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May 2 6m
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Will keep coualanlly ou hand a Seleo* Slock *1
BOOTS and SHOES
im nnrau in urn
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pestly eolloRad.
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July •« lj
ftaWEBELT®^
^fvW Things SS-%
r PC \
foror
A sensible young lady, who is not suf
fering her sisters, so much thus for poetizes suffrage her as wauts, some of
1 1%:'Zd "’°' lg '“
«lei butW’vbsought
W T.rr ^*1 to ioMMLUindayi" ;*”,'l'“ 4 ‘ ‘
m V
to bate a hundred fan# < o i
n am very
W to worried is to hear me «Mgh, J *
But I. veu to hear ,} • . 0 J I •/.
Who always laktti my rubb-tn off!
Ab! that I*W» ,
A rPAHK who fcindlea by degfeev,
Until 1 see him drop
To pop the question on his knees,
Then fly io question Pop.” . d >7/
T hr Lcgt’iMl ol tile t apifoline
BY MARfc TWAIN?
•chaj^: i i
u i.
[Seem*—-An Artist's Studio in Rome.]
1 Oh, George I do lovey nt!’
‘ Bless your dear heart, Mary, I know
that—why is your father so .obdurate V
* Gtebrg#. h¥ ^vllqJbut art is
folly to him—he only understands gro¬
ceries. He thinks you would starve
me.’ tj III*
* Confound his wisdom—it savors of
inspiration. Why am not I a money¬
making, bowelless grocer, instead of a
divinely-gifted sculptor with nothing to
eat ?'
1 Do not (fezpond, George, dear—all
hi. prejudices will fade away a, soon as
jonaha^ have,,^ ,red mt^w^
Fifty arrears thousand demops board!' I Uhild, L
am in for my
CIIAPTER II#
[Scene —A Dwelling in ^ Rome.]
* < * e * r ^* r ’ ^ U8e ^ e ** to ta ^* *
havn’t anything against^ou^>ut of I^ipit,
let my daughter tharry a h.ah love,
art and starvat.on-I believe you have
nothing else to offer. ^ U hvfe
I,grant ■*
Sir, I am pogr, you. But is
^ l, " c p< dbing , The Hon. Bellamy Foo
M America IS a TT1. V6I piece OT SCUl
and will „ h ? he is famous. sa ^W Htone d »y
name
ass know about it ? lame soothing
the market price of your marble scare
is the thinjr loaJyM.^ Tock you
mJtftWlo chftei re and you can’t sell
it for a hundred dollars. No, sir! show
me fifty thousand dollars and you can
have my daughter—otherwise she mar
riea young Sirope^ v Yoq have just six
months to raise the money in. Good
morning, tir.'-l A M •>
Alas ! Woe is me t *
ii r _
• chapter hi. /;(){(
VI
‘ Johq, friend of my boyhood, I am
un happiest of men.’
‘ You’re an ass!’
*1 have nothing left to iov$ but my
pour statue—and see, even she has po
sympathy for me la her .cold marble
countenance—so beautifh! and heart¬
less?*
* You’re a fool.’
1 0, JfflMlV tiffM AJ#I
4 Oh, fudge. Didn’t you say you had
six months to raise the money in V
4 Dont deride my agony, John. If I
had six centuries what good would it
do ? How could it help a poor wretch
without name, capital or friends
4 Idiot! Coward ! Baby ! Six months
to raise the money in—and five will do ’
4 Are you insane?’
4 Six months—an abundaneq. Leave
it to me. I’ll raise it.*
4 What do you mean, John ? Howmi
earth can you raise such a monstrous
•uni lur me Y
» W ill you let that be my business,
U nd not med (e Will you leave the
thing in my hands; will you swear to
submit to whatever l do will you
p I edge me to fiud no fault with iny ac
t * 0D ^
Sparta, Ga., May 5, 1870.
‘I am dizzy — bewildered — but I
swoar
John took up a hammer and deliber
ssSst; s
gers fell to the floor—another, and a
f OW 0 f toes were mangled and dismem
bered the _ ark)[hcri aod the left jjjj, from
kn|,p down . 'ay » fragmentary ruin.
John put on his coat and departed.
George gazed speechless upon the
battered and grotesque nightmare be
fore him for the space of thirty seconds,
And then wilted to the floor, and went
into convulsions.
'
John returned presently with ,
a caf
riage, got the broken hearted artist and
the broken-legged statue aboard, and
drove off’, whistling low and tranquilly.
He left the artist at his lodgings, and
drove off and disappeared down the Via,
Quirivale with the statue.
| CHHPTER IV.
-**’*“- * [Sccn^Tkc’&udio.y:
‘ The six months /.will be up at two
A’rlock to-day. My lift* is blighted. I
would that I were dead. I had no sup¬
per yesterday. I had no breakfast to¬
day. I dare not enter the eating-house.
And hungry !—don’t, mention it. My
bootmaker duns me to death ; my tailor
duns me ; my landlord liauuts me, I am
miserable. I havn*t seen John sitice
that awful day. She smiles on me ten¬
derly when we meet in the great thor¬
oughfares, but her old flint of a father
makes her look in the other direction in
short order. Now who is knocking at
th, ‘ do » r J Who is come to persecute
, " e H T *“* •»»>'gna"t villain, the boot
,
. ^ happiness attend yoUr higlll , e8s .
i ffiiVe lettven br be ht Prop>t>^» to your b grace, Ah I
" u 8 n V nFW 0<,ts -. -
say notping about the pay .; there i is no
hurry, none in the world. Shall be
proud if my noble lord will continue to
honor me wr h his custom. Ah, adieu.’
j « Bought fhe booW himself. Don’t
want hia pay . Tak^^ve with a
boW an(] „ scrap(! t0 ho|lor ma j esty
.Desires a contiuuatice of my
custom. I« the world cooling to an end.
Of alf- the— conc*v.r ■'
y0Ur ‘ ^ ^ i t but 1 hare brou * ht
nPW gu -
'
i c« w »r
* A.-tUop.8an4 jpfir<lonk for thi» intru
siop, your worship. But I haveprepar
ed the b^&fliiiul sVffte of rootns below
p ur y 0U —this wretched den is but ill
8uitm$-«=^* *i*. wsn*mi fi— nfl W
'Gome ini' - .*,,. • - ^ ^ •.
4l have called to say ^ that your credit
at our bank, sometime since unfortu
mttely interrupted, is entirely and most
satisluctorily restored, and Wc shall be
m°S^ ha^py if*J9R dfi*w upon us
for any
—* Come in P H.i
‘ My noble boy, she is yours ! She’ll
be here in a moment. Take her—mar¬
ry her—love her—be happy ! God bless
you both. Hip, hip, hur
* Come in P
i * Oh, George, my own darling, we are
idaved V
* Oh, Mary, my own darling, we are
saved—but I’ll swear I don’t know why!
[Scene —A Roman Cafe.]
One of a group of American gentle
men reads and translates from the week
ty edition of VI Shanawhanger di Roma
a s follows:
Wonderful Discovery !— £ome six
months ago Signor John Smitthe, an
American gentleman now some years a
resident of Rome, purchased for a trifle
a 8ma ji p j eC( , 0 f ground in the Capagna,
| ug t beyond the tomb of the Scipio farn
ily, from the owner, a bankrupt relative
Q f the Princess Borghese. Mr. Smitthe
afterwards went to the Minister of Pub
Rc Records and had the piece of ground
trnasferred to a poor American ariist
named George Arnold, explaining that
he did it as payment and satisfaction for
pecuniary damage done by him long
siheeupon property belonging to Signor
Arnold, and further observed that he
WO uld make additional satisfaction by
improving the ground for Signor Arnold
at his own charge and cost. Four weeks
ago, while making some necessary ex¬
cavations u: on the property. Signor
Smitthe unearthed the moat remarkable
ancient statubthat has ever been added
to the opulent art treasure of Rome. It
was an exquisite figure of a woman, and
though sadly stained by the soil and the
mould of ages, no eye could look un
moved upon its ravishing beauty. The
nose, the left leg from the knee down,
an ear, and also the toes of the right
foot and two fingers of one of the hands,
were gone, but otherwise the noble fig¬
ure was in a remarkable state of
vation. The government at once took
military possession of the statue, and ap¬
pointed a commission of art critics, an¬
tiquaries and cardinal princess of the
church to assess its value and determine
the remuneration that must go to the
owner of the ground In which it was
found. The whole affair was kept a
profound secret until last night. In the
meantime the c emission sat with clos¬
ed doors, and deliberated. Last night
they decided unanimously that the sta¬
tue is a Venus, and the work of some
unknown but sublimely gifted artist of
the third century before Christ. They
consider it the most faultless work of
art that the world has any knowledge of.
At midnight they held a fr at confer¬
ence and decided that the Venus was
worth the eiiormous sum of ten million
francs ! lu accordance with the Roman
law and Roman usage, the Government
being half owner in all works of art
found in the )Campagna, the State has
naught to do but to pay five million
francs to Mr. Arnold and take perm .
nent possession of the beautiful statue.
This morning the Venus will be remov¬
ed to tbe Capitol, there to remain, and
at Uoon the commission will wait upon
Signor Arnold with His Holiness the
Pope’s order upon the treasury for the
princely sum of five million francs in
gold.
Chorus of Voices—** Luck ! It’s no
name for it!
Another Voice Gentlemen, t I . ,
U —‘ pro
pose that we immediately form an Amer
ican joint stock company fat th* k' orr
chase of statues
t cdtfaecHon. in Wall
'and bear the stock.’
' All —* Agreed.’
CHAPTER V.
[Scene —The Roman Capital.]
. * Dearest Mary, this is the moat cele¬
brated statue in the world. This is the
renowned Capttoltne Venus you Have
heard so much about. Here she is, with
her little blemishes * restored’ (that is,
patched) by the inoat noted Roman ar
tists-and the mere fact that they did
the humble patching of so noble a cre
ation will make their names illustrious
while the world stands. How strange
it seems—this place ! The day before
I last stood here, ten happy years ago,
I wasn’t a millionaire—bless your soul,
I hadn’t a cent. And yet I had a good
deal to do with making Rome mistress
of this grandest work of art the world
conta’ns.*
* The worshipped, the illustrious Cap
itolinc Venus—and how much she is
valued at! Ten million of francs!
* Yes —now she is.’
* And oh, Georgy, how divinely beau¬
tiful she is.*
‘Ah, yes—but nothing to what she
was before that blessed John Smith
broke her leg and battered her nose.
Ingenious Smith—gifted Smith—noble
Smith! Author of all our bliss. Hark!
Do yon know what that wheeze means ?
Mary, that brat has got I he whooping
cough. Will you never learn to take
care of the children !*
the end.
The Capiloline Venus is still in the
Capitol at Rome, and is still the most
charming a?d most illustrious work of
ancient art the world can boast of. But
if ever it shall be your fortune to stand
before it, and go into the customary ec
stucies over it, dou’t permit ibis true
aud secret history of its origin to mar
'! <uT
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i
a y
your bliss; and when you read about
gigantic petrified men being dug up near
Syracuse, in the State of New York,
keep your own counsel—and if the Bar
num that buried them there offers to
sell to you at an enormous sum, don’t
you bny. Send him to tbe Pope.
Jeff. Davis’ Seat .— 1 The Courier
Journal settles a mooted question as fol¬
lows :
it is A true, correspondent Radical in Mississippi asks if
as some papers have
asserted, that the negro Revels occupies
Mr. Davis’ old seat in the Senate. No ;
it is not true. There was an effort made
to se ure it for him, but it failed. It
was intended that the history of the
times should record as ‘ the grandest
providence of the nineteenth century,’
that the bumble negro, Hiram Revels,
occupied in the United States Senate
the seat in which once sat the arch trai¬
tor Jefferson Davis. And in order to
bring it about, Sumner, Wilson and a
half dozen other nego Worshippers ap¬
proached Senator Ross, of Kansas, and
said to him :
‘ Arise, exchange seats with the man
and brother, Revels, that history may
tell, to the perpetual confusion of South¬
ern chivalry, that a despised negro oc¬
cupies the seat of the traitor Jeff Davis.’
Mr. Ross looked up from the sheet of
paper upon which he was writing..
* So this,’ said he, * is the seat in which
Davis used to sit ?’
‘ Yes,’ replied Sumner, ‘.it is.’
* And you and the negro you’ve got
here want me to get out of it and let
the negro into it, do you ?'
‘ We do,’ answered Sumner.
* Then,’ said Ross, taking up his pen,
‘ I’ve only to say that I’ll see you and
the negro damned first.’
And thus it came to pass that the
cal ‘ grand providence’ for which the Radi¬
muse of history stood waiting, failed
to take place.
Mark Twain as an AdRictfLTt/RlsT —
This renowned humorist is to appear in
a new role. He will edit an agricultu
ral ning department the In The Galaxy, begin
with May number. The fol
P. lowing Church, extract frotn his letter to Mr. F.
position, will‘serve accepting that responsible
to shovv that he is
recklessly I at home In farming ohoW matters ;
“ have not made this a lin P~
h flza rd. After capful survey of the
ground, t saw that the subject of agri
*u # <tn'e‘had been wholly dverlooked by
the m »gazmes of the day as a sensation
*°r ?' tor "®’ to a do , nd that *" eh " t was and
us was to enter in seize
this rich opportunity. Fortune is se
cured to us. Nothingcan preventsuch
a consummation, In this virgin soil, I
will insert a reaping hook that^sjjall
‘ lossom like the rose ; upon this sailless
desert in this I deep will launch mine a of triumphantiWrgef vvjli
affluence I
plant a sturdy tree of prosperity whose
fragrance shall slake the hunger of the
naked, ahd whose sheltering branched
•hall atretch abroad until they wash the
shores of the remotest lands of the earth,
“ (I never can touch the subject of
agriculture without getting excited.
But you understand what I mean.) On
der the head of ‘ MemoradaJI shall take
hold of this neglected topic, and by
means of a series of farming and g azing
articles of blood-curdling interest will
proceed to lift the subject of agriculture
into the first rank of literary respecta¬
bility.
* Herewith please find my manuscript
for your May number. Mark Twain.
“ P. S.—I have no practical knowl¬
edge of agriculture, but that need not
interfere. You may have noticed that
the less I know about a subject the more
confidence I have, and the more new
light I throw on it.’
Root, Hog or Dir — The New York
Times, a Radical newspaper, hints pret¬
ty stronger, in the following, that the
government is about to cut loose from
its wards.
During the past four years no little
harm has been done to the freedmen by
teaching them to rely tti the govern¬
ment for complete support. This, in¬
deed, was never done by government
officers, who always urged on the *reed
men the necessity of making contracts
with employers for service or labor; but
each year’s rumors tliac 4 next Christ¬
mas’ some agrarian law of Congress
would give everybody a farm, have had
a hurtiul effect. It should now be plain¬
ly understood that, with the perfect ex¬
altation of the freedmen to citizenship,
they share not only the common rights
but the common responsibilities.,
How to find happiness—look in a
dictionary.
Terms Three Dollars.
(
Grant on Amnesty. —The Herald’*
Washington correspondent has inter¬
viewed the President about the prom¬
ised amnesty proclamation, and asked
him whether he intended to issue it«
The President smiled good-humorf^ly
and replied :
No', sir; I don’t intend tc issue an
amnesty decessor, proclamation at all. My pre¬
President Johnson, exhausted
that pretty thoroughly, (s , iling,') but
it is quite true that I did some time ago
contemplate sending to Congress a spe¬
cial message recommending the remove!
of all disabilities. I thought that a fit¬
ting occasion for a message of the kind
would be the restoration of Texas and
the other States to the Union, believing
that it would have the effect to promote
general good feeling and harmony
throughout the South ; but since then
there have been complaints of so many
outrages in the South, and requests for
military interposition, jn some of the
States—like Tennesse and North Caro¬
lina- -that I have reconsidered my reso¬
lution. I have come to the conclusion
that so long as the state of society in
those districts is such as to cal! for mil¬
itary aid to preserve order it would be
useless to recommend to Congress the
removal of disabilities. For the pre- *
sent therefore I cannot send the message
to Congress ’
I am informed that the President’s
message was a brief but statesmanlike
document, urging Congress to remove
by proper enactment all disabilities im¬
posed by the fourteenth amendment,
upon one simple condition, to-wit: the
appearance of all applicants in open
court and announcement of their des'ire.
It will be seen by this that the disor¬
derly classes of the South, who have re¬
cently given rise to so much cause of
complaint for. have a great deal to answer
Had they kept quiet and behaved
themselves with ordinary decency and
respect lor law, by this time the whole
South might have been in the enjoy¬
ment of all the rights and privileges pos¬
sessed before the rebellion.
Cupfsk and the Radicas.— The Su¬
vannah Republican says :
The Atlanta Constitution asserted am
day last week that Mrs. Bullock
tertained at the Governor residence * u
newly mari ieA m-gro it back couple with a fine
*'»pp er * in its next ie*
8Ue Era 08 a Whereupon the Nevr
8ays :
‘ This paragraph-will, ofcoursebe
dustriously copied by the Oppositiow
press all over the State. We will now
se which f.«;hethcr the Constitution they will copy made the in tetraiHt, itseve
ning edition of the same day,*
To which the Columbus Enquirer
apfly replies : * We did not copy thtf
paragraph, rectldri to make. and therefore But the have no cor
New Era to have the anxiety clrctH of th*
coriectlon
puzzles-us. • Does it* mean Ito sa/1
that a Radical official, owing his office
to negro v.oles, feels outraged or indig
u«ut at a report that a negro couple had
be en entertained at his house f Is this
the measure of Radical gratitude for th«
services By in claiming of the negro—o* Radical siacer**
of Radical equality for for the negfe—« ’
olosion from respect a race whose el¬
office is made the pretext
f° r remanding Georgia to a provisional
military government.’
The Negro Vote in Indiana.—T b«
Evansville, Indiana, Courier says*
The result of the city election is t!f«
greatest in this victory ever achieved by htlY
party Democratic city. It was a/triumph of
and Conservative men com¬
bined against the negro Vote and the
Radicals. We are proud to count among
the friends of conservatism many ola
time Republicans who had always voted
against the Democratic party, but when
it was proclaimed that the negroes of
the city could vote they could stand it
no longer -it was the last feather that
broke the camel’s back, and they have
severed their connection with the old
party with which they acted so long.
---»
Fatiier-in-Law Dent—A Washing¬
ton letter says; ®
.
There was quite a gathering in the
ante-room of the White House tthefl
the fifteenth amendment proclamation
was signed, half the number, however,
being newspaper men. An attacheeof
a President Washington newspaper begged the
for the pen with which the
document was signed, and it was hand¬
ed him A venerable old gentleman
who was in the crowd, cried out when
the announcement was made that the
negroes could now vote everywhere i
‘ W«N, gentlemen, you’ll all be damn
0 1 sorry for this !’
The speaker was Dent, i^r., the fa
the.-in-law of the President