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\ 0L. XIX.
NO. 239
Aiiis! how everythi ng has changed
,'inoc I was saeet sixteen,
Vliea all the girls wore homespun frocks,
And aprons nice and clean;
With o ':;ets made of braided straw,
Xha f tied beneath the chin,
An l fhawl laid neatly on the neck,
And lastened with a pin.
But now-a-days the ladies wear
French gio es and L-exhorn hats,
That take up half a yard of sky,
In all <jueer shapes and flats;
With gowns that do not fall so low
As such things ought to fall,
With waists that you migh : break in two,
They aro so very small.
1 recollect the time when I
Knde father’s horse to mill,
Across the meadow, rocks and field,
And up and down the hill;
And when our folks were out at work,
As true as I’m a sinner,
J jumped upon a horse, bare back,
And carried them their dinner.
Pear me 1 young ladies now-a-days
Would almost faint away,
To tlii k of riding all alone
In wagon, chaise or sleigh;
And as for giving “pa” his meals,
or helping ‘"ma” to bake,
Oh saints 1 ’twould spoil their lily hands
Though they sometimes make cake.
When winter came the maidens’ hearts
Began to beat and flutter,
Kacii Lie.u would take his sweetheart out
leigh riding in a cutter;
(>r if tile storm was bleak and cold,
Th° girls and beaux together
Would meet and have most glorious fun
And nevermind the weather.
But now, indeed, it grieves me much
The circumstance to mention,
H iwcvi-r kind a young man’s heart,
And houest his i iten;ion,
lie never can ask the girls to ride,
But such a war is waged !
And if he sees her once a week,
Why, surely, they’re engaged.
I never thought that I should try
My hand at making rhymes,
But ’tis the way to reprobate
The present evil times;
For ahuuld I preach morality
In common sober prose,
They’d say ’twas older than the hills,
(tr else turn up their nose.
The Island Prison.
A Pretty Historical Legend.
!V lieutenant mubbay.
There is a delightful little seaport town,
of some 10,000 inhabitants, situated in
the south of France, in the department
of the Maritime Alps, and on the shores
of that delightful and romantic inland
sea, the Mediterranean, known as Cannes.
It is an famous for its salubrity of climate
as Nice, from wh ch it is separated by a
few leagues only. Here the Empress of
linssia and her suite passed a portion of
last winter, and at this writing the fa
mous primtt donna Nilsson, is pluming
bet wings for fresh flights of song under
its sunny bkies.
Cannes approaches in its climate nearer
to the idea of never-ending summer than
any spot outside the tropics which we
have chanced to visit. Here, on the last
of January, one may see acres of orange
trees, like the garden of Hysperides,
heavy with golden fruit. The olive and
lig tree thrive, amid precious and fra
grant blos-soms, perennial in their love
liness : nor shouid we forget to mention
the lemon or the date tree, which grace
fully lift their fruitfnl branches over the
sweet undergrowth of primroses, violets
and daisies.
The town is situated in a sort of am-
pitheatre of hills reaching down to the
shore on either side, and leaving the
dwelling houses with an open view of the
blue Mediterranean. These hills are
covered with vineyards, prolific in their
season with the rich and luscious purple
grapes peculiar to this favored region.
Close about the town are large orchards
of cherry and pear trees, and broad scar
let beds of strawberries everywhere. The
olive and pomegranate grow in wild and
unrestrained luxuriance.
In its topographical aspects Cannes is a
6ort of miniature copy of Naples, and
owes much of its picturesque beauty to
the surrounding mountains and the clas
sic waters over which it looks. Looking
eastward one early morning, I watched
Hie sun rise out of the blue waters. The
eflect w as a revelation to behold, and only
comparable to the sunset in this beautifu
region.
At first a faint gray light on the hori-
z en, eastward, heralded the coming god,
"inch, as it increased in brightness, those
fi leep!ess sentinels of the night, the stars,
gradually faded phantom like away, and
then came up out of the waves the bril-
iant sun, too dazzling to look upon as it
jghted up the dewy morning and covered
the whole scene of mountain and valley
"ith wondrous beauty, like the smile of
the Great Spirit.
It will be remembered that Napoleon
‘anded hero in the spring of 1815, after
k ;ii escape from Elba, and again began
hts historic career.
Tying just off the mouth of the Bay of
Cannes, almost precisely as Capri stands
at the entrance of Naples,is the far famed
‘ ‘ aci ' °f Ste. Marguerite, where for near-
- lWfc niy years was incarcerated that
y-'terious prisoner,“The Man in the Iron
ask. and from whence so lately Mar-
8 tal Bazvine made his remarkable es
cape by the aid of his courageous young
vife.
pon the loftiest summit of this island
fro *ns the
<LriT,g the administration of Bichelieu,
here he was w* >nt to send such po-
famous citadel prison, built
lari
11 P
he desired to purticu-
■ isolate from the world. Here, too,
^ ore lately, were confined the Arab
C - I e»tains sent by the French govern-
^ e ht from Algeria. The American trav-
6itr between Marseilles and Nice is pretty
° Ur & to stop at Cannes, if only to obtain
'■tw of this historical island prison,
it is to relate to the reader a le-
^ ~ f l w hich we heard at Cannes, while
•siting the town last year, that we have
our Pen at this time, a legend rela-
g to that world-renowned and yet mys-
r ‘° is prisoner, “The Man in the Iron
who
close
was, after some eighteen
confinement the oitadel in
I
prison at Ste. Margarite, sent to the Bas-
tile for still greater security during the
reign of Louis XIV.
Many believe to this day that be was
the Duke of Vermadoise, a natural son
of the monarch just named. Some wri
ters assert that the prisoner was a young
foreign nobleman, the chamberlain of
Queen Ann, and the real father of Louis
XIV. Still another historian tries to
prove that the Iron Mask was a twin
brother of Louis XIV. Certain it is that
every means was taken to keep the ident
ity of the prisoner in the dark.
Among the other things still related
concerning the unknown prisoner is this:
The officer who continually attended him
in the daytime in the prison of Ste. Mar
guerite having absented himself for a few
moments, the prisoner hastily wrote sev
eral words upon one or the silver plates
upon which his dinner had been served,
with the point of his penknife, and threw
it from the solitary window of his cell
into the sea.
A poor fisherman, seeing it fall, secured
it and brought it to the commandant of
the fortress. He was at once eagerly
questioned as to his ability to read, and
having assured the officer in command
that be could not do so, he was allowed
to depart. A few days later, however,
his dead body was found floating in the
neighborhood of the island.
Monsieur de Bonpart was governor of
the citadel from about the period of time
when the Iron Mask was first incarcera
ted there. He had one child, a daughter
named Victorihe, then just emerging
from childhood to womanhood, and who
grew up with this mystery around her.
Taken from a convent near Paris to ac
company her father to his isolated home,
she was not without education and that
romantic spirit natural to her age and
sex.
Viotorine is represented to have been
extremely lovely in person, one of those
beautiful blondes the old masters loved
to paiut, with a length of hair that wonld
have rivaled that of Lady Godiva. It is
said that when she bathed it was so long
and abundant as to form a perfect cloak
or screen,entirely sufficient when flowing
unloosened about her to protect her from
prying curiosity.
Viclorine, when she came, temporarily
from the island to the mainland, was
known by the people as “La dame aux
beaux cheveux"—the lady with the bean
uful hair. But this charm was only one
of her attractions. The beauty of fea^
ture was extraordinary, and has been pre‘
served in a painting representing St. Ce^
celia, still exhibited in the one convent
church upon the island, and pointed out
to the visitor by the monks of St. Fran
cis, who are established here.
The beautiful daughter of the governor
had seen the graceful figure of the pris
oner promenading at night a upon terrace
of the fortress, and also at worship in the
chape), where he was forbidden to speak
or to uncover his face. When in a local
state of imprisonment he wore only a
black mask of silk, but when removed
from one place of confinement to another
ne wore that famons iron mask, so fas
tened that he could not by any possible
means remove it.
Victoriue de Bonpart observed that her
father always treated him with the great"
est respect, serving him bareheaded and
standing; tokens too significant to es
cape observation, particularly from 9he
who felt special interest. His table ser -
vice was of massive silver, and his dress
of the richest velvet. He also wore the
finest linen and most costly lace, after the
fashion of cavaliers of that period. She
had also accidentally beard her father
speak of him one day to his attendant as
the prince.”
No wonder that the sad fate of the
prisoner occupied so much of her
thoughts, isolated as she was from the
world upon that lonly prison island. No
wonder that this noble figure haunted her
dreams by night.
It was the natural result of such a com
bination of circumstances. The rules of
the fortress were of the most Btringent
character, and could not be disregarded
by even Victorine de Bonpart; therefore
she was, seemingly, as much separated
from the mysterious prisoner as though
he bad been hundreds of miles away.
True their eyes sometimes met in the
hour of service in the chapel. He sang
beautifully, and was a most skillful -per
former upon the guitar. This was almost
his sole amusement, for the books per
mitted him his in lonely cell,werefew,and
selected by others, who could not divine
his taste, or, if they knew it, would,
doubtles, have totally disregarded the
same. Constant practice had imparted
to him great musical skill.
At first Victorine, attracted by his per
formance, climbed the steep rocks that
formed the cliff side beneath the prison
window, and listened to his songs with
growing interest.
Weeks and months passed on until
finally, in the pause of his lonely per
formance, she broke forth into a low
sweet song for the captive’s ear.
That song was the first ray of hope
which had penetrated his prison walls for
years.
He was entranced, and now only lived
to listen for the return of those soothing
and inspiring notes from time to time,
when Victorine de Bonpart dared to ven
ture r.j>on the almost inaccessible cliff
side of the rocks.
Victorine was, at this time, but seven
teen years of age; just the period for ro
mantic attachment.
Months passed in this sentimental in
terchange of song, until each learned
how to intepret the other’s words and mu
sic.
This course of proceeding was, per
haps, not so entirely delicate on the
young girl’s part as any one could wish,
but the situation was such that she could
alone make any advances. The Iron
Mask was a prisoner, and in the closest
confinement.
This was Victorine’s excuse.
The very atmosphere of mystery which
surrounded the prisoner but added to the
young girl’s interest in his behalf, and
step by step she permitted herself to pro
gress in her tenderness for him, until
they bad been enabled by certain private
signals to communicate understanding^
with each other. The aotual means by
which so closely-guarded a prisoner was
enabled to do this we do not know, but
it is certain that it wa9 all-sufficient for
the purpose designed.
At last this young girl adopted the
boldest measures to prosecute her design
of meeting him whom she had now come
to love so dearly.
When locked np for the night the keys
of the prisoner’s cell were left with Mon
sieur de Bonpart himself, to make sure
of the safety of the Iron Mask; but it
was a needless precaution now, for love
which scorns looks and bolts, is also
stronger to retain than they are. The
prisoner, now that he loved his jailor’s
daughter, had no desire to escape, and
would not have left his island prison
without her if he could.
Victorine, seeing that the keys of the
prisoner’s cell were nightly deposited up
on her father’s private table, presently
managed to purloin .them.
Now commenced a series of stolen
nightly visits to the cell of the Iron Mask
—all the more franght with enjoyment
from the very danger which the two lov
ers encountered. Strange must have
been that prison courtship involving such
hazard! The young girl might have open
ed his prison doors and Bet the mysteri
ous captive free, but as we have shown,
he had no incentive to leave the spot with
out Viotorine, and she would not have
stolen away from a father she dearly
loved.
Strange to say, this intimacy lasted for
some months before it was discovered.
Victorine returning from her stolen
nightly visits to the prisoner, brought
the keys to deposit them in the nsual
place in the ante-room of her father’s
chamber. By chance she dropped them
upon the floor, which of course, made a
loud noise, for they were large and heavy,
and the governor, starting from a sound
sleep, sprang from his bed and rushed
into the ante-room.
His first thought was for the safety of
the Iron Mask, as he recognized the sound
made by the falling keys; but finding on
ly his daughter there, and the keys in
their place, the father was in a measure
reassured. The one hanging lamp of the
room made the fact plain to his eyes at
once.
“But why are you here, my child, at
this late hour of the night, and dressed?"
Victorine, who was all truthfulness,
could not lie to her father, and looked
abashed.
“Answer me, Victorine, why are you
here at this late hour?” continued the
governor.
“Father,” continued the culprit.
“Speak, my child.”
“The keys.”
“What of them?”
“I came to return them."
“To return them? What do you
mean?”
“I have been to his cell.”
“You have opened his door?” said the
father excitedly. “Has he escaped?”
“He is safely locked up,” she answer
ed.
“Do you mean that you have visited
the prisoner in his cell, Victorine?”
“Yes, my father.”
“Victorine,” continued the governor,
staggering backward, with emotion, “do
you tell me that you have visited and
conversed with the Iron Mask?
“Father, yes; not once, but many
times,” answered the truthful girl.
“And you know nothing of my oath?”
“Your oath?”
“Ay, Victorine. I have sworn to take
the,life of any person who has spoken to
the prisoner.”
Alas!” said Victorine, clasping her
bands.
“And why have you done this?”
“Father, I love him.”
“And he?”
“Also loves me.”
“Great Heaven, what a situation I am
in,” exclaimed Monsieur de Bonpart.
“You are sure hejis safely locked up?”
‘•Yes, father.”
“And the keys are here?” said he, ma
king sure of the fact.
“They are.”
“Go to thy chamber, child; give me
time to think. Stay—does any one else
know of these meetings?”
“No one.”
“You have had no assistance in regard
to these clandestine meetings?”
“None. ”
“To your chamber then, quickly. I
must think over this frightful dilemma,”
said the governor, as he retired to his
chamber, with the keys in his hand.
The discovery of his child’s treachery
struck the governor with the greatest dis
may. This oath,as he had said, was binding
upon him to put to death immediately
anyone who had spoken to the prisoner.
When he came face to face with Victorine
on the following day, she again confess
ed her love and pleaded piteously for her
life. The captive, also, to whom the
governor was much attached, joined his
pravers to h6rs, and implored that they
might be married, and the secret would
be safe.
The governor was not stern enough to
immolate his well beloved and beautiful
daughter, and perhaps a gleam of ambi
tion may possibly have flashed across his
mind, as, in the event of the death of
Louis XIV., the prisoner would perhaps
be acknowledged, and his daughter sit on
the throne of France.
No one can say bow far ambition led
the governor, or whether the love of his
child did not weigh quite as heavy in the
balance. Be that as it may, oertain it is
that the priest performed the nuptial
ceremony at the dead of night, and all
were sworn to seorecy.
So well were things managed that ftr
the space of twelve years—twelve happy
years to Victorine—this domestic relation
ship existed, and all was well in the isl
and prison. The government was satis
fied with the safe guardianship exercised
by de Bonpart. An annaal commission
of a private character reported in rela
tion to the safety of the Iron Mask, as he
was designated, for precaution’s sake,and
Viotorine and her husband were compar
atively happy—certainly entirely so as it
regarded their relations to each other.
From their union two children were
bom, both boys, possessing their moth
er’s beauty of face and their father’s dig
nity and grace of form. Had it uot been
for these beautiful children—the one now
eight, the other ten years of age—the
singular secret of that private wedding
might have been longer kept. But at
the time when the children had reached
the respective ages named, a whisper, a
fatal whisper, reached the French oourt
Victorine and her husband bad enjoy
ed a period of uninterrupted happiness
for about twelve years within the walls of
a citadel which crowns the lofty summit
of Ste. Marguerite,dating from the event
ful night when she dropped the prison
key upon the floor of her father’s room
How short those twelve years seemed to
them now as they looked back upon
them.
In those days oourt secrets were kept,
and history does uot even record with its
usual fidelity the events that followed
hard upon the discovery which we have
referred to; but enough is known toln^ke
a very sad and tragic ending to this brief
sketch.
There came to the island prison certain
high officers. The prisoner was summon
ed. The iron mask was placed upon his
features, and locked upon his head se
curely, after which be was removed, trav
eling by night, to Paris and incarcerated
in the Bastile.
De Bonpart disappeared as suddenly as
the poor fisherman lost his life because
he picked up the piece of silver plate up
on which the prisoner had written cer
tain disclosures with his penknife and
cast it into the sea.
The priest who performed the marriage
oeremony was never again heard of.
Victorine disappeared as summarily as
her father had done, no one knew how,
The two children were sent to Corsica,
to be brought up in obscurity, and their
identity is lost.
Snoh is the legend still told by the peo
pie of Cannes relating to the island pris
on of Ste. Marguerite.
To Pbevent Ibon fbom Rusting.—
Kerosene applied with a cloth to stoves
will keep them from rusting during the
summer. It is also an excellent material
to apply to all iron utensils used about a
farm.
Lick on Peab Tbees.—Sponge the
trees occasionally with a strong solution
of borax; about two heaping tablespoon
fuls of pulverized borax dissolved in boil
ing hot water. Use it when warm.
To Keep Piano-keys White.—Piano-
keys that have become yellow will lose
much of the color by leaving them open,
as keeping them closed too much is the
cause of their being .yellow.
To Remove Pbimbose Pith —Very
heavy wire or steel will be fonnd better
than wood for pushing out the pith of the
primrose, or everlasting shrub.
Moth-patohes on the Face.—Add
about one teaspoonful of pulverized bo
rax to a basin of water when washing the
face morning and evening; or a more
convenient way would be to keep a quan
tity already dissolved in a bottle of wa
ter, and pour it in the wash-basin as of
ten as needed. Twice a day is quite of
ten enough to use it, and the moth-patch
es should slowly disappear in about ten
days or two weeks.
Visiting the Sick.—Do not visit the
siok when you are fatigued, or when in a
state of perspiration, or with the stom
ach empty, for in such conditions you are
liable to take’the infection. When the
disease is very contagious, take the side
of the patient which is next the window.
When you come away, take some food,
change your clothing, and expose it to
the air.
Pea-nut Candy.—Boil one pint or less
of good molasses for 10 minutes; then
add a heaping tablespoouful of brown
sugar; let it boil until it hardens. Stir
the most of the time to prevent burning.
Test it by dropping a 6mall quantity into
a glass of cold water. If it becomes
hard and crisp remove it at once from the
fire. Have a square tin pie pan, well
buttered and filled to oveiflowing with
shelled nuts. Be sure to remove the in
ner red skin, as well as the shell. Pour
the scalding molasses very slowly all over
the top of the nuts, be careful not to over
run the pan; set aside to cool.
To Cube a Child’s Cold.—Try smo
king tar as directed in this paper a few
weeks ago for the relief of catarrh. In
hale the smoke from pine tar. Get a
pint or more of pure pine tar (not the
oil) from the ship chandler; heat a poker
red hot, and stir the tar with it. A thick
smoke will rise. Hold your head over it,
keep your mouth shut, aud inhale
through the nostrils. Heat the poker
three or four times, until the room is
filled with smoke; shut doors and win
dows, and remain in the room as long as
possible. In two weeks get fresh tar. It
is a good plan to smoke iu one’s bed-room
just before retiring; after smoking open
a window from the top; the smoke will
slowly escape, but enough remains to be
of some benefit. Use borax in the water
in which the child is bathed, as it will in
vigorate it.
—A minor chord—A short load of wood.
—A high-toned man—One shouting for
the police. J
—Counter revolution—A strike among
dry-goods clerks.
—Indians are not at all contagious.
They are very difficult to catch.
—A fall pippin,a coal stove and a news
paper are not bad things to sit up with.
—A brisk fall trade is not at all appre
ciated by the oysters.
—When a man is making love to a
widow he always feels as if he had to be-
begin where the other left off.
—A child thus defines gossip: “It’s
when nobody don’t do nothing,and some'
body goes and tells of it.”
—Josh Billings says the real hero is a
man who can make poverty' appear re
spectable.
—The man who went home with a
cloud ou his brow succeeded in raising a
storm iu his family.
—Labor beats capital when the Hatters’
Union makes a: man pay eight dollars for
a three dollar hat.
—Sitting Bull has been in good socie
ty for so long a time he ought to belong
to “The Improved Order of Red Men.”
—The new Spencer rifle—the rifle of
the Chicago Savings bank, by Spencer.
—The patient man waiteth for the re
turn of his umbrella; the wise man goes
aud buys another.
—Politeness costs nothing, but it is not
expected that you will wake a man up at
midnight to ask permission to go throuch
his hen house. It is more courteous to
let him enjoy his needed repose.
—“A soft answer turnelh away wrath,”
yet a man caught by his wife dealing soft
answers to a pretty widow next door says
he can show scars to prove that the prov
erb didn’t work well in his case.
—The only place heard from yet where
stovepipes are taken down and put up
without profanity is the deaf and dumb
asylum. But the victims keep up a ter
rible thinking, though, and writing ma
terials are carefully hidden for the time.
—“How much are those tearful bulbs
by the quart?” asked a maiden of a
tradesman the other morniug. He stared
at her a moment as if bewildered, but
soon recovered himself and bluffly said,
“O! them inyuns? Tenpence.”
The architect who discovers a plan
whereby a double house may be built so
that you can hear all that is said next
door without the people being able to
hear a word uttered on your side, will
have no reason to complain of stagnation
in business.
—A Bangor (Me.) man attended a camp
meeting, and on his return was telling of
the good time he enjoyed. A serious-
faced man^asked: “Were there any con
verts?” He stopped a moment, and said:
“Well, I swear I forgot to ask. But the
baked beans were bully, and the sailing
and rowing were divine, and there were
some of the handsomest girls there I ev-
saw. ”
—A resident who reached home by a
noon train, after an absence of two weeks
was met at the station by his eight-year
old son, who loudly welcomed him. “And
is everybody well, Willie?” asked the
father. “The wellest kind,” replied the
boy. “And nothing has happened?”
“Nothing at all. I've been good; Jen
nie’s been, and I never saw ma behave
herself so well as she has this time.”
Adrianople.
The city.is one handred and thirty-five
miles from Constantinople. It is about
five miles in circumference, surrounded
by old walls aud defended by a citadel.
Its streets are narrow and oircnlar, but
adorned with fountains and mosques, of
which there are about forty. It was tan
ken by the Turks from the Greek empe
rors in 1362, and made the seat of their
empire, which it continued to remain for
a great many years. It possesses manu
factories of silk, woolen, and cotton
stuffs. Rose-water and other perfumes
are made here, while the dyeing and tan-
oing establishments have quite a world"
wide fame. Its exports are wool, opium
(for the poppies here are the finest iu the
world), leather, honey and wax. The
population is about 100,000 of which one-
third is Greek. It is here that the Turk
ish difficulty lies. The Greeks are to a
mau with Russia, and in the event of the
civil war which has broken out iu sub-
Balkan Bulgaria reaohing Adrianople,one
third of Adriauople may, sword iu hand
welcome the Russians. The bazaar and
the mosque of Selim are the great at
tractions at Adrianople. The former is a
building about two hundred yards long
and offers for sale all the rich commodi
ties of the Fast. The mosque is built
like a theatre, and from the ruins of Fa
magusta, in Cyprus. Its principal balco
ny has an ascent of 377 steps. Adriano
ple was, it need not be said, one of the
great classic cities of ancient Rome, and
figures frequently iu Gibbon’s “Decline
and Fail of the Roman Empire.” It re
maiued practically the nearest approach
to an old Roman city until it fell under
the Turkish power in 1360. It remained
the favorite residence for the Saltans un
til the last century. Adrianople once
more awakened to political life in 1820,
about the time of the great successful
Greek struggle for independence and
freedoni from the thrall of the Turks. Iu
that year the city was taken by the Rue
sians, who had overrun Turkey thus far
south.—[Low Bells.
—An agent soliciting subscriptions to a
book, showed the prospectus to a man,
who after reading “One dollar in boards,
and one dollar and twenty-five cents in
sheep,” declined subscribing, as he might
uot have boards or sheep on baud when
called upon for payment.
In a Minute.
“It is twenty minutes of nine, Julia,
time for you to go to school,” said her
mother, as she passed quickly through
the room.
“Yes, mother, in a minute,” replied
Julia, and went on with her reading; it
was such an interesting story.
School-time!” called out the little
echo ou the doorsstep, but there was no
reply.
Pretty soon Jnlia looked op; five min
utes of nine! Oh, how could she get
there iu time? She raD down the street,
aud in her haste, stumbled aud fell, lam
ing her foot, and soiling her dress.
Flushed and breathless, she entered the
room just a little too late. The roll had
been called, and the black mark placed
against her name. Poor Julia! her sobs
and tears were unavailing.
That afternoon the teacher closed
school a little earlier than usual, ou ac
count of a shower coming up in the west;
Julia and Carrie Meliin stopped to finish
a game.
“You will get caught in the rain—you
had better make haste,” said one and
another.
“Yes; I’m coming in a minute,” said
Julia, as she went on playing.
But before she was half way home the
shower came, and she reached there crip
ping aud drenched with r«an. The result
was a severe cold, that settled iu her
ankle, and Bhe was absent from school
for over a week, and lost the medal for
having the most bad marks in spelling.
“I am the most unfortunate girl in the
world,” she sighed; “Polly dolly, come
here and tell me what is the reason.”
And the nnconscions little echo on the
door-step called back, “In a minute.”—
Early Dew.
KID GLOVES! KID GLOVES! I
Go to Blanohard & Hill’s to buy the
best Kid Gloves. They keep only Harris
Bros’ make. tf
Constantinople.
A glance at a map of Constantinople
will show the reader the general features
of the city. The old city, formerly By"
zantium, but now called Stamboul by the
Turks, is the part which existed in 1453,
when they captured the place. It is
nearly triangular, with the Saa of Mar
mora and the Golden Horn on two sides,
and the famous Seraglio Point at the an
gle where the two waters meet and are
joined by the Bosphorus—a narrow,
winding strait sixteen miles long, which
carries the waters of the Black Sea into
the Sea of Marmora and the Mediterra
nean. The entire city is surrounded by
the lofiy double wall built by the Greco"
Romans, wi h a deep fosse ou the land
side,which is now employed in the peace
ful cultivation of onions, tomatoes and
melons. The walls are still iu tolerable
preservation,and exceedingly picturesque,
although no longer of nse for defensive
purposes against the missiles of modern
warfare. They are festooned with ivy
and beautified by many massive crenela
ted and venerable towers, while it is
quite common to see houses surmounting
thenr'and turning the battlements into
windows, casements and lattioes being
inserted in the embrasures. At the south
western 8ngle of the walls is the fortress
called the Yedee Kouliler, or Seven Tow
ers. This has been often used as a dun
geon for prisoners of state, into which
the foreign ambassadors were formerly
thrown upon the breaking out of hostili
ties, under the guard of a strong garrison,
which is always maintained there.
The Seraglio Point was, until within a
few years, the site of one of the most fa
mous, romantic and beantifnl abodes of
royalty the world has seen. Command
ing from its airy and stately gold fretted
halls views of the Marmora, the Bospho
rus aud the Golden Horn, with the snow-
clad ranges of Mount Olympus and the
site of Brusa, the first capital of Turkey,
visible iu the dim distance, its marble
fountains ever spouting silver rain, its
gardens ever iu bloom, and the gilded
domes and minarets rising skyward
around it like the fairy fabrics of the land
of dreams, it was the central spot of the
finest combination of natural and artifi
cial scenery that the world has yet seen.
But the Seralgio was burned a few years
ago, with all its mysterious and romantio
associations. The point remains; the
gardens remain; but the palace is gone,
whither the Empire of which it was the
centre is going when Kismet pronounces
its doom.—[Harper'8 Magazine.
A Mistake often Made.—Boys and
young men sometimes start out in life
with the idea that one’s success depends
on his sharpaess and chicanery. They
imagine, if a man is able always to “get
the beBt of a bargain,” no matter by
what deceit and meanness he carries his
point, that his prosperity cannot be found
ed on canning and dishonesty. The
tricky and deceitful man is sure to fall
victim, sooner or later, to the influences
which are forever working sgiinst him.
His house is built upon the sand, and its
foundation will be oertain to give way.
Young people cannot give these truths
too much weight. The future of the
young man is safe who eschews every
phase of double dealing and dishonesty,
and lays the foundation ot bis career in
the endnring principles of everlasting
troth.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
NEW SHOE STORE!
(Next Door Above Kyles’s.)
104 Broad Street.
W M. HE Y£E
B FGS teave to Inform the cl'fxens of Co
lumbus and adjacent country that ho Is
now opening at the above stand a mil l:ne of
Ladies’, Gentlemen’s and
Children’s
BOOTS & SHOES
of all late styles for fall and winter wear,which
will be offered at prices UNPK •! EDEN rtLI
LY LOW. These goods we>e purchased at a
heavy disooant FOR CASH, and hence can be
sold at astonishingly low prices
A large stock of custom work constantly on
hand, and ladles and gentlemen’s BOOTS and
SHOES made and repaired to order as u-nal.
My soook of PLANTER and LABORERS’
SHOES cannot be excelled, and extra Induce
ments will be offered tor their trade.
O tUNTRY MERCHANTS can replenish
their tto-kB at satisiao ory wholesale prices
MR. R. G. MIl.LER, late with Bedell A
W are, Is with me, and will be pleased to see
all of his old friends and patrons.
sep30 eod2w WM. MEYER.
“ ch:eiap“
BOOTS and SHOES
AT THE
NEW STORE!
Call and Examine Stock.
RAILROADS.
Mobile & Girard R. R.
iJ N
(;u_~ ■ * 5 k a « *s *
—wwr .: v \l to#
Columbus, Ga.* Oct. I, 1877.
Double Daily Passenger Train
M AKI^-G close connection at Union
springs with Mon gornery a o Eutaula
T atns to an tri m Euiau.a and Montgomery
an po nts beyond
This is he only line making close connection
at .Vlontg >mer> with a. <x N. aisbanu Train
tor the Northwest.
■4?
G ENTS’ FINE OLOTH
and GLOVE-TOP BUT
TON CONGRESS. Ladies’
FINE KID BUTTON,Ladles*
KID and PEBBLE FOX,
MIsshb’ and Child’s PROTECTION TOE.
For Country Merchants and Farmers.
Large StoJk of
BROOAN8,
PLOW SHOES,
KIP and CALF ROOTS,
WOMEN’S POLKAS
and CALF NHOES,
Cheap FOX A CLOTH OA1TEKS,
Child’s COPPER-TIP SHOES,
AH bought with the cash, and shall be sold
at BOTTOM EUIOES !
T. J. HINES,
(At the Old Stand of Bedell 11 Ware),
seps VAm No. 148 Broad St.
NEW SHOES
-AT—
The Old Shoe Store.
FALL and WINTER STOCK
Just Received!
NEW AND ATTRACTIVE STYLES
IS
Gents’ Shoes,
Brown CM-Toj Betti Coiress,
“FIFTH AVENUE” CONGRESS,
And all other Styles, in Hand and Machine
Sewed, and Fine Pegged Work.
Ladies & Misses’ Fine Shoes,
Kid and Pebble Button Side Lace
FO
JE3
AND
O WORK!
A large lot of Ladles’ KID FOXED BUT
TON SHOES—Very Stylish—at 02.25 to «3.
The best Misses’ PROTECTION-i OE
SCHOOLBHOEs ever offered in this market.
An extra large stook of
BROGAN M,
PLOW SHOES.
KIP BOOTS,
WOMEN’S PLOW SHOES, Ac.,
for Farmers. Our stock ior the WHOLE
SALE TRADE is being dally received, and
in quantity, quality and prices Is unsurpassed
In the city. Wo invite the attention of Coun
try Merchants.
AST For anything you want in the Shoe and
Leather Line, at bottom prloes, call at
No. 73 Broad Street,
(Sign of the Big Boot.)
WELLS & CURTIS.
sep80 tf
Doctors.
JDK. C. E. ESTES.
Office Over Kbdt’s Drug Stork.
jw»iy
Lawyers.
• ALONZO A. DOZIER,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Office Over 120 Broad Street.
Practices in State and Federal Courts in
uoth Georgia and Alabama.
mhl8’T7 ly
rassengen.
get and
Mail Train
Fr't Train
e
& « P
vT
s>
Leave
Columbus
8:30 p M
Arrive
at Union Springs.
6:65 P M
12:25 A X
Eufaula
10:10 P M
6 OO A M
U
Montgomery ...
7:6o P M
0:45 A M
ki
Mobile
3 :13 A SI
6:00 P M
41
New Orleans....
9:110 A M
8:40 A M
(4
Nashville
7:50 P M
7:60 r M
Louisville
3:45 A M
3 46 A X
U
Cincinnati
8:10 A M
8:10 A M
U
St. Louis
. 4:00 PM
4:00 P M
Philadelphia....
6:60 P M
6 60 P M
U
New York
10:06 P M
10:06 p M
Arrive at’Union Springs.
2:40 A M
—
Leave Union Springs
3:10 A M
6.40 A M
Arrive at Columbus
l0:66 A M
“ Opelika 9:lo a m
“ Atlanta 2:20 p m
“ Macon 3:o8 p M
“ Savannah 7:16 a m
Passengers for Eutaula leaving Columbus
at 2 2o p m daily arrive in Eulaula at 10:10 p «:
daily (Sundays excepted). Leaving at 8:30 p m
daily (Saturdays excepted), arrive in Eutaula.
at 6:iio a m.
Through Coach with Sleeping Car accommo
dation on Mail Train betwe’en Columbus and
Montgomery.
U. L- CLARK,
Superintendent.
D. E. WILLIAMS,
General Ticket Agent. my9 tf
Central and
Southwestern
TjEojYfo * si
Railroads.
Savannah, Oa., March 8, 1877.
O N AND AFTbR SUNDAY, March
11, Passenger Trains on the Central auo
Southwestern Railroads and Branches will
run as iollows:
TRAIN NO. 1, GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leaves Savannah 0:20 a m
Leaves Augusta 0:16 a m
Arrives at Augusta 4:-*5 p m
Arrives at Macon 6:45 p w
Leaves Macon for Atlanta 9:10 p m
arrives at Atlanta 5:0- a m
Making close connections at Atlanta with
Western and Atlantlo Railroad lor all points
North.and West.
COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leaves Atlanta 10:4') r x
Arrives at Macon 6:46 a m
Leaves Macon 7:00 am
Arrives at Milledgeville 9:44 a m
Arrives at Eaton: on 11.30 a v
Arrives at Augusta 4 45 p M
Arrives at Savannah 4.00 p m
Leaves Augusta 9:15 an
Making connections at Augusta ior the
North and East, and at Savannah with the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad for ail points in
Florida.
TRAIN NO. 2, GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leaves Savannah 7:30 pm
Arrives at Augusta 6:0o a m
eaves Augusta 8:05 p m
Arrives at 'illedgeville 0:44 a m
Arrives at Katonion 11 30 a m
Arrives at Macou 8:00 a m
Leaves Macon for Atlanta 8:40 a m
Arrives at Atlanta 2:10 r m
Leaves lYlacun for Albany and Eu
taula 8:2 1 A M
Arrives at Eutaula 3:40 r M
Arrives at Albany A 2 to p m
Leav-s Macon for Columbus 9:8 ; a m
Arrives at Columbus 1:13 p m
Trains on this schedule for Macon, Atlanta,
Columbus, fufaula aud Albany daily, making
close connection at Atlanta with Western 8c
Atiantio and Atlanta A Richmond Air Lino.
At Eutaula with Montgomery and Eulaula
Railroad; at Columbus'with Western Rail
road of Alabama, and Mobile and Girard
Railroad.
Train on Blakely Extension Leaves Albany
Mondays,Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leaves Atlanta 1:40 p m
Arrives at Macon from Atlanta 6:65 p m
Leaves Albany Io:o0 a m
Leaves Eafaula 8:u6 p m
Arrives at Mao<m from Eufaula and
Albany 4:10 p m
Leaves Columbus 11:19 a m
Arrives at > aeon from Columbus.... 3:11 r m
Leaves Macon 7 35pm
Arrives at Augusta 6:0o a m
Leaves Augusta 8:05 p m
Arrives at Savannah 7:15 a m
Making connections at Savannah with At-
antic and Gulf Railroad for all points in Flor
ida.
Passengers for Milledgeville and Eatonton
will take train No. 2 from Savannah and train
No. 1 from Maeon, which trains connect daily
except Monday, lor these points.
WILLIAM ROGERS,
General Supt. Central Railroad, Savannah.
W. G. RAOUL,
Supt. Southwestern Railroad, Macon.
feb5 tf
CRABLEN 1KH.F.IS A N,
Attorney-at-Law.
Up stairs over C. E.Hochstrasser’s store.
[febll,’7T tf]
BENNETT H. CBAWFOBD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Office over Fraser’s Hardware Store.
Jal4’77 ly
REESE CRAWFORD. . J. M. M’NEILL.
CBAWFOBD A HcNIELL,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
128 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.
janl6,*7S ly
G. E. THONA8,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Office:
Over Hoohatrasser’s Store, Columbus, Georgia.
[jan»,76 lyj
Mykk H. Blandford. Louis F. Garrard
BLANJDFOBD dt KABBAHD,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law
Office No. 67 Broad street, ovtr Wittich a
Kinsel’s Jewelry Store.
Will practice In the State and Foderal Courts
80p4 ’76
Piano Tuning, &c.
E. W. BLAll,
Repairer and Tuner of Pianos, Organs ano
Accordeons. Sign Painting also done.
Orders may be left at J W Pease * Nor
m an’s Book Store.sep6,’T6
How to Choose a Good Cow. — A
crumply born is% good indication; a full
eye another. Her bead sbonld be small
and short. Avoid a Roman nose, which
indicates thin milk and little of it. See
that she is dished in the face—sunk be
tween the eyes. Notice that she is what
stock men call a good handler-skin soft
and loose, like the skin on a dog. Deep
from the loin to the udder, and a very
slim tail. A oow with these marks never
fails to be a good milker,
Watchmakers.
C. H. LEQCIN,
H alchmaker,
134 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.
Watches and Clocks repaired In the best
manner and warranted.jyl,’76
WESTERN RAILROAD
OF ALABAMA.
Columbus, Ga., Sept, 30, 1877.
Trains Leave Columbus
AS FOLLOWS
Southern Mail,
12:59 p.m.,arrives at Montgomery. 6:14 p m
Mobile 6:25 a m
New Orleans.11:26 a m
Selma 8:45 p u
Atlanta., 7:15 a x
Atlanta & Northern
Mail.
7:00 a. m., arrives at Atlanta 2:20 p x
Washington . 0:45 p x
Baltimore 11:80 p x
New York... 0:i5ah
ALSO BY THIS TRAIN
Arrive at Montgomery.... 4:36 r m
TRAINS ARRIVE AT COLUMBUS
From Montgomery and Southwest.. 1<>:55 a m
“ “ 6 25 p x
From Atlanta and Northwest 6:25 p x
DSf Tills Train, arriving at Columbus a*
5:25 P. M., leaves Atlanta at 9:30 a dj.
E. P. ALEXANDER,
President.
CHARLES PHILLIPS, Afient.
dec!8 tf
Tin and Coppersmiths.
WM. FEE,
Worker in Tin, Bluet Iron, Copper
Orders from abroad promptly attended to.
jyl,’7<! No. 174 Broad Street.
Joins Hoskins UNIVERSITY,
BALTIMORE.
The Programme of Studies for the year be
ginning Sept. IB, 1877, will be sent on appUoa
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