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THE EOPLE'S JOR VOL 11.-NO. 1 PICKENS. S. C., THURSDAY JANUARY 1 OgoY BILL ARP ON WEDDING BELL Discusses Marriage In Interestin Manner and Speaks of the Trous seau. Wedding bells have been ringin around here for some time. Thei muusic always excite the good peopl and everybody talks about the comin nuptials. Mothers, wives and daugh ters are specially interested for it is th bride who has most at stake and i about to surrender everything to he lover. But hope is stronger than foa and the women all rejoice in it an wish the good woi-k to go on. The oliusect and discuss every phase of th niew relationship and crowd the churcl ojr the home where the knot is to b tied with anxious and eager interest The bridal trousseau and the weddin gifts have especial consideration an< are carefully inspected. What a dif terence between man and woman abou buch thinge. What a difference be t ween wife my and I. It was of small concern to me whether the bride's ap parel cost a thousand dollars or a hun dlred. Just so she was dressed in good taste and wore a few pretty ornamenti was enough for me. I like to see a pretty woman dressed in a way thal you can tell pretty well how much of her is clothes and how much is iles: and blood. Padding and petticoatl may fool a man in a new acquaintauice but a home girl can't fool anybody. We see them ride and walk and stand up and sit down and run around and we can measure thenm up like David I larum measured a horse. The modern Ayle of dress is much more pleasing to men than the old style of hoop skirts and bustles. Nothing is lacking now iut to shorten up their walking frocks to that they won't drag behind and -weep up the sidewalks with all their ilth of cigar stunmps and quids and bacteria and expectorated germs of ex pectorated consumption. When I see a girl's skirt dragging along I suspect I hat she is pigeon-toed or box-an kled aid wants to hide it. My wife never wore a dress that way in her life for she wears a number two shoe and steps like a deer. But it is a woman's nature to love ornament. She cannot. help it and it is no sin. John Wesley tried to cure her of it in the discipline, but he couldent -liscipline about ornaments and jewelry and other flnery is a dead letter. I have suspected that maybe he was too hard on his wife about such things and that is why she quit him. What a miserable time those women had in the days of the Puritans when a pretty girl had to wear a flain black dress to church; a home made straw hood shaped like a coal scuttle on her head, and not an ear-ting nor a breast pin nor even a string of glass beads around her neck. Tlc creator adorned the earth with flowers and studded the heavens with stars. Ile gave the birds their beautiful plunage and taught them to sing for our pleasure. There are diamonds in the mines and pearls in the ocean and of course they were made for women. We men care noth ing about such things. I wouldent give ten dollars for a bushel of them, but my wife goes into rapture over them and would give everything sIe has got for them, except her children and maybe me. Woman is a curious and peculiar creation. I have been studying them for sixty years and don't tully undIer stand them yet. T1hey are very near to us andl very dear to us, but very un like in their devotional nature; their love of the beautiful; their long sul fering undeor trial and adversity. They go willingly and eagerly to the mrar riage altar when they knew that theirs is all the peril and theirs to be all the pain and care and grief that inevitably comes to a wife andl mother. I have pondered over all this and if I was a wvomnan and had only a man's instincts and emotions I would not marry any man upon earth. It is thre God given maternal instinct that persuadles and forces a woman to marry. Shre will launch her boat upon thre stream and take her chances to jump the water falls. She will marry even against her jtudgment and the pleadimgs of hri friends. She doees not realize thre force of this maternal instinct, but it impels and controls her. My little grand daughters are perfectly happy with their dolls. They play with them by day and sleep with them by night. A little four-year-old saidl to me last night " Ganpa, don't take (dolly away from me till 1 get fast aslcep.'' Little boyt care nothing abotut dolls. They wat balls and drums and lire-crackers ant guns-something that will make u' noise. A man loves a woman ant marries her, but there is not a lirticl< of paternal instmect influencing him The young mother hugs her firsj. borg: to her bosom and is happy. Th( young father takes thre advent of thr child as a matter ouf course, but niot o: choice. In course of time the littha one grows into favor and lhe becomei attached to it, and even proud~ of it but there is no paternal instinct. The true woman loves to be a mother. Shi is not content with one child. Sis .wants another and another and an other. T wo childlren double her lovi and therefore her hrappiness and finall' when she has no more little onres tm fondle, her maternal love laps ovier t< her grandchildren, and sire would clain them if she could. Mrs. Wilcox wrot' a lamentation on the " Decay of Lhb Maternal Instinct mn New lEngland,' asserting that the women up there (d1< not wish for child~ren and there wa hardly a hro1usehold thmat had more thai one or two-just enough to inherithl father's estate. When that decays everything els decays. A town or city or a Stat without children-a natural complc ment of children-is on the dowl grade. To arrest or impede the coin ing of children is a violation of the haw i of;God. The earth must be peopled by honor able marriage. Milton says "H 1ail wedded Love-true source or human offspring." And again lie says of r marriage, " It is the buimt of earthly bliss." Other cynical old poets ntake sport of it anid call it a "lottery." "An institution where those who are out wish to get in and those who tire in r wish to get out." Some of our modern . poets ask'the question, " Is marriage a failure ?" and discuss it in prose and poetry. Well, suppose that it is, what is to be done about it. Who is going to stop it? Ilow shall the earth be peopled when we all die off ? What kind of incubators do they propose to substitute? Emerson says " All the world loves a lover," and that is why the good pco ple of every community flock to wit ness a marriage ceremony. Every body loves the happy couple then and wishes them joy. Will he be kind to her, ail there is a smothered thought in every mother's mimd.I )r. Gaines, of the Agnes Scott In stitute, gave us a discourse the other I day on the importance of educating i our girls. It was deeply entertaining and convincing. Hlow couies it that< six tines as much money is invested in giving our boys a high educatio as i there is for our' giris. Who are our i educators at hoime and in our public schools. Sixty-six per cent of all the I teachers in Georgia are women and i they should have the best opportiitt"ies to fit theni for their vocation. Who i teaches the children until they can go i to school. The mothers-the patient E loving mothers all over the land, while t the fathers ace in the field, the t counting room, the workshop, or may be at the club or the billiard table. I Why should the female colleges be . neglected by the State? Who are c doing the most good in the behool i room, the church, the Sunday school t or by the fireside in the establishing and perpetuating of morality and virtue I among the children? Is it the boys i who come fronm college or the girls r who cannot go, but have to be conteit I with such education as they can get at i home? Well, the good doctor gave us food f for thought amnd when lie closed I felt I a wish that I was rich so that I might J enable every good gir I to get a higher education than she can get at home. C When will we have a legislature that c will have heart enough to give to wo- : man all of her rights ? The naarriage- a able girls ought to form a trust and r vow to marry nobody until theii rights fI were iecognized. 11 it wasent for tihe t maternal instinct they would. r BiLL Am%. INTRODUCING NJSW PIANTS. J Valuable Products Brought to This v Country by Department of Agri- c culture. C Tiere is no feature of the work of the Department of Agriculture in which the Secretar) and his assistants take more pride than that of the intiroduc taon of new plants into the United States and the Improvement of those which are already grown in this coun try. It may be said that not one of t the plants producing the great staple i crops of the United tates are indigen- i otis to the soil. A few varieties of| grapes, plums and berries are improve- I ments upon those which were found growing wild by the settlers of two I' centures ago, but none of the gramns, sugar canes, rice, or other well known( stap~les were known to Americans in 'the early (lays of wite settlement. The Indliants had a little cqrn, but even this, it is believed, was brought from 1 Central America, and the grain itself 15 5o old that its origin has never been discovered. The same may be said of wheat, though it is probable that the latter originated in the Eastern Mcdi terranean regions. Since the work of the D~epartment, of Agriculture commuencedl the charac- I ter of nearly all of the grains, practi- t cally all of the rice, much of the cot-a ton andl many of the grasses have been entirely changed from that p~roduced1 I for market twenty years ago. Hardya andl spring wheats have been brought I from Russia for use ini all the North ern States ; date palmis have been brought from Algeria to grow in Ari- t zona ; Egyptian cotton and Egiyptian clover are now being pilanted in many of the Gulf States, and a seedless f raisin grape has come to us froni Italy. Up in Michigan along .ihe sandy lake] shores a German clover is being plant. edl to hold the sand dunes in place I against the prevailing wyinds. Jlapan1 has sent us a clover which is used ex tensively in -the South for a winter crop, and( a score of improved vegeta biles have succeededl those which for merly grew in American gardlens. 1 11,t was not many years ago that all of tbe rice grown in the United states was of the Honduran variety. This1 was found to 1)e unprofitable, and thei rice iiustry languished .perceptibly. The Department of Agriculture took the matter up, and introduced the Ja pan or Krushu rice, which has created such a revolution in rice growing as to eliminate all other varieties. It is claimed that at least $20,000,000 have 3 been investedl in rice fields in Texas 3 and Louisiana since the introduction of the Japanese grain. It yields '26 I per cent. more to the acre, andl mills i at least 245 per cent,. more unbroken 1 rice than did the Hionduraui variety, 3 and has, therefore, increased the rice production per acre over 50 per cent. The department has long since given s up the rice business to legitimate busi-| - ness enterprise, for it is a principle I i governing the introduction of a new plant that as soon as It variety is found sti desirable and is recognized by the N seedsmen, the department withdraws wi from the fild and leaves to private en- do terprise the opportunity of handling tie the busimess. 0h Growing Just a short distance from wi the agricultural building in Washing- gr, ton is a thick, horny hedge of oranne I trees, Citrus trifoliata they are called. wa The fruit is inedible, beng small and pe bitter, but the orange is hardy, grow- un ing to maturity as lar North as ['hila- wt delphia. The great frost of 1896 in tel Florida, which destroyel so many or- wi ange groves, suggested to Secretary 35( Wilson the great advantages which pit would follow the discover~y of a hardier 2G variety of this fruit than is now grown an in this countiy. It was decided to cot produce a hybrid orange, crossing the 62( Florida plant with a trifoliata, in the is t endeavor to get a sweet orange which -a should be likewise hardy. The depart- sio ment has succeeded in getting 3,000 of hoi these hybzid plants. I., is too soon to ligi ay what, the result will be with the ed rruit. It is not believed, however, nte hbat a sweet orange will result, though I hlere is still 8o1e hope of that. It, is ino .hought, however, that by again cross- sob ng this hybrid with the sweet oraLgo tile u time a marketable fruit may be pro do luced from a tree which will grow as I rery much farther North than the one cht low known to tile orange groves of ma lie country. age In the meantime, however, this hy- te )rid orange is a new and remarkably ing raluable hedge plant, with an ever- tha ,reei foliage and long thorius, making ioe t an impenetrable thicket. This in cru tself, in the opinion of Secretary Wil- cal on, is a sufliciently valuable discovery k o justify the work already (one, but ope Ie experiment will be pushed to a yea onclusion in the endeavor to secure a sti'1 aridy sweet orange. As the Secretary 5, ays, " One of the marvels of the new be 1 entury may be an orange tree bearing mei narketable fruit which will thrive in A n lie temperate zone." no The importation of Egyptian cotton siv kas been watched with a great deal of in nterest by tile Secretary, owing to its tun dlaptability to tile arid belt of the wo, Jnited States. Ill Egypt this cot(on sya s irrigated, and the purpose of its im- pile bortation into the United States is to tje ind a prolitable crop for Arizona, New j dexico and Texas west of the San dui tutonio river. am Winter mnuskmelons are another the uriosity which promises to become 111)1 ommercially valuable when grown in bar arger quantities. 'These muntskmelons me re grown and harvested in tile sum- oli ier, stored iu cellars and ripened suf- goe ciently to be eaton about Christmas no ime. Some of these melons have al- A v eady been grown in Colorado and and ive considerable sat.isfaction. They do to * ot look much like the muskmelon now (1u nown to the market gardener, but tick [ey are sai-1 to be not only a marvel, r' 'ut a very desirahle addition to the Pla Finter bill of falue. They arc dark in pla3 olor and clongated in sh1ape, weighirag yea i an average from twelve to fourteen tim ounds. We The department is now endeavoring tota Sintroduce into Oregon and Wash- 87( ngton tile Bavarian and Bohemian the rewing hops. These sell for twice as kee iuch as do tile American varieties and oui roduce certain qualities of beer now tiral nly secured in tlis country by impor- Ti ition. Experimicntis ale now being An lade oi a field scale with tile Swedish Flu rowing barley, which took thle grandAp rize at tihe Paris Exposition. tl T'HE GR1SAT PASSION PLAY. Per )rigin and History of the Bavarian the Drama of World-Wid~e Fame. anr s101 Th~ie origin c f the Passionl Play dates WI) >ack to 16133. When theO long Thlirty So (cars' war was (devouring Germany, a its evore attack of pllague broke out, (10 11n8 rastating the cities and1( villages of thle schi lavarian T1yrol, P'attenkirchen and "110 llitteld ~. lica When eighty-four of tile inihabitanlts hut if the vilage of Oberammiergau had( b'y >een swept away m1 a sin~gle month, oni he hleart stricken survivors met in as-: 'lui embly, praying Almighty God for tihe reservation of their hlearths and 'Re0 iomes. In thleir agonly, the terrror- bo01 tricken peasants resolved to ierform est lien andi every ten years afterward, It vith tile dleepest reverence and1( sol- Ch imnity, a play whichl would set forth si 110 life, dleathl andl mledt.ation of tile ni led .emer. History and traditioin say clo hat their vow was hoard, and thlat Chi rm that moment there was5 not one ' rictim, andi the plague3 was stayed. saj Lfor decade after decade the simple on rillagere have continued to performli h1e play, except once or twice whien whm var rendered it impossile. in Oberammergau is a village of p)er- wa1 anps 12,000 peopjle, men, women and anl< thildren, situated in1 tile Bavarianl an11 i'yroi. The spurs of the Alps form a thll 'matural amlphitheatre, while tile Aml- at :ner river, a small stream of the clear- we] 3st, brighte~st Water, WV.ndsI lazily arounid' theO converging h.1k. Th'iere are three 1,e main approaches to thle village ; the .1) |lr8t and most, obvious by Munichl andl 1s tihe northl ; the~ second from tihe soulth- At Sast an~d Partenkirchen, wichl gives aco beautiful wooded~ ascent to Ettal, withl git entrance by tile m1o.mitain gateway of wc Kofel; the third and1( most picturesque ti route from Rteutte by the PHan See, it. passmng through tile fair pastures of ph1 Ammerthal, and entering Oberammner. a < gr~u before the great gray throne of vi rock which springs out of the Kofel- ick berg woods, and is markedl by a cross wI at the summit. dIi Not far distant from tihe village is lo the celebraitedl Uenedictine monastery, whlich was built bly the king of Bavaria in 1330 to be a temple of the Itoly Grail, with an order of knightly monks R1 anid Driests t.o uard thn lite acnre b ituto of the Madonna and Holy Child Iar the village the hills are coveret th the evergreen piCne, the blutfs ar< use with oak, ash and hickory, the Ids abound in richest grasses, whilt Aminer, its banks sttidded will: Id s3camoire, llcws ever through 'oin pastures. rho Passion Play at Oberama.oragu a meant, for its citizens and the isants of adjoining districts. Not til thirty years ago had it obtained rid-wide fame. Tlie method of en taining the visitors is marvelous, en every hotel in Munich, a Cit) of ),000 people, is crowded beyond c. ity from May until September, and trains daily run to Oberammergau I return. Although the latter place itains little over 1,000 inhabitants, I people take part in the play. This lie only honor known to a villager part in the cast, of the great Pas a Play. The only surety to this ior is by living a pure and upright it. One's whole life must be pass in Christian hu-nility and gentle S. 'he actors iegard themselves as tak. part in an act of devotion, their s and their tears show the depth of ir sincerity. Many of them kneel (n to pray on entering the theatre, hey do when they go to worship in rch. Modern methods of facial <e-up, stage lighting and stage man went are lacking; h it criticism is ed. 'he effect of sincerity in act is more powerful on the audience a any finished actor could give. It a not seem to be the trmgedy of the 3ilixion in mimicry, but the histori incident in actuality. 'ormerly the play was given in the n air within the grave yard. Thirty rs ago a rude theatre was con cted, having a seating capacity of 10 people, and this will doubtless ised for many years. In ariange it, the theatre is not unlike an erican playhouse, except there are ;alleries or boxes. The most expen - seats, strangely, are in the rear. Akmerica, at such a time, the oppor itits for hotel and ticket speculation ild he enormous, but by a simple em, rigorously carried out, the peo of the village have made such prac 5 impossible. il tickets for every performance ing the entire season are divided )ng the villagers, in proportoi to number of beds they have been 3 to set up in their houses, shops, ns and hen coops, for the entertain it of their guests. There is no box :es and each ticket of adnssion s with the bed. Therefore, there is noney transaction -vith the theatre. illage law fixes the p ices of beds seats. Tickets vary from 50 cents 2.50, while the beds are about $3. sts at a hotel could not obtain a et if they stayed a year. 'he economic phase of the Passion ' is aimost, as interesting as the itself. The first performance last rL was given on May 2.1. They con led every Sunday, Monday and dnesday until September 30. The I receipts, daily, averaged about )00. This money is Ltrnied over to village treasury, while the villagers p what is paid themi by their guests. of the theatre receipts are taken, of all, tho expenses of the play. hie actors' salary is extremely small. on Lang, the Christus, Anna nger, the Maria, Peter Rend, the >stle dJohn, receive $250 each for .r year's salary, while the salaries lie others run down to about $t2.50 annum. " The remaninder of the iey goes Li) the treasury, to meet expenses of the little city. Obeci nergau knows no taxes. The Pas.. Play stupports its hospital, its gas ks, paves its streets antd lays its ers, cares for its poor andI supplorts jail andl contributes to all the othier itutions for the p)ublic good. The aol children are taught, with the 'iey which conies through the glori L~ion of God in their play, and the ial expenses of the pauper is met the same fund." Each villager has y his peCrsonatl expendliuires to moot ing the enterveniing It) years. hle actors, even those taking the st, prominient, parts, wait oii their rders at all times, dloinig the men labor. A hired servant is unknown. is wonderful how generations of ristian culture in) people of rustic plicity have pirodluced, in face and~ unri, looks and qjualities that so iely resemble the popular idtea of rist andI his associates. 'I chanced to see Anton Lang," a H1. D). Rawnsley, " at early mass the morning of the performfanice. seeimedl rapit in the service, andI en he left the chturch lie walket as a dream ; others chatted, b~ut, lie Iked straight on without, a word, I it seemedh that, mecn mioved aside i left a way for him as if they felt, .t lie were alnost more than a muan; least he was m->ving in anothber rId and they kniew it, and felt it.'" l'hec Virgin Miary of the play is um 'soniated by Anna Fitinger. She is years old, and a great beauty. It iaidl that there is no actress oin the ieirican or English stage today whlo ld clothe the characteor of the Vir. with the sweetness, spirituaity, mamnly dignity and dlevotion whiclh s unlettered peasant girl imparts tc Yet she has never seen a theatrt 3 in her life. Truly there must b( livinity that, shapes the end of thal lage, that, generation after genera ni there should be born into it mei o can look, as well as act, the Ira lonal parts of Uhriet andi HIs be ,ed disciples. iLMon~y A. Honrjan. The Speaker of the Idaho House c 3presenitatives is the youngest moen r. and is nameod McKinley. DISTRIBUTION OF PROFITS To Be Divided Among Counties Towns and Cities Having Dis pensaries. Mr. Gunter had a hill to change the percentage of the profits of the dis pensary. le wanted 53 per cent of' the protits to go to the counties and wanted to force the counties to give 10 per cent of tlheir 53 per cent to the county schools. The chief difference wats that he propose(l to reduce the State's prolit to 2 per cent. Only the net. profits are referred to. Mr. Croft urgcd that, those counties that enforced the dispenary should get the profits. Air. Prince said the bill was coni 8titutional anltd fair, and the plain words were that the dispensany proflts should go to the counties that make the profit. Mr. DeLoach said there was no dis pensary in his county and his people did not want a dispensary. Ile ex- I plaedile the history of tile (ispensary at Tirzah. If this bill was intenled to drive York County to the (ispensury it was an outrage an( a wrong. Mr. Croft, usked if York County was so righteous as not to want a (ispen- i sary, would it not be fatir for it not to I want thu Profits of counties that, pai(d for the policing of this very trouble- I some traflic, Mr. PeLoach insisted that tile dis- I pensary' was a State and not a county I law. Mr. J. 11. Kinar( sid0 he lived in a I county without a (ispensary and)l want- I Cd the money to go to the schools. Ile r thought the counties that hadl dispen sarics should get the profits. Mr. Prince, in reply to Mr. I)eLoach, e said he did not believe in forcintg (is- t pensaries on any one, but he inbiste(i r that those who bought the liquor t should get the prolit. Ile honor. I eld those who would not have liquor for sale, butt that Was not the issue, a Mr. DeLoach asserte(d that if this t hill was to force dispensaries oil his I people its purpose was ignoble. . Mr. Prince couli not see why those c who so seriously oppose(I the tratlie j should want tile profits froni the I obnoxious business. For three years I his people imade $18,000 for the dhs- i pensary, and (i( not get ait cet of that I profit, for it. wts said the county al teady ha(d its $3 per capita. Mir. Robinson propose(l to give the towns in Pickens County 25 per cent an( the county 73 per cent. Lost Mr. Bates wante(l the cities to have 410 per cent, insteaI of 45. The bill as finally ordered to its third rea(ing provioles: Section 1. That ont and after the first (lay of April, 1901, the net profits derived in this State from the sales of spirituous, malt, or vinous liquors, in cluding all beers, wines, etc, now sold under the di1s)ensary law, be, anl the sume aire hereby, apportioned as fol lows: Two per cent of said net pro- t tits to go to the State, to be odistributed as now provided by law, 45 per cent of f the said net profits to g. tolthe several towns atild cities in which the dispen- t saries are located, anol 53 per cent to go to the several counties ill which-the dispensaries are locatel, aid to be dis tributed by the several county board of comiiissioners ats provi(ied in this Act. Section 2. The county boardI of commissioners in each of the various counties in which disp~ensar'ies are located shall apportion the net profits coming to each county, as providled by Section 1 of this Act, ini the following manner, viz: That iiot less than 10) per cent, of said profits to be0 appilied1 to tile public schools of said( county, ando the balance of said profits, whatever tuhe samiie may be, to be odistribuited for the uses and benefits of said county, as the county boardl of commissioners thereof may see fit. Section 3i. The county treasurerr shall be recluired to imake monthlyi settlemuents of tile profits going to the counties and cities and1( towns, and i place to the credit of the counties, cities and towns their respiectlive, amounts by the 15th day of each Section 4. That all Acts and par'ts of Acts inconsistent with this Act be, andi~ the same ar'e iherchy, repealed. BUYING A COMPETING L4INiE. Railroads Must be Wholly With in this State to be Debarred. .J uoge Richard( C. Watts has filed his decree with the clerk of Cou t at Aiken in the case of McNeil vs. the Southerni Railway comp~aniy. This is an action . brought b~y McNeil to recover a p~enalty against, the Southern of $100 per (lay for leasing and1( operatmng an alleged competing anid para'lel road. Th'le case arose out of the Southern's 101ase of the South Carolina and Georgia, which the pliainttiff claims was colt trary to the conlstitution and the statute laws of the Staute. When tile case was heard the road, throughl its attoineys, Messr's. B. L,. Abney, ot Columbia; J. W. Barnwell, of Chaurleston, am1( tile Ilendersons, of Aiken, interposed a dlemurrer. T1hiis was resisted iby Messrs Boykin Wright, of Augusta, and G. WV. Croft & Son, of Aiken. Judge Watts took the matter uinder aod visemnent and the following~is a synop sis of his decree: After stating tihe fact that this suit was brought by McNeil to enforce the penalty provided by the act of 1897 of $100 per (lay for each (lay that a road operates or controls a competing or parallel line, ando after showing that thle plaintiff must brinig himself strictly under tile terms of this act, his Hlonor' uses the followmng language as to this f act and its effect on the case: TheJi - complaint alleges that the South Caro lina and Georgia itallroad company owned and was operatinig a line whili wias partly within the State of South Carolina and partly without the State of South Carolina, to wit: within the State of Georgia, and it also alleges that the Southern Railway company owned and wias operating a line which was partly within said State and partly outside said State, and the contention is that, as the Southern Itailvay com pany has leased the line of the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad company contrary to auch statute, the plaintiff is entitled to bring this action fol the pelmity. In the title of the aforesaid act the expression is used "1 competing railroad lines within this State.'' It is impossible for the court in constru ing this highly penal statute to leave cut of consideration the plain and ex pess terms " competing railroad lines within this State." Such expression takei into consideration clearly shows ,hat the manifest. intention of the Leg slature wias to give to the citizen this penalty when one railroad line lying ivithin this State purchasee another so ying, and not otherwise, and 1 so hold. 3o holding it is plain andl manifest I lhat, vhatever other defects may appear in he complait, the plaintiff lIas failed o bring himself within the terms of his penal statute. Judge Watts then leclared the net of 189-1 to be repealed )y the Cons1titutionl 1' 1895, inasmuch is this act. provides a remedy where here hais been competition between mints along the line of the leased rail 011d, while the constitution, cing ater, provided that there must, be coim octition between competing lines, thus asking the law less restrictive. His lonor then su1ms upl) Jiis discussion of his plhase of the case as follow s: My onclusion is that, while the section of he constitution in question gave the iglt t the State through its law oflicer o prevent any corporation violating he provisiois of said section, the act f 1897, which is the basis of this etion, was restricted in its scope and enor to allowing tho:e who are com loll informers to recover a penalty imply where the competing hues in uestaon lie wholly within the State. udge Watts, lowever', refused to hold hait the act of 1897 was unconstitu ional, but held that the word comupet ng must be construed in a broad and iberal sense, following the decisionl of .he supreme court of ( eorgia in the ftate vs. the Central Itailway, 35 S. J.i lrtporter, and Ihat in this case sufficient 3oipetition had not been alleged to .onstit ute a cause of, action; therefore ie declared that lie complaint, was dis lissed; for both of tie reasons given tbove. A SPXNDID EU4OGY OF LEE. )ne of the Finest Tributes Ever Paid to the Christian Patriot. At tile celebration of Gei. Robert Lee's birthday inl the city of Angus. a,.Ga., there were congratulalory ser ices in ho:,or of Maj. Win. T. Gary or his untiring eff >rts in se(iring the ceeptance of the Soldier's I1omne1 by he Legislature of Georgia. In re pomse to the congratulations tendered nt his own behalf, Maj. Gary made an doquent and appropriate speech, which vas reported as follows : When Major Gary arose lie was rrected with a storm of' applaus-, ningl ed here and..1 there with the rebel yell,'' and it was several mmi tes before lie was allowed to begin. Vith his commandmllg .igure electC and yes 11 ishing, the oli time "' rebel lire'' A detiance, inl a voico clear and dlir.. ict, Major Gary sa.d : Daughters of the Confederacy, Com rades, Ladies and Gentlemen : We hi ve asseimbledl to celebrate the >irthday of hlobei t E. Lee, (applause,) he p~ati iot, Christian, at, Lesimn, sol lier and hero. (Applause.) P'Cssese of a heart which was rave and tirue ; endowed with a minid A'h.chl was v igorous and stron~g; guidled y a genius which knew no superior, to made for himself a chairacter which Nasl witho t a blemish. I Ionored by his couintrymenm, idlolized >y his soldiers and1( loved by all, his presenice waIs an inspjir'ation and his )raise it beined iction. Born a leader of mn, God's stamp >f n1obility was upon him. Honor, genius, chivalry and patriot sm were his by inherItance, and the [)ivine-implanited love of constitutional iberty, which was tihe inspiration at Liunnymede, at, loston andi at Fort Sumter-an eternal vestal fIre which ias survi ved the attacks 01 sectional. Sm and of tyrants and which yet lives o perpetuate the memoiries of its mar ~yrs andl will never die-furnished the >ccasion which gave to his inlhiritedl ~ifts ia splendid halo of glory. Faithful untto death, lie won the crown of life and a wreath of immor telles of glory gallankds his memory. (Applause.) Th'le gentle flow of God's spirit into his own, made his life illustrious and its endt suibbmei. In his grave, rests as true a iman, as noble a patriot, and as brave a hero as ever consecratedl his lhfe to the cause of constitutional liberty. (Applause.) After patri.tism and1( honor and gen ins and bravei'y had accompllishedl all that was piossible, tihe inevitale came, but the cause yet lives to giuide a'jd in spire the liberty-loving patrio .s of every land. (Aplluse8.) We ha e assembled here also to re. joice that ourm beloved State has paid its debt of love an~d that a house has b~een providedh, for all our Confederate h r.>cs anid paftriots, who %Lmay need it. VTe banneilrs of war are furled; the sword is sheathed, and we are willing to assist in "loving a nation into peace, honorable alike to the victor and thi vanquished,'' but we will continue t< naVt 0tur tri '.ten of iovAel nd ton feent Every cotton planter should write for ourvaluable illustrated pamphlet, 1, Cotton Culture." It is sent free. Se nd nam.e and address to GEACNIAN KA 1. w'oRKS, 93 Nassau Sr., N. Y. express our debt of gratitude to the noble Confederate soldiere-the em budiment, of patriotism, heroism, love of country and constitutional liberty. (Applause.) The tottering crutch, the em)ty sleeve, and the safferings of the survivors will continue to causa our eyes to fill with tears and our hearts to sigh, in loving sympathy. The Soldic I's Home represents the thought which is the progress of our State and the gratitude which is the seitilent of our people. A nation without sentiment is a na tion without hope. If it is given to the dead to know what is transpiring on earth, we may believe that the open ig of the Confederate Soldier's Home will caise a smile of approval and a shout of joy. When the doors of the Soldier's llome are opened to receive the heroes, it should be remembered that to no one is more honor due for that event than the noble vomen of our State, and especially to the Daugh ters of the Confederacy, of Atlanta and Augusta. (Applause). And I may add that to none of them was I iiore indebted for advice, assistance and inspiration than to Mrs. Edwin G. Weed and Miss Anna Montgomery unless ii, be to Mrs. M. P. Carroll, who caenic like a ray of sunshine even into the committee room of the Legislature to held ine plead for it. (Applause.) No man every accomplished any thing worthy to live in history who did n1ot bet under the inspiration of some noble womaii. There cannot exist a nation of great men and of great achievements unless it be a nation of noble mothers. The patriotism and bravety, the sufferings and herolim of the Confederate soldiers were only sur passed in the history of the world by that of their sisters, their wives and their mothers. The South was re (eemed from the infamous State gov ernments by which it was oppressed after the war, by the intluence of the noble women of the South. Their in Iluence has caused the grams-carpeted mounds, from the Potomae to the Rio (rande, God's monumtents to these heroes and patriots, to be annually strewn with flowers which the dead may not appreciate; and it is but pro per that, they shouIld have inspiredl the erection of a homec for the living heroes and patriots who will honor the home which gratitude has provided for them. (Applause.) If not a necedy Confederate soldier ever enters this home, nevertheless, it will stand as a testimonial of the love and (devot ion andl gratitude of the grate fuil people of Georgia, and as a monu ment to th; uatriotism, the chivalrie bravery of ot. living and dead Con federate soldhiers. Memorials of . marble and of brass must crumble and decay but the honors which are (done to heroes and patriots give hope that the living will emulate their virtues, and bear evidence of the fact that virtue and honor and patrio tism and gratitude yet abide in the land. May the Soldier's Home be not only an inspiration to the living, but as well as a memorial to the dead, and may God bless the living andl the dead. I cannot convey to you in words the pleasure andl satisfaction it affords me to know, that any act of mine couldl call forth from you, the wordls: "Wel (10ne, thou good and faithful servant." This mark of distinguished considera tion tills my heart with a gratitude of thanks and I most cheerfully accept it. D~ucks are p~robably more easily fat tened than any other class of fowls. T1hey are great foragers on beetle and insect and consume a regular ration of feed also. We dto not report them as being as nice as chickens but they are richer, more savory, and just about as populair in our markets as chickens and are muuch more easily raised.--'Arr anld Hlome. (flean amnd pure butter can only come from clean and pure milk. Once filth or any kind gets into milk, its essence stays there. Straining, aeration, sepa ration, each does something and all mauay (10 much toward cleaning milk, but the only safe or satisfactory way is nlever let it get in. Purity is indeed cleanliness, and cleanliness is health.' CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Hlave Always Bought ears the