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I had a dream the other night,
A scene of awe and glory ;
It was not caused by fear or fright,
It was not .caused by fancies light,
Nor is’t a made-up story.
I dreampt I was in spirit land,
And saw the sons of men
Walk in procession, great and grand,
In numbers like the cean sand,
Ten thousand multiplied by ten.
They came from cities far and wide,
And went to view their rest;
They came as come the rolling th.e,
The saint and sinners side by side,
Expecting to be blest.
But Peter stopped them at the gate,
As summer stopped by Winter,
And here he hold to each his fine,
And made him this in clearness state:
If he had paid the printer.
And thosMfho had he let pass in,
But thrWt the others back.
Anil gave them each a warning grin,
And smiled at those who thus coukl sin,
And shook his head, alas ! alack!
And when I saw them doleful stand,
As shut in freezing Winter,
I said to them, with outstretched hand,
In tones I thought superbly grand,
“ Why didn’t you pay the printer?
u You thought to ’scape your deeds,
As thus you dodged your dues,
But now you see sueli miser creeds
Are bad as any thistle seeds,
And give you but the blues !
“ For shame to thus prevent the march
Of intellect and fame !
Descend to Hades’ darkened arch,
And there be sulphured as with starch !
For-doing ol'the same !”
And that is all, for there they wait,
As in theii sides a splinter,
And I awoke from that dread state,
To warn you folks before too late,
To shun their sad and evil fate,
And up and pay your printer !
A Story for Young Men.
I had grown reckless alter I moved to
T ;—; that-is, 1 101 lin with a crowd
of professed friends, who drank, swore,
and cared nothing lor morality in gen
eral. At first, 1 held bacs ; i had not
been used to it; out i could not with
stand the sneering uugu oi my compan
ion.-. wiih'.i a %wiy.- greeted me w.o. n 1 re
|UM-ii to ; ~ii i:n oi t ■:> Wli'KeU acts,
and by ••_ ■ • i.v r\ reek. ess.
It makes ... :u :uu even now to timiK
oi it. i .... I o.'V, : oven ue,.- -eu wtlu a
sister's i< V. i it. Huai wii*. * mot Her
in tli is e>|| oi a trout six Hundred in
habit:::• m * -eu 1 would
south tytd •> ih t-*wa, l \s m-ilc! Leo
ups lit-ai te e " - ior iiea son—
listening ii p. o • vn eou.u eaten
the SOUild <> ill* U:.-".>\oL step. Many U
time del 1 .hen iwiii my drunken
slumoers an i .ear that lend mother
sending tip a petition to God m behait oi
licr intemperate son. On ! wiiui a
wretch I was. I kn w that 1 was bring
ing down lo r gray hairs in sorrow to the
grave. Sue began to took aged and care*
worn ; but 1 kept on in my suuul ways
until a circumstance occurred to stop
me in my downward career.
I was starting out one evening to the
grog shop, when i suddenly remembered
that I had spent all my money at that
place the evening belore. i remembered
also that I had seen mother put a few
pennies (her hard earnings) in a cup that
day. I was tempted! I tried to resist
but my appetite was too strung. I slip
ped cautiously to tiie cupboard, removed
the money from the cup, deposited it in
mv pocket, and was starting from the
house when my mother entered. I did
not turn my head tor 1 lelt guilty—guilty
of what I never was belore —a theit. My
mother called me; there was something
in her voice w hich 1 could not resist.
“ What is it mother ?” 1 said.
“Oil, Willie! do say at home with me
to night,” she exclaimed, grasping my
hand in both of he?*. “Don't drink to
night ; take n# auviee just once.”
OR! how many times since I have
wished that 1 had taken iier advice that
night. But 1 consoled tier by telling
her that 1 would not stay long. I wen
ded my way to the grog shop, but my
mothers words, “On, Willie 1 do stay
at home with me to night,” kept ringing
in my ears fiir louder than the drunken
oaths, and for once I did not stay what 1
called late; but when I reached home J
the bells in the neighborhood were tolling
the midnight hour.
A strange feeling seized me as I ap
proached my home. The light was
placed in the window as usual to guide
the wanderer’s steps. I went to the win
dow and looked. There sat my mother
in her easy chair; her eyes were closed
and I thought she slept. Her face was
pale, it was always that. I tried to
chase my fears away as I went around to
the door; mv hand trembled when I laid
it on the door latch, and it thrilled my
verv heart when it arose with a sharp
click: * l entered; 1 beheld in my moth
er’s hand the very cup from which 1 had
removed the money. J laid my hand on
my mother’s shoulder, and spoke to her.
Sheuuoved not; 1 spoke louder; stiii no
auswdr. I listened, out could not hear
breathe. I laid her gently on the
bed'; brought water aud bathed her
white forehead. Reader, imagine my
joy when I saw that dear mother opened
her eyes. . , _ „ „
“Oh, mother! 1 cried I, “forgive me,
O, forgive your erring boy.”
“ I do,” was the answer.
A heavenly smile lit up her face.
“ Meet me in heaven, Willie.”
And mv mother's spirit tied to God
who gave it.
It is not necessary for me to prolong
the description of the mournful scene.
Suffice it to say from that moment 1 was
a changed man —snatched as a brand
from tlie.burning. Since that time not
one-drop of whiskey, w ue or anything
o; tiie kind has passed my lip - *, an i
help and strengu given irm o\ -,
never suali. , t
—France man under a. us tor
every 82 persons oi the population ; Gm *
many lin 98; Italy 1 in 1-4; Russia, 1
in-127; Austria, lin 150, and England,
l'ha without counting the men in
the Indian service.
BY T. L. GANTT.
Bhabdomancy,
Rhabdomancy is the power said to ex
ist in some individuals of discovering
tilings hid in the bowels of the earth, es
pecially metals, ores and bodies of water,
by a change in their preceptions or thq
use of such instruments as the “ sidere
al pendulum,” the “ bipolar cylinder,”
and the “ divining rod ” Rhabdomancy
was known to the ancients. “ From the
most remote periods,” says Kieser, in his
system of Tellurisin, “indications are
lound of an art of discovering veins in
the earth by direct perception.” Cam
petti, an Italian, attracted much atten
tion some seventy years ago by preten
ding to be capable of ascertaining by flis
feelings the places were metals and water
existed under the ground, and many ex
periments seemed to confirm his state
ments. The King of Bavaria sent for
him and he went to Munich were the
experiments were renewed and proved
satisfactory.
Michael Mayer, a resident of Reading,
Pa., is said to possess the powers of
Rhabdomancy, and, recently an Eayle
reporter interviewed him and obtained
the following statement respecting his
experience. He said :
“ Some seven years ago I dug for water
on my farm in Cumru township and went
down seventy feet without obtaining any.
I was advised to send for a ‘water seek
er,’ and more from curiosity than from
belief in his ability to locate an under
ground stream, I got a Lancaster county
man with a divining rod. After using
his rod he said, 4 You didu’t dig at the
right place; you are five feet to one side
ot the stream.’ He had used a small
branch. I told him that I did not be
lieve the piece of wood he held in his
hand knew where there was water and
where there was none. He then went to
an apple tree and cut off a limb having
branches in the shape of a V and thicker
than my little finger, and remarked, 4 I’ll
convince you that this wand knows
where there is water. You take hold of
one branch while I keep hold of the oth
er, and see if you can hold the limb up
and prevent it from bending downward
when we come to the place where 1 said
there is water.’ I am a strong man, and
I tried all my might to keep the rod up,
but 1 could not. it bent down short at
my hand. By digging the spot subse
quently 1 found water and by other ex
periments I became thoroughly convinc
ed that there is virtue in the divining
rod. But it requires a person peculiarly
constituted and charged with an extra
amount of electricity to handle it.
“In the course of my experiments I
buried lour silver half dollars in the gar
den, and some time thereafter I tested
the powers of a diviner. I remarked
that i had dreamed there was money
mined somewhere in the garden and I
desired mm to find it it tnere was any
there, fie passed over portions of the
ground with his divining rod in his
hand, and then said, ‘there is something
unusual here!’ Finally he stopped and
said: 4 Here is the spot.’ He had
sound the exact place where I buried the
: a. uq aired “ . 1 .w large is
in wan . you generally use?” "1 usu
ally Use a twig having two prongs about
two teet long. It must be of only one
year's growth. A hazel twig is about as
good as apple wood lor finding water,
and tetter for searching for iron, silver
and copper ores. In seeking water the
divining rod lands in the direction in
which the water ruus. Sometimes the
attraction lias been so strong as to twist
and crack the twig close to the hand.
By making calculation from the manner
and direction which the twig was drawn
1 have not only ascertained the exact lo
cation of the water but also the exact
depth of the stream under the ground.
I have also traced the veins of ore miles.
There are more minerals in the vicinity
of Reading than most people imagine.
Seeking lor water and ores is, however,
not my occupation.”
Disinfecting a Battle Field,
Here is a horrible description of how
the stage lias io be cleared after the cur
tain has fallen upon one of the acts of
that vast tragedy called “ war.” It was
a hideous and terrible drama, that dis
infecting of the battle field of Sedan, and
one that might furnish the fearful text
of a chapter entitled “The Horrors of
Glory.” A Belgian physician, Dr.
Guillory, has recounted the priucipa!
facts in a report published at Brussels.
Historians never show any thing but
the radiance of the battle field. The re:
alism of these works displays its hideous:
ness and its corruption. You drtam of
glory ? Look and behold a charp.pl
house! Seven months after the first Pf
September, 1870, the stench was s.q great
around the battte field that thg
health was in danger. Belgium, became
alarmed. Prince Orloff wrote t.q M
Berardi that in the eighteenth eepttpry
in a war of the Turks against the For
sians, swarms of insects nourished cm 4 e -‘
caved flesh, brought a frightful epidem
ic into the Russian provinces a hundred
times further from the jjgttlp hejds than
Brussels is from Sedan. Jf sas ne.cgssa
ry to hurry, for the peasants had hlified
many bodies, both mcr, pud horses, in
summary fashion. Thg exhalations were
horrible. People toqfc ip their hands a
little yellow snow, cjipfgpd s';ih bqbbjes
of gas, and whet) it ~r g j|g4 ;*• diffused an
odor of corpses, ffpGi; ifi March, fSTf,
men dug and hi fields under
the tumuli of t);e dead; fept JStilJ qqy
ered with huge and half decayed
faces appeared iiGp f ,4 fhpre. Horri
ble things were 4>aeoVtrh4 : 4 ffi>g 4! e 4
at LaMopcelj- ffbm jj&yipg half de
voured a gonish; .of the
battle gayg evefs to the popr. “ The
dead avenged Corneille
says. After fiaGng F? ter red the
corpses thev ,t ...... I itc.i ipin—
gled with ’ fif hi poured over
the remalni; ab 4 fitefl chip ride of lime.
Then ah FrQ’ti * ime f°
a detonatf-u was ttg.and hi th.e tire. It
was aopig eafhoGh still inclosed in a
cartoneh hax a'-ie -hgd £ o a corpse, and
which gxp- Ed -h? fhposrh these enemies
-would fair, .. the combat alter
! death. Ai;4 B by thousands that
j these dead ir.eg, horn to be happy, be
loved, and to kiss the rosy cheeks of
! their children buried there. Two hun
,ir. 7 and seven-v Ir--- -hes disi* r -ted by
M. i' "i . 7 - ■itaiue-l -*r
: Ti. it ,*t • <!. M. Miteael disin ee
.. v and- M. Oreteur 8,213.
j (j ;U ,-i ; •r -. uv many corpses
i these tumuli contained.
A Barnesvilie thief was mean enough
to rob the Baptist church the other night.
He even got away with the organ.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, • MAY 19, 1876.
BRIEFLETS.
News and Gossip of tlie Past Wek.
—The Pope is 84 years old.
—Wm. M. Tweed is in Canada.
—A general Indian war is imminent.
—England and Spain are at the dag
ger’s point.
—Grant’s Centennial speech was a
mammoth failure.
—The Beecher scandal is turned on
again. Lord help us !
—A North Carolina lady, aged 07, is
cutting anew set of teeth.
—A colored clergyman in Michigan
baptised six whites recently.
—The Duke of Norfolk’s rental alone
yearly amounts to $1,10ti,770.
—Bribery among Japanese officials is
punishable with decapitation.
—Grant has removed General Custer.
He testified against one of his pets.
—The Democrats have carried Xet\
Orleans for the first time since 18G8.
—The Mormons will shortly eyacuqte
Salt Lake City and settle in New Mexico.
—A San Francisco woman \vq§ pftVlglft
in the act of burying her q|4 jqqther
alive.
—The system of inflicting torture, to
extort a confession from a criminal, is
still practiced in China.
—Professor Hayden found nearly 200
petrified cats in one of the prehistoric
Aztec villages of Arizona.
—A young lady in Omaha was mar
ried to her dying lover. Just as the
knot was tied he breathed his lust.
—Governor Rice, last week, signed the
death warrant of Piper, the Boston bel
fry murderer. He confesses hjs guilt.
—A singular instance of skepticism is
recorded in the case of the man who said
that the Bible was “ top good to be true,”
—A thoughtful Ciqcipnatian prevent
ed his son’s marriage, last tyepk, by get
ting him very -drunk on the day set for
the marriage.
—The graves of Captaiq Jack and the
Modocs hanged with him are empty.
It is supposed that the bodie§ typre stolen
soou after burial,
—ln St. Louis everybody is consider?
ate, and therefore a daily paper remarks :
“ Two gentleman and a lady Ip If |pr the
Penitentiary last week.”
— A Pennsylvania woman, ip perfect
health, predicted her death at a certain
time. He died within two hours gf the
time she said she would.
—Mr. Drum, of Troy, lived and JieJ
without knowing what a curiosity he was.
But the surgeons found out by dissecting
that he only had one kidney.
A bricklayer recently died in Lon
don who was found to have the heaviest
brain on record ; it weighed Go ounces.
The man could neither read nor write.
—A shower of genuine knitting-nee
dles fell near Harrodsburg, Ky., recent
ly. The citizens in the neighborhood
collected a quantity of them. What next ?
A Kansas paper speaks of an aston
ishing lady living near Leavenworth, who
has been divorced once, married three
times, and now cares for a family of 13
children, none of which are hey own,
—Two innocent men were lynched in
Kansas, recently, for supposed horse
stealing. Two fellows captpred, last
week, confessed that they had ytpleq the
horses for which jihese men weye banged.
—Rev. L. D. Parker, a Baptist minis
ter of Ashland, Kv., deserted a wife and
children, recently, and eloped with a
young lady of his church, whom he had
seduced. Next.
—There are about SQQ Indians in Flor
ida, where they inhabit the Everglades,
and are believed fq bold a few negroes in
bondage, They make pets of their pigs,
and the porkers fqlloiy them like dogs.
—A doefor in Omaha was engaged to
attend a bply in her confinement, agree
ing to’pb ar .? e flQr The lady gave birth
to twins, and he demanded double pay.
Payment being refused, lie sued her, but
lost the case.
—As a truckman was unloading two
bqxes on Broadway, X. Y., one of the
boxes burst open and revealed the body
of a negro. The other was opened and
fnuh4 10 contain fhe corpse of g white
y/qmap. Bqth throats were cut.
—An aerolite, weighing neariy a ton,
wan found pi MexicOj and will be exhib
ited at the Peuteniiiai, The largest of
thin cl.ass of Stone in the world fell in a
4espi-t near Rarria, in the same country,
and "’quid weigh at least fifty tons.
—A young girl in New York, who was
in a dying condition, was instantly re
stored fo health by laying on of the
hands. A man, professing to have pow
er'from above, is making wonderful cures
by this simple method.
—A. party of hunters near MaysvHle,
Ivy., recently discovered anew Mam
moth Gave, and upon exploring the same
found the skeleton of a giant, with cop
per helmet and sword, and many articles
evidently belonging to a race far superi
or to and ante-dating the Indians.
—A wonderful subterranean palace has
been recently discovered by some peas
ants in Hungary. It contains a number
of rooms, decorated with gold and pre
cious stones. It is supposed to have
been built by some monarch, as a place
of concealment. The government took
possession of the treasures therein, which
are estimated to be worth millions.
•—A lady writes thus from New York:
A gentleman of my acquaintance having
met with a reverse of fortune, thought
himself very lucky in obtaining a place
for his son as cash boy at Stewart’s, and
right.gla.Uy the boy entered on hie- du
ties, hilt he. only remained a week in ais
employ. When he went to receive his
pay, he found that not only was there no
money due him, but that he was in debt
to his employer, having been fined more
than his week’s work amounted to. if
be was a second late, he wa* fined ; if
his boot* were not blacked pp to the reg
u :; f i.u ;.. ne, he was fined ten cents; if
e i a.eii o i (.j muter ne was fined
tence !'. * -< nany fines im
posed tat t : ■ -a. ■a . a raid to
breathe for fear o. being fined ten cents.
Aii uns was very paltry in a great house
like Stewart’s, but his employees a A tell
i the same story.
A Trying Situation.
Mr. Bilderback, we feel authorized to
state, will not attend the divine service
this morning. The old gentleman is, we
are pained to learn, laboring under a
very distressing frame of mind, being
greatly incensed against churches on
general principles. IJe doesn’t like to
talk about this, matter, but we learned
all about it, despite his reticence.
It seems that last Sunday morning he
was dozing comfortably in his pew in the
church of which he is one of the main
sleepers, when he became aware of an
apparition gliding solemnly down the
aisle with a collection basket in his
hand. Mr. Bilderback braced up into
an erect position, cleared his throat in a
ponderous tone of Roman firmness, as
one who should say, “ Who’s been
asleep?” and as the basket was extended
toward him, he felt in his trousers for
his wallet. It wasn’t there, and as he
withdrew his hand and felt in the other
pocket, he felt that the eyes of the whole
congregation were upon him, aqd that
was all he felt, for he certainly did not
feel any pocket-book. He nodded to
the basket man to wait a second, and
leaned qver to the left in the right iuside
of his coat, from which, in his
lqerenoing nervousness, he drew half a
do?eq chestnuts which rolled over the
floor with a rattle that sounded in his
ears like the thunders of the Apocalypse,
and made them hotter still. Then he
leaned over the other side of • the pew
and felt in the other jqyjfls epat pocket
and drew out a bqnJle of'lettpys. 4 lot Qf
postal cards, a cirpus ticket, a photo
graph of an actress, q fflnjur' print
ed on a card, a popket pfitfib, ihif 4 long
string, and hisfqpp gr?W MS breath
felt like a hof pir-hlast, i'-icfi star
red his elboy.’s and ’ wept fop bis ygst
pockets, and strived the pew cushions
with qqilj fp.offipjgjis, newspaper scraps,
street par. 4 buttoner, sotqe
lead peqpi} siqbs, f.qj crumbling indica
tions qf chewing tobacco, a bit of sealing
wax, a pippp pf Ijpapice root about an
inch long aqd tbpep qr four troches. Then
he leaned fop,yard, and, stung to mad
ness by the stqHcs which were breaking
out all arqqnd ffp phurch worse than
the measels iq g primary school-room,
dived into q’*3 POaf-tail pocket and drew
forth a rpd siljr handkerchief, two apples,
a spectqc]g pass, a pair of dogrskin
gloves, aq pyerpogt button, and a fine
assortment pf bits qf dried orange peel
and lint. Thpq be stood up, devoutly
praying that an earthquake might come
along and swallow qp either him or the
rest of the congregation, he didn’t care
niuph which, gnd went down into his hip
pocket, from which he evolved a revol
ver, a corkscrew, a cigar case, a piece of
string, a memorandum book, and a pock
et knife.
By this time Mr. Bilderbaek’s face was
scarlet clear down to his waist, and he
yyas sq nervous and worked up that he
nearly vyorked his clothes off, while the
iqaq with the basket couldn’t have moved
qway if he had died for staying. And
when Mr. Bilderback, in forlorn despair,
once more rammed his hands into the
trouser’s pocket where he began the
search, the congregation held its breath,
and when Mr. Bilderback drew forth the
very pocket-book which he had missed
in his first careless search, and had since
all but stripped to find, there was a sigh
of relief went up from every devout heart
in that house. But Mr. Bilderback only
dropped into his seat with an abruptness
that made the windows rattle, and regis
tered a mental vow that he wasn’t going
to come out to church again to be made a
fool of by a man with a long-handle dun
ning basket.
Assurance vs. Insurance.
A beautiful and bashful young woman
of about nineteen summers, called at the
office of a life insurance agent last week,
and asked him timidly if he could tell
her how long peoj le of a certain age
would live. “Madam,” replied the agent,
coughing respectfully behind a prospec
tus aud drawing his chair nearer to her,
“ here are our tables of expectation and
average mortality, which contain all the
information on the subject which you
can desire.” “ Well,” said she, “ how
long will a man of sixty-seven, with a
wart on his chin, and who eats peas with
his knife, live?” “ According to our ta
ble, madam,” replied the agent, “lie
should, on the average, survive eleven
years, three months and sixteen days.”
“ That,” said his visitor, would be till
the Ist of August, 1887?” “Precisely,
madam, on the average expectation of
mortality, lor we all must die, and it is,
therefore, well to insure against loss to
the loved ones in a company whose char
acter .” “ And how much could 1
insure bis life for?” “Oh, for any
amount, say $50,000,” he answered, ta
king up a blank form .of application, “let
me recommend the unexampled advan
tages offered by our nonforfeitable en
dowment policy.”
“Well,” said the young woman, ?‘I
think, then that I’ll marry him.”
“ Insure him, you mean?” replied the
agent.
“No, marry him; you insure. You
see?” She added, with a burst of confi
dence, “ I love Herbert, and Mr. Daw
kins is old enough to be my grandfather.
But Herbert is poor, and 1 just worship
the corner lots that .Mr. Dawkins builci
on. And Herbert is patient, and says if
1 only fix a day, no matter how long he
will have to wait, he will be happy.
Now, you say Air. Dawkins will die on
the Ist of August, 1887, and, as it
wouldn’t be decent to marry again ’till
I’ve been a year in mourning, I’ll ar
range to marry Herbert on the 2d of
August, 1888, and if Air. Dawkins doesn’t
die by then you’ll give me $50,000. On!
thank you,” and, with a deep bow, she
swept out of the office.
lluse-Heutia£ in Jfevada.
We met a landlord yesterday. He,
pointing to three little houses, said : “ I
rented those houses to iimith lor $175 a
, month. He,has put a bed and a wash
stand in on* of them, and rents it for
$l5O. He will make S3OO per month
I out of the lease that I was fool enough to
give him,” We said: “\ ou probably
I lost inouey when you gave a lease ou ti e
premises for $175?” “Oh, no,’ he an
swered, “ I make 96 ner cent, on ray ia
: vestment.”
—A Centennial policeman made Grant
stop smoking on the giounds. To the
Br- - dent * inquiry, it ne knew whom he
was adure's.ng. the piucky lehq.v re
plied : “ Ye*—you are General Grant,
out you don’t smoke on these grounds
! any sooner than John bomb. ’
“Unredeemed Pledges for Sale.”
Those are the words printed in large
gilt letters on the window of the loan
office, glaring at every passer-by. How
dare that map flaunt his'tell-tale sign in
the face of all the world! Unredeemed
pledges! Do they not haunt every wak
ing hour?
Ju the dead of night, do they not rise
up in bitter reproach before each one of
us? But this man has them for sale,
and so he startles us with his flaring
sign. Who made the pledges? What
are they worth? Why do they remain
unredeemed ?
Strange people haunt the place. A
pale, hungry-eyed woman creeps up and
holds out her wedding ring—itself an
unredeemed promise—and, leaving her
pledge, goes back to buy bread for her
starving children. A flashily-dressed
girl, with a painted face; flaunts boldly
in, throws down the jewels won by siu,
leaves the pledge she never means to re
deem, and goes out and away, no other
evidence of her life or her identity re
maining behind. A gray-haired old man
totters forward, looks guiltily around,
takes from its shabby wrapping an old
family Bible, and, with the pittance he
receives makes his way to the nearest
grog-shop to find forgetfulness, in that
which has robbed life of its worth, and
old age of its peace.
Alas, for those who have left the pledg
es unredeemed! Death came to some of
them while they patiently toiled, hoping
in time to make good their promise, and
win back the loved heir loom or precious
jewel with which it was so hard to part.
Misfortune, or unexpected good fortune,
overtook others, while many had no in
tention ever to redeem the pledges fhey
left.
Among all the hurrying, jostling
throng that passes the pawn-broker’s
window, who, looking down the track of
the gone years, sees not a long line ol
unredeemed pledges which he would
gladly gather up and sell to the highest
bidder, “ cheap for cash.”
Let us turn our eyes backward, and
peering.into the secrets draws and pig
eon-holes of meqory, take them ail out
qne by one.
Here is a little book, rudely made.
The leaves, now yellow with age, are
fastened to the faded cover with a rusty
pin. On the first page of the book is
written in the scrawling characters of a
child’s chirography a pledge for the fu
ture. The child’s heart was moved by a
great thought, and longing impatiently
for the battle of life to begin, the prom
ise was written out to be fulfiled at some
future time. There it stands now—un
redeemed—for sale.
There’s a secret draw in the heart
which contains, unwritten, the dust of a
solemn promise made by a youth. The
first great temptation of life came to him
in an unguarded hour, lie fell! Tears,
remorse, repentance and, at the solemn
midnight hour, a promise, known only
to himself and his God. Beneath the
promiscuous heap of wordlv experience
that promise lies concealed in the heart
of the man—half redeemed.
Under the green oid oaks, after tin
birds had ceased their thrilling and the
stars had come out, two lovers sat and
plighted their troth. A strong, brave
young man held close to his loving heart
the form of a fair, sweet girl, and each
made a promise of lifetime of love.
A few short months and the vow was
sacredly renewed at the altar. Years
came and went, ,a little neglect, a little
unkiudness and impatience, and the two
who should have clung together always,,
drifted apart, and now husband and wile,
taking their separate ways, carry each
the burden of an unredeemed pledge on
their hearts.
A mother bending over the cradle of
her babe, saw the little one smile in its
sleep, and lifting her heart to God in
thankfulness for the precious gift he had
bestowed, registered there, a sacred vow',
to be always a true, tender, faithful, lov
ing mother. But ah! the little one,
proved a vexing care; ambition came in
between the mother and her trust, and
now that the child has become a man,
and has fallen into sad, dark ways, the
mother bows her head and weeps bitter
tears, over the neglected pledge which it
is to late too redeem.
“Unredeemed pledges for sale!” who’ll
buy? Who’ll take their burdens off our
hearts, their ashes away from our souls?
Who’ll relieve us of their haunting pres
ence, fitful stings, dagger cuts?
Hopeful soul, arise! redeem thyself!
Break the chains that bind thee; throw
off the sloth that weighs thee down;
make one grand new r pledge, and with
the help of God who made, and the good
angels who guard thee, push on and
while life remains seek to redeem tire
promise of thy youth.
Tile s>irl <Wlltc Period.
She wore a round hat upon the back ol
her head like the aureole of a saint, to
whom her sweet face gave her an ap
pearance of kindred. Her bodice was
close-fitting—indeed, drawn tight about
the waist, like the bark of a young, ten
der tree. Her scant skirt, pulled tight
in front so as to show ber form, and tied
back, terminated behind in a short fan
like tail, like the tail of a mermaid. iSlie
was mounted on shoes seven sizes too
small for her feet —indeed, only her toes
appeared to have accommodation in
them ; and the high heels coming under
the instep tilted her forward and com
pleted the grace of her carriage. When
she walked she put down one little foot
after the other as if each leg were as
elastic as an iron rod. It was a great
pleasure to see her pepping along, a thing
of perfect beauty, like some of tua draw
ings of some mythological biped by.one
of the old masters.
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Mothers in a Dilemma.
Yesterday morning two children tvere
born to two mothers, in the west part of
town, in the same room ar,d at,the same
time. The woman who cared for the lit
tle strangers bath -d and clothed them,
and started to present them to their
waiting mammas. Then she made the
startling discovery that she had inextri
cably mixed the: infants so that she was
unable to decide which was the mother
of either. The two ujoth~r east lots for
choice, agrevin Ts a e children
should, when gr w • xiu .y
i
' sho- : , t ; a.i.
should ! - r j 1 -
An a. ut .- :, -h.%?iied Beasley, got
into trc-uo.e i ta r day b -.-ause a col
ored woman said Tie prom ..sea to marr -'
her. He didn't keep is alleged word,
, had to go tip the canal,
VOL. II—NO. 32.
DEVILTRIES.
The Freshest swl Best Wit ai:i| Humor
—How to raise beets—take hold of the
top and pall.
—lf a row of columns is a colonnade,
isn’t a row of lemons a lemonade?
—A very greedy boy —One who recent*
; ly took the measles from his little sister.
—Greenbacks may come to pa, but the
rest of the family will take them from
him.
—Modesty in a woman is like color in
| her eheeks, decidedly becoming unless
put on.
—Crusty says that the list of marriages
: in the newspapers ought to he put under
i the head ot “ King Frauds.”
—A Granger writes to a rural paper to
| “how long cows should be milked?”
Why, the same as short ones, of course.
—An old convicts advice to his son :
“ Never steal a horse my boy, unless he
is faster than any other horse in* the
neighborhood.
—Said a Brooklyn school miss to her
companion the other day : “ Oil, join our
church ! There isn’t a man or woman
in it that there isn’t some gossip or scan
dal about!”.
—There is no surer indication of the
coming of spring than to see a small boy
whose chief article of dress is a rag
around a sore toe, hunting for a mud
puddle to swim in.
—“Ah! doctor, I’m out again—let me
thank you, my dear fellow.” Doctor —
“ But nonsense, I never came to see you
while you were ill.” “ Weil, that’s why
I’m thanking you.”
—Miss Anna Dickinson’s new lecture
is entitled “ Bowing arid Reaping.” And
an old bachelor cruelly says that Sewing
and Ripping would be a more appropri
ate subject for women.
—A lady in Chicago has been divorced
from her husband on the ground of ex
treme cruelty. lie wouldn’t permit her
to warm her feet on the small of his
hack. The men of the West are unfeel
ing monsters.
—A skating rink accident is thus de
scribed by a Kentucky reporter: “ Bke
struck out—couldn’t turn—started for
the ceiling—shouted don’t you look !
turned a hand-spring, and then sat down,
The stripes were brown and red.
—Because a man in Portland, Oregon,
deemed it necessary for the preservation
of his authority at home to Hog his wife,
all the women in the vicinity met in
council, passed resolutions, and then go
ing to his house, whaled him until he
became insensible.
—This was in Kentucky : A young la
dy dropped her handkerchief on the
street last Saturday, and it blew close to
the dangerous end of a mule. The young
man who picked it up will not send her
nis photo for several days, as he doesn’t
look well with Bis chin under his ear.
—Telegraphers are guilty of sad blun
ders sometimes. The Prince of Wales
lately telegraphed from India for “Five
Milner’s”—Milner being a great safe
manufacturer—“ throe with drawers, two
without.” The message reached London:
“ Five milliners here with drawers, two
without.”
—Trained petticoats are said to be
coming into fashion this season. Wenev*
er saw one, but presume they will be
trained to pick up apple cores and cigar
stumps off the sidewalk, and hang over
the back of a chair at night. It does ij,ot
seem as if you could train a petticoat to
climb a tree, still one could be made to
put on a good many frills,
—A Chicago boy who is addicted to
going to the theatre to see the heavy
drama, called his father to supper, the
other night, by calling out: “ What, no,
there, base craven ! Come hither to thy
vesperian hash.” And when that father
and that son came together it sounded as
if the butt had slipped off of a 20-foot
fly-wheel.
—“ You sec,” said the despondent
man, “ some people has good luck and
some people has bad luck. Now, I re
member, once I was walking along the
streets with Tom Jellicks, and he went
down one side of it and I went down the
other. We hadn’t got rcore’n half way
down when he found a pocket-book with
$216 in it, and I stepped on a woman’s
dress and got acquainted with my present
wife.”
—The boys of Detroit seem to be going
down hill in their morals of late. Sun
day one of the legion, who has always
been noted for his respectful demeanor
toward the great public, observed an old
citizen yawning and gaping on a street
corner, and said to him : “ Better not
open your mouth too wide.” “Why?”
was the surprised query. “ There’s a law
agio opening a bar-room on Sunday !”
continued tiie sinful child as lie slid for
the middle of the street.”
—He is a nice little boy who lives in
Erie, Pa. They had a performance in
the opera hou-e, and he stationed himself
at the head of the stairway and said, so
sweej.lv and naturally : “Tickets, please,
and they gave him the tickets, but soon
they came to a big, burly inan at the
door who signified that he’d take tickets
in his’n, too, and wouldn’t let them in
because they had none. And the nice
little boy went with his friends to tin
show, and they could not find him tlierg
to pay him lor being door-keeper.
Happy Swain (she lias named the day ;
—And now, dearest Edith, that is
settled. With regard to jewelry, :< y
love; would you like a set in plain gel,
or Edith (economical and courage
ous, gnd who suffers a good deal f; .;
toothache) —Oh, Augustus, now you
me —do you know —I—really—but <r.
Thomas told me yesterday that he co ,
extract all I have and put in a beaut:
new sot ou rubber, that is just as good as
a gold plate, for only fifty dollars.
—A-very wretched change has been
i made in stockings this season, A fash
ion reporter teils us that stripes running
up and down have entirely superseded
the .-tripes running round the stocking.
This U much to be regretted, for, as eve
ry’ otTv ■>, those little round-and
:• mil 1 ia i . - -stripes were of no :• -
lie assist;*:; ■ to the eye in going
But tiiou. after all, ;-.s the eye had
depend ou it-j own resources whe..
reached the point where the circ.il ;
stripes give out, it is perhaps wen
enough to leave it to its own resource;
from the start.
i
THE GGLETHORPE ECHO
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1,800 Years After Death.
A correspondent, writing of the exca
vations of Pompeii, says: Among the
most interesting objects found recently,
are two skeletons, one of a somewhat el
derly gentleman, the other pf a woman.
They were found in the Via Btabia,
among the ashes of the last eruption, ev
idently overtaken in their tiight, and
burned among the cinders. According
to the usual method employed to pre
serve the external appearance of ob
jects. liquid plaster was poured into the
cavity, which, serving as a mould, a fur
vimile of the forms was obtained, and,
thus, perfectly preserved, the statue like
bodies were placed in the Pompeii Mu
seum. While appreciating all the horrors
of such a death, and the sulfering endur
ed, as shown by the position of the limbs,-
one cannot imagine what would have
been the astonishment pf that man and
woman h;\d some prophet informed them
that eighteen hundred years after death,
theii forms, and even as much of their
garments as not consumed in the erup
tion, would be placed in a museum for
inspection by a multitude of sight seers,-
some from lands the existence of which
they never dreamed of! The poor woman
is lying on her lace; and even the form
of her hair put up behind, is seen. One
arm shields her forehead, and she is sup
ported by the other. Her stony limbs
are well formed, and traces of a garment
are seen passing around her. The man
although pjacpu on his back in the exhi
bition—when found was on his side.
One arm rest on his hip; the face is
somewhat distorted, but massive and
smoothly shaven. Even the fastening
of the sandals around the ankle, and the
long buttons higher up on the leg ter
hold them is clearly seen. The limbs
are partly drawn up. The skeleton of a
tolerably large dog, also recently found,-
is in the museum of Pompeii, his whole'
form preserved in plaster, in the same
manner as those just mentioned. He is
lying on his back, writheing in sufler
ing, biting his hind leg. The rings pi
the collar are plainly seen.
Selling the Old Farm,
There is a constant buying and selling
of farms going on from Year to year iir
our country. This restlessness on the'
part of the firmer, and the desire ter
change a present location for another,
one hundred miles olf, is so frequently
witnessed in pur day, that we cease to
wonder at it. In the time of our fore
lathers, when a man was settled on a
farm, lie commonly continued through
Lie, and then left it for his son, Ji*
times gone by the same farm was first
occupied by the grandfather, and so on
by the son and grandson. Then the
good old homestead was reverenced, and
the occupancy esteemed a privilege/
There was a satisfaction felt by the sue?
cussor, that his predecessor was his rela
tive, cultivated the same fields, wandered
by the same brooks, traversed the same
hills, and ate of the fruit of the same
orchard. Then there was a home feeling/
home association, and home attachments/
Now the farmer looks more to his pecu
niary gains, and when offered a large
price for his land, hesitates not to sell,
He quits his beautiful home, his well
cultivated acres, and emigrates to the faf
West, and commences a life pf hardship
that he never dreamed of. It can bt?
safely said that were one man succeeds
in tl is undertaking, many fail. If h#
could only sell his new farm, how gladly
would he hie back to the old home po>/
occupied by strangers, and the inclosur#
containing the graves of his kindred go-*
ing to ruin with the advent of Bpj-jpg
many will dispose of their farms and re-'
move to a far country to undergo the prj-'
vations and troubles incidents upon es*
tablishing a home in anew country/
Gur advice is to remain where you are 1
it you are comfortably off, bp content tci
remain so ; do not exchange a certainty
for an uncertainty, unless powerful rea
sons are brought to bear upon you ter
seek anew settlement in a distant re'
gion. Stick to the old farm, for it ha£
never failed you in the time of need.
Important Information,
For the information of cur readers W<J
give below a fp;v important change*
made by the last Legislature, in refer-'
ence to certain laws, which it will <\{f
well for all interested to observe :
J ustiecs of the peace have no longer
tlie right by law to award costs againstr
the accused or prosecutor, at discretion,
Jury. —ln all cases of forcible entry
and detainer tried by justice of the
peace, a jury is required to be drawn
from all the persons in the district sqb
ject to jury duty.
Tax receivers arc required hereafter to
enter op their digests the first name in
full of tnx payers. Let no fellow get
wearied now for having to give his &1)
name.
Mortgages. —The law now require*
mortgages on real or personal property
to be recorded in thirty days instead of
three months. Mortgages cn person4]ty
must be recorded in the county when
the property at the time of the execution
of the mortgage is out of the county of
the mortgager’s residence, also in thff
county of his residence.
,S ’uiHuians. —The law requires all sum-'
mouses to bear date fifteen days before
the time of the trial of the cause, if the
amount is fifteen dollars or under; anil
to bear date twenty days before trial/
when the amount is over fifty dollars,
and to be served the defendent, by giving
him a copy, or leaving a copy at his usu
al and most notorious place of residence/
at least ten days before tiie trial,
On Good Friday some young fascalv
put ink in the receptacles for holy -wa
ter in the Cathedral, Montreal, with the
most startling effect, so far gs the pious
worshippers were concerned.
A Meriwether county (Gj.) hen ha*
aid a couple of egga which are puzzling
the curious in that section. Each has
a oil it a distinct and striking impres
sion of the human face.
Jet ornaments remain in favor and arc
always desirable, as they Can be worn
with almost anything.
White lace scarfs about the neck are
very fashionable. S.-me are trimmed
with the finest of old lace.
Walking suits will have the trim, taut
appearance, and will be “ tied back” as
during*the winter.
Twenty-button glove- this season, la*
dies,