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Society in West End. Dr. W. B.' Freeman lias moved to Gordon street, in the house recently occupied by Mr. Stovall. Master Otto Stoeber is ill with typhoid fever at the home of Major Stoeber, on Queen street. We wish for him ft speedy recovery. Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Nelms enter tained delightfully at their elegant, home on Gordon street last Tuesday afternoon, complimentary to the mem bers and friends of the Park Street Methodist church. A large and appreciative audience assembled at the West End Christian church oh last night, the occasion be ing an evening of music and elocu tion by Mr. T. Elmore Lucey, given for the benefit of the building fund for the new church. The “Rosebud Mandolin and Guitar Club” furnished music for the occasion. Mr. Will H. Haralson received a telegram on Wednesday from a brother in Union county, that his father was dying. He left here to go to his father’s home. It is not. known here yet as to the death, but we suppose the old gentleman is dead. He was in his 81st year of age. He has been a good citizen, and a prominent man. Some years ago he was here in the Georgia legislature as representative of Union county. He was father of Mr. F. L. Haralson, attorney in this city. Our sincere sympathy goes out to the family of Colonel Haralson. Marriages in City and State Since Last Issue, On Thursday evening, at the resi dence of Mr. W. T. Gentry, Miss Erie Booze to Mr. E. E. Bowsel. The marriage of Miss Ethel King to Mr. Theodore Parker Miller, is an nounced for November 15th. Miss Mamie Myers and Mr. Robert Flowers were married on last Monday, October 16th, by Rev. A. C. Ward, at his residence, 175 Haynes street. Mr. and Mrs. George Ramspeck an nounce the marriage of theif daugh ter, Helen, to Mr. Eugene Peeples Thomas, on Tuesday evening, October 31st. Miss Evelyn Kell, daughter of Ad jutant General John Mclntosh Kell, at Sunny Side, Ga., was married to Mr. Avergne d’ Antignae, of Atlanta, Ga., on October 15th. A QUAKANI]NE_CONTEST. Louisiana and Texas Will Hav< Differences Settled By Supreme Court. A special from New Orleans states that E. H. Farrar, special representa tive of the state of Louisana, left that city Sunday for Washington,where he will file a petition and present a strong brief before the United States supreme court asking for an injunction, in the name of the state of Louisiana, against the state of Texas, to restrain the lat ter from interfering with the commerce at Louisiana by her quarantine restric tions. Governor Sayers, of Texas, and Dr. Blunt, health officer of that state,have already been notified of the proposed action of Louisiana by Attorney Gen eral Cunningham, and of the intention of Lousiana to bring the question of embargo by means of the quarantine before the federal supreme court. The suit was brought at the demand of the me chants of New Orleans, who claim that Texas has kept in operation an embargo against Louisiana since May that is unreasonable and unjust, and has made it tighter from day to day. Dr. Blunt and Attorney General Smith, of Texas, will be in Washing ton to fight the case, as it is desired by all parties to have an early ruling from the supreme court as to the questions of quarantines, and whether the United States has any jurisdiction when one state injures another or shuts out its commerce altogether un der the name of quarantine, regardless of the fact whether there is any infec tious disease prevailing or not. There have been several of these quarantine wars between the southern states during the last three years, no tably between Alabama and Mississip pi, and between Louisiana and Texas, but they have been patched up here tofore instead of being carried into the federal courts. REBELS DRIVEN OUT. But Three Americans Were Killed and Two Wounded. A Manila special says: Major Cheat ham, with a scouting party, while pro ceeding along the west shore of the lake Thursday, encountered a force of rebels strongly entrenched at Muutin lupa. Major Cheatham reports that he drove the rebels from their position and that in the engagement three Americans were killed and two were wounded. Rumors are in circulation in Manila that Major Cheatham discovered three American prisoners, who had been bound, gagged and shot by the insur gents These rumors, however, are not confirmed. i > (' THE PUMPKIN. ) fi/ Is born beneath the shadow of i-'/vk a flold nf WBV,n « coro f fj From n flower whose golden color (I /. ’tsaW outshines the glow of morn, W,ChWiSLsssra Where the bumblebee® are work- Ing, their rough backs all I " LP bright with gold, J \ And we learn the wondrous secret / “p i their busy hum has told. i /e 1 //it * ■ 1 1 1 IlWlril Theysay this flower sometimes //■ 111 I ’ Mvub Will take a different form ' I J I 1 And be the yellow pumpkin i j | I £ i II 1 IHlul When autumn sunshineswarm. //‘yu I j 1 I L’ill! ra When the skillful housewife turns X Al'l ‘jii ,{ / !' I II ;l|l flj it by some necromancy keen I 1/ I . > Into the pie so toothsome, with a / i i color bright and clean gWr,; / IK® || kJ As the yellow of the pumpkin as nMFJ I HpS I II I 3 it corn among, li Vt® ’ rl Has a flavor sweet who. j e richness i' ' ■ SW 'wL by poet is unsung. ’ fW \VA IpSo give to me the pumpkin With the good old-fashioned pic. /?J{ All hail, all hail King Pumpkin, Live ye long and never die. DGQQQOOQQOOOOSQOOCQQOOGOGO O O I THE BOER AS I I A FIGHTER J o o 0005000003000000CCOCOOOOGO The Boers are born fighters, a na tion of sharpshooters, they never waste a bullet; each Boer selects his man and kills him and keeps on doing the same thing all day and every day un til the war is over. It is a common boast with them which they have made good in more than one clash with the British, that one Boer is equal to ten Englishmen. They do not come out and fight in the open, but swarm all over a mountain side, hiding behind trees and rocks, and woe to the thin red line or hollow square that comes within range of their unerring Mar tinis and Mausers. In fact, the Boer victories over the British soldiers are largely accountable for the British feeling against them, and in the bitter warfare against the nation the success TyFi FIELD -OBNET’S MESSENGER HANDING OVER COMMANDOS TO BOER FARMERS TO BE BEADY FOB WAR. of the Boers has been extraordinary. Fewer than 450 Boers resisted 12,- 000 of the fiercest Zulu warriors on December 16, 1838, and 3000 natives were left dead cn the field, and this with old flint locks. President Kru ger, as a boy, helped the forty Dutch men hold off 2000 of the men of Mose litkase, then the most renowned na tive captain in South Africa. The bravery of the men is shown by the attack that 135 of them made on 10,000 Zulus on the Marico River, driving them out of the Transvaal. These are simply better-known in stances of the fighting abilities of the Boers. Every man has handled a gun from infancy. In the old days, when (Sjdoi y'' F IS i"f. A 4C 1 r*® O’® 11 STATE- ARTILLERY TYPES OF BOER INFANTRY, CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY. a Boer was not fighting the fierce na tives he was defending himself from savage beasts. Every Boer has been trained in warfare. They discovered the method of laagering their wagons, ©lacing them in a hollow square, which the British generalfl have adopted as the most successful way of fighting the natives. The Boers have shown themselves masters of strategy, the result of constant warfare with a cruel and treacherous foe. iPBrW It-lr W JOTS 7 V"[I I ‘"ii. -sjA sssr*-* INSPECTION OF A “COMMANDO” OF BOERS IN THE MARKET PLACE OF A TOWN The Government of the South Afri can Republic is empowered to call at any time the burghers for armed service. The Field Cornet of each district goes round and serves a no tice on the conscripts, who, mounted and fortified against hunger for ten days by a supply of buck or beef, cured in the sun, and called “bil tong,” concentrate in the specified “dorp” or village, where they invaria bly meet in the market place—the church, iron gated, iron steepled, in the background. Arms are distributed to those who are without them; and as for forage, the velt is trusted to supply it at need. The commandant, who is the Dutch equivalent of the English colonel, drills his forces as best he may; and a certain amount of military disciplino is eastly ac quired, despite the rather slouchy ap pearance, due in part to the absence of uniforms, except in the case of the commandants, the other officers, and the “State Artillery.” The Boer much resembles our Amer ican Apache in his ability to live on the shadow of things when in the field. A writer of South Africa, in a contribution to a London paper, calls attention to the ability of the Boer to live on rations which an ordinary trooper would not endure and his ca pacity to travel great distances with horse in incredibly short time. The Boer knows every road and trail of the Transvaal; as a hunter he knows the devious ways of the wastes beyond. He is an agriculturist and a hunter. By the law of self-preserva tion he has" learned the wily ways of savage whom he displaced in the Transvaal. The secret recesses of the mountains are nt his command. As a horseman he much resembles our American cowboy. He can ride on top of the saddle, or over his horse’s neck, or Cossask fashion, with one foot in the stirrup, one leg on the sad dle and his head and shoulders on the ground. His horse is part of his fam ily life. The beasts are very hardy, sure-footed and affectionate. Then, too, the Boer is inured to the hard ships of the mountains, to long horse back journeys, scant allowances of food, treks on which the water supply is scarce. In the campaign of 1881 against the English the Boer took good care that his forces never faced the enemy in the open field. He never offered open engagement. He chose his eyrie in the mountain gorges, and from that vantage point he picked off the foe at his will. Even when he assaulted Ma juba Hill he’ came up rock by rock, squirming like a snake, twisting in and out and not •firing until he had a i mark to hit. Au English correspondent who went I through the 1881 campaign wrote at that time of the fighting qualities ot I the Boers: “We never are able tc see tho I enemy. Except before the fight at Majuba Hill, 1 never saw but a hand ful of them at any time. And when they thought we noticed them they and their horses disappeared as if swallowed up by the earth. I think we all feel that they can shoot. Our losses at Hatley and Laing’s Nek showed that. We were very much in the open, but not a blessed Boer was to be seen. But every once in a while there was the crack of a rifle, and then one of our poor boys would go over, the line would close up and we would begin chasing again for the •-. • -y " 1 BOERS RECEIVING AMMUNITION. enemy we could never find. I was taken prisoner just after General Colley was killed, and I can say that I could not have been treated better by any people. They were kind to our wounded, did not molest the dead nor insult us of the living. I think they are a very brave people, and, as for fighting, they seem to know just as much about it as we do.” The Boer loves his country with a passionate patriotism. He is not a miner, or an engineer, or a railroad constructor. He is pre-eminenly an agriculturist. In Cape Colony nearly the whole of the wheat growing is Jone by the Dutch farmers of the Western province. In the in terior the bulk of the grain used is supplied by the Dutch farmer of the Transvaal. The whole of the fruit crop is produced by Boers. Even far up in Bechauanaland you will find Boer wagons from, the Republic loaded up with fruit, oat forage an’d other products. Tho Boers, in short, are a pastoral folk, stolidly content to be that and nothing else. They shun towns, shop keeping and gold mining. They ask only to live in a moderate degree of comfort, in a rude plenty; to provide for their children as they grow up and to be let alone. Altered a Trifle. One small girl says to another: “They are not saying rubberneck any more.” “Why not?” ask-s the other with some joy. “Because they are saying penin sula,” says the one. “And why peninsula?” says the other, innocently. “Because it stretches out to sea,” says the one.—“ Worcester (Mass.) Gazette. Real Estate For Sale The tracts, lots, and parcels of lands as stated below are for sale, cheap for cash, or will exchange for available ■lerchandise nt reasonable prices. The land lots indicated will be sold with special warranty of title, with plat and grant, with tho original “beeswax” seal: No. Dist. Sec. Acres. County. 942 2 3 40 Paulding. 124 7 2 40 Fannin. 90 1 81 Rabun. 118 26 2 40 Gilmer. 57 11 1 40 Union. 137 19 3 40 Paulding. 308 10 1 160 Union. 650 16 2 40 Cobb. 718 16 2 40 Cobb. 719 16 2 40 Cobb. 885 16 2 40 Cobb. 887 16 2 40 Cobb. 915 16 2 40 Cobb. 958 16 2 40 Cobb. 843 16 2 40 Cobb. 646 17 2 40 Cobb. 16 17 2 40 Cobb. 17 17 2 40 Cobb. 86 17 2 40 Cobb. 1090 17 2 40 Cobb. 267 20 2 40 Cobb. 1006 16 2 40 • Cobb. 514 15 2 40 Cobb. 567 15 2 40 Cherokee. 584 15 2 40 Cherokee. 585 15 2 40 Cherokee. 638 15 2 40 Cherokee. 639 15 2 40 Cherokee. 640 15 2 40 Cherokee. 641 15 2 40 Cherokee. 612 15 2 40 Cherokee. 255 13 2 160 Cherokee. 102 21 2 40 Cherokeo. 101 1202 i Troup. 731 19 3 40 Paulding. 72 3 3 40 Paulding. 501 3 3 40 Paulding. 880 2 3 40 Paulding. 1175 18 3 40 Paulding. 13 13 1 160 Pickens. 246 6 1 160 Chattooga. 708 18 2 40 Polk. 981 21 3 40 Polk. 7 26 3 160 Murray. 1012 12 1 40 Lumpkin. 314 11 1 40 Lumpkin. 697 11 1 40 Lumpkin. 573 5 1 40 Lumpkin. 830 11 1 40 Lumpkin. 148 8 2 160 Fannin. 629 3 4 40 Floyd. 643 18 2 40 Douglass. 8 3 490 Wayne. 95 3 490 Wayne. 96 3 490 Wayne. 151 3 490 Wayne. 200 3 490 Wayne. J 173 3 245 Wayne. 160 2 490 Wayne, i 75 2 245 Charlton. ix 117516 25J Upson. ixjllll2 25} Taylor. } 368 28 125 Early. } 113 16 1 80 Union. } 175 16 1 80 Union. 815 14 1 40 Forsyth. 398 5 1 40 Dawson. 157 11 202} Henry. 104 19 2 40 Cobb. 901 21 2 74 Cherokee. Three lots, 50x150 feet each, alto gether being Nos. 14, 15 and 16, on Mt. Zion avenue, in the village of Mt. Zion, Carroll county, Ga. One lot, No, 114, in block 17, in Montrose Park, Montrose county Col orado. Six acres on Satterfield Ford road, from Greenville, in Greenville county, S. C. Three lots at Montreal, on G. C & N. railroad, DeKalb county, Ga. 1,100 acres; 700 hammock, 400 up land, in Screven county, Ga. This is a fine place, divided by the Georgia Central railroad, 50 miles from Savan nah. Railroad station on the place; good location for country store. Splendid situation for factory for staves and cooperage works. Enough good tim ber on the hammock land to pay for the place three or four times over. Investors are invited to examine this place. 1.149 acres on west bank of Savan nah river, in Effingham county, Ga., grant of 1784, and descent of title to present owner. 1.150 acres on Satilla river, in Cam dem county, Ga., grant from state, and deeds on record for 100 years back. Good title, by descent to pres ent owner. 1,150 acres on St. Mary's river, in Camden county, Ga. Grant and deeds on record 100 years back. Good title, by descent to present owner. 430 acres on west bank of Savannah river, in Screven county, Ga. Deeds on record since 1827. Good title, by descent to present owner. I desire to sell these lands as soon as possible, and they must go at low prices, very low for cash, or on easy terms and long time with 5 per cent interest, as purchasers may desire and prefer. Persons desirous of investing ifioney for future profits by enhance ments should examine these offers at once. I have other lands, which I will sell on good terms and low prices. In writing for information about any of these lands, refer to them by tha number, district, section and county, and enclose two stamps, 4 cents, for reply. Robert L. Rodgers, ts Attornev at Law. Atlanta. G»-