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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-04

she's here. One night-the idear'
'Auntie, you're too generous to others.
I've no notion all this rigmarole about
syour Miss Sallie Worth is true. But I'll
do anything to please you"
Very well. I'll see whom you are try
ing to please later"
ct must CO." said CASTOR hastily rising.
have an engagement to discuss the COM
ing political campaign with the Hon. AL
Ian Mcleod. the present Republican boss
of the state"
81 didn't know you hobnobbed with the
enemy"
at don't But as far as can understand
him. he purposes to take me up on an
exceeding high mountain and offer me the
world and the fullness thereof. We will
like to be tempted whether we fall or not.
The doctor hates Mcleod. I think he
holds some grudge against him. What do
you think of him, Auntie? He swears by
you. I used to dislike him as a boy. but
he seems a pretty decent sort of fellow
now, and can't help liking just a little
anybody who loves you. 1 confess he has
a fascination for me-"
''Why do you ask my opinion Of him?"
slowly asked Mrs; Durham.
Because I'm not quite sure OF his hon.
esty. He talks fairly, but there's some
thing about him that casts a doubt over
his fairest words. He says he has the
most important proposition of my life to
place before me today and I'm at a loss
of my life to place him-whether as a we'll
meaning friend or a scheming scoundrel.
He's puzzle to me-"
'Well, Charlie don't mind telling you
that he is a puzzle to me. I've always
been strangely attracted to him, even
when he was a big red-headed brute of a
boy. The doctor always disliked him and
I thought, misjudged him. He has always
paid me the supremest Difference, and of
late years the most subtle fiattery No
woman, who feels her life a failure, as l
do mine, can be indifferent to such a COM
pliment from man of trained mind and
masterful character. This is a sore sub
ject between the doctor and myself. And
when 1 see him shaking hands little too
lingeringly with admiring sisters of his
services. I repay him with a chat with
my devoted Mcleod. Don't ask me. like
him, and 1 don't like him. I admire him
and at the same time 1 suspect and half
fear HIM"
Strange we feel so much alike about
him. But your heart has always been very
close to mine. since you slipped your arm
around me that night my mother died.
know what he will say, and 1 know about
what I'll do" He stopped and kissed his
foster-mother tenderly.
Charlie, I'm In earnest about my pretty
girl that's coming. Don't forget it,"
Bah! You've fooled me before"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-04
LOVES DREAM.
I.


BLUE EYES AND BLACK HAIR.
she's coming next month, Charlie"
said Mrs. Durham, looking up from let
ter.
who Is II now. Auntie, another divin-
fly with which you are going to over
whelm me?" asked CASTOR smiling as he
laid his book down and leaned back in his
chair.
Some one I've been telling you about
for the last month"
(which one?"
"oh. you wretch You don't think about
anything except your books. I've been
dining that girls praises into your ears
for fully five weeks, and you look at me
in that innocent way and ask which one?"
Honestly. Aunt Margaret. you're al
ways telling me about some beautiful girl,
I get them mixed. And then when see
them, they don't come up to the advance
notices you've sent out. To tell you the
truth. you are such a beautiful woman.
and I've got so used to your standard,
the girls can't measure up to it."
You hatterer. A woman Of forty-two
a standard Of beauty! Well. it's sweet to
hear you say it. you handsome young
rascal.
"1t's the honest truth. You are one of
the women who never show the addition of
a year. You have spoiled my eyesight for
ordinary girls"
flush, SIR, you don't dare to talk to
any girl like you talk to me. They all
say you're afraid of them"
We'll. I am, in a sense. I've been dis
appointed so many times"
"Ohl you'll find her yet and when you
DOR
What do you think will happen?"
I'm certain you will be the biggest
fool I'm the state"
That win make It nice for the girl,
won't it7"
Yes. amp shall enjoy your antics. You
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-04
When Lyman }. Gage Was Janltor In a
Bank.

CFnom The Story OF Afy Boyhood Days" By
Lyman J. Gage, IN the August "Success'')
There was IN our town a small bank. and this
Institution had always possessed fascination
for ny youthful mind I used 20 watch the
merchants going In with bags Of gold and bun
dies o. greenhacks. and coming out again with
only account books IN their hands knew that
the bank had some connection with the govern
msnt. and. being greatly impressed with It's
digui1ed appearance and the actions OF its Of
hcsrs. was SEIZED with a desire 20 work within
It's walls When applied for position. I
learned that there was no likelihood OF a vacan-
CO occurring In the near future: 50, when was
offered place IN a local stationery shop at
q salary OF a hundred dollars a year, accept
ed with alacrfty. The wages were small in
deed, but IN this shop was privileged 70 be-
come acquainted with general literature, and
spent many hours with the great authors So
the months with the stationer were not without
profit After time there was a rival bank es-
tahlished IN the town. and was offered the DO
Eiti1n Of messenger and general assistant"
at the same old salary OF a hundred dollars q
year didn't hesitate. but left the store to en-
ter the bank and 50 began my career in the
financial world NY duties as general assist
ant were many and varied I was janitor, FIRST
OF al. and attended 70 the heating q the
building. ] made many trips every day 70 me
cellar for coal. and used 20 think the officials
most extravafsart wien they insisted on a FIRE
wngu the da-s were comparatively warm.
Obliged . keep the front sidewalk clear OF
dlrt n the sumner and Of snow in the winter,
and had 20 sweep the door or the banking room
daily, and dust the desks and furniture fire.
Q1satly.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-04
CHAPTER II.
CE1AG En- II.
THE VOICE OF THE TEMPTER

THE VOICE OF THE TEMPTER.
Mcleod was waiting with some impa-
thence in his room at the hotel.
Walk in, CASTOR, you're little late
However, better late than never" Nc
Leod plunged directly into the purpose Of
his visit.
castor you're a man of brain, and ora
torical genius. I heard your speech in
the last Democratic convention in Raleigh,
and don't say il to flatter you, that was
the greatest speech made in any assembly
in this state since the war"
"Thanks! said CASTOR with a wave of
hissarm.
''I mean It. You know too much to be
in sympathy with the old moss-backs who
are now running this state. For fourteen
years, the south has marched to the polls
and struck blindly at the Republican par
ty, and three times II struck to kill. The
southern people have nothing in common
with these northern Democrats who make
your platforms and nominate your candi-
date. You don't ask anything about the
platform or the man. You would ask no
questions; and what infuriates me is you
vote to enforce platforms that mean eco
nomic ruin to the south"
MAN shall not live by bread alone, Nc
Leod."
Sure, but he can't live on dead mems
bones. You vote in solid mass on the ne
gro question, which you settled by the
power of the Anglo-Saxon insolence when
you destroyed the reconstruction govern
ment at blow Why should you keep
on voting against every interest of the
south. merely because you hate the name
Republican,"
why? Simply because so long as the ne
gro is here with a ballot in his hands he
is a menace to civilization. The Republic
can party placed him here. The name Re-
publican will stink in the south for
century, not because they beat us In war,
but because two years after the war, in
profound peace they inaugurated a sec
ond war on the unarmed people of the
south, butchering the starving, the wound
ed, the women and children! God in
heaven, will 1 ever forget that day they
murdered my mother! Their attempt to
establish with the bayonet an African bar
barism on the ruins of southern society
was n conspiracy against the human pro-
gress. 1t was the blacklist crime of the
nineteenth century"
You are talking in a dead language.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-04
THE LONELY GRAVE, WHERE
ONE FORGOTTEN SLEEPS
ROMANTIC THE LAST RESTING PLACE
A BEAUTIFUL GIRL9ATHETc STORY OF BELLE
WHOM DEATH HEIGHT OF HER REIGN

Of all. She was truly the Improvisation
Of beauty. She never sat out dances;
the first on the floor, she was always the
last to leave.
One evening late in the summer She
appeared in the dance hail, more radiant
heightened by a flush on the cheek that
was foreign to her accustomed pallor
All present noted this; but to solicitous
Inquiry she said she was feeling quite
wen, with the exception Of a sharp pain,
now and again, near the heart. Moth
ing at ALL" she would answer, in that
soft caressing tone Of voice peculiar to.
the far south.
She danced that evening as never be-
fore, trIlly the queen of the ball. When
the dance was at its height there was
sudden confusion; the music stopped;
dancers stood still; a shout for water
and a doctor rang out on the midnight
air. The creole belle had fallen hfeless
on the ball room floor.
All was done in the power Of physician
and friends. but to no purpose. The heart
stood STILL the spirit was free.
They carried her with loving hands
and sorrowing hearts the next evening,
when the shadows began to lengthen, in
the beauty and stiffness of the hour be-
tween shutdown and twilight. and laid
her to rest beneath a friendly sheltering
oak tree. 1t was her wish, so said her
maid.
The grave for years was protected. but
finally vandals and relic hunters claimed
It; and now, as for many years past, the
grave of the beautiful unknown, as she
was termed-for no relative or friends
from out of the past ever came to put in
a claim-is marked only by the four
round sandstone pillars or cornerstones Of
the sarcophagus.
The civil war came on, the south had
neither time nor thought for summers at
the springs. The hotel was burned, the
crumbling walls for many years after
marked the spot of former glory. The
cottages were used during the war for an
asylum for wounded soldiers.
Generations have passed. The name is
forgotten, entirely obliterated from the
stones Though there can still be seen the
faint trace of marking on them), but the
story lives.
The lone grave can still be seen by
anyone who cares to come and look-a
haunting spectre of a happy past.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-04
The cynosure.

VERY self-conscious. wasn't he2''
yes; Just like a man taking hts nrst au-
tomobile ride."-Detroit Free Press
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-04
Unique In Politics.
Brooklyn Eagle.

Once there was a man who was a great
taIker He was always at it. His tongue
wagged, whether wisdom or folly was the
product. AS II was always in operation,
Sometimes wit and sometimes wisdom fell
from it. but generally II was the contrary.
Then this man died That is, his heart
ceased to beat and his brain to think. but
the strange thing that his tongue went
on in the old way. It had never found out
physicians had declared the man could be
safely buried II was yet talking. Now, the
last thing the brain of this man had been
engaged with before he died was a vitupera-
tive railing against the existing condition
Of things in the political party he was sup
posed to be affiliated with and the tongue
after death continued in the same strain.
The last thing heard minglirg with the thud
Of the sods was the platforms Of 1886 and
1900
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-12-04

would be easily explainable that the in
direct method had been adopted because
of the doubt of the constitutonalty of
the direct method and that vote for the
earlier date would be a vote for license
local option and a vote for the later date
a vote against it. We have pretty distinct
recollection of the referendum on the
original prohibtory law, so-called No
one then doubted that II the later date
had carried the day the prohibitory bill
would have been repealed before 1t could
take effect. And we do not now believe
that the Legislature of 1904 would dare to
refuse to obey the popular decision, OBJ
tanned by decisive vote, after ample
time for consideration and ample dis
cussion by the people. We may be mis-
taken on this point; but we believe that
the majority of the voters which could
carry the later date, could elect Senate
and House which would obey the ex-
pressed will of the people.
There are, in our humble opinion, more
important objections to the majority
license local option bill, in its present
shape, than the provision for an indirect
referendum The attempt to carry the
measure by a snap judgment, taken al
an unfavorable season, and without the
opportunity for the thorough discussion
and mature deliberation" demanded by
the republican platform, is simply out
rageous. We do not see how fair-minded
men. of whatever belief on the main
question of license or prohibition, car
consent to aid such an attempt to defeat
full and fair vote on the referendum.
| The clause giving the selection OF
license commissioners to the selectmen
and boards of aldermen, is. as we have
heretofore argued, a very bad one. II
insisted on it will give us rotten, rum
politics in the local elections all over the
State and will give the cities boards OF
aldermen, like those of New York and
other cities, composed chiefly of saloon
keepers.
The proposed division of the money
from license fees adopted by the House,
is of course, as has been amply shown
| by both friends and opponents Of loca
option, utterly unjust.
| The number of saloons, bars and place,
for the sale of intoxicants that will BE-
established under the proposed law. Il
it takes effect in its present shape, will
We think alarm all good citizens not in
terested in the liquor traffic, in the town:
and cities which so for license; but tina
point it is probably useless for us t.
argue.
Our legislators return to Montpelier
refreshed as we trust, by their vacation
and having perhaps, learned something
by consultation with their constituents
and VIC have some hope that they will
give a fresh and thorough overhaulin,
to the license bill, and permit it to so tC
the people, since go it must. in the bes
shape and under the fairest condition
possible.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-12-04
LIST OF LIQUOR AGENTS.

Montpelier, Dec. IL. II. Brooks of this
city, the new county commissioner, has
appointed the following liquor agents
Montpelier. II. b. Wedge; Barre city. the
Rev h. w. Comings; Graniteville, Nj, A.
Corbett; Waterbury, w. V. Bryan; Plain
field. Levi NJ. Johnson; Marshheld, c. +,
Shepard Mortified, w. $. Fisher. The
Middesex, Roxbury and Warren agen-
cies have been closed. The appointments
for Montpelier and Barre city are only
until March ! next II "A license law goes
into effect at that time 1t IL practically
certain these two cities will vote for
license and If SO the agencies would be
abolished The Montpelier agency pays
its agent 500 per month and does II bust
ness of over 500 week. with the eX-
ception of Mr. Bryan of Waterbury the
old agents are reappointed
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-12-04
The Referendum Bill.

About the only material difference be-
tween the House bill and the measure as
1t passed the Senate is that the Senate
amended the bill reported SO as to allow
the State one-half of the license fees
whereas the House bill leaves the States
ported by the committee. A summary of
the bill follows:
Intoxicating liquors are defined as any
beverage containing more than one per
cent. of alcohol.
be held on the first Tuesday In March,
1908 and annually thereafter shall con
tain this article, Shall licenses be grant
In this town?'
The selectmen OF town voting for H.
cense shall, upon the application of six
voters call a special town meeting to
determine whether the license shall be
for the sale of liquors of all kinds or for
malt liquors only.
The secretary of state shall annually
furnish town clerks blank ballots for
use IN voting on the question, and the
box for the reception Of such ballots shall
be opened when the meeting is called
and closed at three o'clock.
Selectmen shall appoint II board Of three
license committees to serve two, four
and six years. Their compensation shall
not exceed 81 per day for time actually
expended
Notices of applications for licenses shall
be published In two newspapers and a
public hearing appointed.
Licenses shall not be granted to per-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-12-04
Was Ii a Mistaken Course :?

While we respect the opinions of the
earnest friends of temperance in the min
GRITTY of the committee and in the Legis-
lature though we may not fully agree
with them. and do not doubt their con-
scentous desire to do their full duty as
they see it, 1t seems to us that they made
a mistake i'll wasting, in an effort TO pass
the Battell bill, strength which might have
been better applied in other directions.
The Battell bill developed more strength
than we supposed possible; but from first
&c last il stood no chance of final passage.
The State dispensary system is too little
understood by the people, too untried, and
its practical beneficial operation, in the
only State that is trying it, too much
disputed, to permit any popular demand
for it, and the Senate would reject it If
the House had passed it. The principle
embodied in it, of attempting to eliminate
the element of private avarice and gain
from the liquor traffic, by combining It tc
state agency, is an attractive one, and
after the evils of relaxing the present re-
strctions on the liquor traffic, through
|
in some future year the State dispensary
system may he taken up and tried as ar
alternative. At present it is out of The
question.
Had the minority in the temperance
committee relinquished the effort to pass
the Battel bill and abandoned the i'm.
possible for the possible, they might per
| haps have secured important amend
rnents TO the license bill: and also i'm
portant amendments to the present la W
which would permit each to go to the PEG
pie in its best shape to secure support anC
with time enough for mature delibera
ton. The passage of the Ross bill nigh
perhaps have been made an indispensable,
condition to the passage of the licens
bill, and some of the unjust and unwis
features of the latter been stricken on
Of it.
The Battel bill being now disposed of
for the present session, it may still b.
mutual, concessions be possible to secur
these most desirable results and if an!
mistake has been made, to repair its wors
Consequences If half a temperance loa
can he secured it will be better than N
bread
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-12-04
The Referendum and the Duty OF the
Legislature.

In communication to this paper. print
ed last Saturday. Hon. Horace w. Bailey
Of Newbury, the bic leader of the
minority who favor the direct referendum,
expressed the opinion that if the FREE
PRESS had earlier expressed itself as be-
lieving that the courts would not be likely
to invalidatc the direct referendum, the
latter measure could have been carried in
the House. We appreciate the compliment
to the standing of the FREE PRESS and
the influence Gifts opinions. thus expressed.
1t is more than we should be disposed to
claim for ourselves in the way of influ-
ence at Montpelier at this time. As a
considerable proportion of the members
OF the Legislature were elected against
the earnest opposition Of this paper, and
as they have been much encouraged by
certain papers to believe that they were
all sufficient unto themselves In wisdom
and virtue. and have been much urged TO
disregard all outside counsel, except of
course such as might come from the
saloon organs, we have supposed that
any advice or opinion from this quarter
might not only be unwelcome to many
members but might to some extent tend
to arouse stronger opposition to the meas
ures favored by US, than would other
wise be tho case. For this reason we
have been somewhat chary in rendering
advice to the members. This paper has
TO be edited by its editors, and not by
self-appointed censors,-among whom we
do not include Mr.. Bailey; and the edi-
tors have to determine not only what
measures to advocate but also the times
and seasons when advocacy Of particular
measures may be Of most effect. Our
article of the 22d ult., to which Mr. Bailey
refers, was written and in type before
the vote was taken In the House the
referendum. Had we supposed that that
vote would come as soon. and with as lit
tie discussion as was the case, our opin-
ion would have been earlier expressed
SO much by way of explanation.
However we do not attach the supreme
consequence to the form OF referendum
that some do. We should prefer the d.
rect referendum; but with due and de-
cent timo given for popular discussion
and information, before the popular vote
rs taken, we believe that the less direct
method Of ascertaning the wishes Of the