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F FORT MILL TIMES. VOL. X. FORT MILL, S- CM WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18,1901. NO. 10. FOB NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Carnegie Gives $10,000,000 to the United States. ft UTTER TO THE PRESIDENT R Fiiml For the E?ti?l?ll*hm?>nt of k ColIfjr of Higher Education In WnnltlnrInn ? The (loreniment to Mold the Money lo Trust. M In tho RmlthnouInn't C??r-Detail*of tlie Project. | Washington, D. C.?President Roosojrclt l?a*? received a letter from Andrew CarneRk; In which the latter of fers to make a donation of ?10,lX)O.OOfi ito the United States. The letter will fee referred to Congress by the President In a special message. | Mr. Carnegie's gift Is for the purpose of establishing In Washington n university for higher education. As far as his idea has been developed. It. proposes a gift after the manner of the bequest of James Smlthson. the Englishman. who gave $1,000,000 for the establishment and maintenance of what is now known as the Smithsonian Institution. Smlthson desired the Institution founded by ldm to be a factor in "the diffusion of scientific know ledge." I Mr. Carnegie proposes that the university which he Is to endow shall be the greatest Institution in the world for (lie development of higher education. The proposed university will not Interfere in the least w"h the educational Institutions alreadv estab. Ilshed. but will supplement them. for. According to the present plans. Its Irtoors will be onen only to those who idtslre to take up a post-graduate Course. Mr. Carnegie also wants the new university to take the lead in original research, ro that the United Ktat"s can eventually stand side by Bide with Cermeuy, if not excel that nation, in scientific development. I Mr. Carnegie's plan dees not propose a National University in the Sense that an appropriation will he tasked or needed. The Ccvornment is (simply to be the trustee of the magnificent endowment, fust as it administers the fnn:l heoucatbed bv Smlthson. ' Mr. Carnegie has ken' the pronosed endowment .I coo-iif mitil lin r>\ldd d.?r. initcly arrange the plans and scow of the now university. Even yet all those 5(1 e;ni 1 * have rot lieen arranged. so jtlint little more thnr the outline of his gift oan he published. | It is known, however, that he tines pot propose to ask from Congress a jslmrle foot of land unon which the university buildings will he constructed. The entire expense Is to he borne lout of his endowment. No site has yet boon selected. It will, however, necessarily he very large. as It is proposed to erect a series of magnificent istruetures. ! With the Catholic University, the (Methodist University and the nroposed (Carnegie University Washington, will he the educational centre of the eouujtrv. I , ?:u>,000,0->0 GIFT FOR STANFORD. Mr?, .Tnne Stanford l*re?ontn Stork*, I'.rmdi . and T/antl. San Francisco. Cal.?Mrs. Jane L. Stanford has transferred to Stat.ford .University pronerty tvo tli apnroxljnntoly S30.00n.0f >. Eighteen millions tare in stocks and bonds, all gilt-edge Securities, bringing enormous revenue, while the remaining SI2,000,000 are in real estate, comprising almost 1,000,?00 acres. i The real estate lies in twenty-six (Counties in this State. These securities Mrs. Sianfor.l gives to the university consists of income-hearing bonds and stocks. Most of them are t'te paper of California water eompanies. street railroads and mnnicip. 1 bonds. All <he bonds are frst mortgages and all tare paying g od rates of interest, f I>y a separate deed Mrs. Stanford gives to the institution her home in this eity, estimated to be worth not Joss than $400,000. and it will be concerted into a miiseuin and art gallery. 3n spite of this big g'ft Mrs. Stanford still retains several nti'Hon dollars with which to ctre for many pot charities tand for lier own private uses. ANNEX FOil THE WHITE HDU3E. PreclilcDt l.onirvrlt tlx* Ullt VrctMitfil For l? 1.000,000 Structure. Washington, 1>. C.?President Itoose(Yelt does not want u new While House or any additions to the old White House, but only a now building nearby which he can use for enieriaiu>ments niid for business, leaving the tWhite House free to be used simply as a residence. I Senator Lodge has presented n bill providing for such a building, in which ;the th'st tloor would be given over to dining and reception rooms, with the UtaMitlrn tK? ? ?? ./! ? ? . w u<uv\ o v;u uic dci.uuu HUUi. ;A million dollars is appropriated by itlir bill. It will probably puss the Sen ate. but may lie delayed In the House unless President lloosevelt personally presses It. SIan Wlio Stole SS'^OUU u Pauper. James Henry, who has served a seven-year sentence tor the theft o, $tjU,OlHJ from the United States in in. iiat'urson City, Nov., and who refusci. tf take a pauper's oatb recently wen. tiefore the Coiuinisslouer and took the oath and was released. | KcUcl* Kill forty lurkluli Solilirra. j Forty Turkish soldiers have hem killed in Yemen, Arabia, in u eoiiilic. (With tribesmen, who had rebelled on account of excessive taxation. I . NEW WAY TO FIGHT BOERS Blook Houses a Third of a Mile Apart, Connected .by Wiro. Only Kffteetlre Method ( Dealing: TTltU ftnerlllae, It I* Aenerted, and Man j More Trnopii Are Needed. London.?A correspondent of the Times. wiring from Pretoria, say* much remains to be done in the way of partitioning the country by means If? ~ m 4 lu> <11 ill ftfiuiit iiuunra i/ui uiu nu' British mil hope effectually to clear the Boers away from the large districts of the Eastern Transvaal. It is found that block houses a mile or more apart are useless in preventing the passage of Boers at night when they are determined to cross. Nothing short of block houses six or seven hundred yards anart and connected by means of formidable wire ? : tangleiuents will prove effective. To thread the count"y In this way. says the correspondent, requires time and men. but In the opinion of the military authorities It Is the only method of dealing with an enemy who refuses to tight and adopts guerilla . tactics. The British public must therefore be patient. North of the Delagon Railway line, the dispatch goes on to say. the Boors are momentarily free from the presence of the British columns. Tho mountain ranges afford endless hiding places for the enemy, supplies are plentiful. and wheat, which llnds its way nil over the country, is carefully concealed for future use. It is impossible to avoid this unless the Boers are kept moving, and to effect this many more troops are required. The most notable development In the Orange Itiver Colony is the concentration under I>e Wet, south of Iieilbron. of 1000 men. CASHIER TAKES SIC.0.003. Drflcll Discovered liy ORIrlal'* Ab>*ncfl From Ln? .AiikcIch Hunk. T.os Augeles. Cal.?II. J. Fleishman, Cashier ?.f tlio Farmers' anil Morclmnts' Hunk, lias disanp a rod with a Mini nf thp bank's money, which VicePresident H. W. Hellman estimates at S 100,000. Fleishman has not ho n seen for two days. Hp informed the hank people that lie was ill and would not he at his desk. Nothing was thought of the matter at the time. When lie failed to report within two days his accounts were examined and the shortage was discovered. The exact amount has not vot been ascertained. Fleishman has been Cashier and Assistant Cashier of the Farmers' and Merchants' Hank for many years. He began work for the hank when a hoy j in 1K75. Hi was under bond with a surety company for $.'10,000. In addition to this he has real estate and personal property In this city sufficient, in the opinion of .It*. Hellman, to protect the bank from the loss of a dollar. Fleishman married the daughter of A. J. Hnrroll. a wealthy cattleman tf Visalia. lint was divorced some time ago. He was a man of forty-two years, of medium build and with a smooth face. The Farmers' and Merchants' Rank, of which I. V?". Hellman is President and II. \V. Ilellman \ ice Preside it. Is the oldest am strongest bank in Southern California. Its capital is $"110,000, with n surplus of $l,OOt),000 and deposits of $5,500,000. MARRIED BY TELECRAPH. #lie Briilf Wan tn Kentucky unit the Ut*l(le?voum In Tcxnu. Powliuj; Green, Ky.? Miss Mantle Wilcutt stood in the telegraph ofilce hero and became the bride of I)r. J. \V. Simmons, of Peaster, Texas. They were married l?y wire. The questions were asked from the Texas end by a Justice of the Peace and were answered by Miss Wilcutt. Miss Wilcutt at present Is teaching school In Hut or County. She and Dr. Simmons recently met while traveling. The operator and newspaper acquaint* ances were the Howling Green witnesses to the marriage. Mrs. Simmons inter left for Texas to join her husband. L B3Y PRISON KEEPER DEAD. Union Trot?i>? Threatened to Hani; Turner, Hot He l.lvril Sixty-three Years. Suffolk, Vu. ? Ciiptniu Diehard It. Turner, Ueepei of the famous Lihhy i'risou at lCiclinioud, dropped dead in isle of Wight County, \ irgiuiu, aged sixty-three years. \\ neu taken a prisoner at Uiclunond by the incoming Federal troops, who were told ot the liarsh treatment oi t nion soldiers by the prison ottieials, Captain Turner was locked up, with the promise that lie should bang 011 the nex l morning. Ills hair turned white during the night. At the time of his death lie was Democratic County Chairtuau and a successful lumber dealer. Guide Guilty of Triple Murder. A verdict of murder in the tirst degree was returned at Dover, .Me., against Henry Lambert, a young clench Canadian guide and whjusman. Lambert's crime was a triple murder, the victims being .1. We?iey Allan, a protiimcm farmer of 8hirtey, ?ils wife anu tueir daughter. The murderer set tire '.o the tarni buiidtugs in an effort to cover up the crime. 1'ilKiliiiit Oruwnril. A steanvr mat was conveying Catholic pilgrims to the .siinue 01 s?t. i- iaucis at tiua, t'oiMignt, has rouuuercti, urowuing l ib persons tiny yaruo troin the shore. OUR INFLUENCE IN CHINA The Fart Taken by the United States in Establishing Peace. Exerted a Salutary "Inflnrnce In the Caune of Moderation, Humanity and Justice." Washington, D. C.?Secretary Hay has transmitted to Congress a report from W. W. RockliUl, Special Commissioner of the United State* to China, in which the part played by tha United States in the negotiations resulting in tiie establishment of peace between the Chinese Government artl the Powers is set forth. The notable i circular note addressed by Secretary . Hay, on July 3, to all the Powers concerned In the adjustment of the Chinese troubles was never departed 1 from by the diplomatic otlieers through whom It was transmitted, Mr. Kockliill says, and he adds: "Bearing these instructions in mind the task of the agents of our Olovrrn- ' ment in l'ekin was a comparatively < easy one. Throughout the negotiations i our object was to use the influence of our CJovernnient in the interest of Ju-?tiee and moderation and in a spirit , of equal friendship to the Powers ne- J gotlating Jointly with us and the Chi- | ucse Nation." After an exposition of what was accomplished by tlu> international envoys j at Pekln. Mr. Itoekliill gives a brief , summary of the attitude of the United , States. "While we maintained coin- , 1.1.,I.? 1 |in i\ imn jTinirm r, lit- JMI.vrs ^ I* i we able to act harmoniously in tile con- ] oort of tin* Powers, the existence of tvliloh was so essential to a prompt . and satisfactory settlement of the sit- , nation. We retained tin* friendship of < all the negotiating Powers, exerted a . salutary intiueneo in the cause of mod- | cration. humanity and justice, securing adequate reparation for wrongs . done our citizens, guarantees for their . future protection. and labored success- ( fully in the interests of too wliole j world in the cause of equal and ini- | partial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire." I WANTS 9109,000,000 FO:? CANAL Senator Morgan Introduces Ilia 1*111 For the I'rojcct. Washington, L>. C.?Senator Morgan , has introduced a hill providing Si SO,- ! 000,000 for the construction of the Nicaragua Canal, of which $.">,000,000 | is made immediately available, ami . of which aggregate sunt such amounts ( as arc necessary arc to bo appropriated | by Congress from time to time. The control of the canal and of the , canal licit is vested in a hoard of eight ( citizens of tile t ailed States, in addi- . lion to the Secretary of War. who is to he President, each member of the ; hoard to lie paid $SOOO a year and to * lie chosen regardless of political allination. , Then* is a provision authorizing the j establishment*of a regiment from the regular army on the canal licit to j guard it properly, and Courts also arc authorized conformable to the powers ; granted liy the (Joveruments of Nlcar- * agua and Costa Ricn. t WEALTHY WOMAN SENTENCED. < Convicted of Itiirnliii; Iter House to l?e- | Iratid Insurance Companies. Bingliamton, X. Y. Mrs. Mary John- t son. who, with 1. II. Radford, of liuffillo. was indicted for inirnlinr tlio . Dnvidge summer residence :it Newark Valley, en the night of July 4, anil who was convicted of the crime, r was sentenced hy Judge Mead in Owe- 1 go. to serve tii'teen years in Auburn. Mrs. Johnson Is a wotunn of con- t slderable wealth and refinement, who ) has resided in Chicago and Buffalo. : It is charged that she entered into a 1 conspiracy with several business men \ to systematically defrau i the lire in- < suranee companies, and placed an In- t sunnier of $S."iOO on the Dnvidge residence. which she bought through Had- < ford, and then burned it. * Her lawyers have secured a stay of t k nteiiee pending an effort to secure a s certificate of reasonable doubt, and a a new trial. CANNIBALISM IN PHILIPPINES. , Native Sentenced lo Onttti IV ln> Killed Coiii]>:tni<>n anil At?i liudj. Washington. D. C.- Cannibalism has ' nppeared in the varied li-t of crimes ( charged against Filipinos by Aim ricau ( miliiary conns. According 10 inr record of a court-martial convened in the Department of the Viseuyas. 1*. I., which has been received at the War Department, liaymundo Fonte, a native, found his working companion. I.i hern to lU-nliro, sleep in his (Fontc*s) boat. ; Fonte became enraged, killed the slumbering man with a blow of an oar, cut off bis nose and ears, aid, according to bis own confession, ' cooked and ate part of the body. He ' was sentenced to be liaugcd in Cupiz, ] Fanny. , SllOti Ti'llllfl Kuli l v Arllce The hoot ami shoe trade Is still ; fairly native, but the busy buying sen- ; son is drawing to a close, as most of the largo jobbers have already {dared ] orders for the hulk of their ret]'?ire- i incuts for another season. ril pliin* Kriii-w Tto-lr Attnckn. Tlie Filipino natives are aroused by the recent closing of ports, and are renewing attacks 0:1 the American i troops. V MrKinlev l??.v In Intlinnn. Churches in Indiana wi.l observe ibo third Sunday in January as Mc-i > Kinlcy Day. \ GREAT 1U1E[ PROIECT New Jersey and Long Island to be Connected by a Subway. BIG UNDERGROUND TERMINAL n??i roanaylvanU It n tiro ad'* Plan to Kntor New York City?Will Connect With I.onc Inlnntl and Hhortfii Time to Kuro|>o by n Day?A Tunnel I'rom llitilson Hirtr to Riant Itlver. New York City.?When the Pennsylranin Railroad's plans, as officially announced by President A. J. Cassatt, ire coin])letcd, trains will run from the Pennsylvania linos in Jersey City to Lhe Rons Island Railroad station in Long Island City, while the North River, Manhattan Island and the Kast River will he tunneled. Through this [treat tuunel electric motors will draw trains, which may have come from San Francisco, to Long Island City, on their way to the eastern end of I>ong Island. The two railroads will have a joint treat underground terminal and sta- | lion in tills city under the blocks bounded by Thirty-first and Thirty- ! fourth sireets and Seventh and Ninth ! avenues. The Pennsylvania Railroad is now inlying the land for this stalion. It will cost $8,000,000 to $10.>00.000. The surface of the property will he improved with huildinga that will help to repay the enormous out lay. The tunnel under the North River will strike Manhattan Island souieivhere between West Twenty-third and West Forty lifth streets, presumably ;s near as possible to West Thirty- | fourth street. The tunnel under the East Uiver will strike Manliattau Islind just south of East Thirty-fourth street, and approach Broadway and the terminal on the line of Thirty-third street. The railroad tunnel will pass under the subway on Fourth avenue. I'assengers can he easily transferred iv elevators and stairways to the subways. A line of steamers starting from the aslern end of Bong Island will cut iff a day from a European voyage. Work on the tunnel will he begun is soon as the necessary autlioriiy is ;ranted. These are some of the salient Tenures of tin- plan of the IViiusyivania tad of the Bong Island Railroa'1 to extend their lines to a jojnt teio^nus lu li? heart of New ?ork Ci< .-ytcy*-There ate to ^^k?rce stretching under e?a ? end two under the w fining it a central station. This station is to he located in a tnace at Seventh and Trnlh avenues, riilrly-llrst and Thirty-tliird streels. The station is to he one of the largest ever eonstructod. men n; lag 1."iJ0 feet in length by ft'JO feet in width. Beading to it will l>e fifteen miles of Illinois. Tito tunnels will have an Inside di iiiK'irr or cignircu leet six indies, riu're will lie a single track in eaeli. There will he a total of twenty-five racks in use at the central station. iVhlch Is to lie three ileckeil. Klectrie motors will lie employed In muling trains through the tunnels, anil i.v this lfieans it is claimed that the uhes will not lie choked with foul air. II will put Loug Island relatively as dose to the centre of New York City is the Bronx is now. A railroad company, which Includes mum* its Directors officials of the Pennsylvania and Bong Island Roiloads, has been incorporated at Albany, o rperate a railroad through the prolosed underground tunnel connecting few Jersey with Long Island. The mine of the company is the lVnnsyl anin-New York Extension llailroad 'oninany, and its capital stock is Sl>00.00!). It will he necessary to incorporate a onniany tinder the laws of .Yew Jersey to buShl the North Rive:- tunnel o the dividing line between New Jcriey anil New York City. A Proposed Trolley Tunnel. New York City.?Edward I\ C. i" iriig. President of the Nortii Jersey "treet Uaiiway Cmunany. has an icuuecd that there will sum he a tro!e.v tunnel under the Hudson River, onnccting the metropolis and .Jersey ,'lty. II said that 1; was the iiib ltioii a eouipleto the old abandoned North River tiiuul. It is said that HiPennsylvania Railroad is back of this proposed tivdley tunnel. HIS GIFT IN STEEL BOND j. 'iirn>;lf'it OflVr Camlnc Snmr l"u?'.?arr.i?linrnt (o the Administration. Yt'ashingtou, I>. C. It has been earned that the gift of $10,000,000 vhleh Andrew Carnegie tendered to' ['resident Roosevelt for the fou liling if a great institution for higher e Illation was net an offer of $10,000.0JO 111 cash, but the par vein- of that imount in bonds of the United States Steel Corporation. The offer of there bond"! Is cmlwr iv.sV.uk to the Administration. iwin.v to the roiuplieatir ns which mis;h; r:he if the tlovernnirnt accepted them, r. nl the I'rcsii'a in. it is u~ders ocd. 1:; now in corro. pondence with Mr. ('arncfjio 3bent tli2 matter. It i-; understood to b.e the President's desire that the bond i be convcrtctl '.i to cash. If this is done, the ot.iy r>b??i!-io in (lie path of the accept:*tic f the ,'jift of Mr. Cnrri'Kie will 1 e removed. Pcndint; the result of tl i: corvt spondo ice, Mr. Carner.le'.; oL'cr it LcIjk withheld frcu Cousrevs. PROUD OF MORGAN. Bill Arp Says Alabama Senator Is a Great Mao. HE IS AN OLD MAN ELOQUENT. Then Arp Talks About Great Men Georgia Mas Produced - Paper Read At Warm Springs. As I lokod upon the likmc* of General Morgan that graced the Nicarauga headlines in The Constitution I could not help "aying to myself. "There is a great man. 1 pray that ho may live to see the canal completed and bo the honored guest of the boat that makes the flrst trip across from ocean t.. ocean." It looks like Providence roared him up to champion that great work and has preserved him in health and devotion until at last the b.Il has passed and all obstacles are removed. I know that he is happy and f?eis serenely triumphant. If 1 was an Alabaman. I would fee! proud of Morgan. If 1 was a Tennessean. I would feel proud, for ho was born there and there spent ten years of his youth. Hut I am proud of him anyhow, for he is a Southern man and all his long publiclife has been unselfish and true to his people. His good health and well preserved faculties encourage me to live on and cn just as long as 1 can. for he is just two years older than 1 am and is stil vigorous a\jd useful, l'^ is the old man elorp nt and like Nathan'el ataeon never said an idle or fuoi'.sh thing. Ho is as solid as a rock, .--olfpoiso:l and self-prepared on nil great questions. In I .SO 1 he volunteered as a private and soon rose to major and then to lieutenant colonel; next lie raised and equipped a regiment and oceanic Its colonel. In ISM he was nominated for brigadier general by Robert R Uee. but declined it. Hater on he was constrained to accept the honor and was with toe General Johnston to the close. Tn ISTd he was elect d to the United States Senate and rocl'vt. d in 1882. in 1888. in 1S94. and again in IftOO. making his tlftli successive teim. He well deserves a monument aft<T he dies and a place in the Hall of Fame, it Is a comfort to us all to lie assured that no man ranks him in the United States Senate, for he is a treasurehouse of knowledge, an I there is not a cloud over his candor, his truth or his integrity. When he speaks he has something to say and knows how to say it and when to unit. Tom Ronton said of Nathaniel Macon. "He rarely spoke but a few sentences, but utteri d more good sense In getting up out of his chair and sitting down again than was contained In the long and elaborate speeches of most Senators." General Morgan's long career reminds ire of Maeon. for he. too. was a private in the revolutionary war. He held public office for fifty seven years and John Randolph said of him. "He is the wisest. the purest and best man I ever knew." ' Twice he declined a place In the cabinets of two presidents, but af-) Inr U ~ >, .1 -? ! " ' "" * ' .< i un Him i miii-u iiim was i j. years iir.i hp accepted thp offirn of justice of the peace in his home district. Tie never recommended any of his kindred f ir appointment to office, lie refused pav for his service as a soldier and refused to receive a pension afterwards?and voted against all pensions or rewards or gratuities. He died as calmly as Socrates, but without the poison, and his grave is on a high, barren ridge marked with no marble, only a pile of stones, which was according to his will. Nathaniel Macon was my father's ideal of a great and good .nan. He placed him above all other statesmen, for he declared that he was as wise as Solomon and purer than David. ^ When J was in Warren county <romc years aco I was told that Macon's father lived In an old-fashioned double log house. For some years it had mud and stick chimneys above the flre-iams and was covered with boards of Ills own make. In course of time ho tore away the chimneys and rebuilt them of stone and brick, and tore, away the hoards and cov red with shingles. 1/iter on as li" cot able he weatherboarded the oats de with plank and ceiled the inside hv beginning at ihn top of the wall and letting the plank lap up Instead of down, so that his wife c cld pour hot water in the cracks .in ! kill the bedbugs. 1 reckon that Tom IP-nton. who wrote his biography, git his antl-pens'cn principles from Mncnn fop TP-it.on In n rriot ?nf> in the Senate opposed a prnsion to General Harrison's widow an?l railed it "a new dmarturc that would load to thi bofotnle^s rulf of pensions and pratuitlrs." We)| it Is a bottomless gulf both to tlio State an 1 nation. In this connection I ruminated on who were our preatest rv n in Gcorga who most, drservers a niche in 'he temple of fame. Tly rn-nmon consent. Oglethorpe seems entitle-! tr? the first place, but a iloren or more have advocates for the second plaee. I reckon however, that Crawford -Lone will ret It not as a statesman or soldier or inventor or nhilantroolvt. h"t rather as a thootrbtfel discoverer like Jonner, who d' covered ti'e hralinp art of v >rcm' hi The question is a very pern!e\inq one. for some a; e preat in 0"C phase of eharaeter and some in another. My wife thinks that liishop Pearco i * t whs tho grou.*e?t man, because he had the greatest c: lling and filled it as no other man lias done, and she quotes : that verse from Daniel which says, \ "They who have called many to I rlghteousntS3 shall shine as tho stars forever and forever." M.v wifo grew up under his matchless preaching, and is a pretty good Methodist yet. This remlndH me of a dollghtfol sketch I find in the nroceedines r?f Fhn n?t Georgia Flor Association held al Warm Springs In July. The subject Is "Thw Georgia Lawyer" viewed by a woman. The woman is Mrs. J. Render Terrell, of Greenville. The papers generally read at these annual meetings ar dry and prosy to everybody save the Jawyersr, but this paper Is charming, entertaining and instructive from beginning to end. The first sentence attracted me. and I Kepi on to tllo last, and my feeling at Its close was?well, that woman Is a trump, she is a historian, a philosopher and a first-rate lawyer, even though she be a woman. I road tt aloud to my female family. She closes with a poetic apostrophe to the Geor. In,,.,.... -1.1,.). .... P>i4v ia??; ti hiiiv 11 uj.iuij- uu uiliui kUUakV defendant will appreciate: "The parson points the way to heaven. And then with ten lor <-ure The doctor consummates the work And sonds the jiutiont there. "But the Georgia lawyer would tlelap Departure with such cries: Hold! Can this man read his title clear To mansions in the skies? "In doubt he files a brief and seeks To hold the ignoramus And stops his flight to heavenly bliss By injunction or mandamus." And so, while loolJiug around for * the greatest man. wo might well pause and hear what Mrs. Terrell says about John Forsyth. She says. "Forsyth was a champion for the establishment cf our supreme court, aiul earnestly advised it in his message in IMiS." lie said, "It is an awful reflection that life, liberty anjj reputation are dependent upon the decision of a single judge uncontrolled and uncontrollable in his circuit." Then she continues, "Forsyth's matchless oratory and the puiity of n'.s private cz.:\ political life won for him a name that will be honored and rc^ vered always. While in the United States senate lie bad no superior as an orator, and was called the equal of Lord Frskine" If 1 had a paper cf my own 1 would publish every line of Mrs. Terrell's delightful paper. And the next Sunday 1 would publish the paper read by J. 11. Merrill, of Thomasvllle. on "The Ilihle in the Lawyer's Library." Why. this paper ought to he read and studied not only by the lawyers, but liv every preacher In the land. It is is fit for a text-hcok in the colleges, and it is so interspersed with gems of good wit and mi hum mm one aocs not get urea. And there is nn admirable paper on the same line by II. Warner Hit). ^J called "Historic l.andmarKs *>f the / Law," and he, too. has dlllgoutly perused net onlv the Tlihle. but :be Apoehrypha. His story as to how Daniel made his reputation as a lawer will be new to most readers. I wish 1 had space to make mention of all the prood things in this little volume. For. ns there were giants in the nays that are gone, even so we have great men and great, women among us now Hero we have learned sketches i?y Bueh men as J. C. C. Black, Reuben Arnold. Roland Ellis, C. A. Turner, W. L. Scruggs. L. Q. C. Lan.ar, Svlvanus Morris. Wimhish, Persona, Charlton. Bryan, and last, hut not least, a good lot of side-liar ?alk by the venerable Justice Bleeklev who closed the exercises by proposing to endow the association with $100,000. and was readv to give his note for that amount. If I live, and can travel, 1 shall attend the next, meeting, and hope that Mrs. Terrell will tie there and read another paper?sometimes the dessert is the better part of tno feast?Bill Arp. in Atlanta Con3tlti?tlon. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Carrie Nation has suspended hor pallor, tiic* Smashers' Mail. fount I.on Tolstoi has recovered from his recent illness, takes daily walks ami has resumed his work. Sautos-Duinont will hereafter make his home in l.oinlon. lie lias become a inemher of til.' New Ku^lish Aero l "lllll. John T>. Kocekefelhr has offered to Rive S'it'O.OOO to I'.ryn Mawr College ii* SJ.-Ji.ooo more is raised from other sources. M. I .azure Weiller, agent of the French tlovemntonl, who will Investigate trusts in America, says he will give four months to the work. Sir William MncCormar, JJart, President of the I toy a I <!ol! g.< of Surgeons, died suddenly al Itnih. Knirlniul- wh?w?? ho had been Inking tho course of waters. Tho l.onl Mayor of I.ondon. Sir Joscjih Dimxdalc, was oducatod at lOton, and is tlie lirst Kton hoy who has lillod the ollloe of Lord Mayor for a period of lii't years. It is said that the house which (!ovornor llill. o.' Maine, is huihling in the city of Augusta, and which is to cost $ lit >0,000, will he the most costly private res'ilcnee in the I'inc Tree State. When Senator Aldrieh went to WashIn pit on twenty years ago he was comparatively poor; to-day he is reputed to ho worth ?t!,iMK),000. Most of his money was made in street railroad enterprises. ^ . Senators I'etias :i?d Morgan are the oldest m:>mhers of the tipper house of Congress. The former is cighiy and the latter sc.eniy seven. Senator liailey. of Texas, wlio is thirty-eight* Is the youngest. * fe /