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HAMILTQJ^JQURNAL. rmtJklS
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF COUNTY.
VOL. XIII.
OH, HAD I KNOWN 1
[Harriet Prescott Spofford.]
If I had thought so soon she would have died,
He said. I had been tenderer in my speech,
If I Lad thought so soon she would have died,
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Ur Ure "'" m r „ '
n
With kis es 1 lmd rtillol those breaking sigh’,
With kisae< closed thos* evelid< into sleep,
Th^ t day she looked up with her starlkd eye *.
Oh, had T known she would havedin l so soon,
L >ve had not wasted ou a barren land,
L >ve like tho-e rivers un ler torrid noon
Lost on the desert, pmira l out on the sand—
Oh, had I k nown she would hav e died so soon.
SOCIETY AT WASHINGTON.
tlow to Get into tho Whirl of the Ofli
cial Circle—F«»«<Miig the Multitude.
(“Ruhamsh- is Gi,jbe-Democrat.]
Wo a,?nrr inn ii ti-n
of the deluded o:iss have found
the lirst season mu half over, and while
eTA^S^Ll^ft&XifrUep Hoi^: 'andctlioa 0
every official family, the against privileges those
cease there. A bar is set
not in official life that can only be lifted
by winter resi lents of great wealth, who
will entertain the officials.
A very frank and a very vulgar woman
bluntly asked a prominent society ma
tron how she should manage nfUrS^i it to get
into the whirl ot rh« the olhc.al riroio circle, an fl n i l
the astute matron answered: “Teed
Thom’ them, bp^ead your vn.ir tahifl table w.4i i\ciitne rho firm nr.-,c
time, and all Washington will be
lo ir,f.om«nn come on the no-f ned nfMoimi occasion. ” That in at
ambitious soul was simply who tho wife of here a
riuh retired tradesman came
to spend her money, but without official
poffi.ion, or relative in offieo, sho had
a weary aud expensive up-lull
struggle, and had to take many snubs
and buffc tings from those who feasted
and dancediu her house. It was better
tluct tho r fortune from trade wa? ac
quired in another city than here, for the
richest of the Washington merchants
have no standing in what is distinctively
known as Washington roeiety. A man
may m ike his fortune in junk, cl 1
clothes or street-sweeping, any place
e!se, and with h s money come to ton
gress, and gain entrance to the great
social circle for his family, but if h *
made his money here society wouiu
scorn him utterly.
There was a woman here one?, t ic
wife of a western statesman, who, a
dozen years before her appearance a
Washington, managed a laundry an J
hotel and drammed up her patrons ar
the depot from her omnibus steps, bhe
was familiarly known by her first na no
everywhere. Together the cqut>!s ac-
HAMILTON, GA., APRIL 7,1885.
quired a fortune,"and, reached Washington, taking a house they as
Boon as they and their by
fed the multitude won way
terrapin and champagne to the place the
ambitious wife coveted. Her grammar
though her manner© the laexeu U tie
repose and polish of \ere
Veres, every one Hocked o her lious
when it was open, dance 1 for her fa
vors, ate and drank of her abumlan .
and went and'attaches away to ridicule her. Foreign
ministers would n?the go there,
hnf oniony nniv the he iinm-i.-ned ^ men l i
f
draw the line at the ex-laundress.
I After a season or two the statesman's
w ;^ e p P0 ; ie down and, plaintively saving
*‘I have overdone,” retired from active
life, and f At the keen sting of disap
pointment and what sh * called ingrati
hide at the way she was passe 1 by. over
able to « minister n ? 1 . fPW>»on, to those whoa who hud no teller noted
her expense 30 long......_
sieage-ong. pLum t>n rtuare lea. •
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“•‘Mf* no ***** f "’ ith
They flee onwards at the speed which
alone can save and Dr.’ as was experienced
rC peatedlv by llayes, instead of
keeping the sledges together in a com
pact body, they diverge and separate, so
as t0 distribute the weight over as large
an area as possible. When they this
to find themselves VvV menaced by
g e r, and the prospect ahead appears to
them r, L unusually tnroateninsr “they trem- CUi
- ,
ble, he dovvu, , and , refuse f to go further.
Most arctic explorers tAUiwtis tell icu of hair n.ui
i breadth escapes from treacherous ice,
when tliev saLcity have owed th,‘uLtoV. their nrescrvatiim nuA-ll
to the of U "
elates an incident of this nature:
-Our first care was to examine the
possibility of further advance; this,
however, could only be dune by trust
iog to the thin ice of the channel, and
op nions were divided as to the p'osd
bility of its bearing us. I determined
an( | the adventure succeeded
better than could have been hope l for,
0 \ v -i n pr to the incredibly swift running of
the dags, to which doubtless we owed
our safety. The leading sledgo actually
broke through in several places; but
the dogs, warned, no doubt, ... tho
danger by their the natural instinct, and
animated by incessant cries and en
eoura^ement ot the dr ; ver flew ^ m
rapMiy hed over the yielding sido without actually that
mi tho ot.icr
sinking thro cgh. The other throe
g)edges followed with similar rapidity
each across such part os appeared to be
the most promising; ami wo were now
a n assembled in safety on the north side
fiijure.' It was necessary to halt
f ov a { - me t0 a Jlow ti e dogs, to recover
NO. 14.
a little from their extraordinary exer
lions.”
apanon© -an
|f arina:rii-Mfii i
,
*eene winter pamtei is from Horn the uio portrait nr. } nainter i t .
The unknowing American nothm,? lookiug at a
Japaneso fan sees m .t but, upon
the ("he Uviliv tea-box. older, ATr^and'iiDouAh^ouler'a a 1 P°
crude splasnosot k. t . to the .
lew. in
citizen oi Tokio or Osaka, each fan car
rie8 a of speciftignilloMioa allusion, -a story, or
part a story; an a sa lie, oi a
suggestive idea.
Friend* of th© Farmer.
[Foret th I-etter.J
The French minister of finance has
issued a circular to people in the agaim-t corn
t r v, in which he warns them
destroying toads lady-bugs, and insert- the
lvorous birds, which he pronounces
nma evclusnely oHhe tanrr. “ e^tal- '
^ “ Lh 7 t el tL, AA
plant bee, scale-bug., »*£.««* and many harm
tul “ feed onJu
^ c«nnot M? t ^ one of t.iese oratoaj toad
» hollld be whipped, and the man should
1)0 lmed and im P ri?i0ned *
A coia-Air Supply. Monthly.I
[Popular Science
1 F our ! ] ar£?0 ai *-° co c id ctoraco 1 : rn « warehouses ‘ l * ou e
aro now in operation / in New ^ork city,
*1® , { * u : 11 that th l ti v.T 1 ^ 3 not no f :. r r
distant . when ‘, cold ,, air . will bo served *m
lVn P’P. _ thrn-Hrhnnf throughout th the A utj, f it- ju..« inci at gas
all( i water are now. One of the novel
f ‘* a,uu . : nf thn tao new Wn«hinotnn Washington mori, maria.i, t
being eonstruetad w a net work ot
! fi' 1 ’"® r hwhM J,lV S < ’ M !, ^4ill L,A l b- ^ f fnrn'i h’S J
,0 ll)L reT1 ' n , ' 1 nd
A bn© nee «>i ( IhuihowL
[ChicaK^ H* rakl.j
I ord Colcridgo s »ystbnt when in this
country he was struck by the absence of
childhood. Ws defer to our children,
ask their opinions, allow them to en¬
gross the general attention, force social
obligations on them, and cut them off
from ‘ all the sweet dependence of their
years,” making grown person* of them
before > Lnglish children have It* the
-
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18 rom a poun
of successful college journals puhlisucd. ?>? f°*
Chicago Herald: I’ity the poor. F ■ *
don't stop ther*. Your simple pity
»u t worth 2 cents a a acre.
I be Bank of England now covers three
veres >f ground.