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'tn thit new ettnetta*—
Time to baud ap on
What time ialtf
3 Tliue to be thrifty •
Farniojj^ take warning
Mow in the epringtlme—
Bow in the morning— ^
flprin* rain ia coining, sejihvf are *,
4rtf*1TU1 V) thilq/jT^^ Ud growl
'Time to e*-«o«i—
1 W. HUBEHNS^ J®lfe4jij.,'HlfSS. Editors
^OLUMIlvr.i
1’LGR, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER ?7, 1881. f
NUMBER 15.
expense*—
Ima to look well
To the gatea and tencea 5
mdlng, aa good workora a. oul^;
't/T
tnd keeping the gotkt
What time la It? ^
Time to be earn eat,
Laying uptreaaura;
y . Ttefla ur^S tlii'ughtful,
[ ’ J , , A8iaing'trf|e pleasure,— .
^rMa^JijfcU<%-Mii.Uath being fond |
Making your word Juet aa good aa your bond
Time to be happy,
Doing your beat—
Tlmo to be truatful,
U«M.Wfc th#reit *
Xnawtngf'ln whateter country or oUma,
-tte’er can we call book ono minute of time.
—' TTr'
«n#K/Vw
th»t M|MpeU^ |hon j d ^ oblig jf b)
^ib, after , all she'd been
WaavWer *Ufl3l& ’Ebon, over at Dover,
Vell-to-do, and nof«,ctliekl<S[ jJiiaSoyq
to core for, exoe^t'tnetwy he' had adopt*
ed, who waa no credit to It Fal
odd, now, that a man wllh poor rela
tions should 4qke a stranger when his
own flesh and blood waa needy jJjuL.
sometimoa-it,does seem aa if. folk* %l*-
more j’dtKm .Ihaa^lirWif*
own\uh and kin. Then there were
cousins in the city, forehiuujqd and
fashionable, who were never* worth
row of pins to Delia,
gwstllttle'Mft’dwi
Contiutth vodi
and tiymgtho waters of every mineral
spring in the three kingdoms, for no
disease under the sun t hpl ultimo, n UM)
had beei^£^>fn»i tb b*|G *iiat • hbr 1f5k» ’
were too rich already, r*nd probably, she,
would endow some hospital 'with hor
property.” Plainly wealthy, relatives
were o!,npva4fef bDikftyUi' Delia. To be
sure, she had b&ver seon her great-aunt
since she waa a oliiid, when her
Uncle John had brought her into their 1
simple life for a month’s visit, with her
French maid and dresses, her jewels and
fallals, which won the heart of her name*-'
sake. Since then Urn Me John's widow
had become a sort 04 gilded creation, al*
ways young and beautiful; lor, .though
Delia had reo4i,ye~djhjL*t g^Gfrom time,
to time ocro-V the
years, sho had neither heard nor seen
anything 0 f the beipg who had inspired
her youthful imagination, and wj^ quite
uncertain U ||<$i ^pewan ad llfr. -Jolifc
Do person was in tho land of the living,.
Qr.ad or alive, she soerned to have made
mo material difference to Delia's, hum-
•drum life:' 'Altier 1 hiving nursefl her
father through a long lioknesa. Delia
found tliat he bad left a heavy moirtgago
on the homestead and her mother and
hersolf on !the high road to the pooiv
house, unless they s&onld bestir them
selves. As her mothor was already^ bed
ridden. tho stirring natarally fell uoon
Delia, and she advertised fo£ summer
boarders:
CaorrsBosocad, Me.—Good board in tho
soontry to the nrenide, at *7 a week. Largo
chambers, broad piazaaa, flno view#, barrio,* and
uow milk. One milo from tho station. Address
DeIJA RoOKIUjON,
“Cheap enough !" commep»n «{
derly lady who happ'.ueA upon it. "Be
lia Rogerson .*n old ^ suppose,
obiigeu to look out for hprself. l|'
good mind to try her broi 4 ^ piasaes and
new milk. If t ^tf*t li*> it tere'U bear
harm done.*- * v '* ■* 4N
And so Delia’s first boarder arrive
an okl lady with false frO^ hw, brown,
•rirflkled skin, faded eye®i
h
paiv
made. B : lighted
a Duchea *oom, os tho.^^HKTd«vup,
(Jlemont's 1 out her dointicA cup and
and brought tfje fadeless old roses
saucer, with " Wonderfully kind,”
wreathing thcim m0 nt m sb» oombed.
" There isbft n/ucli^o tsM. Us ask«.l
me to marry him. He was going to Auh
trulia, I couldn't leave father and
.pother, ypu^bAr (they were both feeble)
wndrTie v o5ulaffl^stay here. That’s all.”
"And you—you——"
“ ‘NowafFii
fihadewB."'|i l
“ And younjj'e never heard ,bl him
since?
"Yes. He %rbto : but whem was t^e
fee? It could never come to anything.
It was better for him to forget lie and
marry. I was a millston^^oout hia nook
• aaiwflUrA letOA*
I “ AH' 1 .^WPPfcipK li» .koaW, «Wr«
' * ^ome clay, would you marry liiml*’
.. “IdawajfK'JftlgHrt nulik. ntly,
v oa if Uvo idea were familiar, •' let the
uoighlwrs laugh eVoF so wisely. I’ve
rhjMigh| of. Hi80taist(mes, sittbig alono.
wiirnstlje wor^d wa#<)A#reA tad«ommon-
place. Ono must have recreation of
BQjne kind, ypu know. EyerjuJody ro-
• little jots an oi, -wlitths JWitry/to
3very-dav thinkina.and doing. I’m
JTT . ^aibk nfc>'ia suly old maid,
Mrs. Clement. k ’ , . , • 1 ivl *
.'f'ltrt 'The heart >neVfcr grows .old
The skin shrivels, the color departs, tbs
oyea fado, the features grow piu^ved *.
but the soul is Jtiel^.^sUff;.*!
kiii as beautify a^ fhnr-soor^ as
At 'sweet Time'flTakM amends for
<ho ravages of the body by developing
(he spirit ^ou didn’t tell me your lov
er's name. Perhaps you would rather
boarder lay oold and still upon her pil
lows.
The first shock over^Delia wrote to
lh»l»iry«tof*>om him hn<l'.hcard Mr».v
01outf*t^)Mk4i unvillff'ufiftrff. of fite
affairs, begging him h) iiotifv that ladv’s
relative if she had anyl In reply Mr.
Wilh^ote : Mrs. Clement
appj.t^B A have W.'uw ^lallvbe,
.SOmeVo^tarl • ibv-'lniV wh.^%havo an
tbp world’s goods, yet
- iMhor nb*jir>Ey .*l,,ti .Jo. tep'tod,
|Uerosity’a^Sno trlod yours, are
•efhaln of»uer familyv lu the
I inclose you a* copy of her,
it Will !^Sd testae enl,.^o peruse at
•our leisure. H
SS&
’ him in Melbourne, and bringB me word
how ho looks and what he is doing:
Delia’s summer boarders were not a
uccesp, to be sure. If they took no
money out of her pocket, they put none
in.'. BKe was obliged t6 * eke out tier
support by oopying for Lawyer Dun-
knore and embroidering for Mrs. Judge
Dorr. One by one her boarders droppod
away liko autumn leaves; all but old
Mrs. Clement.
I believe I’ll stay on,” Bbo said,
ax getting too old to move often.
Perhaps you take winter boardors at ro-
l • rneirhB;Dut whon one s pun
inn wouwd niM, # • •
The following story, Bays thsrWsah-
tllftpnf Capital, is true in every cU^ait:
(A ‘JiulWner df HiBpoclahilUy married fl
dissipated tailor, who abused, neglected
and abandoned flovoral years hav
ing passed witliWR aclew to his wherea
bouts he* frieftfa ailvlkbd divorce apd
Aer acceptance of -an advr.r jfrwu^'offor
of raarriago, Tho ^ri-ujati persisbintly
declined every offer, and when she had
aconwhldtcd a sufflcieuitfhm started ofl
in tho direction her husband was sup
plied to ha*e taken Vr^.n he lcl^ her.
At Halifax, N. S., sho received a slight
clow, and took the steamer to Portland,
Me. Thence she followed his traek to
New York, where sho ceased for many
monthB to hear from him. Finally sho
found that bo was forking itt Albany,
for AI11W1 ^lsce she immediately stsfhfd.
been diselmrged for druukenni ss. Spend-
' • VY nat interest think 1 take
Mrs. tjlemcnt’s vriU?".iL'->vigkt Delia;
■ she read, Uevertheloss :
BelSg of Bound mind^bta 16Ui daj of Jnnn, , f6r ^ i mme dlately stsHl
W.W; Sol
(duo ur bij property—viz.: *30,- duK-linrcredfor dranlienuoBe. Spe:
000 Invented in tbo Ingot Mining Couipsay,
esO.OOO in United Rtate* bond*/ *20,000 in tho
Fm tune Flannel MiUs, and my JoweU—to tfio
beloved qlaoe of my Aral husband, John Roger-
in, Delia Rogers no, of Oroftaborougb, Me.
“ For I woa a stranger and ye took me In \
hungry, Ad yo fod mo \ aiek, and yo mi"is- f
tero<l unto mo." - — ►
VnAgOBH Ilf MKins CLOITTirra.
H is curiohs W note how gTost are tho
chntlgA« ih meh’s odstumo. Rooking
only gjf, one detail, tho wiidWoit, '’hich,
last century, was tho caueo of endless
extravagance* we find that it la now of
tile Utmost simplicity and is, for the
most part, liidduo by tlio coat. But tlie
waistcoat had iU day. There wia a time
when dandies made it a matter of pride
to have dozens—nay, scores—Qf waist
coats. In Germany, during tho last oent-
tiry* the luxury was considerable, and
tho love of display incalculable. One
of the Ministers under Frederick the
Great used to boast that he had 800
Waistcoats and 800 wigs. "So many
wigs and so little head,” said Frederick
the Great, speaking of him. Men crl
positions were required to have a posi
tive museum of waistcoats in the eight
eenth century- Thora were ylpth walst-
I c^ats, silk waistooats, waistcoats in vel
vet, waistcoats in cloth of gold. The
waistcoat waa a work Cf aH^ a painter’i
wife at Tcn^ttt* discof fted 11
purse
low—’
" ies; i know. • jl»o stay at your own
Bfioa-i 1 w£W»»yv-“ . i» . * .»>
<8h6 haa gAwn such a fondness for the
old lady that to refuse her at her own
terms would have seemed like, turning
hex .own mother out' of doors; beside,,
one month moiti would not signify. But
shfl. found. it., hard id make both ends
meet, and often went to bed hungry
that liei;motljqr and Mrs. Clement might
e'djdy enbufth, iritHout ther6 appearing
to be " just a ylatteri.”! At Christmas,
lioWever, came a ray of sunshino for
Delia, in the shape of a f 100 bill from
an unknown friend.
“ It oan’t be meant for me,”sheoxied.
“It’B directed to Delia HogoiBon,”
said her mother; |M and there’s nobody
else of that name; now. that yonr Aunt
dead.” i i - . ,
not sure she’s dead, ob-
i 4 Town, a^d a
h, m as welcome as
reflected Mrs. Ole.
out her wisps of g*
tho false front to a
kindness for $7 a
the trade. Bhe’ll 1.
.nature doesn’t
Bhe’U find it doeBn
comfort of a poyertyl
ure." .l^t in sp^-,
dom, fSf Clement
fess that )elia hi
to hold out, thou
to demand her
*ay hair And confided
box. “ W&derlul
kl_ Bb^ new to
liter.' Human'
,’t yoU know whethor
dead or alive ?” asked
ement,-in a shocked tone,
isn’t nn^ grit* She is rich and
named for-h«. 1
used to \n4JRitho glass ar.-l try to be-
inherit her beauty with the
Though she was only our great-
!e’s wife.”
She ought to do something for yon.”
How can she, if she is dead ? I
iton't^Olaiae hor, anyway. Her mouey
• *s her own to use according to her pleas
ure. Uncle John made it himself and
gave it to her.”
" But if she should come book to you,
having ran through with it, you’d di
vide your last crust with hor, I’ll be
br^id.’’
"• I suppose I should,” replied Delia.
_ Tlio winter wore avpy as winters will,
the miracles of spring began in
"G6oihi^s 1” cried the neiglf-
borvwhon the foots reached their ears.
" What a profitable thing it is to t*ku
boarders! Everybody in town will bo
trying it. . Of epuroe, SJpve. I^angdou
wHl come and marry her ii sho wore for
ty old maids. You may stick a pin ir.
there l”
Doha diu not operi her house to board
ers the next season.. 8h« found enough
to do in looking after her money and
spending it; in replying to letters from
indigent people, who soemWt tft 'lncreaBo^
alarmingly; in reoeivingjild fiRend* whW>
Bu^lerily found time to remember her
■existonc'*. And, sure enough, among
the rest appeared Stove Longdoh, and
all the village said, "I told you so.”
"ItVnot my fault that tou aid Faro
single X et . HelhC' he sid.* -*•*
“And we are too old to think of it
now, Steve.” '
“ Nonsense 1 It’s never too late to
mend. I’in not rich, ^ Delia, bi^t I’ve
enough for two and io ipa^ea” V |
“f troulfe-t beMBUaUijfeot to dn^-'
in my carriage and have servante under
me now,” laughed Delia. -. f
Indeed! Then perhaps you have m
better match in view. Capt. Seymour
united me, by tho way, if I had come to
iterfere with Squire JoneA,viUr?st." V
Bhhirn Jones proposed to mo
last week.” » - t ’ \
Now, see here, Delia, Have lcome
all the way from Melbourne on a fool’s
errand? There I was growing used to
my misery and loneliness, when the
mail brings in a lotter in a strange
hand, ^hioh tells me.that my dear love,
Delia Rogerson, loves and dreams of mo
still, is poor and akrno nnii uflBdi^me—^
mo! And tho letter is slgne# lif-hoi'
aunt, Mrs. Clement, who ought to know.
I packed my household goods and
came.”
“I’m glad that jfan did.”
“ Iq o^djpr UiaVf may opngratulate
Squire’JotloaY’” °
" But I haven’t accepted him. In
fact, I’ve refused him—because—”
"Because you will marty yonr old
love, like tho loss in the song, Delia? ’’
In Croftsborough people are not yet
tired of tellifig how a woman made
money by taking boarders.
consider the
A-iiiT' oreR k
*** . ’dly wis-
ir wotk J ^
foro»d to k "
sbo mean,
er boarders came
to multiply
1 ^fields and ivaysid*; and DeKa’s boarders
Gbn. W. T. Shxbman, in a lettnr to
Priv^e Dolzell, says : “I return bore-
her cares. The fret ^ i K« oonftiet-
ing temper, fenta uuier ) ,*rool waa a
„ il they were »e* •aoqtuintanoe.; of
»aat of appetite, aa though. DeUa had
. greed to supply H ^ bcm “
. ,ir-tr mtUt: of the weatlier. u if aim
t Oj'pLedged herself there would he no
„ fiden chaDgea to ■ anljny her llo “ dor “.
”, .the shabby houie and aiih^uated tor-
L j k ire, “ too old for oomlurt ainoiM
eno ugh for foehioa"-then Delia doubted
if , ling howdere w« her mmmon.
- o-t mtkf* TOU keen ua. i*t dear?
jk. Clement,Wter a day when
1 VaA anompd
returned with the Juno rosoB, and
dropped away again with tho fading
leaves, and still Mrs, Clentent stayed on
and on. JuBt now Bbo had been Rome
weeks in arrears witn n»Sr redtucea ooara.
money bad tyeen fortlieoroing for
gome ti^no, and she was growing more
feeble daily, needed tho luxuries of an
invalid and the attention of a- .nurse,
tx>th of which Delia bestowed hpon
her", without taking thought of the
morrow.
jL must hear from my man-of-busi
ness to-morrow, Delia; I’m knee-deep
in debt to you,” she began one night.
"Dcm’t mention it l” cried Delia.
“I’d rrther never see a cent than have
vou take it to heart You are welcome
with the letter of Thurlow Weed, which
yon ought, of oonrse, to preserve. How
Mr. Weed was instrumental ia bringing
me back to the military sendee ip 1800
I am, of course,' unable to say, huYbis
statement with reference to his inter
vention with President Lincoln and Sec
retary Cameron is all ntows to me.
■oannot r«call%aver having met with or
seen him till Jong after the .war was
over. I hnwn great respect for tlio old ,
gcntlcman^Sfit axn reminded of the in
firmity by hia laying down my
route froH^^Manta to Richmond as
through th^Rates of Tennessee, Ar
kansas, Miasisjipqj and tho Carolina/}.
That surely would have been a wwhig
around tho civole. I am .sure I 'appre
ciate the portiab isr of friends such as
Thurlow W«sed and others, hut am more
and more convinced eaoli day that this
world will move in its usqal orbit; that
mau is a mere atom of little influence ;
that eacti year and each epoch creates
its own agents that the great men of
of 1776 were not suited to 1812; that
these affain fell short of 1846; ancy hose
in 1867*. Each epoch calls for new
agents* and* lhould the year 1900 call
for nctw ir.en, the Grants, Shermans
and Hier-idans will fail as signally as did
the Sfc. Clairs and Hulls of 1812, the
Woolr, and Worths of 1846. As long as
wearying wife
ho was employed by tt largo firm in
Chicago. Sho wrote there, and was an
swered,that her Lmubund had goBq ayk'ftt*
nobody knew whore. Not Bidisfisdwith
ttlht, Tiho traveled* to that city and ran
sacked every concern interested in the
tailoring buaineaa tliero, uutil slie met a
fellow-countryman who said, tbaf her
husblmd, when last heard from, was in
Omuho. She wrote there, got no an
swer, but went on. Tliero she heard
that he had certainly left for San Fran
cisco, whero lie had obtained a fine
place aa entter in a large firm. Silo 4 , of
course, went thither, only to bq told
that hgc husband hajl been Severafdays
away from work.and wae drinking ha*a.
iHe k*4no*been even at * his boarding
houses. This led her to visit the stution-
house, and in ono of them she ascer
tained that her husband was in jail for
ten days. He was relejised and prevailed
on *.o return home titer sixye^raJabBenoev
^All tlii* ted eighteen *yhars ago^
and to-day tUe prodigal husband of yore
io a strict temperance man, in independ
ent circumstances, a model husband and
father and aveapeoted oitiaen.
TUK 1.AWB OF LlWUIli, ,
Differences hot ween the livery tflabh
man and tlio hirer of the horse are very
frequent, and generally, though the
owner of the animal may get pecuniary
redress, it is the poor brute that moatly
suffers. To ride or drive a borrowed <>r
hired horpo to llie dovil lias bec©m#ii
common sajing. One or two recent
English cases are wortjh pommenting up
on, as showing that that-very-much
abused person, tho livery stable keeper,
has certain rights.
A man hired a horse and carriage at
Ipawioh, with the understanding that he
would drive to Colchester and return
the snmu day, a distance of twenty miles
k wav. Tlx* peraqn Who kat^
horse ancf vohiolo drove not only to
place s]>ecified, but to a town ten miles
further on—working the horse sixty
jnilqs withiu the specified time <Jf tiding.
Tho horse died next day. T^e v«*efi|iV
ry nurgeon was of the hpinfon that the
animal had been overdriven. The de
fendant's counsel arguod that tho agree
ment was to drive ' 4 through" Colchester,
but Uie jury did not think so, and the
plaintiff von the oase, with a verdict of
the value of the horse.
Deviations from a fixed route betweeu
two places, when a horso is hired and in
jury is sustained by the livery keepor,
may bring a penalty" tlio hiror. Be
tween Now York auu a placo called A
the distance may bo thirty miles, and
the livery stablo keeper knows the dis
tance. But if the hire* takes round
about ways to reach there, increasing
the distance traveled, knowing the
proper or shorter road, he is, unless he
has specified to a go-as-you-please
method of journeying, liajilo .10 dam
ages. As to damages to vehicles, so
constant with awkward driver*, it would
be quite wise if a tariff of charges were
put up in livery stables, ^.’hen a man
would know before lie started what his
sig was worth. —Lowell '.'ourier.
canvas filled with subjects. It
ered with admirable representations of
hunting episodes, of court scenes, of
famous fables, of village festivals. The
waistooat of the gallant of the period
was enlivened with the piotorial history
of the loves of Mars and Venus, the
Marshal's waistcoat waa embroidered
with military scenes, while one of the
court dandies aoquired fame (which he
would not have otherwise enjoyed) by-
reason of the illustrations of popular
plays to be seon on hia manly bre
Tho rage for these illuminate^iwi
lftstcc!-ijlHlip ^9d,of
worthy ol notice. .-They'vrefe, fol llh
meat part, of fcbdmt tile* size of our sil
vor dollars, and were in steel, in sJlVcr,
in precious stones, sometimes evph" in
diamtoclB.VTKh Count d’A^iS
ward qhsrles X,, was celebrated
for the magnificenoe of his but
tons, some of which word in
enamel, and embellished with
miniatures of tho celebrated beauties, of
classio heads of the gods and goddesses.
Borne men of lower typo wore on'their
buttons the portraits and initials of the
queens of their hearts. Tho revolution
brought aim at some chnnges.' Tho
waistooat was shortened, and its buttons
boro tho }K>rtrait of Robespierre, who
was known .among the dAndiee aa the
mall with the best-powdered hair in
France ! or of Saint Just or Fouquior-
Tiuvllte or others. But this fashion
noon disappeared, and the waistcoat has
gradually lost its importance as an arti-
ticlo of masculino apparol, and is now
considered useful as a depot for the
watch, but as an ornament is none.
HCTIOOL HTQIBWm.
The condition of some of the schools
as to light and ventilation is simply de
plorable. Some may lie remedies oth
ers will need to be romoved and new
houses erected in their places. In sev
eral school-rooms the light enters al
most entirely from the rear, rendering
it necessary for the teachers to stand
facing the windows, while tho work of
the papil is shaded by liis own liody.
I am confident that in all such rooms
great injury is being done to tho eyo-
ight of many of tire occupants. Mauy
rooms are provided with no adequate
meanH of ventilation. In some the
planB adopted have proved failure!
part or wholly, while in othors uo meaus
whatever havo been provided save by
the floors aud windows. During warm
weather, when theso can be left open,
no great harm need he done, but, when
cold weather requires that they l>e
closed, tho foulness of the air Incomes
almost unbearable, and no effott or
watchfulness on tlio part of the teachers
cau make the rooms tit for use. Even
the out-door air in a city like ours is far
from being pure, and it is safe to say
tliat, with all our efforts to seeure venti
lation, tho air of many Bclmol-rqom«
would, if analyzed, bo found to contain
five times tho normal amount of car
bonic-acid gas, beside all tho other im
parities incident to tlio collecting into
i,oe room of from forty to sixty cldl-
i(roi>. During the pant two years con
tagious diseases havo prevailed in our
midst moro than over before. Not uiily
havo many children horn our school^
dfed, bfit hundreds of others have Imen
interrupted ill their school work on this
account. It ia a notice ablo fact that
theso diseases are raoro prevalent in
oold weather, and it is more than proba
ble that the physical system of the
ohildren is roivterod moro suaeoptibh to
theso diseases bocanso of the polluted
air tli<" * ro obliged to breathe £-om
four u five hours per day. It is expens
ive to build now school-houses ard pro
vide amplo means of vontilatiug the
same, hut it is far nioro expensive to
havo the work of the school broken up
by preventable diseases. Visit, near tlio
close of tho day, ouy of tho rooms, in
which there is a lack of goed veutila-
•tion, and tho lnssitudo shown by the
children in all thoir exorcises will con
vince unv mm t bow impossible it is for
the mind' to do any rcally-good
work under such circumstaucos. The
brain refuses to act, impevfeot lessons
are tlio result, tho teacher loses confi
dence in her ability to interest and ben
efit the pupils, and becomes disconr-
agod.—SoAor/ Su lurin'indent Daniels,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
FLEA 8 AN TRIES,
"Yxa sir,” said Mr. Gallagher, “it
onough to make a donkey
'I laughed till I oriod. ”
xrjj sir, I would box your ears H
ir reflectively)—“but where
I .^id a box laTgo enough? ”
r ATmri on the zebra: “Phat kind
of a baste is that— the mule with hia
rjbs on the outside of hia skliin entirely 1”
{^Wht don’t yon have some stile
about y % -?” said the man who hod
looked. &l$ng a mil® of barbed fenco for
an entrance.
BiTwrrv “drouth ,f spd “ drought, ”
the presi- of the country appears to havo
particular way of spelling which
indioates a dry spell.
An Indian idol waa recently found in
Kansas. It was made of earthenware,
waa brown in color, and has a handle.
It will hold two quarts.
Onh lively fly can scratch up and
scatter more seeds of religion than tho
moat eloquent divine cau row in a whole
forenoon.-— Whitehall Times.
A little girl in a London Sunday-
school, being asked why God modo the
flowers of the field, replied : “ Please,
ma’am I suppose for patterns for artificial
flowers.”
Niagara Falla is aobrilliantly illumin
ated by tho electric light every evening
that after paying tho hackman you cau
oasily see whether there is anything left
*n your pocket-book.
Insects are becoming faslxionablo for
jewelry, but then it is not pleasant to
find this kind of fahliionable jewelry or
namenting the mattress of the summer
hotel.
Fm.vr player—“ I dreamt last night I
was playing Hamlet.” Second player—
"I am very thankful to say that I did
not dream that I was ono of your audi
ence.”
Inquirer : “ Is it wicked to go fishing
Sunday, if you dou’t catch anything ? "
It is horribly wicked. You’ve uo busi
ness to waste time, and profanity is
always wicked.—Boston J*osi.
to stay and share pot-luok with us; l 0 ur. country is in the ascendant states-
yoG At* «uch company lot mothor and | will arise equal to any occasion, but
when the time comes for a decline, then
*• Thank yon, my dear. I’ve grow?*
as fond of you as if you were my ow<n
flesh and blood. Thera, turn down the
. „ . light, please. It grows ohilly, doesn't
j, d everybody had seemed jt , Tou might kise me put ones, il
^ "Why didn’t yon ever fl rua woaldn’t nvnd. Ite e hundred
! °.'"vonhad»lover, I dareeay?" I years or so sinco any ono kissed me.
Touhad alov , muIn ing, when Delia «r-
yes;al 0 ng, ongUmeart. r.iemsnl'. breaklaat. her
tril me aboethm—it?
riedup Mrs. Clement's breakfast.
no personal effort will avail or succeed. ’
A German teacher, Herr Edwin
Preiss, formerly a companion of Fred-
crich Goratacker, the well-known Ger
man writer and traveler, has arrived at
Los Angeles, Oal., after traveling on foot
all the away from Florida. The journey
occupied 267 days.
Bret Harte’s peculiar horror is the
poem that made liis reputation, “ The
Heathen Chinee.” To a friend who once
made a quotation from it in hia hearing,
he said:
“If you lovo mo ne.er mention
4 Heathen Chinee’ in my hearing. If 1
die young it will bo of that miserable
washerman. Ho is my nightmare and
my daymaro. I cannot get rid of him;
go whore I will, «e springs up like a jack-
in-a-box. With some people I havo to
bo polite and listen to all they have to
say on the subject; but I feel that I
knew you well enough to cry out 4 ftps
mo !’ I am willing and pleased to talk
of any of my other stories, and oven
other poems; but the Mongolian will
kill mo yet.
•' Why, do you know, they have actu
ally set it to musio—a frightful dirge
, \ young lady insisted upon ohunting it
to me the other night, and I had to
listen patiently, instead of following my
inclination, whilch was to tear th^*iu
into » thousand pieces, and twice up
and down ou tlw key-board of the piano,
It was enough to drive me mad. ”
A MAllYLAND UAKBRCUB. i
Very few know just what a barbecue
means. Woll, if you want to see one in -
all its glory go to Maryland. Tho .bar- >
becue ground is generally located near a
^iuo spring. Around ite clear waters ore
Jiung u score of gourd dipj>orH. Starting
-early in the morning-wo find tho campuB
already humming, liko a^iye.,
hroiuj diteUeii have been dug, and these
are iioorod with coals a foot deop, ovor
which are laid great spits, and on these
Hugo carcusses of hogs and bullocks.
Farther on beyond these trenches are
great log fires, which are kept constant
ly blazing, so that nt any time the ditches
may ho replenished with coals. Such
hissing and crackling aa thoro is above
theso immense fires as tho mounting
flames curl and wreath themselves into
great volumes of smoke! Scores of
coaches, buggies and wagons aro pour-
filled with a laughing, jolly
crowd, all i*tent upon a day’slfrol^.
Families some op horseback, wMlo not
infrequently con be soon thtee rtecrjai
one mulote Gayly-dressed ladi« cdffe
with their escorts, and negroes pour in
on foot. The whole country seexus to.l jr,
have enteXed into the frolic. DovA^kp*}*^
the great Doiling kettles near the*pring
the darkies are dressing afloate, sheep
and great beeves. Every animal is left
whole, but is split to tb* backbone.
Long tables are spread beneath tjm
pines. The horn is blown for '
As the band atxikea up a lively ais. the
people wind in a long, fantastic line in
and out among the trees to the wpjo
jpread tables beneath. Babies crow and
prattle, mothers chat together, while
old people find they have not forgotten
bow to laugh. Certainly nothing oan
be more ioUy than a Maryland barbecue
The widow of Ouray, the celebrated
Ute chief, who diod last winter, sold her
household effects at auction the otner
day, and, from tho published accounts
of tho sale in the local papers, tho Oolo
rado Indians must live in luxury. The
Solid Mitfdoon says: “The artieliw
offered were knocked down at ruinous
prices. The four Russia-leather
chairs sold tor 75 cents; 875 dressing-
case, $13; Ouray’s fine broadcloth suit
(never worn), 85 ; forty yards of velvet
Brussels, worth 8100, for 813, and Ouray
and Ohipota’s certificates of member
ship of tho Methodist Episcopal church,
25 oents- ” m ^
A compart has been organized in New
York with a capital of 826,000,009 to
work ths guano beds of Peru.
A correspondent speaks as follows
of tho gentleman in whoso 44 cottago ’’
President Garfield died : “Mr. Charles
G. Fraucklyn, who is first cousin to Sir
Beach Ounord, lit., and is now a gentle
man of betweeu 35 aud 40 years of age,
hail been for mauy yonrs tho Now York
agent of the Cunurd line of steamers,
but concluded.lost winter to resign this
lucrative position on account of many
other business engagements, chief
among which is the Presidency of the
Municipal Gaslight Company, and the
Presidency of » ^ilver mine in Utah, in
which ho is also a principal shareholder.
Mr. Francklyn is married to a vory beau
tiful and accomplished American lady, a
daughter of ex-Oov. Hoyt, from which
xnarriago two children havo sprung-
Gilbert, fui.nliarly called Bertie, a
boy of 11, like UiB father, a
£ruo John Mull of the .best type,
and who is now being prepared for
Eton, and Gwhidyj, a young lady of 9
summers, who r^.des, or rather does.
resido, withw.er parents, for the
Francalyns uside nowhere in partieu-
•, although they havo a princely mun-
Nu^ York, one of the ohl-fash-
>ued Duili houses in Washington
Square, just fitted up for their use, and
the handsomest eottage at Elbercm, on
the healthiest spot perhaps iu tho United
Suites. Yea, I believe aa travelers the
Fraucklyn family will remain un-
rivuled. When on tho approach of
winter they have come to town
and everybody bolioves them comforta
bly settled with thoir twonty-threo ser
vants, elegant carriages aud superb
herses. they charter a steam yacht and
off thoy uro to Cuba, to enjoy a tropical
din ste for a week or two. Back again,
„..j\^jive half a dozen balls and
of d*uner parties to everybody who is
anybody, but, before those hospitalities
can bo returned, they aro gone to En
gland, where Mr. Francklyn, who is
very enterprising, has, uo doubt, some
iron in the fire. Just now thoy are out
WeM. hoar-hunting, with Miss Gwladyi
ife nay have oold f**l
»uie« the know!**!*#
" Well, Mary, how do you liko your
new homo in Vermont ?" “ Well, mnm,
we all like it but father, and tho air i.
too embracing for him, but under tho
canister of heaven I think there isn't »
more boautifuller place." f
“Motkku," said a fair-haired urolith,
“I don't want to go to Sunday-vhool.
I want to go flailin'.’! "Ku'l tho :ish
won't bite on Sunday." “Weil," re
sponded the probable futnro President,
“I’ll risk it, any way. Maybe thero'i
some that's liko mo."
Bbikeusn—"Tlio train ie now about
to enter tho State of Missouri. Gen
tlemen who havo not provided them
selves With carbines will puss forward
to the locomotivo and crawl into the
tender.”
Tin “ utterly utter ” kind of talk liaa
Infeoteil the street gamins, ono of whom,
after picking up a moro than usually
fragrant oigar-stnmp, oxolaiiuod to hia
friend : "Jack, this ia quite too posi
tively bully,"
the kind op a bosihtjd ana ia.
p m M nnlj dsnghl.r young girl
A .pll-ourl mid frlKM yoUJig girl,
A l.ngul.alng, jmntj, .11 powilwy mid pslntr,
811 up .t 11 joung girl
. wnuld-bo ■mb.tlo young girl,
it in embryo, don't know ■
a tbo lurftco young girl,
i no»*i-re»dlng young girl
dressed as a boy, accompanied by Sir
Beach Canard and Mr. Balfour, a young
Scotchman of noble lineage.
QuanN Victoria, accompanied by the
Prince and Princess of Wales aud their
daughters, by the Duke and Duoheaa
of Connaught, Prinoo Leopold and the
Duke of Cambridge, waa present recently
at a cricket match betwoon tho servants
of her Majesty's household and those ul
the Priane of Wales from Abergeldio.
r
44 The vast strides which have been
made iu tho commercial growth of Wiu-
nipeg duriug tho i*ist throe months,
according to the Montreal Oazclle,
"havo surpassed the dreums of tho
most sanguine believers iu prosent and
futnro ’prosperity. Within that period
property in and around Winnipeg, which
hns deservedly been styled tho Chicago
of tho Northwest, has advancod in value
to tho astounding extent of from 200 to
300 per cent. Such is said to bo the
for tho possession of lots around
tho city that auction sales are boing
evexyr night with tho greatest suc-
The exfhnsive soalo upon which
building is going on tliero w real
ly wonderful. In all directions new
storeB and residences are going up ft*
fast aa tho trowel and hammer can roar
thorn, and in a very y uarB Winnipeg
will undoubtedly become the great
magnet among tho cities of tho North-
A part* of boys recently found, while
playing near the Town Hull in East Ma-
ohias, an Indian burial place, which
proved to be the moat interesting dis
covery of the kind ever mude in Maine.
The Indian who lay bnriod thoro wa*
evidently a chief. A copper band en-
oircled liis skull, copper ornamonts hung
to his right our, which was dried
still well preserved, and on part rv his
scalp grew long black hair. An iron
knife lay on his breast, hR taco was
covered with a mat made froU the cat
tail rash, and his body was gapped in
a decayed moose-skin, on whx’h rented
a copper breast-plate seventh
long. There was also a
like those used by the
settlors.
the Jirooaiyn image nas t
ovor 813,000,000. A thousand
steel are, it is calculated, still j
complete the structure.