special front Madrid says:
“In all her consultations with Span¬
ish generals and leaders of political
parties, the queen regent has laid
stress Chiefly Upon the question of
Spain’s relations with the United
States, and the best means of averting
the loss of Cuba through prolongation
of the war and consequent American
ntervention, thereby imperiling the
•stability of her son’s throne, let alone
placing it into the hands of tho republi¬
cans and Oat-lists who have been espec¬
ially troublesome of late.
The queen also insisted strongly
upon discussing whether her Spanish
rule in the West Indies would not he
. eopardized by a too extended grant of
autonomy, thus enabling the separa¬
tists ually and autonomists to prepare grad¬
aud legally their evolution to¬
wards independence.
“She earnestly asked the statesmen
if they believed a liberal government
would bo strong enough to make the
majority of tlie Spaniards accept ex¬
tended home rule, involving as a sac¬
rifice the Spanish material interests in
the colonial islands and a heavy bur¬
den for the Spanish treasury, if sad¬
dled with the Cuban debt.
“Tho queen questioned whether
Sagasta would be able to restrain pub¬
lic opinion and the press of the oppo¬
sition parties, if he made concessions
to the colonies under tho pressure of
diplomacy.
“The queen cannot believe success
would crown so complete a reversal of
the policy which had been followed
for the last two years and a half.
“It seems that some, if not all, her
loyal advisers had tlie courage to tell
the queen regent that the alternative
lies between a sincere trial of the new
policy embracing and understanding
with the United Htates and the greater
per cent of a conflict with America,
probably entailing tlie loss of tlie col¬
onies.”
Marshal Blanco, it is stated, in all
probability tain will accept the post of cap¬
general of Cuba.
As to Azt’ftrraga.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Standard says:
“The.queen regent tonka strong ini¬
tiative during the crisis and profoundly
surprised General Azcarraga by leav¬
ing him no alternative but resignation.
She frankly expressed her disappr (IV-
al of the conservative administration,
especially in its treatment of the an¬
archist prisoners at Fortress Mont-
juicb.
“She said hIio had allowed Honor
Ganovas to remain in office in the hope
that he would modify tho rigor of bis
repressive policy in Cuba, and that
she had repeatedly called the attention
of ministers to administrative scan¬
dals and abuses. Moreover, her
majesty said she waited patiently for
two months after the death of Senor
Canovas, in the hope that the new
government would correct these evils.
“On its failure to do so, she con¬
sulted General Campos, Bettor Silvela
aud others as to the best means of
pacifying Cuba by an endeavor to sat¬
isfy the autonomists and thus virtually
to steal a march on American diplo¬
macy.
“AH the statesmen whom she con¬
sulted appear to have advised a liberal
cabinet as the best means of attaining
th o queen’s wishes.
GREEK UADI NET RESIGNS.
M. Italli Donouncnf) Germany For Work¬
ing Agalngt Gi’ceco.
Advices from Athens Btate that tho
Greek cabinet has resigned.
The Athens correspondent of the
London Times says:
"M. Ralli, when presenting the
chamber the preliminary treaty of
peace, took strong exception to its
terms, attributing to Germany all that
had been done against Greece.
“He declared that ho would not sub¬
mit a resolution approving the treaty,
because it was executory and there¬
fore did not require approval; and
also because such n step would he con¬
trary to the sovereign rights of the
statu and the crown.
MAJOR GUNTER DIES.
Was Pioneer In Cigarette IJu«iand
Made a Fortune.
Alajor Lewis Ginter, the cigarette
king, a pioneer in the business, out of
which he has made a fortune of $10,-
000,000, died Saturday night at West
Brook, his palatial home, near Rich¬
mond, Va.
Mr. Ginter was the largest individ¬
ual owner of American Tobacco stock,
uiul the richest man in the 'louth.
FEVER-SUMMARY,
Saturday and Sunday Record of New Cases
and Fatalities.
Numerous cases of fever appeared at
New Orleans Saturday, as was expect¬
ed. The weather was warm and the
foci of infection had increased.
Tho malignity of the disease, how ever,
was deaths, not emphasized. There were four
hut the majority of cftsoH are
of the innocuous type and there Were
many for discharges of patients who have
tho doctors. some days been under the care of
Thirty-one new cases anil two deaths
wore reported Sunday. Of these cases
eleven are in houses where fever has
heretofore been reported. The other
cases are pretty well scattered and
none were reported at tho detention
camp, in any of the hospitals or in the
asylums.
Dr. Dunn, of the state hoard of
health, Saturday night reported nine¬
teen new eases at Edwards and one
death. Sunday’s record was fourteen
new eases and two deaths.
The fovornble record was maintained
at Mobile, Ala., by a report of but
four new cases and no deaths.
An appeal will lie addressed to the
homefolks and people abroad, the re¬
sulting money to he distributed by the
Cun’t-Get-Away Club for the assist¬
ance of the needy.
is Camp Detention, at Mount Vernon,
ready for those who wish to spend
ten days there and receive from the
hospital surgeons in charge a clean
hill of health that will bo recognized
by state quarantine officers,
TO DISINFECT the mails.
Tile President and Postmaster General
Discuss (ho Matter.
A Washington dispatch says: Satur¬
day afternoon just after the cabinet
session, Postmaster General Gary and
Assistant Postmaster General Shalleu-
berger had n long conference with the
president concerning mails of the in¬
fected districts.
The president is taking a keen in¬
terest in the developments in tho in¬
fected districts and inquired carefully
about the plans already in operation
and means for relieving the distiess in
the commercial circles compatible with
public safety.
General Superintendent White, of
the railway mail service, had a confer¬
ence with Surgeon General Wyman, of
the marine hospital service, during the
day. Dr. Wyman decided that if uee-
e.-sary he would establish camps on
the borders of tho state of Louisiana
so that not only the mails from New
Orleans, but also all mails front the
state going into Texas, will he proper¬
ly disinfected.
This will give Texas a quarantine
against the whole state and so far as
New Orleans mails are concerned give
them a double disinfecting process.
Advices indicate that the situation
in Texas is greatly relieved through
prompt and efficient disinfecting serv¬
ice. Postni authorities believe that no
further apprehension should lie felt as
to disease germs finding their way out
of Louisiana through the mails.
LUKTGKKT TRIAL DRAGS.
.Six Weeks Conflimit tl and tho Fad Not
Yot in Sight.
A Chicago special says: Tho close
of tlie sixth week of tiie celebrated
trial of Adolph Luetgert for tho al¬
leged murder of his wife showed the
case far from completed.
Luetgert’s story has not yet been
heard. The big sau‘agemaker may ho
on the stand a week. It is predicted
that the anxiety of the accused man to
talk will be fully satisfied before his
cross-examination is Closed if he goes
on tlio witness stand, and ex-Judge
Vincent, chief counsel for the defense,
has promised that Luetgert will he
heard.
The concensus of opinion at the
close of tho week, Saturday afternoon,
by close observers of the trial since the
opinion was that the prosecution had
the better of the argument. Exports of
the defense have contradicted each
other on cross-examination. They
have, also made blunders in the identi¬
fication of bones, which amused tho
jurors and apparently weakened tlieir
testimony.
MORE WAGES DEMANDED.
Miners In Foret an I.ami Have Troubles of
Tliolr Own.
The national congress of miners,
which lias been in session at Liege,
Belgium, decided to make a demand
for an advance of 16 per cent in wages.
If this demand is not granted by the
middle of November tho executive com -
mittee will probably call a strike.
DEATH IN A IVRECK.
Two Mon Killi-il and Many More or Less
Herloiinly Injure').
One person killed, one so badly in¬
jured that ho died soon after the acci¬
dent, and others more or less hurt is
tho record of a wreck on the Denver
and Rio Grande n arrow gitage at Co¬
topaxi, seventy-two miles west of
Pueblo, at 2 o’clock Saturday morning,
caused by the break of the journal on
one of the coaches.
The cars were all crowded with ex¬
cursionists hound to tho festival of
Mountain and Plain at Denver.
There was little excitement and not
much wreckage, us the train was run¬
ning very slowly.
MINERS QUITTING JELLIUO.
0|M‘I*ii(oi*h I-xp‘c( to Import New Mon
For I lie JllJm-w.
The Chattanooga agent of tho Jcllico
Coal Company states that the miners
of tho Jcllico region are leaving in
droves awl that very few of tho men
remain. There is none of the Jellico
coal in Chattanooga and only a few of
tho smu!) mines are running. The
operators expect to import men, but
they have had some difficulty in doing
so heretofore.
T. P. GREEN. MANAGER.
)
PHILOSOPHER IS DISPLEASED AT
M’KIXLEY’S POLICY.
TAKES A WALK 10 “COOL OFF.”
Appointment of Colored Postmastori In
tho South KlevatoS
William’s Choler.
When Abasuerus got so dreadful
mad with Hainan he dident do any¬
thing rash all of a sudden, but walked
out iu the garden to cool off'—to let
his cltoler down. That’s the way I
am doing now every day, and am
thankful that I've got a garden to
walk in. When my good old father
used to feel the rheumatic pains
coming he dident sit down and grunt
and look miserable, but seized his hat
and his cano in a hurry and started
out to peruse the farm, In an hour
or so he would return all in a sweat of
perspiration and the rheumatism was
postponed for a time. Walk about
some and commune with nature when
you feel bad. Almost every day I
take on a new mad, a fresh indigna¬
tion at McKinley, aud if I dident
walk in the garden and peruse the
roses and posies or feed the pet rab¬
bits and tho peafowls or pick a lot of
tomatoes for dinner my choler
Wouldent Conte dowtt aud I would lose
my appetite and my serenity. Dogon
hint, Confound him, dad lilast him!
The good book says "Cursed be the
deceiver,” and if he hasn’t deceived
ns no man ever did. I never voted for
him and I itm thankful for it, but I
did have respect for hnii and believed
] i is sincerity and his national patriot¬
ism, but he has falsified our faith and
broken our hopes, and my personal
contempt for him is amazing. I
dident know that my kind, gentle
disposition could generate so much
contempt for any man. We dident
know that lie was a south hater per so
and bail smothered it in his bosom all
t hese years only to he uncovered when
he got us in his power. Some say ho
is a fool, some say a knave and some
that he has beon hypnotized by
Hanna; hut my conviction is that it is
a deliberate party policy to open the
breach between the north and the
south, to set tho healing wound to
bleeding again. They have despaired
of capturing any southern state and
now seek to raise hell between us and
the negroes. Oh, my country! was
tlicro ever such heartless, rock-
loss tyranny of official power,
such insulting humiliation? Let mo
Stop a few minutes and walk in tlie
garden. I see the beautiful flowers
front the window, the cannas, with
their tuvbaned tops, waving in the
evening breeze; the zenias and dahlias
and geraniums in all tlieir variegated
colors. I see tho flocks of little birds
picking looking the sunflower seed, I am
upon fho innocence of nature,
and I grieve that man is the only creat¬
ure that disappoints and deceives 11H.
Let me go out among the flowers and
ruminate and calm my fretted thoughts
aud comfort my olfactories with a
sprig of lemon verbena and heliotrope.
♦ * * AVel), now I think I feel hotter.
Let McKinley proceed with his pro-
cession. Tlie governor anil the press
will attend to him. I liked those
headlines of the governor, “McKinley’s
Skirts Stained With Loftin’s Blood.”
That is a fact, and his party’s skirts
have been stained with a good deal of
negro blood since the war-—not a
lynching has taken place that wns
not tho result of their teachings. Just
look at the animus that seeks to pro-
voko a war of races in the south.
The New York Press, in spitting its
venom at the south, says the national
government should at once arm every
colored office holder and prepare him
for the fight and hack him up in it.
Which means, of course, arms for his
friends and soldiers stationed near at
hand and an internecine strife and at
last another war between the north
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not only between the north and ih,i
south, but between the whites and the
blacks. But all this lias been
said over aud over again by the
press and our senators and rep¬
rosentatives all over the soutl </ aid]
it has been felt by millions who think
much and say little. I wonder if
Hanna, AIcKinley & Co. think they
can by force reform and regulate tin
sentiment of a great and mighty peo¬
ple a people who want peace, but
are not afraid of wav when they are
trampled on or insulted. But I must
walk out again or change the subject,
f believe I will go and soe some of the
little grandchildren and play horse for
them. 1 like that. I had rather nurse
and pet the little chaps than to hate
McKinley. trouble It pays better. But the
greatest I have now is in try¬
ing to keep my respeot for some of my
frionds who still stand up to him. I
don’t soo how any southern man ex¬
cept an office-seeker oan stay in liis
party. The average office-seeker is a
politician, and Shakespeare says “a
politician would circumvent God.”
But hero I have got back to the same
contemptible subject. Plague take
the niggers. I wish that Bishop Tur¬
ner would hurry np his transportation.
This everlasting fuss has been going on
thirty-four years since freedom came
and half a century before and the end
is not in sight, and now half the legis¬
lature is in session as a committee to
determine what to do with the three
or four thousand colored convicts and
more to come. Tt will cost the state
a million of dollars before the new
plan is carried out, and the national
government ought to pay it or ship
them away. The north first brought
them over here from Africa and in
course of time sold them to us and then
set, them free and refused to pay the
money back, dogon ’em! confound well em!
But we are getting along fairly
notwithstanding our troubles. We were
hoping for a peaceful and prosperous
administration, but my faith weakened
when I read that McKinley was boo-
hooing over John Brown’s grave and
said the very place was an inspiration.
Yes, sympathizing seized with that old crazy
fanatic who the arsenal of the
United States at Harper’s Ferry to get
arms to murder Virginians, and he is
looked upon as a saint and his grave
an inspiration. I wonder if lie didn’t
take the shoes from off’ his feet. But
I must have some fresh air before I
quit. I can’t do justice to the subject,
and must wait until I peruse the dic¬
tionary and find some more fitting
language wherewith to vent my indig¬
nation. As it is, I am just voicing the
sentiments of onr people—our whole
people. Any negro who seeks ami
accepts a postoffice place in the south
is a fool-hardy fool, for there are
some lawless, desperate men in
every community north Booth and south. and
If Lincoln had a
Garfield a Gmteau, how can a
defiant negro politician expect to
escape when the entire community is
against him? What would become of
him in Versailles? What good will
his arms do him oven though furnished
by the government? Norv look at the
folly of these Negro politicians. There
is Dent, the superintendent of the ne¬
gro schools in Rome. He has a good
place and a good salary, but wants the
Homo postoffice. Well, of course, ho
will bo turned out of tho school and
he will he miserable in the postoffice
if he gets it, and every white man, wo-
man aud child in Rome will hate Mo-
Kinley for it. It seems to me that I
would rather have the love and respect
of the people than their hatred and
contempt. —Bum Aup, in Atlanta Con¬
stitution.
no NEWS.
Mrs. Gabb— “Yes, my daughter ap¬
pears to have married very happily.
Her husband has not wealth, it must
be admitted, hut ho has family."
Mrs. Gadd—‘‘Yes, I heard ho was
a widower with six children.”
WILL SETTLE FOR GOLD.
Jujmn’H Troiibio With Hawaii To I?o Ad~
justed On Financial Pauls.
An official announcement of the de¬
parture of the Japanese cruiser for
Yokohama, together with tho state¬
ment that the immigration question
raging between Japan and Hawaii is
likely to he shortly settled without ar¬
bitration, has thrown a peaceful aspect
around American questions in tho Pa¬
cific.
The most important statement, made
by Minister Sowell is that tho Ha-
waiian-Japanese authorities have
agreed that $100,000 in gold will set¬
tle the claims of the latter against tho
Dole authorities.
GEORGIA FOOTBALLISTS.
Stale University Team Arranges Schedule
of Gurnet for the Season,
A schedule of football games for tho
University of Georgia was arranged at
a meeting of the Athletic association
at Athens played Thursday. One game will
be on tho home grounds and
four in Atlanta.
Georgia will play all the leading
universities and colleges of the south
this season and the outlook is very
lino for Georgia. Material for the
team iR unusually fine this year and
the university will probably have the
greatest eleven in her history.
Tho first game of the season opens
at Athens October 1), and the filial
game will he at Augurn, Ala., Nov. 25.
REWARD FOR ROBBERS.
Tim i:. . (tiid r. Kail way Company
Will Pay ttftOO Knell for Them.
The Chicago, Thick Island anti Pa¬
cific Railway Company has offered »
reward of $000 each for the capture of
the live men who held up and robbed
its passenger train at Ohickasha last
week,
A score of deputy marshals with
blood hounds are scouring the country
for the Jennings gang of outlaws,
which is responsible for the robbery.
Al Jennings, leader of the gang, was
at one time attorney general of Cana¬
dian county.
SCARE IV TEXAS SUBSIDES.
fjiinriuithi'i Halsiitt and llusiness Resinned
In Many Towns.
A special from Dallas says: For the
lirst time in two weeks tho people of
Texas are on their feet again.
The official declaration of Health,
Officer Swearingen, that the suspicious
case at, Houston waa not yellow fever,
lias been almost immediately followed
by the raising of the extreme quaran¬
tine measures which have been in
force in many counties and all tho
towns below Corsicana.
INDORSED ORGANIZED LABOR.
I.cauneor American Municipalities Adopt
Important Resolution,
The League of American Municipal¬
ities, in session at Columbus, O.,
passed a resolution Friday morning,
offered by Alderman Lowry, of Pough¬
keepsie, N. Y., indorsing the efforts
of organized labor and requiring that
the published report of the league’s
proceedings and addresses bear the
Typogiaphical Union label.