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GEHERAL DIRECTORY.
Superior Court meet* Sd Monday in
May and M Monday in October.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. 0. Allen, 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 E ducation meets
at Ellijay the Ist Tuesday in January
April, July and October.
Hon. James R Brown, Judge.
George F. Gober, Solicitor'General.
COUNTY COUBT.
Hon. Thomas F. Greer, Judge.
Meets 3d Monday in each month.
Court of Ordinary meets first Monday
in each month.
TOWN COUNCIL.
E. W. Coleman, Intendant. .
L. B. Greer,
L. R oS? Jr. ’ Commissioners.
T. J. Long,
M. T. Dooly, Marshall.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South—
every 4th Sunday, and Saturday before,
Rev. C. M. Ledbetter.
Baptist Church—Every 2nd Saturday
and Sunday, by Rev. E. B. Shope.
Methodist Episcopal Church—Ever.
Ist Sa-urday and Sunday, by Rev. R
H. Robb.
FRATERNAL RECORD,
Oak Bowery Lodge, No 81, F. A. M.,
meets first Friday ia each month.
W. A. Cox, W. M.
1/. B. Greer, 8. W.
W. F. Hipp, J. W.
R. Z. Roberts, Treas.
T. W. Craigo, Sec.
W. W. Roberts, Tyler,
T. B. Kirby, S. D.
H. M. Bramlett, J. D.
DR. J. R. JOHNSON,
Physician and Surgeon
W 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.
E, W. COLEMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELLIJAY, GA.
Will practice in Blue Ridgo Circnit, County
Court Juiticc Conrt of Oilmer County. Legal
business solicited. ‘‘Promptness” is our motto.
DR. J. S. TANKERSLEY.
Physician and Surgeon,
Tenders his professional services to the citi
sens of Ellijay, Gilmer and surrounding conn
ties. Alt calls promptly attend and to. Office
upstairs over the firm of Cobb <fc Son.
ltl>FE WALDO THORNTON, D.D.S.
DENTIST,
Calhoun, Oa.
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both the Suriug 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 aa above. fmavill-li
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“A MAP or BUST Lin-ira FLUCTUATIONS AND its VAST CONCKRNS."
ELLIJAY, GA.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1886.
The geological survey at Washington
Is in receipt of numerous letters from
cranks telling how earthquakes may bo
predicted and prevented. One method
of prevention suggested is to bore holes
through the earth’s crust order to give
the destructive gasses nu outlet. The
New York Commercial Advertiser sug
gests that as soon as one of theso holes is
bored, the next thing to be done would
be to drop Wiggins into it.
A Into issue of a New Zealand pap'r
speaks of a peculiar lunar phenomenon
—a green moon. Says our informant:
“A bright-green moon is not a common
phenomenon. Yet this was visible in
Willington for about a quarter of an
hour last evening. There was an ex
ceptionally splendid manifestation of the
‘ ‘afterglow” which is so complete an en g •
ma to all physicists, and just at thceuge
of the vivid rosy glow, where it merged
into pink and violet, the crescent moon
appeared of the most brilliant yet deli
cate green color, presenting a most cari
ous and beautiful night.” .
Tho office of Alderman in the Argen
tine Republic is not a sinecure. In the
Bahia Blanca municipality tho Cou cil
for somo days could not get a legal
quorum owing to the absence of some of
the members. At last, one day when
the Cou:.cil was la< king one of aquoram,
two policemen sallied out among the
saloons and fou and “a prominent Alder
man,” a :d, says a Buenos Ayres journal,
“they towed him into the hall ar.d held
him down on his seat while tho silting
lasted.” The public crowded to enjoy
the fun, the more so as His Honor, the
Mayor, was suspended from his fu: ctiors
on the same oeca-ion for nogl ctir.g to
preside at t: o peculiar “sifting.”
The French eel-.' ”-nal I.a Nature
describes and illus a Trine for
making a product wliic ‘s <••• ::'••• into
favor in various different c : : ts
under the name of wood wool. As ..3
name implies, this material b si lr
wood cut into such fine shavings that
it answers many of the purposes t > which
wool is commonly applied. Although it
was at firlt intended merely as a pickin j
material it was soon found that it had
a much more extended field of usefulness.
It is emp’oyed for stuffing mattresses, a3
and is beautifully clean in use. The
wood used by preference i; Riga fir, and
the machine will prod ice, without any
necessity for skilled labor, more t an
1,500 pounds of “wool” per day of ten
hours.
The Scientific American says: Accord
ing to statistic.il records, th? average
price of wheat flower exported from the
United States, for periods of eleven
montlm ending with May of this year and
twenty years past, has been us follows:
Price per * Iri o i r
Year. 1,0 ObbK Year. I.OOj hi
lsßti $1,740 18.0 s!'■, ' 1
1885 4,807 1875 ti,
1884 4,588 1874 7, I
1883 5,050 1873 7, ,
1883 0,149 1873 7.1 H
1881 5,000 1871 ‘, 4
1880 5,878 1870 0.113
1879 5,858 1809 . .
1878 0,358 1808 P 1
5 877 0,479 1807 K.VB
The movement has been steadily and
ward since 1800, excepting in se/ ral
years when extraordinary causes cheeked
the decrease. The bottom is reached in
1880, and now there arc signs of an up
ward move that will accomplish a par
tial retrieval of the loss of the period
mentioned.
The following table, coni p ie l from
“Poor's Manual of Railroads” for 1886,
shows the number of loco- otive3 and
cars owned or leased by the principal
railroads of the country in IS>>. It
furnishes an interestin ' indention of the
rapid extension of the lead.ug Western
systems:
ffoxls. Locomli":-. Cars.
Pennsylvania 1,1 0 49,80.)
Heading 944 49,200
Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul 6? 4 19,900
Northwestern .41 2!,0o
Baltimore and < hio Mid 41,0. >
New Yo'k (.tent: a! 05? 25,9
Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy 518 24,0 >0
Erie. 554 iO.i'O
The above list includes all roads using
more than 500 lo om dives. Several
other lines, including the Union Pacific
and the Wabash, h ive nearly that num
ber emp'o ed. At the close of tho last
fiscal year ia July, 1885, 083 Pullman
cars were in service in this country and
in Europe. >-
Mr. C'eorge B. Poring, in an address
before ti.e New England Agric ltaral
Society, of which he is Pre-id nt, made
e .ceptions to the u-e of the term “thor
ougl’.bred” in conn.; tion with any other
animal than the horse. 11c said: "A
thoro ighbred animal means a horse. A
thoroughbred horse is ju-t as much a
specific breed of horse as an Aral.,a Mor
gan or a Percheron, or anything < be, and
the use of ‘thoroughbred’ in this connec
tion is entirely unworthy an intelligent
and literary society. The term should
be ‘pure bred.’ I.et us abandon the use
of the terra. If you have a pure bred
Shorthorn, or a pure bred Devon, or a
pure bred Morgan, it is not a thorough
bred Animal. They talk about thorough
bred pigs now! The word never applies
to anything except a race of horse bred
in England for speed. So I ho|ie the
trustee*, when they make up the r list
another year, will put in ‘pure bred’ in
deed of thoroughbred '"
MY ORAVKS.
This brave, sweet boy, against whose eon
God pressed His hand so heavily,
It shut out sound for all tbs years
Twixt then and far futurity—
This dark-browed laddie aska me where
I keep my graves, and allAk* while
Upon his (ace, so bright and. fair, . „
Dimples a strange, enchanting iwo
“My graves!" I look him in toe eyes’
And wonder if his feet have strength
To tread the path that made me wise—
That path so rough, so great of length;
While all along its side there'he,
Beneath the overhanging boughs,
My graves, the blessed graves that 1
Love better than my. heaven-set vows.
>
I love my graves I the flower
That grows there inn slender wreath
Seems to me like a priceless dower,
Because my dear ones sleep beneath.
Tears thread the grass like t*£bpe of dew,
And now and then a blood-red stain
Shows how a heart-throb broke in view
When some transcendent hope was slain.
High overhead, with rippftSg song
The little birds All up the air,
And their sweet music makes me strong
To climb and yield confession there;
To own my faults without a frown,
To draw a heavy breath and pass,
While green leaves catch a hint of blown,
And sweet buds witheAn the grass
Sing, little birds, above my graves;
Blow, gentle breezes, from the sea;
Come, salty fragrance of the waves,
And make life something good for ma
What if I bear graves in my heart!
Faith, they are mine to tend and keep!
And what if I from life should part!
Mayhap in some heart I might sleep.
So let the laurel drop a wreath
Down on my graves, and let the vins
Run where my dead ones lie beneath,
For every grass blade there is mine.
Even the hands that used to touch
Lightly my curly strands of hair
Still are my own; I love them much,
Though hid from sight and claspod in
prayer.
—James Berry Bensel.
A TERRIBLE ORDEAL.
[FROM THE FRENCH BT HENRY JORDAN.]
Toward the end of October, 1743, a
traveling carriage stood before the door
of the Chateau of Chenonceaux, and the
beautiful Aurore, nee de Konigsmarck,
exchanged tender adieus with her hus
band, the great financier, General Dupin,
who was about to start for Germany on
import ant business.
The financier carried with him his pri
-yiiie sects)*ry..iHfly i J
with a gay and happy disposition, always
improvising charades and madrigals,
and devoting himself to the amusement
of the guests of the chateau.
The young secretory found these adieus
both long and tiresome, for he boiled
with impatience to start. What a joy it
would be to travel across that poetic
country brought to light by the recent
war I What souvenirs he would gather
to delight the habitues of the chateau
on his 'return! ■
But at last the husband has given his
final conjugal kiss, the carriage rolls
over the bridge thrown across the waters
of the Cher, and they are off for Ger
many. They had decided to travel day
and night, for the financier had very lit
tle time to spare. Even with relays of
horses and piodigal “pourboires” to the
postilions, it would require fully five
days to reach the Margraviateof Anspach,
situated in the Duchy of Wurtemberg.
Toward the evening of the fourth day,
however, the joyous anticipations of
monsieur, the Secretary, had departed.
He was worn out with fatigue, and the
General had been seized with a violent
fever; a night of repose was absolutely
necessary. Human weeakness conquers
human will, and the travelers were com
pelled to stop, in spite of themselves,
nearly at the end of their journey, in tho
only inn of the little City of Hothenbourg.
But owing to the fact that the yearly
fair began the next day, every room in
the house, from garret- to cellar, was
crowded with guests.' The inn-keeper,
bowing to the oa th with humility, for
he took the financier with his retinue of
followers to be at least an Embassador of
the King of France, cheerfully declared
that he ‘ ‘would give up his own room
to Bis Excellency, but that he hadn’t
even as much as a pallet y tor the secre
tary.” At thlfc Lemierre, with the usual
French vivacity, dew all to pieces, but
the inn-keeper was firm, and, with Ba
varian phlegm, adhered to his state
ment.
“It is as I have told you, mein herr,”
he persisted: “there isn’t even a corner
in the pig’s pen. I am very sorry, but
you will have to resign yourself to a
chair before the kitchen tire.”
But Lemierre was not in the least re
signed. What a prospect for a nervous
and delicate man who had already passed
four nights tossing about in a carriage!
He began to find the journey much less
agreeable than he had anticipated. What
would he not have given, this poor, tired
little poet, to have found himself once
more in the Chateau of the Valois in his
comfortableca- opied bed! He positive
ly looked with envy upon the lackeys of
Mons. le General, stretched upon fie
floor rolled up in their mantles and snor-
ing loudly.
Midnight sounded, and everybody in
the house and gone to bed, at least all
those who had the iu k to possess a bed.
The servant on watch for the night, a
robust Uavarianesc with the figure of a
grenadier, slept no more than Lemierre
himself, however, and from time to time
threw compasaiona'e glances upon the
handsome boy who seemed so worried by
his misadventure. All at once she ap
proached him s>ftly, and, leaning over
him, whispered in a mysterious tone:
“What would you say, monsieur—
what would you say if, after all, one
could find you a bed for t'..e night ?”
“What would I sav ?” cried l emierre,
astonished. “M or bleu, it is simple
enough, I’d accept it with enthusiasm,
snd give any one a I ouia d’or who would
take pity on my martyrdom.”
“In that ca e have a little patience
Give me time to make some necesssry
preparations. I will return for you in
five minutes ”
tthe donppesred. and Lemierre got up
stretching hi* half-benumbed limbs.
‘'Excellent crsetuisl” be murmured to
himself; “thanks to her, I shall be able
to attend to-morrow the dinner given by
the Margrave in honor of our arrival.
But where can she be going to put me. I
wonder. Ah, welj, it does not matter;
the poor child has a face sufficiently in
nocent to make me confide in her without
nneasiness. ”
At this moment the Bavarian appeared
at the door of the kitchen, a lantern in
her hand.
“Come,” said she; and as quietly as
possible, if you please. I should be sent
away without mercy if they found out
lam about to do to oblige you.”
Leaving the house, she piloted the poet
down a flight of steps ana across a damp
and gloomy garden, laid out in the
Frendh style, with clipped yew trees and
rectangular squires. There was also be
neath a clump of larch trees a tiny grass
plat, where in summer were placed the
tables for the accommodation of the
drinkers.
Blinded by the fog, and stumbling*
along the slippery turf, Lemierre docilely
followed his conductress. Once she
turned and said to him quickly;
“Take care,mein herr,take caret there
is a well hidden under those leaves; but
turn to the left, we are there.”
Lifting his eyes, the Secretary saw be
fore him, looming out of the fog, the
outlines of a pavilion raised some five or
six steps above the level of "the ground.
The servant unlocked the door, and they
entered a room which certainly was not
often givento guests, so musty was the
odor and so icy the dampness that escaped
from it.
“I’d have lighted a fire,” said the girl
apologetically, “but you seemed in such
a hurry that [hadn’t time.”
“Never mind; it doesn't matter," the
secretary responded; “in five minutes I
shall ft el nothing, but don’t’ forget to
come and waken me; we must start very
early, and in my present state of fatigue
I am capable of sleeping until dooms
day.”
“Rest easy, mein herr, rest easy; to
morrow at peep of day, long before
seven o’clock, 1 will come to release
you.”
“Release mel Well, that is a joke. I
hope it isn’t your intention to lock me
up?”
Instead of replying the servant quickly
shut the door and turned the key in the
lock.
“Open that door I” shouted Lemierre,
wrathfully. “Open it this instant, I
command you 1”
But the compassionate damsel seemed
neither to hear nor to heed, and the
sound of her footsteps rapidly retreating
to the house could be plainly heard. Ir
ritated and somewhat uneasy at the girl’s
extraordinary conduct, the young man
took the light and examined the place
to which she had consigned him.
“It isn’t a very attractive iodging
room,"he said to himself; “but nt all
"cipf wijuhr 1 1 tMi'ufci'ffpy-nrat
soon ns possible; 1 ' ' 11 ...
And he began to relieve himself of his
cloak, his jacket and his vest; there he
stopped, and turned back his cuffs; for
this fastidious youth—this future Aca
demician—had a singular mania, no mat
ter where he was or how fatigued he
might be, he never got into a bed with
out first remaking it I
Beginning with the pillows, when they
were arranged to suit his fancy, ho pro
ceeded to beat iff. the feathers of the
bed. Suddenly, between the bed and
the lower mattress he felt something
strangely hard and stiff. Without know
ing why, he shivered with dread, and bis
heart leaped into his throat. Seizing a
light, he again approached the bed and
drew aside the feathers. What was it
that he saw?
Paralyzed with fright, his arm dropped,
and the light, falling upon the floor, was
extingui-hed. Behold, for the rest of
tbe night, he had plunged himself into
Cimmerian darkness 1 But he was not
alone—no, not alone—for a body, a dead
body, was lying over there, stretched be
tween the feathers and the mattress 1
Struggling against the terror which
possessed him, Lemierre groped about
the chamber searching for the tablo
which he remembered to have seen a
while ago when ho entered the room,
and, climbing upon it, tried to reach the
window, which certainly had seemed
very narrow: nevertheless, he would
tear every limb from his body but what
he would pass it. Anything was better
than this lugubrious tete-a-tete with
that unknown dead!
But even if he could have gotten
through the window his trembling
arms were unable to reach it by more
than a meter of empty apace.
J.eaping from the table again he
rnshea to the door, attacking it with
savage frenzy. With feet and hands and
nails he tried to break it in, or start the
fastenings; but van hope, that door of
oak was capable of withstanding far
ruder assaults than any he could make
with his delicate muscles. Bewildered,
staggering and desperate, the unfortu
nate poet sought refuge as far as possible
from that human wreck which filled him
with such loathing and repugnance.
Unhappily he had not, like women,
the resource of fainting. In spite of his
terror he retained the clearest perception
of everything abo t him.
At iart a clock in the neighborhood
struck; alas, it struck but 2—the night
was far from ended.
At times it seemed to him that he
heard a rustling in the straw of the mat
tress, as if the dead had roused from its
immobility and was coming toward him.
This friend of Kivarol, this favorite of a
skeptical and mocking society, trembled
like a cowardly child. Perhaps it was
foolish—it certainly was human.
On the other hand, fears less chimeri
cal added to the excitement of his nerves
and imagination. The corpse of the man
concealed in this pavilion was doubtless
the victim of foul play, and the Bavari
an’s mission was to inveigle unsuspect
ing travelers into the trap.
Every instant Lemierre expected to
see the murderers enter, who would first
despoil him of his watch and jewels,
and then toss him into the well beneath
the leaves. What a cruel fate it would
be to dieso young, scarcely twenty years
of age, and with a long and briilian t
future before him 1
Slowly the terrible hours dragged on.
At last a feeble ray of light glided
through the window, and, fa.thful to her
promise, the servsot arrived to release
her pri-oner. She recoiled in astonish
ment before the spectacle which met her
eyes, the bed sod the pillow* beeped
upon the floor and the deed lying upon
the mattress, far leas livid sod ghostly
than Uu living being crouched in the
corner with dilated pupils, haggard face,
convulsed lips and hair as white as snow,
blanched by the horror of that tragio
n’ght!
The wretched servant, uttering scream
after scream, fled rapidly to the house,
and in a few minutes the pavilion was
filled with a throng of frightened people.
Burning with fever and a prey to de
lirium, the unfortunate Lemierre was un
able to give any explanation of the
scene before them. Amazed at the
change which a few hours had wrought,
the General called the inn-keeper and de
manded an explanation of him.
At first, confused and uncertain what
it was best to say, the man ended by ex
claiming that “just the day before the
travelers had arrived one of their board
ers. a landscape painter from Berlin, had
died. Travelers did- not 'like to' meet
with such things, and so, to rid himself
of an inconvenient guest, he had com-
fortably laid him out on the bed of the
pavilion chamber. No one could foresee
that for the pitiful sum of a Louis d’or
the miserable Gretchen would invade the
sanctuary of the dead.”
“But you should not blame me,” said
Gretchen, boldly; “I was only trying to
oblige the poor young man; he was ready
to drop with fatigue. Besides, it is all
his own fault; if he had let the bed
alone he’d have slept happily enough and
known nothing about it.” Notwith
standing this ingenious system of de
fense, the Bavarian was sent to ten years’
imprisonment.
As f>ir Lemierre, he was for two months
dangerously ill at the Inn of Ilothen
bourg. But even when he returned to
Franco his friends scarcely recognized
him, for the flower of his youth had been
left in Germany. That old man, thin,
pain, wrinkled, with hair as white as
snow, painfully dragging himself along
by the help of a cane, was but the shadow
of the br.lliant Secretary of Mous. Dupiu.
The first time that he showed himself
at the Comodie Francais one of his friends
said to a gent email near him: ‘ ‘That old
man over there very strongly resembles
a friend of mine, Armand Lemierre. It
is doubtless his grandfather I”—Cincin
nati Enquirer.
A Unique Itailroad.
There is a little, narrow > auge rail
road in central Illinois which is rather
amusing. It runs through a rich farm
ing country and is owned and managed
by wealthy farmers. Tho conductors,
engineers and brakemen are farmers’
sons who have grown weary of raising
cattle and corn and who have taken to
“railroading” as a relief. The various
stations along tho line of this little rail
road are of no consequence whutever,
except to their scoro or more of in
habitants and to the farmers of the
neighborhood. A train starts from each
end of the road every morning after
hrnakfust mm *" —8
for tea, and ties up for the night. As
tlrero Is no telegraph lino -connected with
the road nobody at any of the stations
knows when a train is coming until it
arrives in sight. As tho rails ure laid on
ties placed on the flat prairie and ns no
grade exists from ono end of the road to
the other, the tall grass has an awkwnrd
habit of getting under the wheels and
stopping the train. Not infrequently
also the light rails spread apart and the
ears run off the track and go tumbling
along on the virgin prairie. Whenever
s little accident of this kind occurs the
engineer, conductor, brakemen and pas
sengers jump to tho ground nnd lift the
cars into place again. The passengers
ride in a car reserved for them in the
rear of a long line of freight cars. Ilnlf
of this car is partitioned off in order that
it may also serve for carrying mail bags,
express matter and baggage. Not in
frequently p issengers walk into a village
ahead of the train and announce that tire
cars will follow them in an houi jr two,
firoviding they can be kept on tho track
ong enough. Sometimes a locomotive
gets stalled on someone of the several
gentle hills along the line. Tho train
men thereupon quietly wait until the
other engine appears. Then tho two
engines draw the train up the hill. Not
withstanding the oddities which exist in
the management of this little railroad it
hauls large quantities of freight, and is
making money for its stockholders.—
Chicago Newt.
Cariosities of the Human Voice.
It has long been known that the in
halation of various volatile substances is
capable of producing certain modifica
tions in the human voice; and of late
years attempts,more or less legitimate in
their application, have been made to
give this knowledge a practical form.
An interesting series of experiments
bearing on this subject have been made
before the Societe Mcdicale du Pantheon,
Paris, by Dr. Sandras, in which, by
means of different inhalations, varying
from one to twelve, he produced marked
variations in the intensity, tone and tim
her of the voice. He could not only j
confer upon the persons so treated the
peculiar voice of the confirmed inebriate,
but, what is more to the point, he could
—temporarily, at any rate—remove it
when pleasant. The notes produced by
the same larynx were made of high or
low pitch at will; and the range of the
voice could be notably increased, while
harshness or sweetness could be made to
alternate. The substances employed for
this purpose arc not new-, it is only their
application, which may be said to be
novel. Tar, water, alcohol, ether and
various essential oils constitute the “bat
tery” for inhalation purposes. The most
curious part of the experiments is the
accuracy which certain well defined ef
fects are said to be obtained. Thus, a
certain number of inhalations of one
kind will diminish the compass by so
many notes, while another will confer an
additional eight or ten; some even limit
the range to five or six notes. - Britiih
Medical Journal.
At Home In All Tongnes.
The Smith family was largely repre
sented in the army of the Union, and at
one time there were upward of 000 in
the Army of the Potomac. On one of
the regimental rolls in the Teutonic
division, which gave the names and
birthplaces, were entered: “Giovanni
Smith!, Italy; Juan Smithes, Spain;
Hans Schmidt, Holland; Ivan Schmithi
weski. Poland: Jean Smeeta, Franca;
lon Skimmitton, Greece," and twelve
John Smiths born in this country, be
sides one whose native land was sweet
Erin,of whom it was recorded: “Named
Patrick, but says that be I* ealied Jobs
for short,” — Ben: PtrUy Ptort.
OHB DOLLAR Per Aasram. Xe linen
THOSE BEAUTIFUL. DREAMS OP
YOUTH.
Where are all those shining dollars that we
dreamed of by and by!—
Scarce are they as modest lawyers who had
never told a lie.
Where are all those stately mansions with
their porticos of pride!—
Absent still, and non-existent as “the little
boy that died."
Where is all onr sceptred power that should
shake the earth with fear!—
Vanished in Canadian distanoe, like the
modern bank-cashier.
Where are those deep-fronted Islands, groves
of spice and banks of flowers,
Where the turtle-dove and bulbul sang amid
the citron bowers!—
; Still they’re in the magic distance, far be
yond the setting son I
Waiting their realization when the Keely
Motor’s done.
Where are all those young ambitions, hopas
so vast and undefinedi—
Gone off with some other fellow, like “the
girl we left behind."
Oh I these fleets of youthful venture* freighted
with their hopes sublime,
Thick as Grover Cleveland’s vetoes,
• “wrecked upon the shores of time.”
How those young ideals have fallen that
once fired our youthful blood,
Like tho captured Texan horse-thief, with a
“dull and sickening thud I”
Where are all those fond ambitions beating
'gainst the gates of doom,
Like a wild Montana cowboy shooting for
“more room, more room!”
Where are all those siren voices, mellow
sweet as raspberry jam!—
Silent now, and non-committal, as a glum
Rhode Island clam.
They have vanished in the distance, all thess
hopes that once could thrill,
Like a debtor when you ask him “Will you
pay that little bill?’
They have gone—those dreams of morning,
built of unsubstantial air,
Glorious, purple, nymph-like figures with
their sunlight-tangled hair;
Gone where stalk the apparitions of many a
dead delight,
Through the shndowy dominions ruled by
“Chaos and old Night;’’
Where the waves of sluggish Lethe through
phantom meadows flow,
To Oblivion’s misty limbo—where rejected
poems go.
— & W. Foss, In Tid-Bits.
PITH AO POINT.
Short, sharp and decisive—A tack.
The lion’s share of anything is usually
the mane portion of it. —Merchant
Traveler.
Twlxt bishop and granger the difference is—
As perhaps all the wq?M
‘ —Yonkers Gazette.
The world is filled with men whose
chief occupation is parting their hair and
arranging their neckties.— Neio Haven
Nact.
It adds nothing to the self respect of
John L. Sullivan that he lias to get be
hind a one-cent stamp in order to lick it.
—Fall Fiver Advance.
The festive cackle of the hen
Sounds ever light and gay
When e’er she lays an egg, ’tts then
Sho carols forth her lay.
—Merchant Traveler.
A down-town druggist has a parrot
that he has taught to say: “What a
pretty girl 1” whenever a woman, young
or old, enters his store; and they say
that a poor weak man can hardly get
into the store lo buy a cigar on a fine
afternooa. —Philadelphia Call.
“Suits Pressed, with Neatness and
Dispatch,” is what the advertisement
read, and a distracted young lover there
and then determined to give them a job,
for ho said: “I have pressed my suit
night and day for three long years, and
Susan is no nearer acoepting me now than
when I began.” —Danseille Breeze.
A SOBfcR TRUTH.
When the fevered, hectic haze
Of the melancholy days
Sets the rustling, ruddy foliage of the wood
land all ablaze—
Then tbe husband, taken back,
Thinks him sadly of the pock
Of dollars soon his wife will take to get a
sealskin sacque I
-Tid-BiU
The xonng Idea.
A little girl calling with her mother
at anew house where the walla were not
yet papered, exclaimed: “What a bald
headea house, mamma! ”
“Mamina,” said little Mary, “ia uncle
Ned Arthur’s uncle, too?” “No,” said
her mother, “he ia Arthur’s father.”
“Well, is he your uncle?” “No; he ia
my brother. He is Fred’s uncle and
yours, and cousin Lizzie's.” “Now,”
said Vary, shaking her head very pos
itively, “I know uncle Ned isn't such a
lot as that! ” — Philadelphia Call.
It is decidedly hazardous to make the
youthful answer too many questions.
They often answer with an unsophisti
cated frankness that may be dec deadly
embarrassing. A little boy was visiting
at his neighbor’s. Strange as it may
seem, he was eating very light. The
kind hostess said: “Little man, you
don’t seem to be hungry. Why don’t
you eat?” Ho blurted out: “Yes, I am
hungry; but there ain’t anything here fit
to eat. You can’t cook like my ma.’’—
Kaneat City Star.
A Mind-Reading Invalid.
. Mias Mollie Fancher. the paralytic
Brooklyn girl who has been a credited
with extraordinary miud-rcading powers,
is still living with her family in Gates
avenue, where she continues an object of
wonder to her physicians. She has been
an invalid for twenty years, and until
lately she has b en deprived of the use
of her limbs nnd has i-eldom been raised
from her bed. Within a year there has
been a gradual improvement in her con
dition, und Dr. Spear and Dr. Homiston,
who have never lost sight of her for more
than a week at a time for ten years, are
greatly surprised as well as gratified.
For a long time she could not move
her hands from their place behind her
neck, but she can now use them freely.
She knits nnd embroiders, and also
writes. She has not recovered ber sight,
but her mental faculties were never so
bright, and her mind reading powers,
which at one time induced an oiler of
f 10,000 a year and a speo'al bed and
palace car fur her accommodation from
Itanium, (till continue unstated. —A/iw*
York Sun.
NO. 41.