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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: AUGUST 21, 1877. tipi 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. 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