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: " THE LAST REFJUCE, I. iLet com* what may, they can not take On* refuse that my heart has known And made to be its secret own, A web of dream that shall not break. From the harsh turmoil of the world No dogging step can follow me Where every shout fades silently And every flag is dumbly furled. There only docs my unrest cease Where struggling fear and hope recede And leave me, in my sorest need, The tender dusky tide of . peace. ;II. Then let them halter loud about, These winds of life, these waves oi men. 31V sout nas s.ippeu trie narrow pen And left the strange -.confused rout; As from a noisy clamorous feast The master might unnoticed turn A-.'l watch the rising dawn-lights burn Their tender flushes u;> the east; Feeling himself borne far awav From shouts of mingling revel eYs. For him alone the dawn-wind stirs, For him alone is born the day. Eis are the purple misty hills And his me e:oud-spires oi the shy, "Where the undiscovered cities lie. And bis-the light that through them thrills. L*t shout as will the noisy host. He comes not back from those far gleams Wherein hi< old unfinished dreams Tie turn hi:. all that he lias lost. -Arthur Uavhsou Fichc, in Scri'oner's Magazine. rp HF. IMPRUDENCE 0r 111 I j? | PERCY PRESTON 11 a f 'I is III -* gmmsmmmm mmiW HAT was n roar thir.tr. 1 w only just escaped 1*' Percy O | O Preston exclaimed, as he! % $ r.nd his partner swerved j quickly to the right just in time to avoid a collision. . It was the last night at Prince's. . and the skating rink was c.owd~d with eager skaters, who licw along the ice to the enlivening strains of the Blue Hungarian Band. The beii had just rung in order to clear the rink of all except the waltzers, and the swish of the skates intermingled pleasantly j Witn tfi-e sou nurn or voices. "Who's that gir!?" ashed a man who was watching this particular couple with keen interest. ""Nobody seems to know much about her." "Clietwynd Hartop brought her, I think; he's not generally over particular. but she must be somebody, or Preston wouldn't be seen with her every holiday like this!" replied his companion. "He's not to be caught napping. By .Tove! she is handsome,, though. Look, they are coming round!" The couple flew past like a Sash of lightning, and were lost among the crowd again. "It's the last day!" she exclaimed. "Yes. it has been rippin' meeting yon like this. I never thought we should become such pals, you know!" Percy Preston answered, letting his eyeglass drop from his eye. "I say, I'd like to see more of you. How is it we never meet at the same houses?" "I don't know the same people as you do," she replied, "and I'm always so much engaged." "I get so beastly bored with them all," he continued; "you seem different, somehow." "I suppose yon don't associate with many people outside your own set?" she asked. "No; one never knows wliat dreadful people may claim one's acquaintance, if one isn't particular. Shall we reTerse?" "I think it's better to take people for what they are and not who they are," she exclaimed, and he did not see the sneer on her face. He was too busy steering them safely along. "That's all very well in theory, but it doesn't work," he answered. "Society won't stand that sort of thing. A fellow must think of appearances." The waltzing stopped, and the rink was again crowded with the usual skaters. "Are you tired, or shall we go on?" he asked. "It's our last day," she murmured. *Let us go on." Ke took her hands in his and together they started off once more. "It shan't be the last time wc- meet," he thought to himself, "if I can help it. I say," he exclaimed aloud, "you know these days have been my one relief from social boredom." "You flatter me," she laughed. "But I am afraid this one must be our last." "You are going away?" he asked, looking at her keenly. "No." "Then can't we arrange something n-mnrrnw?*' "You're very persistent," she ex-1 claimed. He smiled in a sickly way. "I am when I want to be, don't you know. And I've made up my mind about you. Are you going to the Wentworths' dance to-morrow evening?" "I don't know the Wentworths," she answered. 'Some people object to them." he continued, "sav she's peculiar, and all that. I believe her father did make his money in glue or something of the kind, but since she has married Wentworth, that has all been whitewashed over. He's a rippin' good chap. Does the thing splendidly with her money." "Money seems to be your chief thought," she said. "I suppose you wouldn't be seen with any one if they vrere badly dressed, even though they wight be above you in rank?" "Well, it would make a fellow look ?o small in the eyes of his friends. Nowadays we judge so much by appearances. don't we?" _ "And the opinion of the world is a matter of such high importance, isn't ] it?" J He did not detect the sarcasm in her | tone. He was not endowed with too j much wit. "I am not really like that, though," he hastened to assure her. "Once I like & person I'd stick to them through thivk or thin." "I'll remember that," she repeated, significantly. "One doesn't meet that sort of a friend every day. But this must be our last round, for people are | 1\Anritinir?rr trv " I uv^uiaui9 iv itu 1 The band was playing one of Strauss' I valses. Percy Prestou felt almost romantic. "Where are you going to-morrow evening?" he asked eagerly. She hesi tated a moment, then gave a little laugh. "Shopping," she said. "So am I." She looked startled. "With my sister." he added, hurriedly. "I often do." They both laughed. "Where shall it be, then?" he inquired again, as tliey stopped skating. "I really must go now." she cried. "Well, if you insist, Gayford's at 12. Good-by." "Good-by," he replied. "Don't forget." And they parted. It was some minutes past 12 the next morning when Perojr Preston and his sister entered Gayford's, Bond street; he looked eagerly around. Ilats of every description greeted him on all sides, but he saw no signs of the partirM-'ur norcnn frtr xclmm lio W9fi SW?k ing. She had distinctly said 12 o'clock, and it was now only a few minutes past. Surely, she could not have come and gone again so soon. That would be too annoying. He had looked forward to seeing her so much, too, that it would be a morning sadly wasted if j she did not come. He watched the door eagerly each J time it was opened to admit some new customer, but still she did not appear. Would she break her promise? At last, in despair, he turned impatiently to his sister, who was busy trying on a large black hat. "It suits madam beautifully, does it not?" exclaimed a voice at his side. He started violently. He would know that voice anywhere. But surely?no, it was impossible. He turned in amazement, and took one look at the tall, black-robed figure, who was now trying on the hat herself in order to show it off to its best advantage. For one instant they gazed at each other, he with horror, she with calm amusement. Then, without a moment's hesitation he looked quickly away again and made a bolt for the door. "Good heavens!" he muttered. "What an escape; Thank goodness no one saw. I could never have looked society in the face again. To think that she was a By Jove! I've never | been so taken in before." "Thank goodness," she was thinking, though she felt a strange choking in her tnroat, one uoesn t meet irienas like that every day." But aloud she said: "To what address shall I send it, 1 madam? The gentleman seems to have gone." This, by the way, was the first mistake of the kind he had ever made in his life.?Evelyn Vanderzee,in Madame. Fifth Chesp in Florida and Cuba. Commissioner George W. Bowers, of the Bureau of Fisheries, returned yesterday from Florida and Cuba, where he went to study the culture of sponges and the marketing of fish in that community. "I have always held," said Mr. Bowers, "that the old woman who raised chickens and the Bureau of Fisheries were the greatest benefactors of mankind. As long as chickens ancf fish are to be had all the beef trusts in the world cannot run the meat market up unreasonably, because the masses of people will then eat chickens and fish." Mr. Bowers stated that the fish markets of Havana were a model of efficiency and thoroughness. This condition is probably due to the large number of Catholics, who are heavy consumers of fish. In Florida Mr. Bowers found that fish were generally eaten, and were remarkaby cheap. The negro fishermen, bringing in shad and other fish from the St. John River and other streams, where they are plentiful, sell them to the dealers at three cents each, and the consumers can procure fish weighing from two to five pounds each, for a nickel. This assures the poor people an abundance of cheap food.?Wash- j inglon Tost. Shake in Horse'* Eye. Dr. Murray, a veterinarian, of Perry, 0. T., after examining the eyes of a horse belonging to a reservation farmer named George Blair, cut into the eyeball and after fishing a short time brought out a wriggling, twisting snake of a white color and perfectly developed head, says the Cincinnati Commercial. The doctor says he got there through the blood when young and would have continued growing until the horse was blind or dead. Such cases are mentioned in the horse doctor books, but are exceedingly rare. The horse's eyesight is apparently as good as eversince the operation. Twentieth Century Frorerbe. Time never hangs heavily on the hands of a clock. When you want to bet, put up something stronger than a bluff. Live up to your good intentions and put the devil out of business. A man is never too old to learn, but he may be too young to realize it. Some people take fiendish delight in always being on the wrong side. There is no fool like an old fool, unless it he a young fool with plenty of the old fool's money. Some fellows worry because they can't meet their obligations; others, because they can't dodge them.?The Bohemian. (SOME ONE HAS LIED i Boldly Asserts Bailey of Texas on Senate Floor. HE HITS AT ROOSEVELT f j i k i i-iwmjr nai.is.ei ri tcipiidica ay newspaper Correspondents ? Tiliman Corroborates Assertion cf the Texas Senator. The controversy over the rate bill negotiations came to a sensational climax Wednesday when Senator Bailey of Texas rose to a question of personal privilege to make reply to ft charge made in The Chicago Tribun# of Tuesday by a Washington correspondent to the effect that Mr. Bailey had been responsible for the failure of the agreement between the president and Senator Tillman. Former Senator Chandler was given as authority for the statement that Tillman had been suspicious of Bailey, who, it was also stated, was really opposed to rate legislation and was also in constant conference with Senator Aldrich, with the pu:^se of defeating the rate bill. After this statement had been read Mr. Bailey took the floor and said deliberately: "I have taken no part in the question of veracity between the president and Mr. Chandler, and I had not even given any public expression on the question of good faith because I knew nothing about either question. I hawe never conferred with the president directly, nor with Mr. Chandler. It was, therefore, a matter of gr^at surprise to me when a senator called my attention to the extract which I have had read. ' The correspondence, I understand, was sent by a correspondent who is very close to the white house and is presumed to speak with some degree of authority concerning transactions there. "I do not knew as to the truth of that, and I do not charge that his statement was made with authority, but I do denounce the publication as an unqualified, deliberate and malicious lie. I denounce that correspondent as an unqualified, deliberate and malicious liar. I denounce the man who inrw'red the statement as an unqualified, deliberate and malicious liar, whoever he may be, and however high the office he holds." The statement was made in a deliberate monotone, but it was none the less impressive. It was received with absolute silence, and the silence continued for a few moments, until indeed Senator Tillman had taken the floor, also on a question of personal privilege, because the article quoted had stated that he had been suspicious of Mr. Baileja He had read the parts of the correspondent's letter which Mr. Bailey had emitted and then proceeded with his statement, saying: "This correspondent is undoubtedly a muck-rake. Into whose house the handle goes, or what hand holds it, I will not attempt to say." He said 'he counted eight distinct falsehoods in the article, but he desired to address himself first to a denial that he had ever been suspicious of Senator Bailey. He declared his? great esteem and admiration for the Texas senator, and that their cordial relations had always existed. Articles of this character were being sent broadcast over the country, said Mr. Tillman, at the instance of the republican machine to "befuddle" the situaJ ticn. [ When Senator Tillman concluded l Senator Bailey again took the floor j and said that his attention had been j called to another article printed in j the New York Tribune. He said it was of the same character as that printed by the Chicago Tribune, and that evidently they bid been timed to 1 A <-.Vi in rH-on of t'na I Onn?? UUtii u; .loiiiugtvu ax, UIAV^ same time. Pointing to the - ess gallery, he said: "I intend to put in the record upon the statement of more than one reputable newspaper correspondent in that gallery, and as a rule they are as honorable as senators on this floor. On their authority, I state that the two chief cuckoos of this administration are the correspondents of the New York Tribune and the Chicago Tribune. "And, therefore, it seems to be conclusive that this slander proceeds from the white house. I hope, for the honor of my country, that it does not proceed from the president hintself." PALMA IS INAUGURATED. Cuban President Takes Oath of Office for Second Term. President Palma was inaugurated 'Sunday in Havana in the presence cf the diplomatic corps, cabinet officers, senators, congressmen, judges, heads of departments and the representatives of economic, agricultural and commercial associations. None of the liberal members of congress attended POLICEMAN ON THE RACK. Atlanta Officer Answers Charge or" Police Matron of Being Too Free With Female Prisoners. r r The opening act of one of the most important police trials in the history of Atlanta was presented in the recorder's court room Thursday, when the sensational charges of the police matron, Mrs. Mary Bohnefeld, against Police CaDtain Z. B. Moon, were read and witnesses on both sides heard by the board of police commissioners. Mrs. Bohnefeld stated to the board that she had stood the conduct of Captain Moon just as long as she could, but that finally she had decided that rather than endure it longer she would brave jthe publicity ensuing from her action, and make formal charges against the captain in order to protect the women and children under her charge from his attentions. She claims that she was ignorant of her own rights and did not know that she was able to exclude a obtain from her department, and had not learned of her power to do so until some six weeks ago. The full text of the formal charges preferred against Moon by Mrs. Bohnefeld are as follows: "First?'That he has been guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, and of a violation of the ordinances of the city of Atlanta, and of the rules of the police department of said city, in that: "(1.) The said Captain Moon has, without respect to or regard for your relator's rights and duty as police matron, and without your relator's consent or permission, for a period of time extending through his present term of office, and longer, made almost daily visits to the ward of the station house where female prisoners are confined, and which is under the control of your relator as police matron, said visits being unnecessary and made by him, not for the . irpose of performing any official duty; that it is his habit and custom to make frequent visits to said female, ward, sometimes several on the same day, particularly when 'sporting women' are confined there; that it is his custom on such occasions to talk with lewd characters in a familiar way, laughing and talking with them in the presence of all the female prisoners, and taking undue liberties with said prisoners and allowing them to take undue liberties with him, that lie frequently calls them aside or down the stairway and holds long and familiar conversations with them; that he enters said ward at all times without warning or permission and has on frequent occasions gone into the rooms where undressed females were confined, sometimes alone, and shut the doors and remained therein with said prisoners for periods of time lasting from fifteen minutes to half an hour or more; that he has treated your relator without the respect due her as a woman and as a member of the police department; that on account of his said conduct, it had become impossible at the time of the filing of your relator's former communication, and if such conduct continues it will be iir^-ssiblc for your relator to protect the privacy due the sex of the prisoners under her care, and to conduct her department with decent regard to the sensl bilities and rights of virtuous unfortunate and innocent children detained in said ward, and to insure the proper conduct of perscns confined in said ward.:f Following the charges is a long list of specifications. A LYNCHING IN FLORIDA. Keys Taken from Jailer, and Prisoner Hanged by Mob. a mob entered the jail at Inverness, Fla., Wednesday night, got the keys from the jailer and took out Frank Jordon, colored, charged* with robbing and murdering a white peddler named Sweeney, at Stage Pond, two weeks ago. The negro was hanged by the mob to a tree a short distance from town. CAROLINA VETS IN REUNION, Old Soldiers of Palmetto State Had Royal Time in Columbia. The most successful reunion in The history of the South Carolina division United Confederate Veterans came to a close in Columbia Friday night,with it.- - v.oii or. tho prnwnhtor o umii uo vuv v>? ? ^ social event of a three days' celebration The veterans were entertained free of charge as the guests of the city of Columbia. TRAMMELL GIVEN FREEDOM. Jury Acquits Man Who Killed Despoiler of His Home. The jury in the case of Byron Trammell, postmaster of Dcthan, Ala., charged with the murder of Robert J. Barnes, rendered a verdict of not guilty because of the insanity of the defendant when the tragedy occurred. Bcrnes was a boarder at Trammell's home and was killed because of alleged criminal intimacy between Trammell's wife and the deceased. BURTON DISGRACED I High Court Goes Against Kansas Senator. I JAIL TERM AND A FINE ! I Also Deprived of Right to Hereafter Hold Office Under Government. Must Resign Seat in the Senate or Ee Forced Out. The suyieme court of the United States Monday rendered a decision in the case of United States Senator 1 Joseph R. Burton of Kansas. The decision was against Burton, afiirining the decision of the United States circuit court for the eastern district ' of Missouri, by which Burton was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the jail of Iron county, Mis- ' souri, required to pay a line of ?^,500 and deprived of the right to hereafter hold office under the government. The opinion was by Justice Ha?lan. All of the point- made in Burton's interest were overruled. Senator Burton was prosecuted cn the charge of violating section 17S2 cf the revised statutes, which prohibits senators and representatives from receiving compensation for services rendered before any of the government departments in any matter in which the government may be interested. He was specifically charged with accepting a fee of $500' per month for five months from the Riaito Grain and Securities company of St. Louis for services rendered that company in an effort to prevent the issuance of an order by the postoffice department prohibiting the use of the mails by the company. Justices Brewer, White and Peck ham united in dissenting opinion delivered by Justice Brewer. The court granted a motion to give sixty days to Senator Burton -n which to prepare a petition for a rehearing. The action will have the effect of taking the case over until the October term of court. That the senate will be compelled to take cognizance of the case is indicated by the decision. Justice Harlan held that the sentence could not cover an election to the United States senate as they do not hold their places under the government of the United States. To the newspaper men who called to see him, Senator Burton said: "I shall adhere to my original policy of saying nothing until my case is finally determined." He would net say, in reply to a question, that he intended to take further legal steps, but from the fact that he does not regard his case as finally decided, in view of the sixty days granted for a , rehearing, it is inferred that he will do so. If Senator Burton does not resign "at once," as a prominent senator puts it, a resolution will be introduced to declare Iris seat vacant. VICE CONSUL ASSASSINATED. W. H. Stuart, Our Representative at Batoum, the Victim. i . W. H. Stuart, the American viceconsul, was shot and killed at his country plrce near Batoum Sunday night. The assassins escaped. Mr. Stuart was a British subject, and one of the largest ship brokers and exporters in Batcum. During the revolutionary trouble of last fall bis life was many times threatened by longshoremen whom he had offended. Batoum is situated upon the east coast of the Black sea, and has a population of 20,000, chiefly Turks and Armenians. The European population, including Russians, is of about 5,000. It is in the heart of ihe Russian oil district, and tiie shipping of petroleum is the chief industry. The state department has received confirmation of the murder in a message from Ambassador Meyer at St. Petersburg. TO GUAKU UAINMU Six Hundred Marines Will Be On Hand During Elections. More than six hundred marines will confront liberal leaders on the Isthmus cf Panama, in case they attempt to promote ricts and revolution at the time of the election in Panama on June 20. Although the canal zone Is under the secretary of war, there is no indication that the war department will have any troops near the isthmus at the time of the approaching election, and Secretary Taft must rely on the marine corps to protect the canal zone. I I HAIL BIG AS BASEBALLS. Frozen Pellets Do Frightful Damage in Nebraska Town. For forty-five minutes Monday hail stones as large as baseballs fell at Franklin, Neb., crashing through roofs, killing stock, smashing windows and destroying crops. This was followed by a terrific rainstorm. Telephone and telegraph systems wer9 prostrated. i I - \CREAGE IS INCREASED. f ^rea Pianted Exceeds That cf Last ^ Year by V33,22S Acres ? Official Statement Issued. The Southern Cotton Association, by President Harvie Jordan and Secretary Richard Cheatham, issued oa A I'ionclay night the following statement regarding the cctton acreage tor the tear 19"Replies received from a very largo number of cur 17,000 correspondents ?noble us to give out the following M report on cotton acreage for 190G compared with 1905: 1G3<3 1905 * * 4 Louisiana. . . . 1,595,1* 1,GIO,074 0 Arkansas 1,?27,427 1,790,365. Georgia 3,922,767 3,326,717 Alabama 3,621,37-; 3,571,616 -f;| Texas 7,727,SG2 7,311,071 -V-W NT. Carolina. . . .1,093,523 l,116,S3fr * S. Carolina . . . .2,173,361 2,212,807 " 0 Tennessee .... 739,3S6 7$Q,7SZ ' ,-r| Mississippi . . . .2,196,906 3,145,63a 'J Indian T 944.S13 ?53,404: Oklahoma .... 461,823 833,404 Florida, Virginia, Missouri .... 375,386 375,596 -'- J Total . . . .27,735,870 26,999,642. ]M "Net increase of acreage 736,223* which shows an increase of 2,76 per cent over the acreage planted la. 1805. "??!| "The foregoing will be verified or corrected by the state presidents of the Southern Cotton Association, who ) will meet in Jackson, Miss., May 31* ']M for the purpose of compiling a gen- k: era! report from data secured from, their respective states. "Ccttcn field labor is very scarce^ especially in Alabama, Mississippi* Louisiana and Arkansas, it being the opinion of a majority of our corre-- . J* spondents from these states that at _ 1?"* "rt r>f />nttnr? nntv nlant ?\J VI vwgvA* mw *. ?- - - ? i - - ^ i.miiB ed must be abandoned on account of ^||?| scarcity of hands necessary to cultlvate. Cotton field labor, especially* > 'fgz&g the negro, can be compared to a balky _ horse, as they must be begged and ."Spljjs coaxed continually. 'Large planters would not be surprised if at any meat a migration of every ljand on their plantations would occur. "The very wet early spring caused nearly all planting to be done on too. 0' wet soil, making it impossible for th^/ :t||| * cotton plants to thrive as they shonldl: Several frosts between May 8 and 10 in different portions of the cotton belt did an immense amount of damage, causing much replanting to be done. and leaving very bad stands in many localities where seed for replanting: ,-A could not be secured. "KA'RVIE JORDAN, President "RICHARD CHEATHAM, Sec." RATE BILL TO CONFERENCE. ' -^^8 u>/m,co r.nmmittes Non-Concurs in All Senate Amendments. The rail: cad rate bill was considered for' three hours Monday night by $ the house committee on interstate and . 2j foreign commerce and the decision ^ reached to recommend disagreement " | to all of the senate amendments and 33||m to send the measure to conference,, The committee will not ask that in- . structions of any character be given . to the house conferees. TEXAS LIQUOR LAW VALID. Sustained by the United States Sa- ^ preme Court. In an opinion by Justice Holmes, the supreme court of the United?4 States has affirmed the decision of the court of appeals, involving the "3 constitutionality of the Texas liquor 3 \ law. The validity of the law was atr 3 tacked on the ground of discrimina- " 3 tion as the law was not made appll- 3 cable to wines from Texas grapes. BIG CONFERENCE CLOSES. Methodists Finish Their Work at Bit- t{ ^-3 mingham and Adjourn. The fifteenth session of the quadrennial general conference of the V Methodist Episcopal church, south, 3r - -1 TJirrninoham \Ton came 10 a ciuse m unuiwcuu^, -^sh? day afternoon with a few words of paternal advice and a touching bene- . diction by the venerable Bishop Wil- . Atr; son, the senior bishop of the churcik S :^j|| DEATH FOR GENERAL STOEGSEL. A-JI Report That Russ Military Court Con*. -vha damns Hero of Port Arthur. It is rumored in St. Petersburg that ' r'*M the military court, which has been % investigating the surrender of Port Arthur and the battle of the Sea of v Janan, has condemned to death Lieu tenant General Stcesscl, who commanded the Russian forces at Port Arthur, and Rear Admiral- Nebogatoff, who commanded one of Admiral Rojestvensky's squadrons, and who surrendered during the naval battle / to the Japanese. FINISHED AT LAST. Another Milestone Covered in Greene and Gaynor Case. The bill of exceptions in the Greene and Gaynor case, on which -'A the attorneys have bean engaged ever since the verdict, was finished at Savannah, Ga., Monday, and signed . * '' ' r"?fr\y +Tiq or'ivorimPTlf; ' oy lilrtlMUIi IV. .?.V. L~~ . ~ ? and A. A. Lawrence for the defense. *; The paper carries over 20,000 pages.