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The Morgan Monitor. VOL. II. NO. IT. A FUAYER, Teach me. Father, how to gc Softly as the grasses grow; Hush my soul to meet the shock Of the wild world as a rook; But my spirit, propt with power, Make as simple as a (lower. Let the dry heart fill its cup, Like a poppy looking up; Let life lightly wear her crown, Like a poppy looking down, When its heart is tilled with dew, And its life begins anew. Uncle Tip’s Supper. ___— ............ ..... By HATTIE WHITNEY* N OU won’t fergit the l roastin’-years. Uncle Tip?” honey.’* “Naw, “Ner the simlins?” “Naw, chile.” “An’ you’ll dig a big mess o’ sweet potatoes to bake?” ‘ ‘Yas, yas, sugar. ” “An* cook all the other truck jest like I tole you, an’ hev over’thiug ready percisely at six o’clock?” “Yas, honey, yas.” Uncle Tip Tucket, who sat on a backless chair in the open passageway between two log rooms, looked a little bewildered and clutched at his scant locks as if to hold onto his memory ere it should give him the slip, as his niece rattled off her brisk cateohism. He wan a slow, amiable mail, with mild, blinking eyes and wispy gray hair. ’■•'i Tucket, his niece, was all from her quick, black eyes 1 -patty laced into her Her freshly 1 out around smooth borate she Tib 1 a -na */* ot Vuiv:. \V movement like pink i room, a ana 1 ? her skirts rustling o a-said so before,” she jfiskly, unlocking a trunk / the lid of a box inside. . ' t got any time to lose. I’ll . oan-jh/ii my buff-border one; ail’ don’t j-ou crumple it up an’ tie knots in it like you done with yourn last Sunday.” ..The plump girl blushed, and sat down upon the edge of the bed with its blue and white counterpane anil stiff, square pillows, and was promptly pounced upon by Izora. “Git up!” said she. ‘ ‘You’re a- inussin’ the kiverlid, Susan.” “Izory,” said Susan, as she moved over to the window, “don’t you Uncle Tip’d kinder like to go ’long to the picnic, too?” “Reckon so,” responded Izora, who was giving her mind to the setting of her white straw hut-, with its pink rib¬ bons, straw loops, huge, bobbing red l ose and clninky bud, 011 tlie exact top *-- f her head, where she secured it by jabbing a long pin through it and a strand of her hair. “An’ I don’t see,” pursued Susan, speculatively, “whut’d be the hurt.” “Susau Tucket, air you a idit?” demanded Izora, wheeling about. “First place, who’d git supper? Ain’t Gid Tompkins shore to be ’long with me, an’ more’n likely Sam Bean with you, an’ wouldn’t we hev to run scootin’ ’round like hoppergrasses a- cookin’ supper ’stid of talcin’ it easy? An’ second place, ain’t that long-nosed old maid Clementyne Plummins boun’ to bo there, au’ ain’t she got her yaller cat-eyes onto Uncle Tip, ail’ lied ’em there fer tlie last ten years? She’d of snapped him up like a jaybird does a bug, forty times over, ef it hedn’t ’a’ ’#“!! fer me upsettin’ her plots an’ 1 ipiu’ him out’n her way. He’s wil- enough to be snapped up, an' once ’em at a picnic p!aym* ‘Sister cbe an I\yo Tinkers, an’ they’d god inside of a hour, I'll insure, in’t kep’ ’em apart this long git together at a picnic at I do’no,” drawled Busan; iey air that a-way. But ley was to? fractious. Clementyne /s ’•in mean ’most or Why, run over her ef the further you kin see,” ■a, scornfully; “not a yer nose! Don’t Clem- 3r maw live alone, an’ •r maw live whurever did, an’ wouldn’t she lie things lively ’round this An’ do yon an’ me want a ..g fsather-hed she’d of a step-annt-in- j , er whutever be, a-runnin’ Gangs here?” “I do’no,” began Susan again; "I—” ‘'You “I do,’’interruptedIzora, decisively. ain’t got gumption enough to pound sand. Come along; yonder’s the sun, 'way up. We’ll be late.” The fall was a very bountiful one that year, and seemed to hold all the sweetness of summer in its mellow j clasp. Down in t lis out-of-the-way corner of Missouri no sign of frost had I yet appeared, and the sun was mild and clear. Uucie Tip Tucket stood in the log i Teach me, Father, how to ho Kind and patient as a tree. Joyfully the crickets croon Under shady oak at noon: Beetle on his mission bent, Tarries in that cooling tent, Let me, also, cheer ft spot, Hidden field or garden grot— Place where passing souls can rest On the way and ho their host. —Charles Edwin Markham, In Scribner's, “lean-to” kitchen, surrounded by the generous offerings, freshly gathered, of the rich, well-cultivated soil of his thrifty garden, Great round, Cush¬ iony, Crimson potatoes; tomatoes; long, pink- red sweet plump ears of corn in .their silken, green husks; creamy marrow squashes; translucent pods of wax-beans; broad pods filll of butter- beans; crook neck squashes and cucum¬ bers-, were piled about him in hunger- provoking profusion. And still Uncle Tip stood, with dismay in his face, staring perplexedly at his vegetable treasures. “Did she say to fry the roastin’-years au’ bile the tomotuses, or did she say stchew the sweet ’taters an* make Soup out’n the simlins, ef whut, beats me! An* she’ll be madder’n a wet hen ef I git ’em wrong, Wluit’s that?” A ponderous step came up onto the porch, and the Widow Plmnmiils, otherwise known as Aunt Dorcas, ap- peared at the kitchen door, with a large, black sttnbonneton and a teacup containing baking-soda in her hand. The widow was stout and slow of mo- tion, and she puffed some from the climb up the steps, “I’ve fetched back the sody Izory loaned me,” she announced, setting the cup down. “I was a-passin’ an’ ’lowed it’d save another trip. Whut- 11 •- motfov TTe-’ie Tip? You - - v, -.am' how she sayed fer to cook it. Don’t know no more’n that ole mer rooster out yander how ter fix tomotuses, ner beans, ner nothin’.” Uncle Tip groaned, while Dorcas unWed her black sunbonnet, sat down and laug’“d until her portly form fairly quaked. “Uncle Tip,” said she, “f Jr.now wliut Izory is, ^1 know wliat you air, fi know whut cookin’ a meal o’ vittles is, an’ I b’leeve I know whut my simple Chrishen juty to a good neighbor-man is. Now, you run an’ split me up some good, dry kiu’lin’s, fill up tlie wood-box, fetch me a bucket of water, an’ I’ll liev ever’tliing goin’ before yo kin bat your eyes twicet, au’ mix pan of sody biskit in the bargain.” The widow seized a gingham apron of Izora’s, tied it about her ample waist, rolled up her black calico sleeves, and in a very moderate space of time had the big coffee-boiler steam¬ ing, tho vegetables baking, stewing, frying or boiling, according .to their various requirements, a huge skillet of ham sputtering on the stove and a panful of bouncing big biscuits all ready for the oven. As for Uncle Tip, he was in au ccstacy of delight, skipping about to render what assistance he could, doing the widow’s behests with gleeful alacrity, ancl commenting upon the proceedings with wonder and joy. “Don’t it beat you,” he observed, gazing upon the clouds of steam from the various kettles and saucepaus with fascinated eyes, “how slick tilings’ll go when nuybuddy takes a holt ’at knows how? Jest look at them tomo- tuses a-bubbliu’ up thick au’ red, au’ smell them roastin’-years, an’ listen at the ham a-sizzlin’—an’ them biskits! Never seen sich big, nice, saft -lookin' biskits—mind I tell ye.” “I’m alius used to makin’ biskits that a-way,” said the Widow, “’cause i.i.- an’ Clementyne don’t ary one much like crus’.” “Ner me, neither,” said Uncle Tip “Now,” said Mrs. Plummins at last, a:, she sat the coffee-pot down on the hearth, “hit’s mighty near time fer the young folks to be polin’ along home, I’ll fix the gravy, an’ then I reckon you kin dish up when they git yere, an’ I’ll be getting back.” Uncle Tip’s air of pleased animation vanished, and he groaned more dis¬ mally than he had before the widow rescued him from his troubles. “Aunt Dorcas,” said he, “I wisht ye wouldn’t go ’fore supper—an’ I wisht ye wouldn’t go atter supper_ an’fur as that goes, I wisht ye wouldn’t go at all, 1 do fer shore. Look a-here, Aunt Dorcas,” the little man continued to rush on, as if, having given expres- sion to his feelings, lie was unable to control them, “I ain’t never »*; no- buddy to hev mo sence pore Pamely died; not but whut I’ve ’lowed some- times ’at I’d kinder like to, V I hev sort o’ cast a eye at Clementyne oncet in awhile, but ’peared like es ef one thing another ’ud keep a-liappenin’ to spile it. Ever’ time I’d fix fer it somethin’’ud up an’knock it in the head; I couldn’t never git half a j chaince to see her, an’ looked like I never would. But after all, I reckon Clementyne’s a leetle too young fer me. Now you an’ me is purty closet of a age; ’pears to me like es ef we 1 was plum suited to one another. I know there couldn t no one suit me so good a-makin’ biskits, an’ no one '■ AND DnAINAGS]. Morgan, ga.. Friday, December 3 , mi. wouldn't chop kiu’lin’s an’ pack wntai I ter you elieerfuller’n whut I would. 'Sposin' we’s to jino ban’s for good, mo an’ you—will ye, Dorcas?” deUbtu-rttion,* “Well,” Said Aunt Dorcas; with due “bein' es you’re! sd handy at gittin’ kin’lin’ an’ the like, j an' we both take to the same kind of biskits, good, an’ my 1 bookin' seems to ’* Suit | you ed mdiit thiuk of it, d„S: widow around the w r aist. “Looky yere, Dorcas,” said he, ! “don’t go an’ spile it by thinkin’ about it. Let’s light right out over to the minister’s yonder an’ be all fixed time I the gals gits back. Somethin’ll hen- ! det shore, ef we put it off, mind I tell you. Ain’t I told ye how I eeahluT. oven git no courtin’ done? An* tilings’ll git crossways somehow, ef we wait a minute, I ‘most know, Come, let’s run right over. ” “But Clementyne,” demurred tho widow, “She’ll git home from tho ’ picnic an’ be skeered to not find no , one there.’* I . . ... the “rihe 11 hev to pass right, by ; parsonago on her way, said Uncle Tip, “an’ ef we don’t see her our¬ selves!, We’ll get ’eul to watch fer hei an’ tell her td come right over ’fore she goes home. Come, now, sugar, clap on yore bonnet an let s scoot right oil; we’ll fasten the kitchen door an’ run an git married an be bac.v m time to dish up together. Oh, honey, ef you don’t 111 be so mizzable 1.11 jest natclielly widow bust up and go to pieces. against The was not proof such eloquence as this. Six o’clock came, and the girls, ar¬ riving punctually with their escorts, beheld Aunt Dorcas emerging from the kitchen with a great platter of fried ham surrounded by rich red- brown thickened gravy, while Uncle Tip came skipping after, beaming be¬ nignly and bearing in each band a plate heaped With the big biscuits. The table was spread m the open pas- sageway, and from the center thereof arose a mountain ot corn, boiled on the cob, the long ears even, white, succulent, and extremely tempting Alongsure stood a large yellow bowl full of stewed tomatoes, thick, dark red and fragrant with seasoning- of i'<l tender cjreen peppers. A "■■}) ^ lur d 1) ^ w g • Tiled tomatoes, cucumbers i dressing ' of vinegar, ,„er ' Tureens of , «, | 1 ’ ... ’ J- beneath their ci and erowiled . oil-seasoned } i, am co i ored . squash. Plates ” man a ,. y baked s..-eot potatoes, bowls o-,f hav01 .y succotash, and sections of ‘ do, „ 0 j d crookuecks, baked to glazy perRjction «k and piled upon platters, filled yel . y space. The dessert of late-ripe,,, carminc 1 velvet peaches and sweet 11 A ted cantaloups seemed almost a supe\ fluity amidst the abundanoe of vegotS, able luxury. Miss Clementyne Pluiiimiiis was set- uting the chairs about tho table with “ cheerful energy. “Wafik up, ladies and gentlemen, greeted lib ele Tip, jovially. “Leniii.c first iuterilucc-ye to my wife, Mrs. Tip Tucket, Widdei- Plummins that was, and my darter Oiiementyne; an’ the 1 all pitch in an’ eat - -eat hearty. An’ ef this yere meal of yitfilcs does come a leetlo grain ahead of time, hit’s a Thanksgivin’ dinner an’s,upper all in one to this ole boy, fer I’nT thankful to a good, kind Providence, pi um from head to heel, firstly for a migh ty good wife, au’ secondly fer a might y good supper. Now light in.” forward The youug men stepped us Uncle shook hands Tip finished his little speVch, all around with a he*rtv good-will, wished the newly marrfiod pair “much joy,” and sat down to Uhe table, according to the invitation. wifcj \ Susan laid aside her hat, and placidly smiling visage kissed her new* aunt and uncle and embraced Cieinen- tyne with cousinly cordiality, took a seat beside Mr. Bean, and helped lier- sqj,f to a large ear of corn. Susan was I not given to violent amazement under any circumstances. The host and hostess next seated themselves, and in the slight attend¬ ing confusion, no one observed the movements of Izora, who popped into the left-hand room 4 pitched her hat upon the bed, and stood grinding her heel into the innocent rag carpet and punching a hole in the plastering of the wall with her parasol. Her 1 eyes snapped. “Talk of plum idiots!” she ground out viciously, “I’d take first prize at the biggest booby show over was—a- plottin’ like I done to keep him from goin’ to the picnic an’ meetin’ Clemen¬ tyne, an’ yere he’s stayed right home and married Clementyne’s maw, slick es a whistle, a million times worso’n ef he’d a married Clementyne herself —shucks take it! Why didn’t I keep an eye out that a-way, ’stid of watchin’ Clementyne so closet? Well, Jzory Tucket, bein’ you ain’t got the sense of a good-sized June-bug, I reckon you better go out an’ wish ’em much joy, an’ eat your supper—an’ mind yer own business from - Farm and Fireside. Subscribe for Tills paper and keep posted on affairs in general. RUSSIA’S WARNING UNHEEDED. Proceeds to Invest 1,500,000 Murks In 'Dargo (inns. Advices from Constantinople state in spite of the protest of the Russian government which recently intimated to tho porte that if any cou- of the indemnity paid by Greece should be devoted to tho exten- sion of the Ottoman armament the government would insist upon a payment of the arrears of tho Russo- Turkish indemnity, long overdue Turkey great has German placed with Herr Krupp’ gunmaker, an order for 150 large cannon at a total value of marks. t PRESENCE OF RUKGtAtiS IN 1’OWN DISTRESS THE PHILOSOPHER, TRUMPS ARE ADEPIS JT THIEVING. ^-Kiluvatlon Elicits nil Wcll- -<01 lo Jem s ,, . 1 . b ins it,... peaceable and honest town Lv cr since beeri he no i isturhanod "? re f of 0 ‘Tfi the " prtblic 1 r’’T tram qmlrty. During all that tune out .loots not been locked at night nor bits our chicken roOst been robbed by the fowl invader. Tile presence of oitr f.^tliful dog may have been our pro- teetion, for there have been some few r chickens stolen in these parts. Our neighbor, Charley Patterson, suffered some in that, way until lie bought the old gallows on Which a man was bring few 8 ag0 wd bni j t a chicken houBe of tlle timber. Bince then lie can ] iarc i]y get a darky to put chickens in it by day> mnch loss to take them ou j. by n i g j lb But our negroes in and around Oartersville are a clever,indus¬ trious people and The ns honest, domestic as" mankind are generally. servants will take Some liberties with little things that they think we won’t miss, but they have and many good traits that are a set-off, so we compromise on general principles. But now the burglars have come to town and alarmed the whole commu- . t j believe they f come ficm up l lvh ere eve father. md thiug eome s f eVen to bfl(1 The other d ^ ft trnmp came to our house and ed for some thing to eat. He was f . , good looldng and l well dressed, M 7 got h fi im uacb ftttd aske d wber 0 his bome wa nml wllere going b ^ . He smiled and sai.l ho nQ ho e and was ,. aiHed in aa or P“ . an asylum , upn° 1 ’'t-li n and Avas gomg to Atlanta in search of work, .. \ rr Iow do tra , u1 * ,, BalJ ., she , lf J' 011 J, ’ - y° u bave 110 mone y ? “Well, I ride 011 the freights until tUe y l ,nt me off >” ,ie sai,1 > “ alKl tlien 1 wait for another one and ride some I am just taking a little trip now more, to see the country.” fellows There were two of these in town and they took the rounds asking * or something to eat and always got it. My opinion is that they aw ^ caIiingfe ; S5 e Laii y hause S istopros- pect the premises. The night aver¬ they were at our house burglars enter- e d four houses and stole money. They took S 9t) from under a sleeping man’s fViillow ' and mailer sums from the I'fiickets they of other entered men. three A houses few nights and ♦ of k a liTie^mW- tt'sk:a /rom under a banker’s pillow and the nte'.xt night a watch and some money at \ another place. They take no clotliing/nor any¬ thing to ent. They are white* folks, I tell you, and are experts in their bus¬ iness. Well, of course, tlie whole ity is aroused and especially the women. Mv wife is not a timid woman. Mhe is more afraid of snakes than of men, but sbe, too, got alarmed and made me tho hammer and the screwdriver and some bolts and nails and fix up every door and window. She held the lamp and watched me all round from room to room, and I mashed a great blood blister on my finger and it hurts yet. When all was done to her satisfaction and we got ready to retire, she sud¬ denly told me not to lock tho back 1.all for. Uncle Sam had to come in CrVsiderate t\ere in tho morning to make a fire. woman! She knew that ! ain’t like to get up out of A warm bed to unlock the door. Reckon sbe thinks the burglars woVblu’t be so impolite as to come in at tl\« hack door. Bet they don’t get anjJ haven’t watch from under my pillow, for y got any. Forty years ago UiSd? S 0 ** mine just that way in old Dr. TIJompson’s hotel in Atlan- to, and I ha vie never carried one since. They got my andjsoine qfiockctbook, valuable too, and a little money papers, They were fromM^ north and were very clever week men, con-'hftiwjqig, apl for in a they sent me my pa- pers hack through the mail hmd the letter will was give postmarked back I’liiladetyhia. everything a man they can’t use. Bill Fort told mrii that were a kind-hearted set of thiltyes lie had known them to lean ouj kiss a sleeping man after they life? him. ., No, it is white folks who are s : tenl-'\ ing these valuable things,"" Negroes grit above chickens anil tur- yet. I heard the other day of an 1 ,Id larky who prayed every night dur- Christmas for the Lord to send a to him, but the turkey didn’t and so lie changed his prayer arid asked the Lord to send him to a turkey and his prayer was answered, very night. A negro don’«hanker gold watches. He wants some-, to eat. But now I want to know wliat, is all racket about that they call co-ed- I thought it was just another I and would soon pass away, but it to get bigger and bigger the they talk about it. One would there were no female colleges in land and that the boys were get¬ all the education when the truth is there are more educational facilities girls in this state than for boys. don’t know wliat it all means. Do the girls want to mix with the boys and improve them and be inspired by them? T hen why should not the boys clairn a similar privilege and go to the .colleges Miliedgeville? arid to the girls’ iriiftts* school fit If we fire' going to bunch, let lift brinish the whole concern and include the ttfjM-' cultural attachments and let the girls do some plowing if they want to. But I rfeckoii its Jitst the new woman who is contending fot tile absti'lH't right to go to tlie university. Of eoiirsri they won’t go, for their fiithefs won’t ltd them fIs long ris the femrile colleges are open at Macon find Aflieris find LaGrange and Decatur and Rome find other places. There is plenty of edu¬ cation for them there without the eo-. Tins best mothers, I know, never fliSbfifit got higher than a is high for the school girls and get co-education to mar¬ ried young and go to raising children 1 chiokens. If they do that dil- " *• will learn enough in a ltige-bred l tillLllllv. •” t'appy as their been col- o„ ’ve never entirely sat is In such abstruse sciences as chenns. astronomy, tricgououletry, fluxions, _ rhetoric calculus, Greek, and logic Were of any use to the average boy, much less to the girls. I went to college and my wife didn’t, and I hiive to take a back seat now sometimes. I mairied her when she was only sixteen, but if she bad spent four years in college she would have been so smart she wouldn’t lirivo had me, and I reckon I wouldn’t have had her, for no prudent young man will marry a girl who is smarter than he is— it is dangerous, Pick out your girl and take her young and co- educate her yourself.—Bax. Arp in Atlanta Constitution. SOUTHERN HAULS PACKAGES. Judge I’ihtIpo’s Decision Seems To Have Settled the Whisky Case. The decision of Judge Pardee, of tho United States court at Atlanta, seems to have settled the fight between the Southern railroad and Bluthentlial & Bickart, the Atlanta liquor dealers, in reference to original packago law. The Southern is now hauling the goods of this firm into South Carolina, and bottles packed in cases and shipped in carload lots have been accepted as original packages. It is not known whether tho South¬ ern will continue the fight or not, The local counsel of tho road have not been requested by the officials to take any further steps in the case. NAIL MEN COMBINE. Affection of Knfire Iron Trade Will lie the lteBult. Information from reliable sources in Cleveland, Ohio, is to tho effect that at the protracted past mt- 1 ’ng in attended v , |d .t-ui-ly i v j l ‘“‘n all the 11 - - big producers week, by of wire, wire nails and rods in the country an , agreement to consolidate was virtually reached, only one concern remaining to be induced to go in. The combination will be the largost ever attempted, and will affect tho en- tire iron trade, In order to avoid the fate of the old wire nail pool, the rod mills will be included as well asa num¬ ber of steel producing concerns. REMARK FOR HEROISM. A Gold Medal 1’resented to William laniigfonl For Saving Lives. A gold medal was presented day to William H. Langford, who is clerk in the office of the Now Central and Hudson River company at New York, for saving lives of the passengers in a car in the recent disaster at Garrisons, N. Y. Tho presentation was mado in tho presence of Dr. Chauncoy M. Depew and the other railroad officials and clerks at the Grand Central station. Langford swam out in the Hudson river to t-lie submerged fir andchopped a hole in it, releasing/ iree men. SENATORS FOR RECOGNITION. <Juba AVill Ho Uphold By Upper IIouho of Congreftg. The New York World says that dis- patches received from many louding members of tlie United States sonato indicate stormy times over Cuba as soon as the senate meets, Nearly a score of senators are reputed to have already written resolutions favoring either intervention by the United States or immediate recognition of tho Cuban belligerency. Mules I „ orixli . . in . Flames. D. R. Crawford of Laurens county, S. C., lost his barn and stables, with twelve mules, by fire Friday night. TURKS ARE HUMBLE. Czar Coinr* ; *' s With All tho Demand** irlade Upon Him By AiiHtria. Dispatches received from Mersena, Asia Minor, announce as result of tho d-chfi oii of the Turkish government to 1 ” demands of Austria for re- iff, consequence of the ill treat- of flerr Brazzafolli, the agent of Austrian Lloyd Steamship Corn- pauy at that port, and the subsequent insults c-aiinplaiiied of by the Austrain tlie'iT. the flag of Austria was saluted a* Moridina by Turkish with nil the ceremonial demand- by the government of Austria, BIG STREET’ RAILROAD SOLD. ,., ,. OBSl s-i«„ „r stock „t the 1'ltti.lmrsr M,at*nri. Messrs. Alexander Brtnvii.^ Sons, u syndicate of Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia and capitalists, have consum¬ the purchase of all tho stock of the United Traction Company of Pittsbnrg, Pa., amounting to $20,000,- 000 . This will give them control of tie latest street railway system in HUs- bur 8 un ‘^ Allegheny, owning ard op¬ erating over 117 milesof electrii lines. / U )) IS THE MANIFESTO SENT OUT BY CUBAN ASSEMBLY. SPAIN ISSUES AUTONOMIC DECREE ltotll Culul rintf Potto ltico Aro Included In tlic lioyul {firtfit—Anx¬ iety Is Allayed. The Cuban. constituent assembly, which met recently at (janinguey to remodel the constitution and elect ft new president, issued a manifesto which reached the office of the Cuban junta in New York Friday. The document is dated at Lahaya, October 18, 1897, and is signed by Domingo Mendez Capote, as president of the assembly. The document , , says that ... the nssen , bly jo oie atjouinu g l, othex ’. llt things. .. duty to proclaim, among 1 o s l’ ei 1,1 a ' v ' > 0 I 1 . , , “ an onomy, no iing, * be * that the Spanish Rovernment Spanish may willing to grant that means sovereignty S over Cuba shall be accept- ed , , by the Vi Cubans 1 as „ a . settlement of “Impendence or death is and shall he the unalterable and sacred motto of the Cubans. “Tho Cubans have not resorted to arms in order to obtain any political measures which does not, once and for all solve tho question. That is the reason we will accept nothing short of absolute independence. constitute “It is our purpose to an independent state, orderly, prosperous and happy, over the ruin of a worn- out colony. determined “We are firmly to carry on war until victory or death crowns our effort.” AUTONOMY GRANTED. DeerecH for Cuba ami Porto llico (liven Out by SpaiiifiH Government. Advices from Madrid state that Official Gazette published morning the royal -decrees autonomy to Cuba and Porto Rico, removing the anxiety that had to be expected 011 all sides as the of tlie government’s reticent and explained delay. Article 1 explains the principles , tlie fiituie governments of the islands. Article 2 decrees that the ment of each island shall he of an insular parliament, divided into two chambers, while a governor gener¬ al representing the home shall exercise in its name the supremo authorit y-, Article 8 declares that, the faculty of making laws of colonial affairs rests with tho insular chambers anil the governor general. Article 4 directs that the insular representation shall be composed of two corporations with equal powers; A chamber of representatives nml a council of administration. Article 5 provides that the council of administration shall consist of thirty-five members, of whom eight shall .be elected and seventeen nom¬ inated by the government. Article (i provides that the members of tho council of administration must be Spaniards, thirty-five years of age, who were born in the island or who have resided there continuously for four years. It specifies numerous officials, such as senators, presidents of courts and of chambers of commerce and other bodies as eligible to election to tho council. Article 7 to 14 inclusive deal with nominations and the conditions of elec¬ tion to councils. Article 15 empowers tho throne or the governor general to convoke, sus¬ pend or dissolve the chambers with an obligat on to reassemble them with¬ in three months. CO N ST A NT I. N OR LB TH RE ATEN E D. The Dowers Have Decided That Turk* Must Kvacuute Crete. The Rome correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle snye: “The report is confirmed that the powers have decided to blockade Con- *”-'>otin.»pIe in case Turkey refuses to her troops from Crete and to accept a European governor of the island.” TWENTY YEARS IN THE REN. Meiner Was On* <>r a Party of Klglit Who AfiftaulteU Mm. Gleason. Frank, alias “Dad” Moiner, was convicted at Newport, Ky., Wednes¬ day night, of assaulting Mrs. William Gleason October 6th and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. Claxson and Greer have previously received the same sentence for the same offense, There aro live others to be tried for this offense and all will no doubt receive twenty years each. The defendants belonged to a gang that insulted ladies, and their outrage on Mrs. Gleason was such that lynch¬ ing was averted only by the transfer of the prisoners to Maysville. ESTRADA PALMA TALKS. Delegate Says I'ropo.Dlon <if An tenon. Will Receive No Condlil-vtlnn. Toman Estrada Palma, the Cuban del¬ egate in New York, speaking on the terms of the autonomy decrees stid; “These propositions were scorned advance of the r presention. They receive no consideration now. Cuba, it is a< i‘ has been since was bega n and will be until itends or death.” $1 PER YEAR. ItEV. GIBSON VINDICATED. North Georgia Conference “ 1 ’mKSc*'' Hl« Character Without Trial. There lurks an interesting story be¬ hind the arrest of the character of Rev. J. T. Gibson by Rev. C. 0. Carey in the North Georgia conference at Athens Friday. The charge against Rev. Gibson tvas that he had been imprudent with women. There was no trial, however, and Rev. Gibson was vindicated, tho investigating com¬ mittee having reported a trial not nec¬ essary. According to reports, Revs. Gibson and Carey have not been on tho best of terms for a number of years, Rev. Carey, It is said, has been circulating some reports about Rev. Gibson, which prompted Rev. Gibson to de¬ mand an investigation at the present conference, The alleged indiscretion which Rev. Gibsoti is accused of having commit¬ ted occurred in Rome three or four years ago ween he was pastor of one of the Methodist churches of that city. It developed that the reports were ab¬ solutely false. The matter has been much talked" ^ ^ ^ Uey 0ftrey> itis said, has been largely responsible for ^ cir< , n] „ ti<>n ,, f tbe n>l>orU Kev . Hibson has been very much worried on this account and finally Rev? determined make Carey prove Rtfl t B meiits * He then went to . Rev. Carey, n it •, • Ttate.nent so is ^ and obtained n written ^om him to the effect he had never It is U(n , Gib?0 „ bas in his possession certain affidavits from responsible parties who swear Rev. Carey did make such statements to them concerning Kev. Gibson’s char¬ acter. MILL MYERS AGAIN. Detect!ves In Indian Territory Cl#^ to Have Youthful Murderer. Requisition papers were made out at Atlanta Saturday for the return of Will Myers from the Indian Territory to Georgia. From Muscogee, Indian Territory, eamo the announcement that AVill Myers had been located, arrested, completely identified, and that he at that moment was in the custody of detectives who had traced the fugitive murderer across the prairies, over hill a nd dale, until he had been brought to bay, and after an exciting piece of j strategy, captured, The papers wore made out by- !ioli&: j ibv-r Hill and forwarded, bearing thjb j governor’s tion signature. The identifica- is said to have been made by a detective who worked in Atlanta dur¬ ing the exposition who is now in tho west. LEE ALLAYS SUFFERING. Coiimil Itcports That Them Aro Destitute Americans la Culm. Consul General Lee has made 11 re¬ port to the secretary of state in which he says there are 1,(105 American citi¬ zens in Cuba dependent upon charit¬ able assistance. They have partly been provided for out of tho $50,000 appropriated by congress. General .Lee sajs that in making provision for the relief of these citi¬ zens more than $1,500 a week must bo expended, lie lias drawn $25,000 of tho sum appropriated, of which two drafts for $5,000 each were drawn this month. He expresses tho opinion Hint a considerable time must elapse before tho indigents will bo self-sus¬ taining. PARKHURST EXPRESSES REGRET. ll«*formm* Was“lInBpi!akably Rail” to Find Tammany In I’owvr In N<«w York. The Rev. Dr. 0. il. Parklmrst, who has been away since June, returned to No w York Saturday on board the steamer Adriatic. He said lio had fully recovered his health and his ap¬ pearance bore out the statement. Ho said that it made him “unspeak¬ ably sad” to come back to New York and find Tammany in power. {TURLEY SERIOUSLY ILL. Floridian, No»v In Washington, „ Critical Condition. A Washington special of Sunday says: Colonel W. D. Chipley, of Florida, who was operated on for a carbuncle soveral days ago, is in a very critical condition and it is feared will terminate fatally. Mrs. Chipley and tho colonel’s !-*>n and daughter have arrived in tho city. ARBITRATION NOT >YANTED. Irishmen Send a Long edition to the United States Senate. A petition to the senators of the United States was issued from the headquarters of the Irish National Al¬ liance in New York Friday against the adoption of tho proposed general treaty of arbitration with England. The petition will circulated by the various councils of the alliance throughout this country, the Ancient Order of Hibernians and other Irish- societies. The petition says that tho advocates the arbitration treaty here are the American tories, descendants the men who would have bunged FLORIDA NEGRO LYNCHED. Did Their Work and Departed With¬ out Attracting Attention. Hicks Price, a negro charged with a woman, was taken from jail at Starke, Fla., liy a mob of 100 men and hanged to the limb a tree. About fifty shots were fired his body. The mob gained entrance to the jail pretending to have another subject imprison, tben overpowered the The work was done before the realized the mob’s presence.