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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: AUGUST 21, 1877.
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X*lfo and Doath X&ystosy.
D •»r little baby girl,
Bright as an ocean pearl,
Happy and free!
Thon art a miracle 1
Why art oome ? Who can tell!
Glad mystery!
Lovely, angelic form—
Could not be meant for storm—
Must be for peace.
Thoughtful and charming ways—
To be lost In Death’s maze 1
Always to cease 1
Love and health brim thine eyes,
Pure ns the upper skies—
Why should I fe r!
Sweet bits of ehUdish song
And prattle, all day long—
Heaven seems near!
**«**• * *
Nay ! thou art strangely sick—
Cure must come, and be strange quick,
Or thou wilt die!
Oh. darling innocence 1
Why—why such pain intense *
While death is nigh !
Sunken and wasting form,
Prostrate and crushed by storm—
Will it not cease ?
Wild ways—delirious thought!
lxi! now she prays.'ns tunght,
“ I.oM, dim me peso
Dear iitile buby girl,
White as an ocean pear',
Silent and cold 1
Mystery—Mirrele—
Why art gone? Who ean te'..':
God has not told!
Athens, August 10th, 1377.
feel the sun, and if I listened very
hard 1 could hear the ripple-ripple of
the shallow water at every step that
Bobbery made, and it had a pleasant
stand, and trade a kind of company
feeling; but when hf was out of bear-
WE TWO.
ing, aud it. still kept rippling up
against our walls, the company feeling
went away and left me lonely, and
sometimes I thought the water hateful,
because it lay for so very long between
me and Bobbery.
Well, once I was sitting alone on
the window-sill, and the day was very
quiet—so quiet that I did not even
hear the rippling waves; and in the
quiet I grew frightened at last; and
in the quiet I stretched out my hands
across the sill to feel my way down.
I felt something that made me shiver,
and draw (tack out of the sunlight—
that made my whole dark life grow
i suddenly a 1 dutiful and precious
! thing-rl felt the water rippling almost
j up to the level of the sill, and I was
i quite alone, and Bobbery would never
j know.
1 did not call out or go mad with
: fright, as I thought at first 1 might
| do ; only I crept away, in my ever-
' lasting darkness, from the warm sun-
| shine, and sat down on the bed where
; Bobbery and I slept together, and put
j my hands over my ears, to shut out
j the roar of the waters.
| IIow long 1 sat there I don’t know,
but I think it must have been hours,
for I felt the sunlight slauting on my
face, and the water rushing round me
before I moved again. 1 was hungry,
too; but when 1 tried to get down and
reach the cupboard, the water took me
off my feet, aud I crept back to the
bed and on to the shelves of the dresser,
to be out of the way. I said my
prayers two or three times, and I said
some prayers fi<r Bobbery, too, for I
hold you. Here! port her helm, or J
something! Are you all right ?”
“It’s splendid,” I said; “come
along.”
But when Bobbery put his foot on
t° thejradmdy lilt, she wait dotru on
one tride - with ft plunge. “Jfever
mind,”die said; “ you’ve just got to convent!
push yourself ashore with this pole, as
straight as you can, and I’ll follow.”
“I swear to you, sir, I thought it
was true, or l never would have left
Bobbery. I took tfip pole he gave
me, and went out on the restless wa
ters, that I felt were blood-red where
the setting sun had touched them.
People on the opposite side cheered
arid cried and called me, and Bob
bery behind cried out once or twice,
“Ship ahoy!” i„ a shrill voice, that
I knew and loved better than any
thing on earth, and ondbl heard him
say, faintly—he sevincjpofaraway—
“ In port at last.”
At last!
1 he people on tin.- sltTire had ceased
j their shouts of excitement and en
couragement, the light had died ut
terly away.
In an awful silence,'■ and an awful
darkness, I jumped to land and held
out my two hands.
“ Bobbery ! Bobbery)” I cried, “ I
want to thank you.”
Did Bobbery hear, sir, d«» you
Shall They he Paid.
T1IB TKRASLIiBK UEMTATK* ABOUT PAVIXU
THK XKMHBKS AM FCBTHKK JWSKV.
W. '
A very intricate question has been
. stale treasury in resficcV
lent dtthe expels of tliJ ipr&rs ad
It- will he remembered
*• Fortune brines in -tome bnute t hat are not
steered.'’—CytiiMini-’.
It’s just a hit of a story, sir, that
don’t sound much to strangers, hut
I’d like to tell you aliout it, it you
have time to listen, for they’ve all
forgotten Bobbery down here, except
me: they’re poor folks. y>u see, and
things drifts out of folk's heads when
poverty drifts ill.
Bobbery? yes, sir, that was his
name—leastways the name ivc gave
him down here. As to a father or
mother, we never had any, I think;
never had anyone in the wide world
to belong to, except our two selves—
Bobbery and me. _1 was the eldest,! - --------- . ~
two years older than him ; hut then, I j U P to very sill, and the red sunset
was blind, you see. so ihe two years b’ in r il—and lieyoml, the pretty
didn't count for much, and Bobbery
got ahead of me after the time when
the long days of pain slipped into long
nights, and God shut me out o£aK»
world-'; not that-I grumble; sir— Ife
that in the act providing for the call
ing of the convention, the legislature
restricted the cpst of the convention
to $25,000, and appropriated that
sum with which to meet its expenses.
That sum has already been more
man cxnnimiu, win me irciwurur,
in the exercise of that caul ion due
the state and his bondsmen, has de
cided not to over-pay the amount
appropriated, until he is hacked by
competentHcgnl and official authori
ty. The po ; nt that caused him to
hesitate is this; Suppose he pays out
$25,000 more than was authorized
by the legislature, and the constitu
tion is rejected hv the people. In
that event the only constitution un
der which lie can justify his action
will he the present constitution. That
instrument distinctly says that he
shall pay no money except such as
has been appropriated by the lower
house of representatives. Where
thee will he find authority for the
payment of the extra $25,000? It is
held by some lawyers that the con-
erything until God shows them they
can do nothing without his help.
Trouble makes men pray, i nd that
is why women <mri$>ra^iietter than
m0 *»; W so piuch of it.
luuiftrotMe, a J
think? Do people hear anything, do vent ion is sovereign in all things,
JkAtleM
upwirnong the sun, moon antT stars,
and gives the rami a great deal of
astronomical information. He roust
be highly gratified. Then he goes
down gradually—and beautifully—and
lands forever and ever, atnem. Trou
ble will drive all that out of him.
When T began -to preach I Arsed to
write down all my sermons! I some
times preached sermons on trouble,
but they were nearly all poetic and in
semi-blank verse. God knocked the
blank verso out of me long ago.
I am an herb doctor. I will take
the “ root without form or comeliness”
and put it into the cauldron ; then the
rose of Sharon and the lily of the
valley; then some of the leaves from
the tree of life; next, the branch that
was thrown into Marah of the wilder
ness. Then I pour iu the tears of
Bcthamy and Golgotha. Then I stir
them up and kindle under tleni a
fire made out of the wood of the cross.
One drop of that portion will cure the
worst sickness with which any soul
was ever afflicted.
PLAIN AND FANCY
knew he would he sorry when he found
me some day, where I had died all
alone, and in the dark. And then I
tried to think how things looked from
our window, with the water sweeping
people understand anything, after
they have gone? „
I only knew that tlu^yvful silence
XH l ining me to sfhTe, that the
awful darkness was rising like a wall ^
between me and Bobbery—and I was j
afraid. When I called, no one an- j that he would he justified iu paying
swered me, and I was glad. If his [ the money; but with a caution that
That i* cannot only draw what money
it needs, hut can abolish the treasury
if it desires, and even refuse to sub-
ai’t the eons’i!'i! io:i to the peojd • for
ratification.
The treasurer himself is of opinion
town,.and the steeple with the clock;
and i thought it was better for me to
die than Bobbery, after all, for he
could sfce, while Ij-I hadino pleasure
in my We. 'And yet I wanted to live;
given over that; and Bobbery was 1 " an * 1 to bear Bobbery’s voice
always such a good lad to me, that ' !, 8 a,n; 4 w » nte ^ tbe waters to go
perhaps I didn’t miss so much, after
•11.
I grew to fancy things, and make
irelieve I saw a great deal, particularly
after Bobbery took to working at his
trade—shoe-black, sir ; and sometimes;
when I became accustomed to being
always in ihe dark, I went out with
Bobbery, aud held the money that he
trade.
Well, not much, perhaps, but
<nough for us two, and the little room
we had down at Liugstown, over
against the little river; only Bobbery
au extravagant lad—dot in drink,
t-itr—we were always a sober lot—bat
iu orangea.
They were almost his ruin,
those oranges. He used -to come up
*taira sucking them softly, so that I -
•sight not hear, and thinking to de
ceive me; but I somehow smelt or-
eitgea, and it always made me sharper
<=» catch Bobbery whisling little tunes
*•> himself on the way up, just to put
♦ae off.
He made a deal of me, did Bobbery
—along of being blind, you see—and
did the neighbors; hut I was rare
proud of him. I ou don’t know what
is, sir, to sit alone in tro dark all
day, and then, on a sudden, to hear a
fellow call out, “ Here we are again !
Come down and feel the sun set, and
we’ll count the coppers!’’ It would
make you love anyone, sir, who had a
voice like that, let alone a fellow like
Bobbery.
Perhaps you didn’t happen to be in
Kingstown, sir, last spring when the
foods had risen, and the land was un
der water for miles round. Bobbery
had to wade a little going down to his
work, but he rather liked it, he said;
and he used to tuck up his trousers,
mid call back to roe and laugh, as the
water : crept round his feet, and he
a-iid folks wouldn’t want their boots
blacked, he feared, for tbe water would
soon take off the polish.
I used to sit on the window-sill to
down, and somebody to remember- me
at last—for I was afraid. , ;
Well, sir, God answers our .prayers
sometimes iu a way that is terribly
just. It takes us a long time to find
out that everything is very good, I
think, hut we come to learn, too, to
leave our prayers as well as the an
swers to God. •Somebody did remem
ber me at last, and came back—some
body whose laughing voice across the
waters was nearer every minute—-some
body whose, hands were on my shoulder,
whose eyes, I fpit, were on my face—
somebody who had never forgotten me
—Bobbery !' Y , ,, .
“ Bobbefyl, Bobbery!” I cried, and
I stretched out my arms to bun,
Bob&eijy. said,: “ I carnet oyeiin, ^
tub— only tlupfcd such a lark! but* as
I climbed in the window, our tub
drifted away, aud however we’re tp
get oyer I ggj’t r |al^ aH , ,
“ You .must think of something,’'
I said. “ Bobbery, it was a long
day.”
“ Why, of course it was,” Bobbery
answered, “without me. Come along,
the river’s rising like fury.”
Is it very wide ?’’ I asked.
Oh, not ntore’n a good stretch
from here to the dry land—but deep;
over six feet, I should say—and ris
ing.”
“ But the bed, Bobbery',” I said,
and the other things?”.
“ Well, we must leave them until
it’s all right again.”
“Will it ever he all right?’’ I
asked.
“ Why, yes, of course,” said Bob
bery.
He was such a splendid chap, sir,
was Bobbery, and so clever! He took
the two chairs, that wore drifting about
the room, and. tied than dose together,
and then we waded across to the win
dow, and stood upon the sill.
“ I think it’s jolly good fun,’’ said
Bobbery. “If you could only see how
your boat’s bobbing up and down in
front here 1 Get lu quick, or 1 can’t
voice was silent, any-*’other voice
w.Aild have maddened me just then,
and I wanted nothing more to tell
me all the truth. I learned through
the silence on land and sea how God
had answered my prayer.
They told me afterward how the
plank he was launching to help him-
seif to the shore drilled away from ! ean doubtless put off their little bills,
bis hand, and was out of sight di
rectly, how they would have sa\‘ed
him it they coftld, atuh’ynv, when
they began to shout to f; tVcqfipns
■ is commendable, lie has thought it
i host to ha fortified by abundant legal
! advice. He has consequently refer-
I re-.l the matter to the governor, and
| asked through him for the official
| opinion of the attorney general. This
will he rendered in a day or two.
and in the meantime the members
The Rev. 31 r. Ta Inmdge Tells
Wliy Women can Pray
...p.... I., oiimi, ,uij neqiions, i l^cftci than 3It*n. ,
hPnnade a sifti for sihht^ and stood ! Over four thousand persons attended
straight upon the sill, with the sunset ! the services in the Brooklyn Tabor-
creeping all about him, and the wa- { nacle ye.-terdav. The Rev. Mr. Tal-
ters washing at his feet. They won
dered why he had made no effort to
reach the* shore with me—they used
to'wonder Tor long after, whv he had
mage preached upon the text. “ God
shall wipe away albtears from their
eyes.” lie said that Pur'joys spring
, . t'rom the sowing of tears. Go i makes
stood so silent, with l.is eager eyes j them’ rounds them, shows them
and iest!e s feet so strangely still. I\ where to fall, and exhales them. A
kmfw. of course; hut what tight had i census is taken of them. •' And There
one else to cofne between Bob- is a record ps to y the moiucnj^when
they arc born and the place of their
graves. Tears of had men are not
kept. Alexander, in his sorrow, had
the hair clipped from his horses and
mules, aud made a great ado aliout
hia grief, but in all the vases of
Heaven, ther e is not one of Alexan
der’^ tears. I apeak ot the tears of
.the good; Alas! they are falling all
the time. What is the nse of them ?
Why not substitute laughter ? Why
not make this world an eternal
stranger to pains and aches? Bring
you*? dictionaries, your philosophies,
and your religions, and help me to
explain a tear ' ’ •
The chief ingredients are the acid
of a sound life, the viper and sting of
a bitter memory, and the fragments
of a broken heart. A tear is agony
in solution! It is the ministry of
tears to keep this world froni being
too attractive. If it were not for
trouble, this world would he good
enough for me. I would be willing j
to take a lease of life in it for a hun
dred million years if there were no
troubles. With the earth cushioned,
any
bery and tne ? It wouldn’t have done
any one any good to know what I
knew—that Bobbery wouldn’t let
me lose the faintest chance; thoiight
my blind,*' helpless life quite as well
worth sailing as his own. I would
have done the same for him, sir, any.
day—&ir; Bobbery and. me, we were
always fond of each other 1 ..
* The : aC4>ty*s b&en longer than I
thought,- ‘*rf*‘ bnt jnat the evening,
and th^ibScW‘agahi, and you want-;
ing'tolcftoiW&utTtfc cross, brought 1
it back to roe Tike the same evening
somehow.-and itis company like to
talk oftAhe lii<£ • if! k • i V “ ’
And Bobbery? he just died,! sir;
and the tolks thought such a deal of
him that they collected a bit to set
me up, and I took half of the money
just to put np this little cross b/the
river side for we always divided the
coppers, sir; and I haven’t forgotten
him—not in these tWo years! *
That’s all, sir—just’ alt about Boh
bery. llarpets Bazar.
Reviving.
The New Orleans Times specks en
couragingly of' the brightening pros
pects of that city. It says the cotton
factory is to resume operations and to
be run to its fullest capacity. Two
new sugar refineries have been com
menced. Two grain elevators are to
be ouiU as sum as railroad connections
are toade- Asphaltum pavements are
being laid, the material being brought
from Cuba. Four flourishing mills
are under Contract. The wharves are
being repaired. New buildings are In
(irpoess of .construction in various parts
of the cUp, and the. rich lands sur
rounding the city have been thrown
open to pefsdns disposed to cultivate
them, on the most - liberal- terms.
There has been a resurrection of in,
dustry, enterprise and capital since thp
plundering Radical government was
overthrown.
upholstered, pillared and chande-
liered, arid such an expanse that no j -
story of other worlds could enchant ute8, ^ be weight of the ashes, which
T 1 1 1a tl • « n.ltllui no/1 O Asia* nn I n!.. ^ .3 X* A _ . S
I>r. Winslow Cremated.
Knturnl to About I’lvf Poundx or Ash(o> In Two
Hour* and Forty-flvr Miautr*.
(From tbe Chicago Times.I
Sai.t Lakh Citv, Ju!v31.—When
Dr. C. F. Winslow’s remains were
placed in the cremation furnace this
afternoon at G: 20, the body weighed
12G pounds. He died on the 7th of
July, and the body had been embalmed,
and the heart and bowels taken out.
The multitude were permitted to view
the fac-J as the body lay in a plain
coffin, with fl< wers strewn on it.
Nearly one thousand persons passed
around the coffin rapidly, immediately
aft;r which thedoorofthe fu mace,which
hud already reached a red heat, was
Q|>eued. and the body quickly pushed
iu on an iron plate, the door closed,
and the firemau began his work in
earnest...
The furnancc was constructed with
double flues, so that the flames came
directly in contact with an envelope
above the body, a large current of air
being admitted. The first appearance,
as seen through the mica apertures,
was that of roasting, hut in twenty
minutes nearly all the flesh was con
sumed, and the bones had begun to
crumble. Half an hour later very
littie could he soen of the form of the
body. At forty»five minutes past
seven o’clock Dr. Hamilton opened
the door ot the funance, and only one
or two pieces of hone could be seen,
and they crumbled, under the weight
of the ashes. At fifty-five miautes
past eight the process was pronounced
complete and successful by Drs. Ham
ilton and 8mart. The fires
drawn, and- the ashes left to cool ft
short time before beihg removed.
Before the body was placed in the
retort, short speeches were made by
Dr. Hamilton and ; Gen. M. M. Bone
and Dr. Smart* Surgeon at Camp
Douglas. Dr. Smart gave a history ;
of the science of cremation, and spoke
of the system of burial as Injurious to
public health, sayitig that the practice
of cremation would increase with civ
ilization and growth of population
No prayer was said; nor were any re
ligious words uttered. This was in
accordance with the injunctions of the
deceased doctor.
The fumes from the furnace were
unpleasantly perceptible at a distance
from the scene. The cremation was
successful, being the shortest time on
record, two hours and thir-five min
us, I would say let well enough alone.
If you want to die and have your
body A disintegrate in the dust, and
your soul go out ou a celestial adven
ture, you can go; but this enough
for me. It is the ministry of tears to
make us feel our complete depend
ence on God. King Alfonso said
tfcit ifhehad been present at the cre
ation he could have made a better
world than this. What a pity he had
not been present. [Laughter.} Ido
not know what God will do when some
men die. Men think they can doev-
contained a few calcined fragments of
bone, was - four pounds eleven and a
half ounces.
Thkash’s Consumptive Cure.—
Sure cure for consumption, bronchitis,
coughs, croup, colds, and all lung af
fections. Restores lost voice, etc.
Call at Dr. Ed. Smith’s drug store,
Dr. King’s old stand, and gotta trial,
bottle for 50 cents. Large size $1 50.
Modern marriage, says a contempo
rary; begins with a court and ends
with a court.
IN PRICES.
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-A- FIRST-CLASS
JOB PRINTER,
We arc enabled to turr out as good
work as car ho done'
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At PER-THOUSAND.
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cw:t.
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