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VOL. XI. ELLIJAY courier. PUBMSHED EVERY THURSDAY —BY— COLEMAN & KIRBY. Office iu tbe Court House ft-* mER&LDIRLCTORY. Superior Court meets 3d Monday in May and 2d Monday in October. Hou. James R Brown. Judge. George F. Goher, Solicitor General. COUNTY COURT. Hon. Thomas F. Greer, Judge. Moultrie M. Sessions,County Solicitor. Meets 3d Monday iu each mouth. Court of Ordinary meets first Monday in each month. TOWN COUNCIL. .T. P. Perry, Intenaent. M. McKinney, i. 11 Tabor, 1 „ J. Huuuicutt, J. R. Johnson, j' jom ' W. H, Foster, Town Marshal. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. C. Aileii, Ordinary, T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court, H. M. Bramlett, Sheriff, J. H. Sharp, Tax Receiver, G. W. Gates, Tax Collector, Jas. M. West, Surveyor, G W. Rice, Coroner, W. F. Hill, School Commissioner. The County Board of L ducat:on meet* atEilijay the Ist Tuesday in January. April, July and October. RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Methodist Episcopal Church, South— every 4th Sunday, and Saturday before, Rev. C. M. Ledbetter. Baptist Church—Every 2nd Saturday and'Sundiv, by Rev. E. B. Shope. Methodist Epsc>pd Church—Ever Ist "’a urday and Sunday, by Rev. K JJ. Robb. FRATBnNAL RECORD. Oak Bowery Lodge, No 81, F. A. M,, meets first Fndny in each month. W. A. Cox, W. M. t . B. Greer, S. W. W. F. Hipp, J. W. R 7, Roberts, Treag, T. W. Craigo, Sec. W W. Roberts, Tyler, T. B. Kirby, S. D. ii. Al. Bramleu, J. D. DR. J. R. JOHNSON, Physician and Surgeon ELLIJAY, GEORGIA. Tenders his professional services to the people of Gilmer and surrounding coun ties and asks the support of his friends as heretofore. All calls promptly filled. M. JI. Sessions. E. VY. Coleman SESSIONS & COLEMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ELLIJAY, GA. Will practice in Blue Ri<!ge Circuit, County Court Justice Court of Gilmer County. Legal business solicited. ''Promptness” is our motto. DR. J. S. TANKERSLEyT Physician and Surgeon, Tend-rs his professional services to the citi sens of Eilijuv, Gilmer and surrounding coun ties. Ai. cabs promptly attend il to. Office upstairs over the firm of Cobb & Son. mi WALDO THORNTON, D.D.S. DENTIST, Calhoun, Ga. Will visit Ellijay and Morganton at both the Soring 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. Tmav2l-1 Young men W.io wish a riiOBOUOH preparation foi Business, will find superior advantages at MOORE’S BUSINESS UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA. The largest and best Practical Business Schoo in the South. ®J"Stu<Dnis can enter at any time. for circulars. WHITE PATH SPRINGS! —THE— Favorite and Popular liesort o) NORTH GEORGIA! Is situated 6 miles north of Ellijay on the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad. Accommodations complete, facilities for ease and comfort unexcelled, and the magnificent Minetal Springs is its chief attraction. For other particulars on board, etc., address. Mrs. W. F. Robertson, Ellijay, Ga. CENTRAL HOTEL! Ellijay, Georgia. In tbe special popular resort for commercial men and tourists of all kind, and is the general house for prompt attention, elegant rooms and are second to none, in this place. Seasonable rates. Mrs. M. V. Teem -will give her personal at tentFn to gaeata in the dining hall. 1-M Mountain View Hotel! ELLIJAY, QA. This Hotel is now fitted up to excel lent order, and is open for the reception of guests, under competent management. Every possible effort will be made ts make tbe Mountain View the most popu- Ur Hotel to EUijay. Accommodations ir every department first-oUss. Lively, salt and feed stables to oonnscti on with hotel, tiustte tmnafared to sad from all train free of afcargt 0 24 If THE ELLIJAY COURIER FOB GOOD JOB PRINTING —GO TO THE— COURIER OFFICE. Pamphlets, Circulars, BiU Heads, Letter Heads, Envelopes, Busiuess Cards, Statements, Posters, And in fact everything in the Job Printing line neatly and cheaply ex ecuted at short notice. SATISFACTION GDARANTEED. Give us a call. 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For ell oompUinte of this kind, each ee Torpidity of the Liver, Biliousness, Nervous Dyspepsia, Indiges tion, Irregularity of the Bowels, Constipation, Flatu lency, Eructations and Burning of the Stomach (sometimes called Heartburn), Miasma, Malaria, Bloody Flux, Ohilla and Fever, Breakbone Fever, Exhaustion before or after Fevers, Chronic Diar rhoea. Loss of Appetite, Headache, Foul Breath, Irregularittea incidental to Females. Bearing -down STIDIGER’S AURANTII ts Invaluable. It is not. panacea for all diseases, but pi Inc all diseases of the LIVER, wfil STOMACH end BOWEL 9. It changes the complexion from a waxy, yellow tinge, to* raidj, healthy color. It entirely ramorea lot., gloomy spizita. It ia one of the BEST AL TERATIVES and PURIFIERS OF THE BLOOD, and Is A VALUABLE TONIC. STADICER’S AURANTII Far aala by ell Dracgisls. FrioeSl.OO perboMle. C. F.STADICER, Proprietor, •40 SO. FRONT ST.. Philadelphia, Pa. FIRST CLASS--Grocers Keep It. Were washed with Tbls child Is dean And sweet, I ween. As any Queen You've ever seen. ELECTRIC LIGHT SOAP Without Unfitting. First Class Housekeepers nse it. Ist. Washing: clothes In the nsual manner is decidedly hard works It wears you out and the clothes too. Sd. Try a better plan and invest five cents in a bar of ELECTRIC LIGHT SOAP. Saves Time, Labor Money, Fuel and Clothes. Use as dl reeled on the wrapper of each bar. ORDERS SOLICITED. ATKINS SOAP CO. INDIANAPOLIS. IND. Automatic Sewing Machine Cos. 72 West 23d St., New York, N.Y. J Wo invite special at # tantlon to our New TALAt Patent Automatic Ten •■y TjPp Bios Machine, making as the Wilcox & Gibbs, AY . WJmBV and yet. if not preferred the Wilcox & Gibbu Automatic Tension Ma ra JOHBB* chine, can be returned any time within 80 days and money refunded. But what is more remarkable still, we nev*r knew a woman willing to do her own family sewing on a shuttle machine after having tried our New Patent AUTOMATIC. Even Shoe Manufacturers find it best suited to their work—its elastic seams are more durable. Truly Automatic Sewing Machines are fast superseding shuttle machines, and it is no use to deny it. Truth is mighty and does prevail. Shuttle Machines have seen their best days. Send for Circular . Correspondence solicited. Lawrence PURE' LINSEED OIL n MIXED Faints READY FOR USE. IT The Beat Paint Hade. Guaranteed to contain no wetter, benzine, barytes, chemicals, rubber, asbestos, rosin, gloss oil, or other similar adulterations. A full guarantee on every package and directions for use, so that any one not a practical painter can use it. Handsome sample cards, showing 88 beautiful shades, mailed free on application. If not kept by your dealer, write to us. Bscarstulto ask for “THE LAWRENCE PAINTS.” and do not take any other said to be “ at good H wTw. LAWRENCE & CO., PITTSBURGH. PA Tbe Skull Caps. Did you notice on the tarin you left town on how the newsboys pressed you to buy tiaveling caps ? Flimsy skull caps they were of cheap black silk with a Haring red lining. Fifty cents the boys wanted, and if you protested that the price was too high, did you notice how readily they took the proffered j quarter > A boy explained why he so I readily grabbed at the quarter. “Nine | cents apiece 1 pay for them at whole ! sale,” lie explained. “The parlor cir 1 fellow who don't travel much is flush when he starts out. He sees the drum mer with one of ’em; sees that he looks comfortable and cozy and has a sort of I know-how-to-travel air about him. He wants thfc air, and so buys the cap. When he gets it on he believes every one will think be is a seasoned and old time traveler. He's the fellow who give* up half a dollar. It’s the reel eld traveler who's forgot his cep that beats me down to a quarter." ——■. ... Each i< i! -etnas at r*u, Oak . carries a fSH-beaded eso OLD FRIKT.DS ARB BEST like to grasp the kindly band Of one whose friendship tried and long Hal made life srotn s fairy land. And with the year* ha* grown more strong. Ti* tetter far than wealth or fame. To know that wheresoe'er I roam. There lingers loving hearts at home, Who through all time will be the some. If these were not then life would be A dreary wade with, care o'erprest Of all God'* kindly gifts to me I reckon my old friends the best. —Detroit Free Press, Mrs. Warner’s Purchase. Mnry Warner waa tic richest woman in California, if not, indeed, the richest woman in the world. Her hu-band had accumulated his fortune in railroad ven tures. and had died before lie had time to lose it again. 'Possessed of sound sense, and blessed with judicious ad visors. Mrs. Warner divided her invest ment* between improved real estate and Government securities, and devoted her self tothe improvement of her leisure. Two years af’er her husband s death she cele brated her fiftieth birltrduy. Her house on California street was one of the must magnificent in San Francisco, but during the protracted interval of her mourning it had not been the scene of any such festivities as its generous size and costly .garniture befitted. Mrs. Warner acceded to her friends wishes and left her quiet home at Menlo Park to entertain all San Francisco at the “Warner 1 alace” without great re luctance, but cc;tainly without enthusi asm. The music, the flowei sand supper were the best that could be had. .V me. J.uquc, a worn in who had s .b-ided from the brief prosperity of the Ranch Lu ue Mines into a position of decent inde- j pendence upon Mrs. Warner’s bounty, made all the arrangements and relievid her friend of even the task of entertain- ; in j her guests. M s. Warner ensconced herself in a cosy cor. nr of the conse. vatory, ac-j companied by Mr. Richard llc.idiy, the managing editor of the Sun Francisco Jouruul. Mr. Headley was only th.iity nine years old—a young man to control the most important daily in San Fran eiscu—but his discretion and ability had more thin jusii cd his advancement. “Well, Dick,” snid Mrs. Warner, “and why haven’t you been down to Men’o lately? You aro not going to for get your old friends now that you are becoming a great man, surely?” "So, indeed, dear Airs. Warner,” snid Headley, “hut the responsibilities of my position, as what you call ‘a great man’ keep mo pretty b sy. You >ee, every man on the staff, from the city editor to the sporting re nor er, thinks that he would have filled poor Duncan's berth infinitely better than 1 do, and I have to work with both hands to keep out of trouble.” For her turned np nose, Her aweet little toes, Her pretty pink hose. And all her clothes “I always knew you had it in you, and I’m as proud and happy as can be. But what is this I hear about the Journal changing hands?” “I m afraid its true. Cashman wants to go abropd and loaf the rest of his life, and 1 don’t b ame him. He’s made more than enough money, and he may as well en joy it. I think it will be bought by a syndicate, headed by the Flynns." “And ho .v will that affect you?” “Throw me out in short order. The Flynns have never forgiven me for at tacking them wh-u 1 was on the Herald, and they would give my chair to old Par sons. anyway. '1 hen’s no use pretending I don’t feel bad about it, because I do. I shall have to start fresh somewhere else, oDd shall haid’y have such luck again.” Airs. Warner 10-.kcd at him kindly, and put her hand on his arm. It iva< no: a pretty hand; as a girl’s hand it had been almost too round and dimpled, aui it had Install it* cliapliness since then. “Dick, how much does the journal make i” “Fifty thousand a year in round num bers. Sometimes there aie big sub idies that run it over that, but fifty thousand is a fair estimate. “And how much does Air. Cashman expect to get from this syndicate for the pa : cr ?” “They talk about capitalizing it at 10,000 shares at $l6O each, but I think about $700,000 will come to Cashman. The paper is worth that lairly enough." “And what are your plans, Dick ? Yon talk about making a fresh start, but where will you make it i” “1 think 1 sha’l go East. Reece, the man who writes the column of causene every Sunday, yo i know, wants to go b ck to England, and he is anxious to have me go with hm. But I don t fancy making such a change. I have writ en so much Americanesc that I don’t think I could get into the swing of the formal Eng ish style; and then it seems hke running away, too.’’ “Dick, I’m going to be a great society woman now. Mme. I.uque wants me to go abroad and live at Nice—but I’m like yo i, fond of my own conntry,and I mean to live here and make the house pleasant for young people. That is what a rich old woman ought to do, isn't it ?” “Old woman, indeed 1 You're as young as any of ns now, Mm. Warner!” “Indeed, I’m not. I’m developing a ta-te for buffered toast—and that settles the matter, Mr. DufTon says. But I’m going to entertain a great deal, all the same-and I’m dreadfully afraid of the society columns in the Journal. Sup pose they liould say* that the flowers at this reception only cost $ Of) instead of S7OO. ft’s nn aw.ul p wer, that society column, and I should like to propitiate it. Why shouldn’t I buy the Journo!,, Dick?” “I would if I were you—five cents a copy or fifteen cents a week. I thought you did, already.” “No, I’m not ioking at all. If it is ♦TOO.Ouo, I have that much in shnpethat I could use. and you could be my sole editor. Will vouf” •Wo, Mr“. Warner, 1 won’t. It would no: lie a wist investment. It pays well, and all that Imt u newspaper is such a ticklish property- so east y destroyed— tii :t it ought not to be owned by any one who doe*n’t run it. One month’s blundering would take fifty per cent, off tbe • alue of the Journo'." •But y< u sre cot n blunderer. I isten tome hick, i am not doing this for you: I would really lik r t*. own a newspaper Tim e is 'omething grand about it. I would not buy t it you were not here to mu it form*- Hut I Jttvw that it ■•'•ill pay me heiu-t ibsn any investment I have 80". and i l idu’l uiske as mueh out of it as Mr. Cashman is making, I know, Dick, that you would keep it dean, wouldn’t you? Will you help me try the experiment? We will see if a daily news paper cannot pay without publishing wicked advertisements. I have heard you talk, Dick, and I know what you would do. There should be no blark mail, no illiteracy, nothing that I would not be proud of. Help me, Dick.’’ “Mrs. Warner, I would give ten years of my life for such a chance. I would work for $1 a day to do it and live on it. I wasn't getting much more when I first knew you. But I can’t do it. I am nothing to you that you should do so much for me.” “'o one would know, Dick. Mr. Tardin would buy it, and no one would know whom he was acting for. And surely, no one would be jealons of an old woman like me doing you a good turn. Is there nny one who might do jealous, Dick?” “No, indeed. But I shouldn’t feel rightabout it. I don’t see how I could do it. UnleFB —do you like me very much, Airs. Warner? You have been so kind to me, but then your heart is so big. Do you like me personally ?” “Of course I do. You know that.” “Then willynu be my wife?” Airs. Warner blushed as she had not blushed for ten years. “Ch, Dick!” “Will you?” and Headley took her hand—not in a lover-like fashion, but very affectionately. “How could I, Dick? Pm old enough to be your mother. People would call me the Baroness Burdett-Coutts: and I wouldn’t mind that; but they’d call you Ashmead Burdett-Coutts. Bartlett Bur dett-Coutts, or whatever it is.” “You are only seven years older than I. ” “But lam a widow. You wouldn’t feel comfortable, Dick—your friends wou’d chaff you. “I don’t think they would; men don’t chaff me very much. I don’t pretend to be in any Romeo condition, Dut I am very, very fond of you. I don’t say that if you had uo money I Would ask you to marry me; for I am not in a position to marry any woman; I may be looking for work a week from now. Lut if my posi tion on the Journal were an assured one, I don’t know any woman in tho world whom I’d rather" make my wife. You see I feel a good deal older than I am, and I can’t i ear the society girls, the bread and butter kind bore me to death, and the other* I remember my mother too well to many.” “Oh, Dickl Dick! I don’t know what to say. I love you as well as I love any thing in the world. But it must be only mother love alter all. I'm such an old woman, Dick, such a very old woman. Pll marry you on three conditions—that you take the editorship of the Journal: that we are to be engaged for a year; and that no one is to know anything about it; till a month before we are married. I know we shall be laughed at, DLk; but I shall be proud of you. us pro id as can be, and perhaps we shall be happy. No, don’t kiss me, Dick; there must be none of that nonsense between us dear Dick.” j “I will make you happy if it is in me to do it, and I know I can make the Journal such a paper as you would like i to own.” Ten months later the Warner palace was again the scene of unlimited festiv ity, and Richard Headley and Mrs. Warner again sat on a tete-a-tete sofa under the great red camellia “Well, Dick,” said Mrs. Warner, “and how is everything down town to day?” “Very much as usual. I have finally committed myself to the irrigation scheme. It is such big money for us that I was a little afraid of being prejudiced. But on the who e I think it is right. 1 ut there’s another sell me which wo must talk about before the end of the month, and that is our mar riage.” “It i-n’t the end of the month for a long while yet, Dick, and you must go and dance with Nellie now; isn’t sha a dear girl, Dick? She grows more and more like my poor little sister every day. You must be very nice to her Dick. It Las been dull work for her at the Sacro Cueur; I want her to brighten up now that we have got her.” Dick obeyed like a duti'ul fiance, and more than one of the guests remai ked how fine a couple he and the tall and slender Nel.ie Keane made. During the next night lie tried to talk several times with Airs. Warner about the announce ment of their coming n arriage; but she put him off with the merry declaration that she was too young and pretty a woman to tie herself down any before the necessary time. “I think at any rate,” said Dick one night, "that you ought to know a little sooner thiin anybody else. Don’t you think so?” “I don’t know, Dick. Tell me, what do you think nbout Nellie? I do go want her to have a happy life, and she is such a dear, sensitiv e child that I can’t help worrying about her sometimes. I"he’s been a iittle distrait and odd for the last few days, and I hoped she had outgrown all that here with us. She will make seme nice fellow a dear, good w fe, won’t she, Dicki” “Oh, yes. By the way, are you going to the benefit to-morrow night? ’ “I bought a box, but I don’t care much for ‘Fedora.’ It’a too heartbreak ing, somehow, Dick; and we old women don't like to be harrowed. Miss Dacre will play it very nicely, though. Isn’t she pretty, Dick?—her eyes ju-t like Nel lie's—or are they not so dark?” “About the same, I fancy. Well, if you arc not going I will run up here for about half an hour, at S) o’clock. “You work too hard, Dick; why don’t you have a managing editor? You used to do all the work for Mr. ( ashman. “Oh, work does me good. It’s about the best tb ng in life, after all, isn’t it?” “That doe n’t sound like a happy man, Dick. Are you quite sure that you are linupy? You know you coerctd me into thf< engagement anyway, Dick, and I reully think you might let me off now. You ;e I got you to take care of the Jou-nal for me. And now that you have made such a lot of money for me, I want to back ont of my b rgain.” “You a e the most stiocious jilt in the world, madam; but I'm not at all the ao of araao to be jilted. Suppose we go down to the supper room now.” “No, Dick. I don’t wea’t any wp. per. I have been hewiadby all day, end I em go.ng to clip off quietly and go to hed There ie Mute Luque now; aek her to come up-itaintome fora moment. Good-Bight, Dick, dear —let me kiM you. I hare never kissed you, and to m rrow will be your birthday. There, good night. dear Dick.” And Mra. Warner went up the broad steps to her bedroom, when Mme. Luque came bustling up to her. with expressions of alarm anil offers of care. Mrs. Warner laughed at her. “It’s nothing but fatigu", Marie, and yet I don’t feel as if I could sleep, l.et me have jour chloral, will you! fend it to me, and you must go. dear, and do the honors. 1 know the dose, and a night's sleep is just what I need.” Mme. Luque went down-stairs; the maid came with the bottle of chloral and Mrs. Warner sat down by the fire while her hair was brushed. “Please, ma'am, will you have Ed monds telephone for the doctor? You're not well, ma’am.” “Quite well, Jane. I’m a little tired, that’s all—a little tired, and I want sleep.” “And the chloral to do itl Isn't it wonderful, mu’am? A sup out of a hot tie, snd you go to sleep. Doctors urr wonderful, mu’ara." “Yes—they do a great deal for us. Good night, Jane; you need not wake me in the morning, but let the doctor come to my room when he calls.” “les. ma’am;” ami Airs. Warner knelt ! by her bedside: “ ur Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Lead us not into timptation, but deliver us from all evil. 1 orgive us our trespasses —forgive us our trespasses ’ —the prayer was not finished, and Mrs. Warner lay down on the sofa by the fire dressed in her wrapper. Dick's picture stood on n little table beside her. She looked at it thoughtfully. Then she took a picture of Nellie from the mnntelpie e and placed it by Dick s. They were a handsome couple—as people said. Dear Dick. What a splendid fellow he was; true as steel 1 She kissed his picture. Thev were waltzing down stairs. She cou and hear the cade ce of the Minola. Then a fire bell sounded from the next street. Joy and sorrow—feasts and disaster. She went to the window and raised the cur | tain. The eky was red with flame—a fire down near the mission. Poor men's houses destroyed, perhnps. Ah! Dick was always good to the poor. .’oy and sorrow, feast and di aster - light nnd darkness in every life—new wine in old bottles and old wine in new. She poured some chloral into the glass. Sleep was the best of life—after all. When Mrs. Warner was found dead in her bed from an overdose of chloral everyone who knew her mourned, “hich people like her arc rare,” said the poor —and her friends remembered how pleasant her home had been. A year later Dick Headley married Nellie. They are happy enough, but they have no children. The uournnl, bequeathed to him. flourishes and pros pers, but Link worked at it as hard as e.er. And every Sunday morning, early and alone, he walks out to a tomb at Lono .Mountain, opens the door, and lays on the stone within a red rose and a copy of the Sunday Morning Journ il. It is a great edition now —the Sunday Journal. Hut there is room in the tomb for many more of the closely-folded papers. No one can see them through the door, and they lie there—unopened—bought by the dead. T he Death of General Barksdale. The following is thjvirsion of the death of the Confederate o llccr. General Barksdale, given by C. E. Livingston, who commanded the Scvcnty-s xth ,\ew New York Volunteers at Letty-burg: “Alter the charge of July ad. made about 5:30 p. m., in the bright light of that season of the year, some time, after, when the coming darkne-s made it safe { to venture out—tor our picket lino was not far advanced—l f mnd (1 think iu General Mnnn.ird s front) the rebel Gen eral. William Barksdale, of Mci.aws’ di vision, Long-treet’s corps. I was in front with au orderly and canteens of water, giving the dying and wounded drink, wbicu they always greatly crave. I went in for a stretcher, and met t to remove him; got one, returned; met a party who had got him on another stretcher. He wns very heavy; cer ta n y two hundred and fifty pounds, if not more. I took <ha go of the party; conveyed him di ect to my tent, at Dou bl.day’s headquarters; remained with him, gave him brandy, pi gged the ba 1 holes with rags to | ermit iuhal ition, did what I could. He knew he must die. He gave me his last message to hiß wife and children; told me to send h s cuff buttons, studs, watch and som > hair to his wife—thi9 in brief, disjointed sen tences, paroxysms of pain preventing longer utterances. 1 think lie died more casi y, from loss of blood, but do not distinctly renember. Ifo nd his watch gone, but traced it to an officer in an ad joining division, who gave it to me and { I gave him a receipt, ihe small artcles and messages I sent Mrs Barks la!e by mail, and received several letters of thanks from her iu reply. The watch I afterward delivered by her direction to his brother, then member of Congress from Mississippi, at my house in Twenty first street, New York, to which he was directed by Roger A. Pryor.” A Surprising Case. Dickens has been much criticised for his apparent acceptance of the fact of human spontaneous combustion, but Sir W. Gull lati ly testified to a surprising case before the Comm ttee of the House of Lords on Intemperance. A large, bloated man, who was suffering from eli.l.culty of breathing and great (listen sion of the venous system, died at Guy's Hospital. At the post mortem on the following day there was no sign of and -and the body was believed to be distended with gas. “When punctures were made into the skin,” said Sir William, ‘‘and a lighted match applied, the gas which esc ped burned widt the ordinary flame of carbur tted hydrogen. As many as a dozen of those ■mall flames were burning at the same time.” _____ I ' Norway pine, which until lately has been neglected by Michigan lumbermen in favor of the softer white pine, is com ing into favor with railroad-car builders on account of it* greater strength. A, boy and scribing a kitten taid - “A kitten is rom >dcnt>te for rushing like mnd nt nothing whntevsr. sod stopping before it get* there ” OKS DOLLAK Psr , U Uvaaea THE BIRTH OF THE FLOWERS. Long ace, in ages olden, Flasbad tbs sunlight warm and golds* Ob a world but gray, unsmiling, Jovlcas cold and unbeguiling, In its wealth of plain and mountain. Dashing stream and sparkling fountain, And the birds of song grew weary In a land eo pale and dreary. From fair cloudland, softer, sadder, Angels down the sun’s long ladder Gazed upon an earth forsaken. Whore sweet hues forgot to waken* And their starry eyes grew mistful. With a longing deep and wistful, TUI, a rain of diamonds flashing. Fell their bright tears earthward dashing Each prismatic drop some Bower Kissed to life; and. from that hour, Crimson, orange, yellow, green. Blue, soft violet s melting sheen. Asa million rainbows broken O'er the world in loving token, Sprung the flowers to gladsome duty, Tears of pity raised to beauty. —Alma E. Lewis, in Huston Folio. PITH AND_ POINT. A mill race—Pugilists. A circus bill is generally stuck up. The season of frog opera is now on in the country pla es. False Bangs —Firing blank cartridges at the enemy.— B\ftingv Hardly anybody would care to change places with the turtle and yet he has a great snap.— New Haven News. Fvery dog has his day. bit many oi them, from the howling which they keep up, insist on having the night too. — Philadelphia Call. He atood under the window and sang, “How Can I Leave Thee.” But he did leave, and so suddenly that the dog went back of the house and wept.— Bt. Louie Chronicle. Full many a man, both yonng and old. Is sent to his sarcophagus, By pouring watsr ley cold, Adown his warm oesophagus. —Merchant Traveler. “I ockjaw has been successfully treated, lsee,” remarked a wife to her h isbaiid. “Yei, the patient was a woman and of course couldn’t keep her mouth shut,” the unfeeling husband re plied.— Arlcaneaw Traveler. With scythe In his hand, Time speeds o er the land; H.s harvest how maDy deplore! His scythe he will carry, And never will tarry, Till Time shall be no mower. — Lynn Union. A Western paper speaks of “Dakota as n summer resort." When the ther mometer in that part of the country reach ‘8 120 degrees in the shade, we should say that altogether too much summer resorts there for comfort.— Nor ristown, HeraM. Soft is the breath of tha summer breeae After the summer s rowers.. Sweet is the hum of the honey beee As they flit among the flowers. But to feel the lorty million power That lies in the wild bee's sting. Or be dren hed to the skin by the sum mer (bower, Is a very different thing. —New York New*. “You don’t ride horseback as muebaa you did earlier in the summer, Mr. Swell." sa;d Miss Sweetness. “New, I’ve given it up, don cher know,” re pll and Air. Swell. “It’s getting toodcuced common. Any cad can ride horseback nowadnvs.” “Who hae that beautiful horse that you used to ride?” “The Sberi 1 has got him, don cher know, and the cad won’t give him back.”—St. Paul OloLe. Three L’nlqne New York Clnbs. - There sre three rather un que clubs iu New York that, judg eg by the r recent growth, will in time be>one quite cele brated. One is th • Tuirt eiC u>, which meets at diner ut i:iß o'c ock o i the lhthof each mouth, to and. prove the popi lir superstition th t one of every th rtcen who sit down to a table will die before the year is out. Thr club stai ted .' evcral years ago with thirteen at a table, but so popular have the r dinners be come by r. ason of the feast of w t and wisdom, n it to say viands provid and, that at the r and nner next week at Brighton Biach, th rteen tables, each seating thir teen, will be p;ov dd. There nrethr teen cour-es oa the menu, 1 1. rteen at table, thirteen speeches n ode, and the number thirteen introduced in every pos sible way and shape. Not beieg able to make the menu card in the shape of the numeral, the suggeetive form of a coffin is adopted. The necrology of the club effectually explodes the theory of the fatality of the number and the club 1s gaining recruits every and nner, and will have a headquar ters and take its place among the social cl ibs next season. The other club is the Twilight Club, which mo ts at a dinner every fortnight, and after the cl th has been removed, discusses the leading questions of the day, pro and con, according to the pre dictions of the speakers, who are gen erally selected because they are known to be an’agonistic. The antagonism of the speakers prevents the club from ever being a mtuai admiration society, and consequently ;ts and nuers have become very attractive to a large class who en joy this species of intellectual sparring. The third club is the least known of the three; indeed, though with a larger membership thin either, lit'le it known of it outside of its raembe.s. It it known as the Peanut Club, and the badge of membership—a peanut—must be worn on every ocCision as an orna ment or amulet, in metal, jew:dry ot carved w od. Any mem era- co-ting another who cannot display the badge can i all on him for a dinner for as many of the club as he likes. It .may be the call may be made in the middle of the night and the challenged party aroused from his slumbers; nr it may be that the demand may be made in the breakers off Coney Island or Long Branch- -no mat ter when or where,"if the coun erfeit peanut is not produced the penalty is es tablished. '1 he result is that many oi the members carry their emblem of mem bership atta hed to a string around the aeck. uni wear it night and day. The gentleman who was aroused from hit slumbers wore his in this way If the challenging party cannot produce the emblem f required by one who has, be is cal ed on to par the penalty, and is this case it took Vc bum'of every elabo rate dinner at the Wo.t god Hotel.-- PKiltuhlphU fWA NO. 33.