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OOIiIIIAK k KIRBY, Editor* aad Proprietors.
VOL. XL
ELLIJAY COIiBIER.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
—BY—
COLEMAN k KIRBY.
Office in tbe Court House
genermTdirectory.
Superior Court meets 3d Monday in
May and 2nd Monday in October.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. C. Allen, Ordinary.
T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court.
M. L. Cox, Sheriff. .
J. R. Kind ad, Tax Collector.
Locke Langley, Tax Receiver.
Jas. M. West, Surveyor.
Q. W. Rice, Coroner.- >
Court of ■ Ordinary meets . Jbt Monday
in each month.
town cqpßSltjl'
E. W. Coleuum. IntendanP,
L. B. Greer, i- "j
J.' RCobtf Jr. j Commissioners.
T. J. Long, J
M. T. Dogjy, Marshall.; '
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
Methodist Episcopal v fiffurch South—
Every 4th Sunday and Saturday before,
G. W. Grier.
Baptist 2nd Saturday
and Sunday, by Rev. Ejß. Shope.
Methodist Episcopal Church—Every
Ist Saturday aud Sunday, by Rev. T. G.
Chase. '
#raternAljpecord.
Oak Bowery Lodge,*slo. 81, F. A, M.,
meets Ist Friday in eaefi month.
L. B. Greer, W. M. ’
T. H. Tabor, S. W.
J. W. Hipp, J. W.
R. Z. Roberts, Treasurer.
D. Garren, Secretary.
W. S. Coleman, S. D.
W. C. Allen, .1. D.
S. Garren, Tyler.
R. T. PICKENS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELLIJAY, GEORGIA.
Will practice in all the conrts of Gil
mer and adjoining counties. Estates
and interest in land a specialty. Prompt
attention given to all collections. .
__ 10-21-85
DR. J. R. JOHNSON,
Physician and Surgeon
EtLIJAV, ONEOHOIA.. /
Tenders his professional services to tho
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 Rillgo Circuit, Count,
Court Justice Court of Qilmer County. Legal
business solicited. '‘Promptness” is our motto.
DR. J. S. TANKERSLEY.
Physician and Surgeon,
Tenders bis professional services to the citi
tens of Ellijay, Gilmer and Btirronuding coun
lies. All calls promptly attended to. Office
upstairs over the firm of Cobb Jfe Son.
ftUFE WALDO THORNTON, D.D.B.
DENTIST,
Calhoun, Ga.
Will 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 asking the visit.
Address as above. Tmarkl-ls
Young men
Wbo wish a IThobouqh preparation foi
Business, will find superior advantages al
MOORE’S BUSINESS UNIVERSITY,
ATLANTA, GA.
The largest and best Practical Business Schoo
in the South, tystudente can enter at ani
time. for circulars.
WHITE PATH SPRINGS!
—THE—
Favorite and Popular Retort oj
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 Mineial Springs is its chief
attraction. For other particulars on
board, etc., address,
Mrs. W. F. Robertson,
Ellijay, Ga.
GENUAL HOTEL!
Ellijay, Georgia.
In tbe special popular resort for oommerelal
men and tourists of all kind, and is the general
bouse for prompt attention, elegant rooms and
are second to none, in this place. Beasonable
rates.
Mrs. M. T. Teem will glee her personal at
tentlon to guests in the dining halL IdA
Mountain View Hotel!
ELLIJAYt QA.
This Hotel is now fitted up in exoel
lent order, and is open for the reception
of guests, under competent management
Every possible effort will be made ts
make the Mountain View the most popu
lar Hotel in MlliJaj. Accommodations it
erery department first-olass. Hoary, salt
and feed stebtes in connection with hotel.
Ouerte tnudered te end from all traint
free of aharga. IMIy
THE ELLIJAY COURIER
THE LOT OF EARTH.
We love—the grave is deep;
We trust—our faith's denied;
Our storehouse with treasures heap—
They moulder at our side;
80. while the years past by
We gathr naught of worth,
And can but answer wearily:
“It is the lot of earth."
“Oh, mournful voloe," ha said.
“Wherefore thy mournfulnaasf
Ours ever are the tainted dead,
And near are they to bless.
Whose store in Heaven is laid
Shall never suffer dearth,
And God ne’er yet a soul betrayed—
“ This is “the lot of earth.’ ”
— C!are Everest.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
*
BY LIZZIE I. FOLSOM.
Creak,- creak, went the rigging.
AVhirr-r-r, wont the wind through it.
Tearing and straining at the cording,
and tossing the great steamer about as
if it were a toy, the wind caught at the
mastsand made them groan and quiver,
then, in sheer wantonness, gathered up a
mighty wave and sent it tearing, a white
sheet of foam, clear across the deck.
And the passengeis, mo.-t of them who
were huddled together in tho cabin,
Bhivered and exchanged glances of com
miseration, not devoid, in some cases, of
very human fear.
Wbirr-r-r went the wind; and caught,
on its way, a jaunty, red, knitted cap,
twirled it aloft in derision, then left it
bobbing desolatety about at the mercy of
the waters, arid prepared to give atten
tion to further dishcvelment of the
wavy, dark head leaning over the bul
warks. There was a dismayed cry, and
two hands grasped wildly at the empty
air, returning" to hold to the small,
shapely head, lest it should follow.
‘-That's a pity! It was such a pretty
hat! 11 said a masculine voice
“Yes, wasn’t it?” in dolorous, wind
tossed quaver.
Then they looked at each other a mo
ment in silence, and then laughed, soft
ly, heartily, with youth’s gladness. lie
spoke first, quickly and positively:
“Forgfve me for speaking to you, but
it was such a chance. I’ve wanted to
know you all along. My name is Neil
Blake, and I live in Boston. May I talk
to you? Do you mind?”
“My name is Eugenie Grant,and I live
in Buffalo. I think Ido not mind.”
And they leaned together, clinging to
the bulwarks, and watched tho bobbing
red cap till it was lost to view; then she
pulled her water-proof hood over her
curls, and they sat down in the shelter j
of tho wheelhouse, and talked together
in youthful earnestness.
lour days oat fiotn Liverpool. Foij
four days he had been a victim to the
charms of the young woman who then
sat composedly in dripping waterproof
beside him. He had seen her as she
came on boaid, holding her gray skirts
daintily about her, while her lace-edged
petticoats peeped from beneath. He
thought he had never seen a prettier fig
ure than that outlined by the gray suit,
nor softer, lovelier eyes than the ones that
glanced at him, and looked away—to
glance again. He had wanted so much
to know her, but she had seemed shy;
true, she had peeped at him from behind
tho fioral tower in the centre of the table;
she had looked at him and laughed
when, the first rough day, he supported
his next neighbor in gasping misery from
the tablo, but lie had found no chance to
speak to her. She had become prettier
upon close inspection than he had at first
thought, and most distractingly so in the
ill-fated red cap, fibm under which her
eyes had shone like twin, laughing stars.
So, you may be very sure that he made
the most of the episode of the cap and,
leaning on one elbow, talked to her
most earnestly and confidingly; he
should give her no chance to escape—
not, indeed, that she showed any incli
nation to desert her damp rope coil for
tho gorgeous upholstery of the salon.
She seemed very contented, crossing her
small feet in their rubber boots, and set
tling herself comfortably.
It did not take them long to grow con
fidential, and before they went into din
ner she had the pleasing assur
ance that he was the only child of a
father who dealt in railroads—well, per
haps not “dealt” but something as
sweeping and enviable, Eugenie was
sure. And he found out that she was a
Vassar girl, that she really was near
sighted, though you would never believo
it, and that “mamma” was always des
perately sick on the water. It is doubt
ful if tho last fact produced tho regret
it naturally should, and, as the days
went by, it scorned to him a positive
blessing that “mamma” was safely
stowed away in invisibility.
Perhaps it was just as well, for other
wise, thoy might not have enjoyed the
lovely moonlight nights that followed
the stoimy day; those nights when To
think of sleep was sacrilege; when the
whole world seemed flooded with moon
beams, soft, yellow moonbeams when
the stately ship glided on, ieaving be
hind a path of shining silver, of ripples
that blinked and blinked in an ever
widening road that led straight into
heaven. Eugenie said, straight to the
shining stars at the distant "horizon.
They sat together, night after night,
in the dangerous moonbeams, and spoke
to each other softly, and made of trivial
things a low-voiced mystery, and her
dark eyes drooped before the near, eager
gaze of his brown ones. Oh I it was very
well that-mamma was quite an invalid!
They talked of the r;d cap that had led
to theii acquaintance, but he said she
looked more lovely with that soft, white
affair about her head, and she was very
glnd he thought her lovely, and foolish
ly told him so. After that, perhaps, it
was not strange that he talked to
“’Genie,” 'and maybe, it was possible
that once or twice it's hand happened to
lie on hers and neither of them seemed
to know.
It had grown to bo quite a serious
thing for both by tho tune New York
harbor was an immediate possibility;
and the Inst night out, as they parted in
their sh itcred corner, he held fast both
her hands, and the two shadowed heads
on the dc-ck melted into one—at any reto
that ia ihe way it looked, aad Eugenia
ran with hot, red cheeks to the cabin.
She nest morning all was hub-bub;
the bustle of disembarking; tbe nervous
Tuny cl righteous de-ire to evade the
custom officers; ttie < ollettiugof mislaid
luggage, all mads the scent a lively one.
"A MAP or OUST Lin-IT a
ELLIJAY. GA.. THtJRSDA
Eugenie was in her state-room, frantical
ly trying to make one satchel do the work
of two. when a rap at her door was fol
lowed by Neil’s voice.
“Please do a favor for me,” ho said,
in his emphatic way. “Wear this ring
off the boat for me." It's very valuable;
a friend sent by me for it, but I don’t
know”—with smiling eyes—“that I shall
let Him have it n<ir. You wear it, and
I’ll come to your hotel to-night for it—
if I uust take it; but I hope—you know
what, ’Genie!”
He was gone, and Eugenie stood with
happy blushes on her fair face, clasping
tight the small package containing the
ring. Her ring, it might be, if she said
so, and was there any doubt what she
would say? She pressed it to her lips.
“Hurry, ’Genie ” cried a querulous
voice, “hurry, child!”
She started, and tore open the pack
age with eager haste, bringing forth on
the end of her finger a ring. Her face
fell. What a wretched little thing! A
cameo of cheapest variety, and consider
ably too large for her slender fingers.
“Worse than ordinarysaid Eugenie.
“What does ho mean by asking me to
wear such a paltry affair! Well, I don’t
care.” she decided, at last, “but lie
needn’t have said it was very valuable,”
and it is greatly to be feared that Eu
genie’s door shut forcibly after her\
The cuckoo ou the clock in the hotel
parlor had just scrcaehcd for !* o'clock
when Neil ran up the stairs and tapped
on the door of tho parlor allotted to “J.
D. Grant, wife and daughter, Buffalo.”
Very handsome and eager he looked,
and it is small wonder that Eugenie
blushed brightly as he took her hands.
“What a swell you are! ’ he said, ad
miring the white billows of lace that fell
about her, leaving bare the soft neck and
rounded arms. “How much timo can
you give me?”
“Not much; it is time to go. But I
will sec you to-morrow won’t I? Here
is your ring; I’ve been afraid I should
loso it, it is so large for me.”
She holds it out to him. He takes it,
and with it both her hands.
‘ ‘Then yon will keep the other, ’Genie?”
in anxious inquiry.
“The o!her! What other?” said Eu
genie.
“Why, tiie diamond, of course, what
do you suppose?”
“Thediamond!”in amazement. “There
was no diamond!”
He stared a moment and then laughed.
“Oh! come now! That’s a joke, and
I’ll laugh at it by-nnd-by, but just now
I’m more interested in something else—
in you.”
“But there was no diamond, wfiat do
you mean by saying so?” in wonder
ment.
Neil's face flushed, and his voice was
more than unusually positive —almost of
fensively so, Eugenie thought, as he
saidjj
“r:!* know perfectly well what I
mean arid, forgive me, but it is in rather
poor taste to continue that unwelcome
joke.” ,
“I don’t know wlidt you are talking
about,” She replied, with dignity. “1
w.oro your valuable ring; if there was
any diamond about it I failed to see it. I
shall have to wish you good evening. Mr.
Blake.”
“Of course I did not ask you to wear
this;'' in contemptuous designation of the
cameo.' “It was simply in the package
with the other, the diamond that you do
not seem able to remember. ”
“How dare you!” cried angry Eugenie.
“Y r ou are telling a falsehood. Papa
shall ” “Papa!” in elevated, liyeteric
voice as tho door opened; “he says I
have stolen a ring!” and subsided into a
crashed, tearful heap on the sofa.
Papa Grant was a portly, pompous
gentleman, with a great deal of gold
wateh chain across a broad expanse of
white vest.
Very deliberate and particular, he re
quired that the matter should be fully
explained twice by his weeping daugh
ter, before expressing an opinion.
“Ybu are an impudent young rascal,”
said Papa Grant. “Who gave you leave
to address my daughter at all? ’
“All I can say, sir,” persisted Neil,
doggedly, “is (hat I gave to Miss Grant”
-- not ’Genie any more. Alas!) —a pack
age containing a diamond ring, which
ring she now declines to produce.”
At this there vas a fresh explosion of
sobs from behind the handkerchief, and
two high heels dug wildly into the car
pet. Papa Grant swelled with offended
dignity, and for a moment it looked as
if Neil’s chance for a safe exit were not
flattering, but there was anew arrival
upon the scene.
Fair and slight and delicate, but with
a self -possession and sweet calmness that
j reduced the white vest, calmed Eugenic’s
1 sobs, and reassured Neil, all at once - the
heretofore invisible mamnia
“You are sure the ring xvas in the
package, Mr. Blake?” after a third ex
planation had transpired.
“It was,” said Neil, firmly.
“It was not,” said Eugenie, as firmly.
Then they glared at each other.
“Oh, this will never do,’’ said Mrs.
Grant, in calm dismay. “Mr. Blske, I
know your fathe •, lie is a gentleman. I
think his son is one; it is impossible that
you should try to deceive us.” Neil
bowed gratefully. “And it is equally
impossible that my daughter should do
so. There must be some mistake.”
“There is not,” declared the beliger
ents in a breath.
“There must be some mistake,” re
peated the mother, calmly. “Eugenic
may have overlooked t-lio ring in her
huiry. Of course you are sure you did
not, my dear. But it maybe.” She pon
dered a moment while Neil and Eugenie
watched her breathlessly.
“If we could,” she said, at last, “if
we could go on the boat, before onr
stato room had been swept—do you think
it possible, Joseph,'”
lie of the gold watch chain thus ap
pealed to, sniffed contemptuously.
“Absurd! Out of the question! The
whole affair is ridiculous and comes from
allowing your daughter to make indis
criminate acquaintances, against which I
particularly warned you 1 set the whole
matter aside. ”
But the calm-voice 1 1 ttlc woman was
a power in the household, and, after u
little, Neil wasde-pitch- and fora carriage,
nnd Eugenie to take oil her pretty party*
drew and bathe her tear-stained face.
Neil was very wretched as lie helped
Mr. Giant into a < arringo, and when
Eugenie flounced by him uud stared
stonily, with red, angry eyes ut him, he
felt that he had nothing to li e fr, uud
climbed up by the driver a very abject
and miserable young tuun.
Altar a great deal of driving about
muddy streets, of talking, of arguing,
and of loss of temper, the party found
themselves at the door of the state-room
Eugenie had bid a fond good-by at noon.
She darted forward, ahead of" the rest,
and her ryes sought eagerly about its
limited area. She kicked away with the
tip of her shoe the pile of papers in the
corner, and pounced down upon the
pink jeweler’s paper that had held tho
cameo. Her face flushed, her eyes
brightened, and little dimples came and
weut ns she drew forth from it a tiny box
which, opened, sent out glittering, scin
tillating rays from the gem within.
The lost Ting 1 Down under a pile of
rubbish) waiting to be swept out by care
less hands, had lain the little package
that had caused so much lieart-acbe and
so many tears.
“It’s well I suggested coming,” said
Papa Grant. “I don’t know how I hap
pened to think of it. Take care of that
step, Agnes,” and Neil was left alone.
I.eft alone; with drooping head and a
very real ache at his heart. And so this
was tho end of it all; of the moonlight
nights; cf tho whispered words; of the
clasped hands. And he must prepare to
forget it all. The curving rosy mouth,
the shining eyes. Forget them! it would
be very hard to do.
Tlioro came a soft touch ou his arm
and a jaunty hat rested against his shoul
der.
“•Oil, Neil! How could I know the
wretched ring was there? Can you lor
?;ive me! Do forgive me, and then I can
orgiveyou. We'll not think about it any
more, will wc? I camo back to tell you
so—dear.”
Then he put both arms about her, and
kissed her softly before they went out
into the night.
All this was a year ago.
The diamond is on Eugonie’s finger
now, and daily letters fly back and forth,
letters long and tender, but which, with
May’s first flowers, will cease, for then it
is their wedding-day will come.— Chicago
Cartin'.
Persian Superstitious.
There are many and curious supersti
tions in Persia. Without meaning to
exhaust the subject I will give you somo
of the more peculiar ones. The “baade
khadem 1 ” whicli is approximately icn
dered*in English by the term of evil eye,
though literally it would be translated
“evil step,” plays the largest part in this
line. The evil eye is believed in by every
body in Persia, the highest as well as the
lowest. A baby is healthy and pretty.
A friend of the mother admires the little
one in glowing terms. That would bo
“baade khadem”—or evil omen—and
would be taken as a diabolical design to
injure the child if the phrase “Eenshal
laii’’ (may it please God) were not added
to every culogium. An old woman looks
at the child from the right-hand side —
yvil frjxs again. The child fumbles early
Vn tho morning#evil eye/ The father,
by accident, speaks first to the baby ut
sunrise—evil eye. A girl, pretty, woll-
I mannered, healthy, with a good dowry,
lis wedded to a man. The first business
undertaking of the young benedict turns
out disastrously—evil eye! Nothing
could induce that inau to keep his young
wife. She is “baade khadem” to him,
and she’s got to go, willy nilly. As tho
divorce law is such that it virtually lies
with the husband alone to keep or send
away uis wife, am? as the ceremony it
self is very simple, and requires neither
j time nor money, he soon gets rid of her.
| Nobody blanles him. “She was ‘baade
j khadem’ to him,” everybody says in ex
! planation, and that’s enough.
The Shall has appointed a very able
and deserving man to an important posi
tion. for which his previous experience
and his capacity eminently qualify him.
On the same day tho Shah happens to
j overfeed himself with lamb and raw cu
! cumbers, and has an attack of colic. Tho
new appointee is blamed. He is “baade
khadem,” and incontinently gets the
sack. Every thing is judged in this way.
If a man has made a fool ot himself and
run to too great expense in entertaining
a guest, for instance, the blame is put on
1 one of the ladies of his andarouu, on his
head servant, or somebody else, and that
one is made to suffer. Astrology (rnoon
udsliim), the horoscope (taleh), the rosay
i (tesbin) used as au oracle, and the Koran,
the poets, especially Saadi and Ilanz,
used in the same way play also a most im
portant role in the life of tho modern
Persian. In all doubtful cases, called
technically “istekharct,” recoqrse is had
to one or the other or to all of them. A
mail is in doubt whether to purchase a
horse he desires. Dealer and customer
resort to the nearest house of a mollah
and the Koran is opened at raudom. If
the eye happens to alight on such a pas
sage as “Happy art thou, oh con of the
faith, for Allah will bless thee,” the pur
chase is effected. If not, not.
A. Queer Superstition.
I’erhapt the strangest fad that any
has in th|p town, says “ Halston ” in the
v exv York' Tim ., is that of a cashier in a
down town bank, who every night at 10
o’clocks walks up Fifth avenue to Forty
third street for the purpose of seeing
whether or. Dot a eertain millionaire's
front door -has crape tied on it. For
four years he has made this nightly jour
ney. He doesn't know the millionaire.
He doesn’t know any reason why the
millionaire’s death should be imminent.
Yet he has a superstition that when he
discovers'-the crape he looks for, on that
same night some great good fortune is to
fall to his own lot. He has trie 1 to
! shake off the. feeling that sends him on
j this nightly* walking tour. It won’t
shake. And, rain or shine, he goes re
i ligiously up and down the avenue at 10
i o’clock every hight.
A Bail Selection.
Not long ago the owner of a fine new
masion in Washington wished to give a
! h uiac-warming ball. To be sure that
the Invitations should go all right he
| had the Superintendent of tbe carriers’
dt part meat of the city Postoffice to rec
> muu-nd the most trustworthy carrier,
and the carrier was given fio to deliver
! ”00 invitations outside of his regulur
w >rking tours. The ball came otf with
about twenty guests present, and then it
was found that tho other persons invited
had never tcceived their caids. The
i carrie had spent his in and ink, and
hud thrown the box full of invitations
into a vacant lot, who e they were after
ward found.
Women are employed a* ticket agent*
t tli; siatium ou the titatea island rail
!road.
> SB AND IT* FAST
, FEBRUARY 24. 1887.
BUDGET OF FUN.
BI’MOROCS SKETCHES FROM.
VARIOUS SOURCES.
A I'unny World —ln Everybody's.
Mouth—No More Biting Fro no,
Him—A Problem—A Young
Lady's Conundrum, Eta
There's the maid who says she will • j
And the maid who says she won’t,
But they both get mad alike
It you don’t.
There's the men who says “ No 1 No 1"
And the man who says, ” Well— yea I’’
Do they both imbibe alike t
Well, I guess!
This old world's a funny place,
And It’s full of funny folks,
They will keep you in a roar
With their jokes.
They will say all sorts of things
With a countenance serene—
But they do not always say
What they mean.
So, then, do not be misled j
By such hypocrites as these, x
Hear them out—and then bulleve
What you please 1 •'
Somerville Journal.
In Everybody's MoutAi.
“Cannovcr, my boy, I’ve a bijg scheme
ou hand. Will you join me?”
“What is it, Joe?” - -
“Making'toothpicks.” t
“Where’s the money In it!”
“Oh, to the deuce with money- 1 ! It’s
fame we want. We’ll stamp our names
on the toothpicks. They’ll be in. every
body’s mouth then."— Bazar.
No More Biting From H4m.
A simple-minded individual standing
in front of a store holding a ismoked
herring by the tail, when a bad bi >y from
a window on the opposite side of the
street shot at him with a putty
the missile striking the hand in which
he held the smoking herring.
The simple-minded individual placed
the herring carefully on the groui id and,
(damping its head violently three times
vith tho ponderous heel of hin boot,
laid in a triumphantly scornful voice:
“Now, bite again, if you can, reptile.”
Terns Siftings.
] i
A Problem. *
The coachman pulls up at a railroad
crossing, alights and lowers the -window
of the carriage.
“There, sor,” he says, “you caa put
yer head out now.”
“Put my head out! What do you
mean?”
“Why, sor, the sign beyant there by
the tlirack soys, ‘Lookout for the loco
motive.’” ;
“Why, you fool,” testily exclaimed
the occupant of the carriage, “you are
tho party • who is to do the looking
out.”
“laui! Well, how can I do that when
I’m not inside?”— Pittdmrg Dispatch.
Nettling Down. J
Little Nellie—“Therenow, we’remai
ried, and I want you to go right .out
nd order some—some coal aud some
wood and some sugar and some-some --
O! yes, some wedding-cake. I forgot 1
about that.”
Little Willie—“ Yes, mother—l mean, |
my dear, I’ll go right off, but you must \
kiss me first.”
Little Nellie—“ Kiss you!”
Little Willie—“Of course.”
Little Nellie—“ Why you great big
simpleton you; married folks don’t kiss.”
Ti'l-Bits.
A Young Lady’s Conundrum.
The young lady was great on conun- j
drums, and almost daily perpetrated one :
on her fellow boarders, at the dinner )
table. One day, recently, she announced i
another as follows.
“What animal is it that is never finan- j
dally broken?”
A young man replied that he had an 1
answer to it though it might not be the j
same as hers. He said there was at least |
one little animal that was never without
a ‘Gcent.”
The young lady conundrumlst blushed
and “ahemed” a few times, and then said
she didn’t mean that, but was thinking ;
of a frog, which always had a “green-'
bark.”— DansiiUe <N. Y.) Breeze.
A Poor Mind Reader.
Mabel—“Oh! I am just crazy over
these mind-reading tests, aren’t they
wonderful?”
Augustus-—“ 1 have not paid much at- -
tention to them.”
“I’ll tell you hop it is done. Take {
hold of my hand, there, that way.”
“Yes.”
“Now, you must not press so hard, be- j
cause you won’t catch the—the impulses,
you know.”
“Oh!”
“There, that’s right. Now tell me :
what I’m thinking of.”
“You are thinking that if I should ask
you a very important qiustion, the most
important of a lifetime, you would have 1
to say ‘No.’ ”
“Oh I you’re not a mind reader.”
“Not?”
“Why no. The answer was just the
opposite.”— (Jmaha World.
Anglomania In New York.
Lamm is something unique in anglo
raaniacs, says the New York Tribune.
To his acquaintances, no matter how dull
be their sense of humor, be is a constant
source of fun. His pose, which repre
sents more labor and study than does his
callegc degree, is one of his most strik
ing acquisitions. The letter 8 has not
more curves and a lizard standing on its
tail would not make more obvious ef
fort Among the stories told of Lamm
is this, which occurred last summer:
An acquaintance, who happened to
havg left his money at home, met him
ono night and asked him for the loan of
#IOO.
“Certainly, deah boy," answered
Lamm “I’m perfectly delighted to be
of sarvice to you. Hut will twenty
pound hi enough?"
“I oads," answered bis friend, wiih a
broad grin on his face at the reference to
“twenty pound."
Lamm counted out the “twenty
pouud" In ten good American $lO bille
uud handl'd them over.
“I've plenty of uionev in bank," (aid
the geiitlemau, “and, if you like, I’ll
jut draw you • chock for this " lie
pulled a little check-book from his
pocket, such as young swells carry about
with them from which to pay their bets,
and proceeded to fill it out.
Lamm lazily lifted his eye-glasses and
regarded tho operation with an air of
dainty disdain.
“Deah boy,"he said, “what the deuce,
y'kaow, is that?"
‘This? Why, a checkbook, of
course.”
“Aw, yea, of' course; but, I ray old
fellow,you don’t mean to tell me, y’know,
that you carry it about with yo(”
• “Why, to be sure I do; who don’tl”
Lamm blew the ashes from his cigar
ette. “Wales nevali does," he said,
“nor I."
His friend grinned broadly. “I sup
pose you and the Prince kocp bank ac
counts, don’t you?” he presently asked.
“Certainly."
“Well," when you want to draw some
money how do you do it?"
“As to Wales I cawn’t say, y’know,
but when I want me money I call me
dark and I tell him to bring mo a bit of
papnh. He fetches the papah, y’know,
and I write on it, ‘Pay bearer ‘twenty
pound,’ and he takes it to the bank
aad draws the money. I don’t know
where he goes, y’know, for of cawse a
fellah cawn’t bo expected to keep track
of all the places where he keeps ac
counts!”—New Turk Timet.
Punishments Under Early Laws.
Laws were established in Massachu
setts earlier than 1076, for at the first
meeting of tho court of assistants, at
Charlestown, August 23, 1020, (before
Boston was founded), tlioy cstab’ished
“rules of proceeding in all civil actions
ntfd instituted subordiuate powers for
punishing offenders.” Curiously enough,
tho first law proposed was “for regulat
ing the price of wages for workmen, un
der a penalty to him that gave, as well as
to him who received, more than the
limited price,” which was two shillings
per day for carpenters, bricklayers, saw
yers and tbatchers. Other laws were
also adopted, punishing idleness, en
couraging industry and requiring mili
tary exercise of every mnn. Neverthe
less, the “subordinate powers” abovo
mentioned—namely, tho judges—had
recourse to tho “reason and understand
ing which God had given them. In
punishing offenses they professed to be
governea by the judicial laws of Moses,”
and they actually, as in Connecticut,
made the “blue laws.” To illustrate
this state of things may be mentioned
the following cases, taken from tho pnb
11c records, where many are to be found
of similar character:
John Wedgewood, for being in the
oompany of drunkards, to be set in the
stocks.
Daniel Clarke, found to bo an immod
erate drinker, was fined 40s. [Moderate
drinking was the custom. j
Sergt. Perkins ordered to carry 40
turfs to the fort for being drunk.
(.’apt. Stone, for abusing Mr. Ludlow,
calling him “justass,” is fined £IOO and
prohibited coming within the patent
without the Governor’s leave, upon pain
of death.
Thomas Petit, for suspicion of slan
der, idleness and stubbornness, is cen
sured to be severely whipped, and to be
kept in hold.
Robert Shorthorno, for swearing by
the blood of God, was sentenced to have
his tongue put into a cleft stick, and to
stand so for the space of half au hour.
| An original punishment.)
But one of the most remarkable and
severe punishments was that of Edward
Palmer, who, “for his extortion in tak
ing £2 18s. 4d. for the woodwork of
Boston stocks, is fined £5 and ordered
to be set one hour in the stocks," which
he had made.
There were various other rulings,
coming under the same category of blue
laws, no doubt, which were enforced,
some of them probably only once, on the
occasion for which they were made.
Stealing from the Indians was pun
ished in various ways. In one instance
recorded, Josias Plahtowe, for stealing
four baskets of corn from the Indians,
wag required to return eight baskets,
fined £5, and thereafter to be called
Josias, and not Mr., as formerly.— Dot
ton Herald.
The Fishing Frog.
Tho fishing frog, or sea devil, as it is
sometimes called, owing doubtless to its
repulsive appearance, is conspicuous
principally for its peculiar method of al
luring Its prey, Its. head is of enormous
size, and the feature that is not least pro
nounced is its prodigious mouth, which
extends, not from ear to ear, but halt
way round the front part of its head, and
is fortified withrows of teeth which may
be raised or depressed at will, according
as the prey is entering or striving to es
cape from its place of captivity. Along
the top of the head are found three long
filaments, the first of which terminates
in a bait-like appendage, and which may
be waved in any direction.
Fishes are attracted by the motion of
this object, and when sufficiently near,
the mouth is opened and the prey is
sucked in to its own destruction.
The stomach is distensible to an ex
taord inary degree, and frequently fishes
are discovered therein which are nearly
equal in weight and size to the fishing
frog itself.
Tho head is provided with a moss-like
fringe, which extends around its entire
circumference, and which enables it to
conceal itself easly among the seaweeds
and mosses on tne bottom of the sea,
where it is its pleasure and custom to ex
tend and bury itself in wait for its vic
tims.—Seienti JioAmezican.
“A Gone Sucker.”
In a certain city in Connecticut thero
lived a very small boy with a liberal
share of small “original sins.” It
chanced that one day lie was playing in
front of the house and overheard some
street gamins using slang expressions ]
profusely. He ran to bis mother crying,
“Mamma, mamma, what’s a ‘gone i
sucker’ ?” Now mamma did not in the 1
least know, but as her son hnd been
disobeying her that morning, she took
advantage of the op|>ortunity to point a
good moral. “A gone sucker, my son ?
Why, it mesnt a naughty little boy who
doesn’t mind his mother.” That night,
as Johnnie was saying bis prayers, the
full measure of his sin seemed to occur to
him with awful sigulfioucoc, and stop
pi >g short in the usual petition, ho cried
out in the abandonment of his ren orse,
“Oh, Lord, I'm a gone sucker ?”
Harper t Majaetne.
OVB DOLLAR Par iuu, la Uvaaw
SOLDIEns ASLCEK
The voir* of the wind as it paams
Makes musical hm.
Bat harkl through tho rustle of graaMi
The beat of the drum—
A sob and a low voice that trembles,
A down-drooping head.
Tbs morning of Mayttmsdimsnit)l*%
We meet by tho dead.
But all are as one in their eodiag.
Mo sound of the strife
Comes up from the dost that is blending
To fashion the life
Of grasses and sweet-scented briers,
And deep-tinted blooms
That burn out their delicate fine
By numberless tombs.
The maiden who moans for har lover
Or friend for his friend
Learns here that the battles are over;
That this Is the end,
Aud mothers who meet in their weeplnfc
With quivering mouth
Ask not if their sons that are sleeping
Come Northward or South.
—Wilton J Qrosvenor.
PITH ANF POINT.
A sign of prosperity—!.
A tea party—The Chinese.
Before the Mast—The bowsprit.
Darwin must have bad the toboggan
slide in mind when he wrote “The De
scent of Man.”— Tid-Bilt.
There is no reliable and trustworthy
receipt for making a man a millionaire,
except to get the millions.— Biflingt.
A real estate transfer—Tho mud you
dragged from the road on your boots, to
your wife’s carpet.— Danville Breeze.
A mind reader—Tho child who reads
determination in its parent’s eye and
minds accordingly.— Philadelphia Chron
icle- lie nth/.
A physician says “if a child does not
thrive on fresh milk, boil It.” This is
too severe. Why not spank itl—Phila
delphia Call.
Whatever you do, my boy, begin at
the bottom and work up." “But,
father, suppose I wore going to dig a
well?”— Chicago News.
There passed from earth on a bitter cold day,
The man who oft In our office would stray,
And his noblest epitaph’s here, I say:
"He closed tho door when he went away.”
—QoodaWs Sun.
“This is my off day,” remarked a
portly Burlington merchant, after having
been thrown from tho festive toboggan
for the third time.— Burlington Jt'ree
Prett. - '
When you say that you don’t know
which nre the (attest letters iu the alpha
bet, you will be told O B C TANARUS, where
upon you are expected to exclaim' 0 I C.
Call.
An Illinois citizen became enthusiastic
upon first seeing tho Atlantic Ocesif.
“Why," he said, “it’s immense! grand!
What a prairie it would make if it would
only keep still I”— Harper's Bazar.
Why doer the beauteous maiden seem
Hp wearied and so vovedt
Hhe's just found out tho tale will be
“Continued in our next.”
— Merchant Traveller.
landlady (examining a fugitive
boarder’s trunk) —“Why Bridget, his
trunk is full of bricks! How could they
have got there?” “Sure, ma’am he
biought -one home in his hat ivory
night.”— Life.
He was a youth of high degree,
His collar monstrous tall:
Hu tittered a pretty little lithp,
And danced at every ball;
He oglod every girl he saw,
His nerve was, mostly gall:
He had a baa cold in his head,
And that was all.
Washington Critic.
Fashionable Finger Rings.
“I sell finger rings from $2 up to
$5,000,” said a Brooklyn jeweler to a
Brooklyn Engle reporter. “Of course .
the most interesting class of rings are
those known ns engagement rings.
There nre but few varieties of the latter,
the nr st popular being plain gold bands,
with diamond settings. Sometimes a
ruby is preferred, but diamonds have
the call. No I don’t suppose it is really
necessary for a prospective groom to
give li's fiancee an engagement ring, but
custom has decreed it and in conse
quence we keep them for sale. Wed
ding rings are not so expensive as they
were when I was married. I paid SIS
for tlfo ring’with'which I married my
wife twelve years ago. I could, now buy
a similar ring just as heavy for sll. No
man should regret the sum he pays for a
wedding ring ns the sensation experi
enced in buying it seldom comes to one
more than once in a lifetime. A fine
good sized ruby is even more costly than
a diamond of the same size. Their
value depends wholly on t4 e > r color- >
Opals ? No we sell but few opals, prob
ably becaus- they arc considered un
lucky-. Cats’ eyes, greenish brown
stones with a light running . through
them, were formerly very popular with
ladies. Serpent lings are now but sel
dom worn. Of course, some men will
load themselves down with jewelry
whether it be fashionable or not. To
buy diamonds udiciously cno must be a
pretty good udge of those stones. Here
is a diamond which 1 sell for $25 which
an inexperienced buyer could not distin
guish from this stoue (holding up a dia
mond of a similar size) which is worth
$125. One is very much off color while
the oilier is pure white, and as clear as •
bell. In fact the cheaper of the two
stones makes the best showing, is more
duz./ling to the eye and is seen to much
better ad rant age by gaslight. Its de
fects, however, are easily distinguishable
to the ey • of the experienced jeweler.”
The Unlucky Tom-Tit
A certain Tom-tit, feeling himself
somewhat swelled up by the sulubrious
ness of a tine morning, thought he would
go ahead and puff out his plumage to
such an inordinate exteut, that his fel
low-tits would mistake him for an Owl.
Hnd scurrying away, afford him much
amusement of a refined and intellectual
character. Hit little racket would have
worked all right, had it not happened
that, just as be was indulging in tha
preliminary chuckles over his success in
frightening his conn ades. a I hiladelphia
gunner came along, and, mistaking
him for u partridge, bowled him over
without further ceremony.
Moiul.—This fable teaches that safety
does not ho necoonrily in insignificance,
unless tha latter receives the undivided
attention of the individual.— Tid-DUs.
NO 50.