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COLEMAN * KIRBY. Editor* and Proprietor*.
VOL. XI.
ELL!.]AY COURIER.
PUBLISHED EVJSRY THURSDAY
—BY—
COLCJVIAN & KIRBY.
WP* LJio-.-o in the Court House
GENERALDIR£CTORy7
Superior Court meets 3d Monday iu
May and 2d Monday in October.
Hou. James R. Brown, Judge.
George F. Oober, Solicitor General.
COUNTY COURT.
Hon. Thomas F. Greer, Judge.
Moultrie M. Sessions,County Solicitor.
Meets 3d Monday’ in each month.
Court of Ordinary meets first Monday
in each month.
town council.
J. P. Perry, Intendent.
Jl. McKinney, i. H. Tabor, I „
J. Lluunicutt, J.R. JohnsoD, j Oom '
W. H, Foster, Town MarshaL
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. C. Ailen, Ordinary,
T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Const,
H. M. Bramlctt, Sheriff,
•T. 11. Sharp, Tax Receiver,
G. W. Gates, Tax Collector,
Jns. M. West, Surveyor,
G IV. Rice, Coroner,
W. F. Hill, School Ci mmissloner.
The County Board of Kducation meets
at Eilijay the Ist Tuesday in January
April, July and October.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South—
Every 4th Sunday, and Saturday before,
by Rev. C. At. Ledbetter.
Baptist Church—Every 2nd Saturday
and Sunday, by Rev. E. B. Shopc.
Methodist Episcopal Church—Ever.
Ist Saturday and Sunday, by Rev. R
H. Robb,
FRATERNAL RECORD,
Oak Bowery Lodge, No 81, F. A. M,,
meets first Friday in each month.
W. A. Cox, W. M.
L. B. Greer, S. \V.
W. F. Hipp, J. W.
It. Z Roberts, Trets.
T. W. Craigo, Sec.
Xf. W. Roberts, Tyler,
X B. Kirbv, S. D.
J. W. HENLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
JASPER, GEORGIA.
Wi t pr.otioo iu the Supetfßr Court of the Blue
Ilhljlt' Circuit, l'romp-, attention to al busi
ite intiusttd to bis care.
M. IT. Sessions. E. W. Coleman
SESSIONS & COLEMAN,'
attorneys at law,
ELLIJAY, QA.
Will practice in Blue Rblge Circuit, County
Court Justice Court of Gilmer County. Legal
business solicited. •‘Promptness” is our motto.
OR. J. S. TANKERSLEY.
Physician and Surgeon,
Tend-rs his professional services to the citi
zens of Eilijay, Gilmer and surrounding conn
ties. AH calls promptly attend *d to. Office
upstairs over the firm of Cobb A Son.
tU!FE WALDO THORNTON, 0.0.8.
DENTIST,
Calhoun, Ga.
VVill visit Ellijay and Morganton at
both the Spring and Fall term of the
Superior Court—and oftener by special
contract, when sufficient work is guar
anteed to justify me in making the visit.
Address as above. Tmavkl-lv
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bat flllDC all disease, of the LIVER,
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It changes the complexion from a wary, yellow
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Were washed with
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First Class Housekeepers use 1L
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manner is decidedly hard work; At
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Bd. Try a hetter plan and invest
five cents In • bar or ELECTRIC
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Even Shoe Manufacturers find it best suited to
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Truly Automatic Sewing Machines aro fast
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Shuttlo Machines have seen their best days.
Send for Circular . Correspondence solicited.
Mountain Yiew Hotel!
ELLIJAY, GA.
This Hotel is now fitted up in excel
lent order, mid is open for the reception
of guests, tinder competent management.
Every possible effort will be made to
make the Mountain View the most popu
lar Hotel in Ellijaji. Accommodations ip
every department first-class. Livery, sale
and feed stables in connection with hotel.
Guests transfered to and from all trnin s
fre e of charge. (i 2 4 ly
The Rise of the Collar.
jff |
Be'ore the rdvmcieu collar the neck
of the city swell hat disappeared fiom
public view.
Sounded His Capabilities.
“Who was that stranger you were with
last night, Jim?”
“Colonel Black of the regular amy.”
“You dr. n’t say go. I never would
hare taken him for a soldier.”
•‘Well, Gerrge, I didn't half believe he
was an army o licet myself until 1 played
poker with hitn. Lend me a dollar till
to-morrow, will you. —Sen York Timet.
A gnat many people are unaware that
there are eight small reservations in New
York State, located in the extreme south
west portion. The Indians number over
5,000, and consist of Senecas, St.
Regis, Onondagas, Tuscaroras, Oneidas
and Cayugas. The State provides
the reservations. The general Govern
ment mokes a school appropria
tion. General Eli Parker, formerly
of Grant’s staff and ex-Indian Commis
sioner, is the hereditary chief of the
Senecas.
An Indiana aeronaut says that a balloon
can be made to anrry an elephant aa
easily as a mouse, 160 men as easily as
one man. He proposes to construct a
cylinder-shaped balloon ICO or 200 feet
long, with -which to make eaptive and
free ascents. He Is a believer in the theory
that the north pole may be reached by a
balloon, and In no other way. Hie plan
for this project would be to employ a
screw, operated by au engine to be car
ried in the car. By means of this screw
the balloon's course could be controlled,
as already demonstrated by French ex
periments.
In Vienna the goose is skinned before
it is sent to the market, and the skin
garnished with its down is sold as swan’s
skin or down. It is thus effected: The
skin of the back is slit, and the whale
is drawn over the head like a shirt with
the greatest care, so as not to injure the
breast. Such a skin sells for two or
three francs, but the value of the bird
is lessened one-fifth The carcasses are
sent to Paris, and are eagerly bought up by
the work-people and tavern-keepers. At
Poitiers there are two houses which pre
pire annually 40,000 to 50,000 swan
downs, England and America being the
chief markets.
For her tnrned up nose,
Her sweet little toes.
Her pretty pink hose.
And all her clothes
During 1885 the number of "recep
tions” at the morgue in Paris were 858.
Of these 059 were bodies of men, 190 of
women. The busiest month was August,
when the number was 108; the slackest,
February, when it was forty-one. Of
the 858 bodies, 605 were identified, and
tho following is the classification given
of professions:
MKN. WOMEN.
Laborers 115 Working women... 87
Employes ......... 67 Domestic servants. 28
Drivers. 61 Washerwomen .... 17
Masons 47 Flower girls 10
Mechanics. 28 Bookbinders 11
Gentlemen tfl Other professions.. 18
Other professions.. 168
The sundry forms of death are classi
fied as follows: Drowned, 181; hung,
79: firearms, 163; sidearms, 91; poi
soned, 63; suffocated, 154; falls from
houses, etc., 75; other causes, 58.
The stockmen of Nevada complain of
the quantities of jqck-mbblts which in
fest the cattle ranges and are rapidly de
nuding the country of all vegetation.
Never since the settlement of that section
have these animals been so plentiful, and
unless some moans of destroying them
is soon found the experience of extensive
portions of Australia bids fair to be re
peated. In many parts of California
and Oregon, where the rabbits have
multiplied so as to become a pest, they
have been thinned out by a combined
move on the part of the settlers. All the
residents of a given neighborhood by
common consent have turned out for half
a dozen entire days, and, well supplied
with arms and ammunition, have waged
successful warfare against the common
enemy. By this means thousands have
been destroyed in a single day.
Apropos of the warlike feeling in
Greece, a prominent Greek who was in
terviewed as to what his-countrymen are
aiming at, i ays: “We want Epirus and
Crete, and otner smaller territories, be
cause in all respects—historical, geo
graphical, ethnological, linguistical and
ecclesiastical—they are Hellenic, inte
gral portions of Greek territory, and by
natural right the inalienable possession
of the Greek race. The vast majority
< f the inhabitants of those provinces are
our compatriots, eaten up and preyed
upon by Turkish banditti who have been
encamped there for four hundred and
five hundred years. The Turks have no
more right to the possession of those
provinces than has a band of piratos to
tho ship which they have captured by
force or fraud. Epirus, besides, was
ceded to us by the treaty of Berlin.”
As an evidence of the growth of thrift
among the colored people of South Caro
lina, the Charleston Newt and .Courier
publishes a statement showing that one
thousand and fifty-seven colored people
of that city have deposits in the local
savings banks amounting to $124,936.
The person who has the largest deposit,
$6,747, to his credit, is a pure-blooded
African, but a bora financier. He has
recently bought a valuable plantation for
SIO,OOO and has paid $7,000 of the pur
chase money. The Newt and Courier
adds: “There are thousands of active
and thrifty colored men in the State who
have bought land •since the war, and who
are steadily collecting about them the
comforts and many of t|je luxuries of
life. Comparatively few of the colored
people entertain decided notions of
economy or have any faith in govern
ment savings banks, but the wealth they
have hidden away in old stockings and
the money they are investing from year
to year in lands snd houses, if it could
rightly lie estimated, would prove to bes
pleasing revelation.”
“ i * map OF BUST LITB—ITB FLUCTUATION'S AND ITS FAST COXCBBXS .>
ELLIJAY, GA.. THURSDAY, AUGUST o, 1880.'
CONSCIOUSNESS.
There is no Osar who can bridge th* Rhine
That flows forevermore between oar souls.
There is no ship that mils the sea that roll*
Around the Bt. Helenes, where we pine
For the vague Euro per that are thine and
mine.
In utter solitude we trek our goals,
As distant from each other as the poles
Of space's a sure sphere, whose walls confine
The universe. Since we must tread alone
The awful galleries of Consciousness,
Since we must scale the Alps of the unknown.
Whose misty crags are deaf to our distress.
How sad his lot who seeks not in his own
Breast for the boon of help and happiness.
—Franklin E. Denton in the Current,
CONSEQUENTLY
CHAPTER I.
Oliver Harmon was down Con
necticut avenue one morning early in
June. There had been rain during the
night, and water in places still flowed
slowly through the gutters. Nature was
almost at her best. The grass in the
yards and little parks* was ono solid
emerald, not yet brovCned or shriveled
by the increasing heat. Hoses seemed in
spontaneous growth, and everwhere gave
color and perfume. Children were play
ing in the w alks, and nurses lolling on
the benches of Pacific Circle, as it was
thou called, where the Dupont statue now
stands. In spite of tho greenuess of the
grass and tho freshness of the flowers, it
was excessively hot. The wholo surfaco
of tho ground except tHo streets where
the asphaltum had dried was steaming.
The heat was of that moist, suffocating
kind that makes us say it is going to rain
again.
Oliver walked on briskly, for he had to
be at the Treasury building at nine
o’clock, and dried his ruddy face as well
as he could, from time to time, with his
handkerchief. As lie reached the N
street c.ossing he hesitatod andlooked at
his watch. It had suddeuly oocurred to
him that he would like a glass of mineral
water. With the thought came the con
viction thnt this would not only be re
freshing but highly medicinal, and that
his system stood in great need of
it. There was a place on Fourteenth
street where he liked to get it.
This wai now considerably out of his
way, but as his wutch showod that he
still had fifteen minutes in which to get
to his desk, there was time enough. The
extra walk was desirable for ono who
had to write all day. Why should ho
not go if he wanted to? Ninety-nine
young men in a hundred would have
reasoned about as ho *flld, and would
have considered it a mere whim to be
indulged or not, according to Individ
ual fancy.. He had not the faintest idea
that anything depended upon it. Never
theless it was an epoch iu the life cf
Olivet Harmon. -D -
About tho time Oliver looked at his
watch an elderly gentlemen was just
coming out of the door of his house near
the Thomas Circle. This gentleman, whom
we will cull Mr. Amidon, was going down
town, and would take the street car at
the Circle. He stopped a moment to
speak to his daughter, then walked
slowly down the steps. Ho was not a
very large man, but had something of a
bulbous appearance. He enrried a gold
liended caue, and walked very slowly.
What with the littlo delay on the steps
and with Harmon’s rapid walk, they
would come together at the precise point
where the old gentleman would take the
street car. Oliver had often enough
heard Mr. Amidon’s name, but he aid
not know him by sight. This ignorance
was fully reciprocated by Mr. Amidon,
who not only did not know Oliver Har
mon by sight, but had never so much os
heard his name.
Tho old gentleman signaled a car, and
was walking across tho street, when
suddenly the bright sunshine began to
grow dim. The cor wavered before his
eyes, and objects rose up and danced in
the air. He thought if he could reach
the car and sit down that he would re
cover in a moment. Leaning heavily on
his cane, he took a step or two forward,
groping with his feet. Unluckily his
foot struck something that slipped or
rolled away, and throwing up his hands,
he fell backward, and the darkness
closed over him. It would have gone
hard with Mr. Amidon at this instant if
someone had not observed the whole
movement, and darted forward in the
nick of time. A carriage was whirling
about the Circle between the track and
the sidewalk, the eyos of the negro
driver being on everything except his
team and, the road. A clutch at their
bridles brought the horses up so suddenly
that the driver had nearly pitched head
long from his seat. With white eyes and
blank astonishment he looked down to
see a man almost his horse’s feet.
When the light began to come again
to Mr. Amidon, he looked up to see a
young man fanning him, and saying,
cheerfully:
“Feeling better, aren’t you? You'll be
all right in a miuutp, I think.”
The old gentleman had not realized
that anything much was wrong. It was
only a slight attack of vertigo, not at all
uncommon. He would get into the car,
which was of course waiting for him;
but he was a little surprised that it had
moved away. In fact, two or three had
passed the same point since he fell.
He looked around to see quite a little
crowd collected about him. He was
lying in the shade of a tree at the edge
of the sidewalk. His head, which had
very little hair on it, was covered with a
wet handkerchiei. His collar was un
buttoned and limp, and his shirt-front
much demoralized. The pungent smell
of ammonia was in the air and in his
nostrils. Then he began to realize that
something had happened, but he eonld
not remember what.
When Mr. Amidon seemed pretty well
recovered, the young man said: “Shall
I call a cab for you now?”
“Thank _you. I live very near here,
and if you will help me to my feet I think
I can get home.”
He got up. but stood so unsteadily on
his legs that the young man could not
think of letting him go alone, and so the
two walked slowly along to tho high
steps the old gentleman had descended
ten minutes before. He sat down wearily
on the lower step while his companion
ran up to ring.
Miss Nellie, sitting at the window, at
this in-tant looked out and saw her
father's tumbled and generally disre
spectable appearance. Full of a great
fright, she rushed out and narrowly
mitsed upsetting the young man com
ing up.
"Oh, you poor dear papa, what is the
matter?” cried she, as she reached his
side.
“Nothing much, my dear,” said he,
more cheerfully than his looks war
ranted. “Please help me up tho steps.”
So putting his arms over the shoulder
of his daughter on one side, and of the
young man on the other, he walked
slowly up the steps into the high, Cool
parlor to a reclining-cliair, Where he
leaned back and with a sigh of satisfac
tion closed his eyes.
There was nothing more to do. Mr.
Aroalou was too tired, and Nellie too
frightened and absorbed, to pay much
much attention to our young friend. He
lingered a second, then bowed, and went.
Ho had done his dtlty, but it was his
pleasure also. He did not know Whom
he had assisted. He noticed, indeed, the
house was fine and richly furnished, hut
at first he hnd merely seen that a human
being was in danger. He would have
done as much for aliod-carrier.
Hu was flushid and heated when he
got back to tho drug store, but he did
not stop. It had just occurred to him
that he might be late, and he pulled out
bis watch to find it waa nine o’clock.
Here was another entirely unexpected
consequence. The work of a clerk in
the Treasury is not so exacting, and a
good deal of time may be whiled away
without visible result during office hours,
but tardiness is one of the unpardonable
sins. Twice before within two or three
weeks, for no very good reason, he had
been a few miuntes late. He walked
rapidly but not confidently. He could
scarcely expect this time to escape a
reprimand, but he had no reason to think
that an explanation of tho circumstances
would not set everything right. He
could Hot help thinking as he walked
what- an uncommonly pretty daughter
the old gentleman had. In geittg up the
stops, her arm, all unconsciously, had
Eressed against his. He did not mean to
e silly, but it had sent an elcctrio thrill
through him which reproduced itself as
the thought ever and anon recurred to
him, and thus he reached his desk to find
a note lying on it informing him that his
services would no longer be required.
CHAPTER 11.
Nellie Amidon became aware at last
that the young man had gone, and that
she had made no acknowledgement of
his services. She did not regard him as
n hero at all. She did not, of course,
know whnt he had done. She had in
truth scarcely noticed him. Still she
could not boa woman witnout taking
note, by some instantaneous process, of
the details of his dress and general ap-
photograph was not un-
man of two or three
ami twMHrfairly good-looking and
fairly dreslcrrT
When sho found he was gone, her im
pulse was to run to the window and speak
to him, but he was already a half-block
away.
“Who was that young man?” she
asked, coming back to her father.
* ‘What, has he gone?” said the old gen
tleman. “I meant to inquiro his name
and residence.”
“Well, he must think wo are curious
barbarians,” said Nellie, and straightway
began to distress herself over her lack of
courtesy. Whatever other offenses might
bo condoned, however high crimes and
misdemeanors might be palliated, for im
politeness there was no forgiveness,either
in this life or the life to come. “But
you will see him when you are well
again, and tell him how very much
obliged we are, won’t you, papa?”
“Certainly, my dear,” saicl the old
gentleman; but as he languidly specu
lated on the matter it had rather a diffi
cult look. To find a man whose name,
residence and occupation were unknown
was a good deal like finding a needle in
a haystack. He was not utterly cast
down, however. The usages of society,
with him, were not a matter of life and
death.
The young man, on his part, had felt
no surprise, and perceived no lack of
courtesy. He quite appreciated Nellie’s
preoccupation. Certainly he would have
enjoyed a word ef recognition from such
a very pretty girl. It would have been
a great pleasure to tell her that it was a
satisfaction to be of any service. But
had she not run against him on the step?
Had her arm not rested for several
seconds against his? Ah, reader, he was
young. Alas I that we cannot always be
eighteen and twenty-three; that it can
not always bo June; and that there is
other work for young men and maidens
beside helping elderly gentlemen up the
steps.
in the unexpected leisure that fol
lowed, he had a chance to go over the
matter again and again. The doorstep
scene, to which he succeeded in adding
many romantic little details, occupiod
nearly the whole field of vision. Still,
he was a sensible fellow on the whole.
He knew that no significance was to be
attached to the little episode. He did
not so much as walk by the house in the
dnvtime. He expected no recognition.
It was not certain that he wished for an
acquaintance with the subject of his
fancies. His judgment was in no way
influenced by his visions. He knew that
the daughters of wealthy men in Wash
ington did not, as a rule, marry Treasury
clerks—discharged clerks at that. It was
horribly unjust, he thought, that he
should have lost his place through an act
of humanity. And yet in spite of the
consequences he could not think that he
would do differently if placed again in
like circumstances. He decided to make
a full statement, in writing, of the case,
and ask to be reinstated. This be did,
and submitted to the slow grist of the
gods.
While he waited, his health demanded
a good deal of exercise. He found none
so healthful as walking, and no street so
wholesome as that on which Nellie lived.
It was only in the evening that he walked
there. He always felt his pulses quicken
as he looked up at the window, but he
never saw her. What difference does it
make, he thought, since nothing could
come of it? He had not so much as
thought of inquiring who lived in the
house.
Hr. Amidon was not dangerously ill.
But for that unlucky fall, the attack
would have passed off in a moment. He
had been considerably shaken, and what
with the heat and Nellie's fears, stayed at
home for several days; then, feeling
quite restored, he started down town one
morning. He looked curiously at the
place where the accident occurred, as if
he expected to see a dent in the pave
ment. He stopped a moment at the
drag-store, drank a glass of soda, water,
and chatted a little with the proprietor,
with Whom he was well acquainted.
"By-the-way,” said the latter, after
remarking upon his apparent health,
“you had a rather close call.”
Mr. Amidon opened his eyes. He
didn’t like the allusion to his apoplectic
tendency, which he was quite aware of,
and to which his physician, indeed, had
Called his attention, but which it suited
him to ignore.
“Oh, no,” he said, carelessly, “it was
just a little rush of blood to the head.”
“I did not mean that, but the car
riage," said the druggist.
Mr. Amidon opened his eyes still
wider. Somebody was evidently quite
off the track.
"The carriage? What do you mean?”
“Didn’t your friend tell you how
nearly you were rmi over?”
“Run over? Mv friend? The young
man who walked home with me, you
mean?”
“He seemed to take matters quite into
his own hands. I thought he was a
personal friend.”
“I never saw him before,” said Mr.
Amidon. “Tell me about it.”
Whereupon the druggist recited the
facts already known to the render.
Did the druggist know anything about
this man? He had never heard his name.
He thought he was employed in the
Treasury. Couldn't say why be thought
so. He had sometimes seen him vnth
other clerks. He had often stopped at
the store, but he hadn't seen him since
the accident.
Later in the day Mr. Amidon called at
the Department, but did not find the
young man. He looked over the list of
those who were for any cause absent.
Finally, by accident, he learned that one
had been discharged on the very day the
old gentleman fell on the street. Inquiry
showed that this was the person he
sought. Mr. Amidon hasten to verify
the statements in the application for re
appointment. He learned further that
the young man was of irreproachable
character* and except for the instances
of tardiness noted against him, had been
a faithful and intelligent clerk.
80 it happened, a day or two later, that
our young friend, wno was growing
quite anxious, received, one morning,
two communications. Ths ono bore tno
stamp of the Treasury Department, and
was first opened. It announcod his re
appointment. He looked curiously at
the other. He didn't know that he had
any dealing with the Bank. He
was more than astonished at the contunts.
To a very neat letter of thanks from Mr.
Amtdon was appended an offer of a situ
ation in the bank at a better salary than
he had been receiving.
And now my story is substantially
told. Every reader knows instinctively
what followed. Of course ho accepted
the latter offer. Of course he became in*
dispensable in t,ho bank, being a really
capable young man. he was
prudent and sagacious, and invested his
savings in real estate that soon doubled
in value, and in the courso of two or
three years was looked upon and pointed
out as a rising young man. He often
saw Nellie, who persisted in thinking
him quite a hero, though he was not.
Anxious to atone for her first rudeness,
she had gone further, perhaps, the other
way than strict politeness required. So
it came about, little by little in the chain
of events, freely indeed, but in obedi
ence to the far-off, ayparently uncon
nected cause, they were drawn together,
interested in each other, and—why pro
long the tale? As so many worthy
couples before them, and so many who
will follow them to tho end of* time,
please God, they fell violently in love,
and in due time were married. After
ward, whenever they talked the matter
over, they were both of them ready to
declare that It was a case of love at first
sight, which the reader has seen was by
no means the case.
And now let us turn back a little in our
story to see how strangely things come
about. It was a quarter to nine, we said,
when Oliver Harmon looked at his watch,
at the corner of N street and Connecticut
avenue. He thought it well to be several
minutes early rather than one minute
late. It was very hot, and he did not
like the extra walk. Besides, there was
a place down-town where he coaid get
his mineral water without going out of
his way, and he concluded to wait.
Therefor* it was that he kept straight
down the avenue. His walk was such,
as we have said, that if he bad turned at
N street it would have brought him to
the exact spot, at the exact instant that
Mr. Amidon fell. But as he did not, he
never knew the old gentleman’s need of
assistance which he would have been de
lighted to render. Consequently, he was
never employed in the bank; consequent
ly, he never saw Nellie, and, of course,
did not marry her. It was Henry Leland
who had been walking down Fourteenth
street who did all that.— H. E. Warn&r.
A Sinful River.
In coming down from Benares to Cal
cutta we passed the picturesque, but- ill
omened, River Kurrumnassa, from the
water of which no high-caste native,
though ever so thirsty, will drink. Its
name is in Sanskrit Kwrmanasfui, the
“destroyer of deeds,” and its legend is a
curious instance of the superstitions yet
surviving in India. The Kurrumnassa
enters the Ganges at Cbausn, flowing *by
Mirzapore from the hills; but the ortho
dox say it enme into existence by reason
of the sin of Raja Trisang Kni. He had
killed a cow, murdered a Brahman and
married hia stepmother—offenses beyond
all forgiveness. Had not his repentance
been so earnest that the gods, in pity at
last of so contrite a sinner, took water
from all the rivers of the world, and
making Kirrumnassa with them bade the
Raja wash away his guilt in its waves.
The threefold crime was thus purged,
but the stream is supposed still to beat
in its contaminated current the evil ol
such heinous deeds, and not a lotu ol
any Braham Keshatvrn woman is ever
dipped into it. —London Tdrgrap':.
Epitaph on a Junkman.
On Mr. Jones, a well-known junkman,
we have the following:
Here lias the bones of William Jones,
Who onoo collected Lotties and banes;
But death, that bony, grizzly spectre,
That most amazing bone collector.
Has boned poor Jones so snug and tidy,
That here tie lies all bona fide.
ONE DOLUS Pot Aum, I. M-n
THE NAKED TRUTH. f
Tkuth sat one sultry af teraoeo
In July, mayhap, or in June,
A limpid pool beside,
And In tha rich adisu af day
Ha put his prinoely suit away
And plungad into the tide.
Then from ooneaalmsnt lightly lan
A nimble rascal, Lie yclept,
Who seized Truth’s panoply.
And aaid: “It is my style and size,
At once an armor and d*agulso
That Luck voochsafeth me."
And praaantly, when freehand cool.
Truth issued from ths placid pod
Shaking his radiant hair,
He found in lieu of vestment white
Wherewith his form was erst bedighfc
Deceit's apparel there.
“Alee!” he cried, “my garb is gene
And this I never shall pot on,
Not I, lot blnah who may!”
And thus it is the Lie, forsooth,
Goes robed right royally, while Truth
Is naked to this day.
—George K. Camp, in Ttxas Sifting*.
PITH AND POINT.
Kidnappers—Soothing syrups.
A lay-figure—The price of eggs.
Business is dull in New York now,bat
the chiropodist always has something on
foot. —New Tori New*.
“I will appear in print to-morrow,”
said the young lady as she put the last
stitch in her calico frock.
“Truth is mighty, but doesn’t prevail
here,” is what a Philadelphia man has
tacked above his gas meter. — Philadelphia
Herald. i
Of all the labor agitations the most
severe is that observed in the tramp when
someone asks him to saw a few sticks of
wood. —Boiton Pott.
“Give us, O give us a man who sings
at his work,” says Carlyle. Oh, yes; give
him to us; deliver him into our hands.
He occupies the next office, and we can’t
get at him.— Boiton Post.
Book Agent—“ Now, then, here is
Bunvsn'S Pilgrim’s Progress." Aunt
Susan—•‘No, sar; I’se got two bunions
already, and dey’s never been no help to
dis yer Pilgrim’s Progress."— Life.
nr HIS OLORT.
Where’er he goee the people bow,
And doff their hats with reverent sign;
And ladies say: Juat see him now—
The famous pitcher of our nine I”
— Tid-Blts.
“Now, Miss,” concluded a pompou.
young Pittsburgcr, “I’ve given you -
bird’s-eye view of the whole subject-
Havel not?" “You have,” was the bos
wildering response; “a goose’s.”— Pitts*
burg Bumbler.
No, Selina, this fishery quarrel be
tween the United States and Canada
isn’t a dispute as to whether it was a
Yankee or a Canuck that caught the big
gest cod. Some playful pelican has been
imposing upon your credulity—Somer
ville Journal.
Young Genius (who has had the talk
to himself, and, as usual, about himself)
—“Well, good-bye, dear Mra. Meltham.
It always does me good to come and sea
you I I had such a headache when I
came, and now I’ve quite lost it.” Mrs.
Meltham—“Oh, it’s not lost. I’ve got
it.”— Punch.
OUR MXXTIHGf,
Her eyes met mine
Nor turned away in fear.
As In their depths so clear
I could define
A minute image of my vary stiff
And yet ficnow
She had no thought of me,
For she was wax, you see,
A form to Show-
New styles of bonnets on a window shelff
—New Savon Newt.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Much danger makes great hearts reso
lute.
When all else is lost, the future re
mains.
'Tis an ill thing to be ashamed ef one’s
poverty.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by
any outward touch as the sunbeam.
You cannot dream yourself into a
character; you must hammer and forge
yourself into one.
The love of singularity proceeds from
a restless mind, possessing some por
tion of genius and a large portion of
vanity.
There can be no study without time;
and the mind must abide and dwell upon
things, or be always a stranger to the in
side of them.
He that procures his child a good
mind makes a better purchase for him
than if he laid out the money for an ad
dition to his former acres.
There is no American boy, however
poor, however bumble, orphan though
he may be, who, if he has a clear head, a
true heart, a stout arm, may not rise
through all thegradesof society, and be
come the crown, the glory, the pillar of
the State.
Sorrow is not an accident, occurring
now and then—it is the very woof which
is woven into the warp of life,and he who
has not discerned the divine sacredness
of sorrow, and the profound meaning
which is concealed in pain, has yet to
learn what life is. The cross, manifested
as the necessity of the highest life, alone
interprets it.
Dear Bought Knowledge.
This is the size of a strawberry box,
Supposed to hold a quart;
But by looking at the picture just below.
You will see why it will fall “short.”
The. £roc<Mj£men now will have to say
A deaf man coaid see that we’ve got ’em;
In fact are right on to their little game—
That dotted line it the bottom.
—Detroit Free Pres*.
Norway soends about SIOO,OOO a year
in fighting leprosy. There are a number
of asylum* tor patients. Some live tor
thirty or forty years after admission and
reach an advanced age
NO. 21.