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THE BUTLER HERALD.
Poetical Selections.
ONE SUNDA Y MORNING.
I never heard the robins
Ring half ao merrily
As they « ere storing Sunday morn
When Robert stopped for me.
And m we walked together
Along the pleasant lane,
We heard the qualla all plpln
1 heir prophecies of rain.
We slapped to. talk about It,
and wonder If they knew,
And I think that we concluded
1 he quaili were prophets true.
Then I aald we muit not linger,
Fur the momenta would not wait,
And ot all things, I dreaded
To be at chmch too late.
Tuan w« went down the hill-way
And talked of that aad this,
And tint aulacioui creature I—
He aaked me for a klaa I
I don t know what I answered,
I ihlok 'twaa no 1 aald.
But he didn’t take my mtanlng
And took the klaa ioatead.
Then we stopped to talk about it,
Though to argue wee In vain,
For that wlcktd, laughing fdlow
Up and kliaed my lips anin.
“Oh, tor ahamer’ I cried, indignant,
But ha only laughsd at this;
“Thatshould satlefy yon, Mary,
Haven’t I given back the kiieT"
And of course I cinldn't blame him
If he saw fit to restore
btolrn property, and promise
To n peat the theft no more.
'■Ihero’a another way to aettle
If that doeen't satisfy,"
Robert aald, and all tba robins
Soared up, sieging, In the sky.
And of oouree 1 had to listen
To this little plan of hi*,
Though It act med a deal of trouble
To ba taking (or akin.'.
What the plan waa I'll not tell you,
You may guess It In the aprlng,
But b fore we had it settled
All the bt Us began to ring I
Ab, we lost full haU the aermon,
But perhaps 'twaa jest as wtU,
For of what the preacher told u*,
Hot aaentcncs could I tell.
1 waa thinking of the robins
And the words that Robert said.
Though I knew the choir waa singing,
Hobart’s votoa I beard instead.
And a happier, sweeter Sabbath
Never came from God above,
For it waa to ue a aetmon
And the text waa only-LOva!
Stories and Sketches
ABOUT WRITING.
W. V. BKIYNH. I
Haw D. Brin, |
‘LET THERE BE LIGHT.'
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VOLUME III.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1879.
NUMBER 150.
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BAD FASHION AND TRICKS OF
STYLE-RICHARD GRANT WHITE
ON AFFECTATION.
New York Tlmoi
There are fashions in writing, as there
are in drew, and in almost everything
that pertains to the personality of men.
And by fashion I do not mean style,
either that which distinguishes the Indi
vidual, or that which marks a period*
The latter may be called a fashion more
properly than the former. For example
the old way of writing prose, cumbrous
longsome, and involved, which prevailed
between the Elizabethan period a u d the
time ol Dryden—who did more for En«
gliah prose than he did for English
poetry—was a fashion. Dryden, and af
ter him Addison, killed it; and we may
ba sure that it will never come to life
again. But it was not a style; it in no
way exprened any mental peculiarity of
the writer. He merely adopted it, just
as he put ou the hat and coat of the
period. The change of fashion which
gave us the modem, free and varied
manner of prose writing was a very great
change; as great as that from velvet and
Isce ruffles and big wigs in the dress of
men to woolen stuffs and sober colors,
natural hair and simplicity. Since then
there have been some changes in literaiy
fashion of minor importance. The great
est of these was the introduction of the
Johnsonian vocabulary and period. This
fashion, happily, soon passed away. Hav-
ng in it a radical element oi abmrdity,
when assumed by those whose thoughts
needed strength rather than infl ition or
decoration, it became ridiculous. Then
came the fashion of elegant language,
and the sway of pedants and
paraen. This was broken down
chiefly by the piose writing
Walter Scott, aided largely by the
EHnburgh Review writers, and by
Wibon and others in Blackwood. Scott,
the most vivid ol all narrative writers,
the master story-teller of modern days,
was an inexact writer; one who cared very
little for rule of any kind in language,
and who thought nothing about the
grammatical construction oi his sentences,
even if he knew anything upon the sub
ject, which is more than doubtfhl. His
influence, which was for freedom, entirely
changed the lari ion in narrative style;
and it affeciei prose style in all other
kinds of writing. Macaulay, the next
Kucceeding great writer of English prose,
although his style was peculiar and high'
ly characteristic, cannot be said to have
set any fashion in writing. He presented
the singular union of splendor with
precision. His style cannot be called
chaste, and I venture to say that It can
hardly be called a manly style, so dis
turbed is It with consciousness; but yet
amid all its striving—generally success
ful striving—after striking effects and
imposing orms, it is exact, correct. Al
ter all, Its perfect clearness is its highest
beauty, although perhaps not to every
reader its chiefest charm. But the
catch, and he has had no successful imi
tators and has set no fashion. It were
well if he had more followers in the per
fectly clean and clear construction of his
sentences; but even then, clearness is not
fashion.
It is not upon such changes as these
that I propose to remark, but upon cer
tain rather new-fangled forms of expres
sion which seem to me affected and not
felicitous. The first of these which I
shall bring up is a change in the position
of the verbs be, have, and do, in sen
tences in which the latter clause makea a
comparison with something set forth in
the former. For example:
“Lord George also waa displeased-
more thoroughly displeased than had
been his wife.—Trollope—Popenjoy,
chapter 4.”
Bankruptcy has tended, as might have
been expected, to produce bankruptcy;
and for all purposes of panic as well as
business, New York and London are as
close as were London and Manchester a
few yean ago.—[Pall Mall Budget, June
8.1878.”
It is needless to give more instances ;
the writing of the day is full of them,
and Mr. Trollope, the chief, and one of
the earliest, if not the earliest, nf offend
ers, is but the foremost man of a multi
tude. This placing of the verb directly
after the conjunction or preposition is a
new trick in style. It is sheer affecta
tion, and, if I do not err, is quite un-
English. In such sentences as those
tgiven above, the simple English con
struction is, “more thoroughly displeased
than his wife had been,” “are as close
as London and Manchester were a few
years ago.” The placing of the subject
of the verb after it. excBgt by poetic
lioense, or in very elevated prose (and
even there with great discretion) is not
English ; it is not clear ; it is not natu
ral. No good style, even in the soberest
conversation. If I remember rightly,
Macaulay never uses this construction
nar Cardinal Newman, a very correct
writer, whose taste is unexceptionable.
The fashion came in not long ago
through the desire to avoid a verb of
one syllable at the end of a sentence,
For examplo : “Mary was not so beauti
ful aa her sister waa.” To end the
sentence with a dissyllable instead of a
monosyllable (a very weak affectation),
the verb waa transposed, and we had:
“Aa was her sister.” Whoever wishes
to.wrlte clear, manly and simple English
will avoid this foolish fashion, which
however, has become so prevalent that
it appears with a most ridiculous incon
gruity oven in such writing aa that of
the following passage, from a report of a
dramatic performance by “Count Joan'
least important words in a sentence.
It is almost impossible to read or to speak
a sentence like that cited above without
emphasizing it thus: “He knowB further
that the keeper of the asylum has either
been deceived by, or is an accomplice of
these doctors,” which Is abominable and
ridiculous.
All snoh tricks arp caught. In some
cases they are consciously affected, but
generally they get their hold by simple
infection. No parent, no one who has
observed the habits of children, needs to
be told that they catch bad tricks as fire
is caught by tinder, while to impress the
good upon them must be a work of un
tiring patience. Of all bad tricks, time
of speech are most easily caught, and are
cast off with the most difficulty. In ib
lustration of this, I give the following
letter, which I accidentally hit upon
during the last week. It is from a very
eminent man, distinguished not only as
a philologist, but as a philosopher. The
proof of an article by him was submitted
to me, and I, with a presumption which,
at the time, hardly became the disparity
our years and his literary eminence,
questioned his use of reliable. This was
answer:
July 19,1860 —Your query as to re
liable was quite to the purpose, and I
was glad to exchange it for a less objec
tionable word. I never meant to use it;
but the contagion of evil speaking is hard
_ resist; and I often find myself employ
ing words which I should hardly pardon
‘ another.
Professor Whitney, inj ured by follow*
lowing a bad example, has a sneer at the
order of mind which objects to reliable
and prefers to be relied upon, or trust-
worthy. If he could have seen the sig
nature to this letter, although he migh£
have changed his opinion as to the
word, I am willing to believe that he
would have done so as to the propriety
of the sneer.
BRIDGES.
for the ground, giving a changeable ef» Sjts of old magazines, for instance, i
“In the audience last night
ma ny Yale students, who were, of course,
boisterous and jolly, and led the attacks
but justice requires the remark that they
did not say as many funny things
did two or three newsboys in the gal
lery.”
The following construe'.ion is the cons
sequence of an affectation of elegance
similar to that remarked upon :
“The marriage is reported in Pike
county, Oalifornia, of Rouben O. Rog
ers, a pensioner of 1812, who is 82 years
old.”
The death is announced at Fort Mo-
Henry, near Baltimore, of Brevet Major
Genera' Barry, the commandant.”
“The death is announced at Naples,
on the 24th inst., of Cardinal .”
This overwhelming attempt at elegance
has been made thus far chiefly in the
personal columns of newspapers, and in
telegraphic reports; but, like all affecta
tions and tricks of fine writing, it is win
ning admirers, and the fashion has begun
to spread and to rise,
A simple, clear and truly English con
struction forbids the dismemberment of
the subject of the assertion, which is, the
marriage of Reuben 0. Rogers or the
death of Brevet General Barry. The
severance of these into tw-» parts and
the thrusting of a verb, a particle, a date
and the name of a place between them
makes a monstrous sentence. We might
as well speak or write our news para
graphs in the style of the ’Paradise
Lost,” if we are to make a simple an
nouncement of the fact in this style,
Another prevailing fashion, still some
what new, but which has passed the
stage of novelty, is the holding of one
preposition in suspense for the introduc
tion of another, so that both may apply
to one object. One example—the follow
ing, from the London Spectator—will
enough, for the construction is so com
mon that it is not only found in
most all writing, but has invaded every
day speech:
*’He knows, further, that the keeper of
the asylum has either been deceived by,
or is an accomplice of, these doctors.”
Now, the simple English construction
in all such cases is, “Has either been
oeived by these doctors, or is an accom-
plice of theirs.” The attempt at ele
gance produces awkwardness. The, leav
ing of words like by, of, though, far, at,
etc., which present no complete thought
apart from an object, in the air like
unsupported wing of an army, is disas
trous. But it has become *the fashion
and is thought fine. This construction
has one consequence which has a very
bad effect—so bad that on that account
only it should be condemned and aban
trick of Macaulay’s writing is hard to dmed. It throws emphasis upon
Wanted a Specimen.
Burllnstou Hawkero.
They were sitting in the office of
Engineer DeHass yesterday afternoon,
that is, a few of Burlington’s most
worthy officials, when a Hawkeye re
porter intruded upon them in search of
news. There was a positive declaration
from each individual that he knew
nothing. After a few moments common
place remarks, one of the gentlemen told
story. This reminded another official
of a little incident in his experience as a
school teacher. He said: "I had a small
microscope in the school, and I thought
would entertain the children with it
one alternoon. I had heard that a louse
was a wonderful thing under a magnify
ing glass, so just before eehool was dis
missed at noon I told the children that I
wanted a big, fat louse, and that for the
finest and fattest one I would give fif
teen cents. Well, sirs, I dismissed that
school, took my dinner and went over to
corner to eat it. I had my lunch nice
laid out, and had just got started,
when I noticed a little six year old
come in the doorway, aad start toward
me with his right hand extended and t
triumphant expression lighting up hi
little countenance from ear to ear and
back again. He marched right up to
me, and as he got within reaching dis
tance, unclosed his hand, and BAid:
There, teacher; there, 1 got him,* a ni
with that he deposited a fine, fat, gray-
back alongside of the lunch. He was
about to start off, whon in came a little
girl in the same manner, walked up with
her head down, her thumb in her mouth,
and laid down two. Well, they began
to come in then right along, until about
seventy-five were crawling around before
me. I told the children to take them
out, and save me two of the brst of
them. Then they gathered them up
and took them away; but gentlemen, I
ate no more dinner. It took a week’s
salary to pay off the various fifteen cents
I had promised, and when the debts
were all paid, the study of animated
nature in that direction was suspended
for the present.’* Here the official
paused and looked around for the
'next,” but no one offered to go otte
better, and soon tho news seeker quietly
withdrew.
A FEW OF THE HIGHEST IN THE
WORLD—THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE
COMP A RA TIVEL Y A D WARE.
From the Brooklyn Kailo.
The immense height of the towers for
the support of the Forth bridge has cre
ated some surprise and no little wonder,
when it is taken into account that when
completed they will be the highest build
ing of any kind in the world. Science will,
therefore, wait with some anxiety their
completion. The height of the towers
on the island of Inch Garvie, midway
between South and North Queensferry,
will be 669 feet, to support a bridge 160
feet above high-vpter mark, but the
reason for this great altitude is that in
the generality of suspension bridges the
towers are built on ihe land on either
side of the span, and were this the
in the Forth bridge towers of 160 feet
less boight, or 410 feet, would be suffi
cient; but this is impossible, from the
great length of the bridge.
It seems that by natural laws th*re is
a limit to everything on this earth—that
is, that men can go to a certain length
and no further, aB, for instance, in tele
scopes nothing larger than Lord Ross’
having been perfected for many years,
In reference to certa n buildings, a cor
espondent the other day quoted St
Rollox stalk 430 feet high. St. Paul')
cathedral is about 460 feet to the top of
the dome, St. Peter’s at Rome 480 feet,
the pyramids of Egypt, at least the great
pyramid, is 180 feet at present in its im
perfect state, but by calculation would
reach 600 feet in height when finished.
When it is remembered that this struct-
ure only reaches this height with a base
of about 26 acres, it will be a very diffi
cult matter to raise the Forth bridge
towers to 660 feet with a small base.
These towers are to bo formed of solid
masonry to a certain height, and then
by groups of iron pillars girded together
in layers upward.
The Niagara suspension bridge has one
large span of 821 feet; the railway track
above the water is 245 feet, or 95 feet
higher than the Forth bridge; the tow
ers are only 60 feet high, being built on
either side of the shore. The Alleghany
bridge has two large Bpans of 344 feet
each, and the towers are 46 feet high.
The Covington and Oincinnati bridge
has a span of 1,057 feet; its height above
low water is 103 feet, and tho towers 230
feet high. The bridge seems to give the
beat proportion to the Forth bridge,
which is 1,680 feet for two spans, 150
high, And towers of 560 feet, Those we
have mentioned are finished and in work
ing order; and we may mention also the
East River bridge, connecting New York
to Brooklyn. The towers of this bridge
are Also built upon the iand, and are 278
feet high. The single apau is 1,595 feet
long, or only 86 feet less than the Forth
bridge, while the total length is 5,989
feet There is, therefore, no doubt that
the Forth bridge, when completed,
will be an engineering triumph.
feet through the reps that are of another
color. This is very handsome in the
new peony red and mahogany shades,
which vary from light to dark reddish
brown.
Feather ornaments combine many rich
colors mounted in flat pieces that con
form to the 8hspe of the bonnet. Some
times a whole bird in placed in a natural
poise on the front or side of the hat, oi
one bird is made to do service for two
hats by being split in halves from bill to
tail, with a little top-knot added. The
beautiful B azilian humming birds are
made into hat ornaments. Solitary
birds are mounted to show their feet,
and at times the feet are stuck in pom
pons or in a flat ornament. Au Alea-
clan bow is formed by birds’ wings.
Bits of tinsel, of jet and many jet beads
are added, to make feather ornaments.
Long, natural, gray ostrich plumes are
imported, and all the new shades are
combined in the tips. Mercutio plumes
are tipped with jet or curled like willow
plumes.
received in great numbers by the board,
which it causes to be bound, and sends
them on their pleasure and instruction-
giving journey.
LOVE ME, LOVE.
I1QU1K MILLS*.
Intelligent Workmen Wanted
Fall Millinery.
Cure for Slecplesniioss.
Now York llorslil.
it is only by special favor that the ar
biters of fashion will give any clew to
the styles they contemplate introducing
in tho autumn, but a private letter from
Paris gives information that Virot has
exhibited to a favored few a pretty
caprice in dresBy bonnets, to be worn
with visiting costumes in early fall.
This style is in capote shape, with brim
ot Leghorn and stirt crown of dark blue
or wine-colored satin, put on plain, fol
lowing accurately the shape of the
Irame. Another style has more of the
conl'Bcuttio shape than tho “poke” worn
through the summer. This is of fine
Tuscan, with the large brim lined with
dark red velvet, ehirred. Upon the out
side aro three soft ostrich tips, same
shade aa the straw, with wido satin rib
bons of the Bame color, and a cluster of
large red asters.
Tho favorite Carmen bonnet is shown
with greater breadth in the back. The
Notice waa taken of the experience of
a large shoe manufacturer of this atate>
who advertised in Boston and New York
for 25 shoe-fitters to work in his factory,
offering full current rates and steady
work. The advertisement brought one
application.
About tho same time a Boston firm
advertised for a book-keeper, and the
next day's mail brought 347 answors.
During the Bame month an advertise
ment for a clerk, in a Detroit paper,
brought 130 applications the first day.
and a greater number of letters and per
sonal applications tho next day.
An advertisement for a wrek in the
same city calling for a carpenter,
brought only four replies
It is altogether probable that in any
considerable city in the land, an adver
tisement for a book-keeper or retail clerk
will bring fifty times as many replies as
a fair workman in any trade.
It is alro probable that in any aud
evety city the average earnings of clerks
are nowhere near a-) large as the earnings
of workmen of average skill in the
various trades.
Further, it is fairly certain that, with
equal capacity, industry, aud thrift, the
young man who learns any trade will
achieve a reasonable competence sooner
than the young man who sticks to clerk
ing; while the chances for materially
improving one’s condition aro more
numerous in the trades than behind the
counter or at the desk.
Why is it then, that the boys all want
to be clerks? Why is it that intelligent
parents encourage them in looking for a
chance to “get into business,” and in
looking down on mechanical employment
—as though there could be any eallin
moro wretchedly mechanical than aver
age clerking ? Why is it that teachers
almost invariably train their pupils to
‘look above” mechanic si pursuits?
What the country wantu now is work'
oen—intelligent, industrious, thrifty
workmen; men who can do skillfully the
work that waits for the doing—who CAn
invent new and better procssee* for de'
voloping the crude resources of tho land,
and lor converting brute matter into
life-sustaining and life enriching wealth.
Mere clerkH and rec »rd keepers aro at a
discount. There are too many of them
And the profe:sious, so called, are almost
equally crowded with men who have
nothing to do. There never was a time
when ability to do something real and
practical was worth so much as now.
Yet our young men swarm after clork-
8 hips. Why is it?
Lonely Lives.
Our eastern feaboard from the north*
ern coast of Maine to Florida is now
well supplied with light houses. A few
Wet half a towel, apply it to the back
of the neck, pressing it upward toward
the base of the brain and fasten the
dry half of the towel over bo aa to pre
vent the too rapid exhalation. The
effect is prompt and charming, cooling
the brain and inducing calmer, sweeter
sleep than any narcotic. Warm water
may be used, though most persons will
prefer It cold. To those suffering from
over-excitement of the brain, whether
the result ot brainwork or pressing
anxiety, this simple remedy is an espe
cial boon.
..A seasoned vessel. The’Squire (en
gaging new butler)—“Well, J dare say
you’ll do; but look here, Richards, I
may as well warn yeu that I often get
out ot temper with my servants, and
when I do, I let ’em have it hot—make
use of devilish strong language, you
know.” New butler (with quiet digni
ty)—“I have been accustomed to that
sir, from my Lord the Bishop!”—[Lon
don Punch.
remain in i.Vor, and pretty ronnd bate, illuminated but north ol that
with tho front square and droooing, have ‘“Til
both the sides and back turned up.
The jaunty Derby hats are precisely
like those worn by gentlemen. Many
quaint shapes are represented in the
softest Hilk plush in fur beavers, with
piie an inch long, and in smooth French
felt. A novelty is feather felt, with
loose shreds of feathers forming the pile
of fine felt, and these in white or pale
gray make dressy bonnets. The poke,
Carmen, and Directoire shapes are shown
in these fabrics.
The all red bonnets are not Visible.
Satin and velvet have taken the place of
plush, and rich, dark shades tho place of
“combinations” to a considerable extent.
A striking feature is the quantity of
lace upon satin and velvet, and the pro
fusion of elegant feathers and feather
trimmings, including crowns made
tirely of feathers.
Tiger velvet is a novelty used ior
trimming bonnets It has a satin ground
with irregularly shaped spots, in long
raised velvet pile. A new crackle velvet
shows the pile flattened in streaks as ir
regular and without design as the
crackle lines in old porcelain. A richly
repped uncut velvet, called royal velvet,
is a glaoe ot shot velvet with one shade
watch over the lights which warn the
mariners. The Springfield Republican
thus speaks ol these faithful servants:
So lonesome are they, keeping their
nightly vigil, with tho solemn sea for
their perpetual companion, that it is not
unusual for a keeper to take bis own
life out of desperation from his solitude.
Even where there is a family in the
light house, the life becomes oftentimes
intolerable, and suicides are not the
only tragedies enacted there.
The light house board has done much
towards making keepers* lives less irk*
Eomo by introducing its system ol libra
ries. A portable case, containing some
forty volumes, made so that it can be
closed and transported like a strong
trunk any distance, is sent to a light
house, where it remains a certain period,
say three months, and is then shipped to
the next light house, and so on in sue*
c?ssion to every keeper.
There are one hundred and fifty of
these portable libraries now in use in
the lighthouse establishments. A few
of the books have been bought by the
government, but most of them have
been voluntary contributions from peo*
pie { n all parts ot tho country.
Answers to Correspondents.
Botlinaton Hawkeye.
“Mabel”—You want to know how you
can make your cactus bloom ? Get out
an injunction onto it, or a writ of quo
warranto, or a mandamus. If a man
damus won’t fetch it, try the other kind
“Little Buttercup” writes: “How
can f mend a crystal goblet that has
g.it a hole punched through its side ?”
You can’t repair it permanently, but if
you stick your thumb in the hole when
you are using the goblet, it will answer
for all practical purpo a es.
“Mrs. Bludsoe” wants to know “which
is the quickest way to make ice cream
without a fretxar?” Buy it in one of
those little paateboa d boxes they sell at
the factor ea.
Gentle Annie” is in a desponding
mood this week. She begins her sad
plaint by asking “Will they forgot us
when we are gone?” You may bet your
sweet life, Gentle Annie, they will.
They will forget us so completely they
won’t even be positive where we've
gone.
“Mrs. Burlaps” asks, “How often
shall I water my potted plants ?” You
ought to water them every time you
feed them, being careful not to water
them when they are warm or have been
sunning hard.
“Mary Ann” says she is “a-weary,”
and complains that “woman’s work
goes on forever.” Bo it does, and we
are glad of it. But that doesn’t affect
you. Bless your soul, you don’t go on
forever ; you don’t have all the work to
do, not even whilo you live. Man’s
work goes on forever, too, we hope, but
that doesn't fret us a particle. We
aren’t going to stay here and do it all.
Bless you, no, we aren’t going to do our
own aay longer than we have to. Brace
up, Mary Ann, and don’t fret about the
work that “goes on forever." You’re
not going on with the work more than
40 or 60 years longer, Mary Ann, and
don’t you forget it.
Marguerite” asks if “a woman
ehouid marry a man whom she respects
and esteems, but does not love, for his
money?” Oh, no, Marguerite, n-uo;
not exactly that. You shouldn’t marry
him for his money, unless you can’t ab
solutely get it in any other way. But if
you do really “respect” tho man, you
might love his money, aud then you
would have all the ingredients for a
happy match, anyhow. We wouldn’t
advise you to marry a man for bis
money alone; ner, on the other hand,
Marguerite, would we advise you to
marry a man morely for the sake of his
poverty; there iB neither merit or novelty
in that. But you should marry him,
even though he is rich as Ciauis,
because—by the way, Marguerite, you
didn’t Bay that this rich man has asked
you or wanted you to marry him. How
is that, by the way ?
“Baby Mine” says “she isjust crying
her eyes out because she is not pretty,
aud she feels lonely, she who loves
her, end she longs for some sympathetic
heart that can feel for her troubles and
drop words of sympathy like healing
balm into her lovely life, and ”
“Baby Mine,” hush it right up; not
another line of it; not a whisper. You
Bcare us to doath and we havu’t a line
of sympathy for you. We are a married
mau, with a boy old enough, or at least
snwwt enough, to go to college; we are
the busy head of a pleasant, happy home-
hold, ami we are not going to be decoyed
off into any sympathetic streaks, not by
all the lonely women in America. Dry
it up, and the next time you write to
this department, tell us how to make
water crimps that will lait all night and
won’t straighten out in one hot after-
“Lonely,” are you ? Then why
don’t you go to the sociable, where you
will meet so mauy other lonely people
that you will feel happy ? ‘ Lonely I”
Great guns, and a new circus billed on
the fence every week.
Lots raf, lore, but breathe it tow,
Holt aa rammer weather;
If you love me, tell me ao,
- tweet and still a* rove* blow;
Love me, love, but breathe It low I
Tell me only with your eye*;
W ordaaie otaeep U water;
If you love, looks and aleha
Tell my mother’* daughter
Moto thin all the world may know
Love me, love, but breathe It Jowl
Words for othort, storm and snow,
Wind and changeful weather,
Let ths ahallow water* Bow,
Foaming on together;
But lovd it a.11', and d ep, end oh
Love me. love, but breathe It low 1
Clipped Paragraphs.
.. And now the returned city people
write to their country cousins, with
whom they have been staying, that they
arrived safely, bat found the city infect
ed with small-pox, which is likely to
last all winter.
..An honest Hibernian, while going
along the road, was thus addressed by a
friend: “Hello, Pat, you’ve got on the
wrong side of your stocking.” “I know
that,” sajrs Pat; “there’s a bole on the
other side.”
A woman may wear h?r hat knock
ed into any conceivable shape, both
herself and the hat are pronounced per
fectly lovely; but just let a man jam In
one side of the hat he wears, and he is at
once proelamed a first-class rowdy.
The relationship of a man and
woman in rainy weather, according to
the Albany Journal, is easily discovered.
If they are lovers, the woman will have
all the umbrella, and the man won’t
care a fig bow wet be gets. But if they
are married, it is just the oppoaite.
..“In the fourth place,” said the
preacher to his drowsy audience, “those
of you who are awake will notice”—etc.
There was a pause, a sudden straighten
ing up of almost everybody in the con
gregation, and a general appearance on
nearly every face, as if to say, “why don’t
you fellows keep awake better?**
HAIR-ROWING REMARKS.
He timidly caressed his chin
And a-ked hia sister Grace,
•'I fay, does my mustache begin
To dignify my face ?”
Said she, “ Yonr beard while whistling, boy,
Is bunched so that it shows,
Bat when you quit the hairs deploy
Like soldiers ’nekth your nose.”
—Detroit Free Pre**.
. .“When a young man has learned to
wait,” satx a writer in the Poston
Journal, “he has mitteieti the hardest
lesson.” Indeed he has, and this truth
is particularly applicable when the young
man has called to take his girl riding,
and she keeps him waiting two solid
hours while she “fixes up.” Keeps him
waiting in the stable with a team which
costs him a dollar.
Burdette's Sea-Serpent.
. There is some humor in Texas. The
other day a man brought out a forlorn,
ipavined* looking steed, and addressed
the spectators thus: “Fellow citize;
this is the famous horse Dandy Jack.
Look at him. He’s perfect. If he were
sent to the homemaker nothing could be
done for him. “What shall I have bid
for the matchless steed?” What will
you tako for him?” yelled the crowd.
“Two hundred dollars.” “Give you
$5.” “Take him. I never let $195
stand between me and no horso trade.
That’s business.”
..lam past 60 years old, and every
now and then I meet a relick who knu
mo 45 years ago, and remembers some
deviltry I waa guilty of then. Ain’t it
strange how tenacious the memory iB of
those things, and how weak it is ov
eunything good a feller may have acci
dently done?”—[Josh Billings.
w »
..Rural etiquette: Guest—“Don’t
you know any matter than to walk into
my room without rapping? you see I am
umlreescd!” Servant—“On! you needn’t
excuse yourself, mum; I don’t mind.”
In a letter from Nova Scotia to the
Burlington Hawkeye, Burdette says:
“As long as I am up here, I want to see
everything that is to be seen. So I
have looked upon the sea-serpent. A
few weeks ago you published a St. John
dispatch describing the serpent as seen
in the Gulf of 3t. Lawrence. Since then
it has b?en bathing in the Bay of Fundy.
It was as long as a clothes line, and had
a head like a flour barrel, and when it
came luto the harbor at St. John, it had
place on its back for a band atend and
a reporter’s gallery. It came here the
day of tho vice-regal reception, and
wanted to hire itself out for a triumphal
arch, but there were no takers. It pro
pelled itself along through the wavea
with two rets of paddles which it used
with gri*at dexterity. It would -have
swallowed a man who was bathing in
the bay, only the man was not there,
having gone home several hours before.
It pursued cno of the International line
steamers for several miles, and seeing the
barkeeper standing on deck, recognized
him and called him by his first name,
which leads to the belief that this sen-
serpent had wintered off the coast of
Texas. It finally gave up the pursuit
of the steamer, but afterward stopped a
tug, and asked the names of the daily
papers in 8c. John, and if they had said
any thing about him. It stood up in the
bay to look at the procession, and cheer
fully accosted the King’s county caval
ry, addressing those much-decorated
warriors as the “Bushmen,” which
familiarity with local customs rather
conflicted with the Texas theory, and
proclaimed the 8 8. a provincial But
then the serpent sails around so much
that ho acquires the habits and speech
of all countries. The serpent disap
peared after this, and was seen but once
more in the harbor of St. John. About
five o’clock in the afternoon the monster
rose to the surface up near the boat
yards in Courtenay bay, and with a
strong Arkansas acoent, asked a *group
of workmen if ‘any gentleman had any
soft eating tobacco about his clothes ?
And with this pleasant request for 'fine
cut’ the serpent disappeared, and was
sjen no more.”