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AMERIOUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY^ JlfiX 1885.
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BV REV. T. S.W1TT TALMA4E
ont'i all Ml*r mrans Had been ex-
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before them and pleased Herod.”
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■It is the anniversary of Herod’a
birthday. The palace is lighted. The
highways leading thereto are ablaze
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The tables are filled with all tho luxu
ries that the royal purveyors can gath
er—spiced wines and fruits and ran
meats. The geests, white-robed, an
ointed and perfumed, take their places.
Music! The jests evoke roars ol
laughter. Riddles are propounded,
repartees indulged, toasts drank, the
brain befogged, wit gives place to up
roar and blasphemy, and yet they are
not satisfied. Turn on more light.
Wrmm o* more music. Hound the trato
pet. Clear the floor i&r the danee.
Bring in Salome, the graceful
compliabed Princess.
The doors am opened and in bonnda
the dancer. Stand back and
plenty of room for the |
lords are enchanted. .
such poetry of motion. Their souls
whirl in the reel and bonnd with thi
bounding feet. Iierod forgets crown
and throne—evwjthing bat the fasci
nations of Salome. The magnificence
of his realm is as nothing compared
with that which now whirls before him
tiptoe. His heart is in transport
th Salome as her arms are now toss-
in the air, and aow placed akimbo.
He sways with every motion oi the en
chantress. He thrills with the quick
pulsations of her feet and is bewitched
ith the posturing and attitndes that he
ever saw before, in a moment exchang
ed for others just as area ring. He bits
in silence before the whirling, bound
ing, leaping, flashing wonder: and
when the danee stops and the tinkling
cymbals pause, ami the long, lqixi
plaudits that shook the palace with
their thunders had abated, the en
tranced monarch swears unto the prince
ly performer: “ Whatsoever thou shah
ask of me I will give it to thee to the
half of my kingdom.”
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'nils institution is fast regaining its form
er prestige and popularity. Tho policy has
been Co place the best teaching talent at the
bead of each department and over the whole
twextend a kina, yet firm discipline. The
remit has been a steady increase of patron
‘ latgrowthlu pnbllcconfidcnci
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Talullc City
PROPERTY.
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Twenty-Four Beautiful
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Now there was in prison a minister
the name of John tho Baptist, who
I made much trouble by his honest
aching, lie had denounced the ains
_ the King aud brought down upon
imself the wrath of the females in the
oynl family. At the instigation of
mr mother, Salome takes advantage
of the King’s extravagant promise and
demands the head of John the Baptist
r plate. There is a sound
heavy feet and tho clatter of swords
tside of the palfiac. Swing back the
door. The exmatacwmaare returning
their awful errand. They hand
platter to Salome. What is on that
platter? A new tankard of win* to
-kindle the mirth oi ike lords? No!
is redder than, wia»*nd costlier. It
the ghastly, bleeding bead of John
the Baptist! If lochs dabMad in gore.
Its eyes set in the death stare. The
distress of the last agony ia tho featnres.
That fascinating form that just now
swaynLao.gracefully in the dance,
bends- over the horrid harden without
ihaddcr. She gloats over the bloody
and joat a* the maid of yonr household
goes, bearing oat oa a tray the empty
glataaa of the evening’a entertainment,
she carried out on a platter the dis-
rered head of that good man, while
all the banqueters shouted and thought
it a good joke that in aneb a brief and
easy way they had freed themselves
from such a plain-spoken, troublesome
minister. What could be more inno-
than a birthday festival? All the
Kings from tbo time of Pharaoh had
celebrated such days, and why not
Herod? It was right that the palace
should be lighted, and that the cym
bals should clap, and that the royal
gnosts should go to a banquet; but be
fore the rioting and wassail that closed
the scene of that day, every pure
ture revolts.
I am not going at this time to
;ss the old question, is dancing right
wrong? bnt, Does daacing occupy
o much place in modern society? And
my remarks I hone to carry with
e the affections of all thoughtful peo
ple. Whatever yon may think of the
amusement, yon must admit that from
some circles it hat crowded out all op
Within the corporate limits, situated
South side ot the handsome residence
W. Smith, and nearly opposite the elegant
home of Nlrs.F. E. Burke. These iota have a
street running East ano West and one North
. » Lee Street on
which is the most fashionable and desirable
tnd South, t
rhMill the
in tbe city aud is considered tho
Bo ulevard of Americas.
n minutes walk to the
Is to prepare
od duties ot U
effortfn the past have been successful in sup-
plying valuable contribution to the society of
almost every southern state are respectfully
invited to consider the advantages and fu
tore prospects of Monroe. Foor infonua
tU JanStf lT *° ft. T. ASBUKY, President-
TERMS—Half cash a
month* time wit!
i^ht per cent, interest.
* this valuabio property*
l-or^^^blehmu^lSp all,
'■either sex, to more mooev
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. Fortunes await tho workers
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House over Mn. Vied
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the music of the land; and ChristUna
church unconsciously find them
selves keeping time with their ; feet,
while their sdnl is ’• uplifted by some
great barmofiy. Not only is this trae
in cultured life, but the red men oi
Oregon have their fccalp dances and
green-corn dances and war dances.
The ancient fathers, aroused by the
indecent dances of those days gave em
phatic evidence against any participa
tion in the dance. St. Chrysostom
says: “The feet were not given far
dancing, hat to walk modestly; not to
leap impudently like camels.” 'Opin
of the dogmas of the ancient churpb,
reads: “A dance is the devil’s pofl-'
session; and he that entereth into
dance, entereth into- hit possession.’
The devil is thegato to the middle and'
to the end of the dance. As many
passes as a man makes in dancing, so
many passes doth be make to beU."
Elsewhere these old dogmas declare:
“The woman that singeth in the dance
is the princess of the devil, and thot#
thot answer are his clerks, and the be
holders art hit friends, and. tbe musi
cians are Vu beTfowH, tnd the fiddlers
are the ministers of the devil; for,
when hogs are strayed, if the hogshsii
call one, all assamble together, so ths
devil calleth one woman to sing in the
dance or to play on some instrument,
and presently all the dancers gather to
gether.” This wholesale and discrim
inate denunciation grew ont of the at*-
ter dissoluteness of those ancient plays.
So great at one time was the offense to
all decency that the Homan Senate
decreed the expulsion of all dancers
and dancing.masters from Rome.
Yet we are not to discuss the
toms of that day, bat the customs oi
the present. We cannot let the fathers
the question for ns. Ont reason,
enlighten by the Bible, shall be th#
standard. I am not ready toexcom*
mnnicate all those who lift their feet
beyond a certain height. I would not
out youth with a rigor of criti-
that would put out all their
dor of soul. I d» not believe that al^
the inhabitants of Wales, who used to
to the sound 01*the rustic nibcorn;
down to ruin. I would give tol
all of your youth the right to romp|
~ ' or n« would'
„ natures with!
uch exuberance. If a mother join!
hands with her children, and, while
the eldest strikes the keys, fills all the
house with the sound of agile feet, I
a an* the fare and tfca 1
Myiatatl .MXaiwbwtlWwUW
Who bsms bsr smart*. vkOeweartar fi
Tke^SSSjfni crown °f her barcMWC temra
If an j thing on, the earth is beautiful ,-jMafcr
to my eye, u is aa aged woman; her a
hair floating, hack over her wrinkled
brow, not frosted, bnt white with the
blossoms of the tree of life; her voice
tender with past memories andhstfhne
benediction. The children pull at
^mother's dress as she nessee
ngh the room, and almost pull her
down in her weakness; yet she has
tobthing but a cake or eaudy or a kind
word for the little darlings. When she
goes away from ns there is a shadow oa
the table, a shadow onthehiatth and a
shadow in the duelling. Bat if any
thing on earth Iff distasteful to t< 1
it is an oil woman ashamed of
Old. What wRh artificial appil
She h too much fat w*Y gravity,
laugh, even in ehnrcb, wnen I see
cominr. One of -the worst I
known to- the host or hostess as
reputable,move round the room to the
sound of musical instruments, I can
harm. I for a long while tried
et could
I would
greater
a harm, but I
and I probably never will,
to God men kept young for
length of time. Never since my~ecbool
boy days have I loved so well as now,
e hilarities of life. What if we have
felt heavy hardens and suffsred a mul
titude of bard knocks, is it any reason
why we should stand in the path of
those who, unstung by life’s misfor
tunes, are exhilarated and full of
glee"
portnnity for all intellectual
i, and made the condition of thoee
who do not daooe, cither because they
do not know bow, or are not in snffi*
idure it, or because
they mast conscientiously decline, very
uncomfortable. You must admit also
that with many it has
recreation and become a dissipation.
With many it has became each
over-fatigue that yon caa undent
the bewilderment of an educated
Chinaman, who standing in a brilliant
house where for many hoars the dance
had bee* going on, asked the wealthy
proprietor: “Why do , you not ,let
your servants do that for yoa?” Fur
thermore, it will be admitted by all
reasonable people that, whatever they
may think of the old-fashioned square
dance and many of the professional
romps, in which I can see no evil, the
round danos is administrative of hum
and deserves to be
orr or surd tas
hj natural temperament and re
ligious theory utterly eppeipl to the
position of thoee who are horrified at
•vary demonstration oi mirth aad gUy-
fnlnees in social life, and who seem to
think that everything, decent and im
moral, depends upon the style in which
’e cany their feet. On the other
I can see nothing bnt rain, m
ral and physical, ia the dissipations .
thi hall-room, which have despoiled
thousands of young men and women
of all that gives dignity to character or
nsafhlness to life.
Dancing has bean styled “thsgrace
ful movement of the body adjusted by
art, to the measures or tone of instru
ments, or of the voice.” All nations
have danced. The '
Pollux and Castor at first taught the
practice to the Lacedaemonians; hut
whatever be ka origin, all climes have
..... - ’wedayi there
oneral dances,
military dancqs and “mediatorial'
dancee. Queens aad Lords have
swayed to and fra in their gardens; and
ths rough men of the backwoods have
in thia way ronsad up the echo ol the
forest. Than seems to be something
in lively and coherent sounds to evoke
,ths movement of hand and foot.whether
If
Will elopo with a French dancing mas
ter. The mother, still trying to stay
MtW
one lock of my mother’s gray hair
fifty thousand such caricatures of ol«
age. The first time yon
faithful disciples vf the hall'
gently engaged and ham>y in the
of the home circle, send maword/for
would go a great way to see
Src-H a FHE.NOMEXO?. ,
Them creatures have no home. Their
children onwaahed. Their fanitnrd
nndnsted. Tbcir chiaa closets disor
dered. The house a scene of confusion,
misrule, cheerier eases aad dirt One
ild thiak yon might discover even
These dissipations extinguish all
love of usefulness. How could yon
expect one to be interested in the alle
viations of the world’s miseries while
there is a question to he decided ahont
the sisa of a glove or the shape of a
garment? How many of these men and'
women of the ball-room visit the poor
:!e, conclude
and recross’the room to the sound
the piano well played,1 see no harm,
company of people, all of whom
or help drees the vroaade of a reti
soldier in the boepital 1 ? '
Ahe world ever see a perp
distributing tracts ? Sneh pei
tamed in upon themselves. And it it
very poor pasti
This gilded i
few friends to intellect and soul.
etant study of little things ; this bar-
ting anxiety about dress ; this talk
of fashionable infinitesimals; this group
TttfcejwuasT la ito
. ncrac/SetSslMtthia*
S ^s. , ssa w
Tot goiar to walk far haH-amhoar."
looked op * bhn wrth a strange soft-
•sea la her eyes.
“I fell Inlova with
were singing,’When thi
U Comes In,* Rev,” she w
Aogetmt uey bore bw
m4 eoqveyed her home.
OnOe there, the strengor remained'
the shot bad beta extracted and
raa neononneed out of
» frenzy over you tf ‘
brought you home that
I been replete , with
.y, ^ q, ,-1 we sat together, on^rafew
amid the witcheries "of the ball-room ■Tkewfflrania^ dr*Rry. once sbornof the
1 suppoeelt Is a rude thing to say,
Dlek, but ! wish your fair cousin was
not coming to-day.”
Dick Gordon mailed a little.
“You’ll taka that back within a
week,” he said, quietly.
“Shall Iironically. “Than
,f «2
dual dancer “Shv’a WnDy what one might term
i persons an ****** 7°«f Indy.*' laughed DMW
that simpeg and look oakaoco
minora* and wonder with infinity
interest “how that ono gera-
u _ leaf does look;” this
veling up of man’s moral
dignity until it ia. no more observable _
With the aaked eye; this taking wiUhai
woman’s heart, that God ttaantslairid
be filled with all azaffuitiee, and coto-
pressing it until all the fragrance aad
They will have to live many a day if
they want to hear mo say ono word to
dampen to their ardor or clip their
or to throw a cloud npon their
them that it is hard and dark
and dolefnl. It is no such thing. You
will meet with many atrial; bnt speak
ing from my own experience, let me
toll yon that you will bo treated a
great deal better than yon deserve.
Let ns not grndge to the yonng their
joy. As we go further on in life, let
ns go with the remembrance that
have had onrgleefnl days. When old
age frosts our locks and stiffens
limbs, let us not block np the way,bnt
“We have bad our good th
lat others have theirs,” As our
children come on let os cheerfally give
them onr places. How glad I will
be to let them have everything—my
house,-my books, my place in society,
my heritage! By the time we get old
we will have bad onr way long enongl
Then let our children come on and v
will have it their way. For thirty,
forty or fifty years we have been drink
ing from the cap of life, and we ought
not to complain if called to pass the
.* ossa) young lady.” laughed
“Bnt you will seaimri' *’
Bax, with a bon* «
his half-consainea cii
ferns.
reluctant gallantries. * JotsV’ toiSg
at his watch, and ritiag ..with
simplicity aad artlessness am
ont of it; this requisition of
shoe; this wrapping op 0 I mind «cd
krart m a raffle; JiU tumbling don
of a soul that God *vtf rt fsr great np-’
llifUngs! I prophesy the spiritual rare
of all participators in this rivalry.
Have the white, poliahed, glistening
boards ever been the road to Iltaren?
Who at the flash of those chandeliers
hath kindled a torch for etcmHytFmk:
ithe table spread at tbo dose of that ax.
«Red and beawcated socne, who
home to say his prayers 1
To many, alaa, thia life ia a masque
rade hall. As at snch entertainments
gentlemen and ladies appear in the
dress of kings or queens, mountain
bandit# or clowns, and at th# close of
fbOQtfit.-
-rake on
Mex faikrwed bU example, aad to-
thsy wsca preseotly msrtsrty
Across the floor they trip merrily. The
lights-sparkle along th# wall or drop
from the ceiling—a very cohort of fire!
The feet bound. Gemmed hands,
stretched out, clasped gemmed hands.'
—le day’s fishing.
Uf easily, whea at
white, with great red roses in
and bosom, stood the most I
woman he had wvsr seen, ia
of berglsckmsweaaMla
i crimson as bar rossa,
agassxsjy
half-curled locks of _
hair, rendering its creamy
hat tho more marked.
Somebody has said, “A s
long enough for levs to hah
the rebuke we tread
rustle aad laughter and immeesnraMe
merry-making! Bat the laughter of
death comes over the limbo and blare
the sight. Lights lower! Floes boh.
low with sepulchral echoes,
saddens iato a wail. Lights
The maskers oa» hardly now i
Flowers exchange their fragnamrftta
Sickening odor, sash as come from gar
land* that have lain ia vault* of cam*
teries. Lights lewarl uMbtwdUlhfei
room. Glassee rattleaa.-thoaghahak-
« br aullsa thaader. Sh
' aught among the eartaiaa. 4
rom the shoulder of beaaty^a ahrtmdl
4ghta lower! Orer iftlwtmT*
Kmrdaia daaco of-death glidsj.
impaih
caves and withered gariandaosOrtelf '
hide the ulcered feet. Thci steachof
death. Are we to stand smoking lamp-wicks almost quenched. .
-hokiag damps*. C'MUasesi ■ FssamiTli
lands-folded. £yea tlaL ^faiem
hashed. Lights »r •
trodaced him to hAiwiftBS g
MS'
!ricnd was a
Mmoofible
along and 1st others take a drink,
nt while we have a right to the en
joyments of life we never will counte
nance sinful indulgences. 1 here set
forth a group of what might be called
the dissipations of the ball-room. In
some eommnni-.ies these dissipations
continue all the year, while they do the
chief work in summer at the watering
places, aad therefore the subject has
wide application. They swing
fnl scythe of death. Are we t<
idly by and let the work go on lest ii
id upon the long trail
of some popular vanity? The whirl
pool of the hall-room drags down the
life, the beauty and the moral worth ot
cities. In this whirlwind of imported
silks goes out the life of many good
families. Bodies and souls innnmera-
annually consumed in this con
flagration of ribbons. This style o
dissipation is the abettor of pride, the
instigator of jealonsy, the sacrificial
altar of health, the defiler of the soul,
the avenue of lost and the curse of the
town. The tread oi this wild, intoxl-
eating, heated midnight danee jars all
the moral hearthstones of the city.
The physical rain is evident. What
will become of thoee who work all day
and danoe all night? A few year* will
their midnights to spiced wines and hot
sappers, and rode home through win-
cold, unwrapped from the ele-
fraggista have already i
ply, aad w« hope oar res fiat
ply themselves at owv.
Jiiaaaid ta bs the c«y ,
V****** blood poison remedy .,
£ entire satisfaction ia all <
) one battle has been need.
J Dieeaere, Kidney . Troubles,
8crofnla, Catarrh, old IJIcera aad Bkin
Diabases* tay ewe *
m TO THK oaa vcTAaa.
Thera are consumptions and fierce
neuralgias close oa the track. Amid
that glittering maze of ball-room spl
dors,, disease! stand right and left, i
balance and chain. A sepulchral
breath floats np amid the perfume, and
tha froth of death’s lip bubbles np in
the champagne. Many of the bright
est homes are beiaf sacrificed. There
are families that have actually quit
keeping house sad gone to boarding,
that they may give themselves
exclusively to tbs higher duties
ball-room. Mothers and dai
fathers and sons, finding their
enjoyment ia the dance, bid farm
books, to qnist culture, to all ths
nities of home. The father wfl], after
a while, go down into lower dissipa
tion*. The son will be tossed about in
leodety a nonentity. The daughter
Why. the Lucky Bay
Gre.’A. Spear, who drew
in The Louisiana State Lott
aetehaeged,
bedecked with
hie as* elevated him
collect the mon*y. thi
•*«# as I would
lottery tlekst as a'
clerking in
X* was this question that had been
taiUrsStag Basil through her mind ever
siaeetbe sodden departure clValcn-
le had meant nothing when be had
•eaded snrmrereJarfcg thoee Itagvr-
'^y^fSeaesSaesdresreed, it is tree,
OT tUe man wMee companionship had
been so acresebia; but she had not
bsurt -aa te aMhbe flsel er m
frenzy over you the Bight
ought you home that I really I _
to enquire, aad be has only sent three
things since with enquiries for your
stateof health, without having called
“He is most kind, and has evidenUy 1
beett very anxious, feeling, I suppose
respoazible for the accident. Metbetw
~ou most ask him to call.”
So a note was dispatched to the
Lodge, aad Sylvia, la graoefol invalid’s
toilet, sat awaiting their visitor that
—eaUag.
“The Servant tells me his name is
Mr. Hokmrep," saM the mother, enter.
Mrs. Devine had been absent daring
tho timo of young Holcamp's stay ii
the town of the previous summer, and
her daughter, through a feeling of shy-
had not mestUmod the episode
_ i had catered iato her life durtor
the period of her absence; nor had VaE
hi* uncle, conseqnen ' ‘ * '
suddenly pale at the ___
game so familiar to her, aad
flaw was entirely unprepared tor the
artling change is her daughter at
^“What Is. it. child—why did you
, “Ofc—nothing,” murmured Sylvia,
VM*ytcf> away anicklv.
^Bo* when, shortly after. Yalenfiire
Jelcamp appeared before her the found
herself trembling from bead to foot In
a normal state of health this would
not hove been the case. Bat the
prise had beta too much for her it
weakened condition.
In her effort to appear controlled she
received him la a J * ‘
iqpld. i ..
The interview was very brief »nd
formal, though her mother’s cordiality
made np for it ia part
1 Without urging a seoond visit from
w occupant of Lyndermero Lodge,
rtvia asked him to read Jem.. who,
aha said, was in no manner ,to> blame,
& he had not seen her when he took
position ta th# tree.
Jem came—once, twice. - At the
mond visit to a*y good-bye They
wro going away again, he said; bis
aria via# to Join some friends oaa
rip of travel in Europe; he, Jem,
meanwhile to be sent to school.
ith# hare passed away,
i Sylvia, in mourning garb, stands
lone in tho house that for so many
war# has smiled npon her in peace and
stay ashwlisteth, 1
---- - and hamwwiad.
W**reg. W * 7 ’ w * rblin * *®« W
.To-dayfwuhtha grim hare old trees
iroond her. tho grey glimpse of sky
nrerimafi, abe Is uleot and almost as
iWrivoas ttmrisprettns; day.
[ears a sudden Round over hag bead.
iad looking np abe sere an urchin of
dxmt six years crooched on the broad
hawrealree,and makii^^prodigious
*4.aim at the^amo’time at*
mall game which ha bad espied.
T Wwt ia this, it had been his
face of disappaiatareat that had at
tracted Sylvia a attention.
T..O-WX.— pmjn
eting little linger szlipped
id TrsaornsTimeii mT~~*—
t~and the “bothering gun”
> the earth, while the child
tnd scramble to regain his
Aa 11 dtaaead. hawwvsr, in fall-
nek heavily against
mb ot the tree, aad
r aside, yet not ia
? Tre contents
^tsboulder,
^bifoatt- .
from the wound oosiag
gown over the fr*-
ss boy. trembling with
to the side of tbo prostrate
Though inch • baby loyezre. lt
;en aualy Caarsga that had lad
illow Into such a
“wiUyoQsiag forwaf
an so eager to >aaaa* • Ethel.
ladgadyonreelf sojdllinrij tolmlp to
rtsrtain her, aad ha afogs with the
ir *ffS| - iriitatt Tif ff ' “
»«-" to Ethel; “he do—
do, Mr. Omahyr* aao-
■tm. “EthaL mv dear.**
WEsiieJaf
. hose hoaftMoro seamed to
gassas
mB..
U^&sifss^srsi
man’s death, mad «Uy thaday before
*oa aw have described, the
^ nephew of Mr. Povrair*,
IWad taken Slliiiiilnn It
ffjaa** ft*
Ml’ gave Ms song, the «lm
clerking in the store jnat as though 1 sSvsgt’grgsrga
.otbi., h,d b.pp™d.”'- fi.
»«iwd * KewV.rkBuW.ai.hl ?T Iv . r J
icr cheeks, and Yalsctina knows''at
L Drtud,rtki,«™.
to becom. my
r« let'iae be brM. tec
OtiSB**** Mt *
ha 4
trifo.aplvla.-1 mast teB;
-morrow the fnrnlturv and books,
^ rhlch they have together used and po>
i used, are to be, stored and packed
Away, and .Sylvia will seek hpr abode
among distant relatives in a faraway
Gently-sho lifts one and another of
towenir albnfos and pretty gifts on#
had bestowed npon the other ht differ'
cut birthday* and holidays.
fcjho ia looking at • book of p
«ho had been reading aloud t ...
mother during tho summer evenings
preceding the arrival of Valentine Hol-
ann.
When her mother left homo to make
her visit, the book-had remained where
she had left it. upon the sitting-room
‘ .bis; .for after her departure Sylvia
uldippod iato another'poem. Which
Moroed her for tbo time quite tteyond
iy she had ever read.
Now she lifted it tenderly—tears
reshed to her eyes. This was linked
with a lovo that would never die—the
sweet fidelity of a mother’s love. How
the other poem had died, shrivelled in
to bitter dregs.
Tbo ono she wept over; tho other sho
thought ot with a cold sneer.
Slowly, softly, *ho turns the leaves.
A book-mark falls into her lap, then a
thia soft envelojie, a delicate Bower
doubtless pressed within it—it was a
habit of her mother's to press her fa
vorite blooms thus—but no, this is a
directed note, and moreover, ooe di
rected to herself.
Tho paper Is flattened and somewhat
Followed—it lias evidently Iain there
IS is sealed—has never been opened.
She wooderisgly tears it opes aad
MBEggS
e wUi scat my node abroad, and
my poverty, Sylvia, aadfo-' my dis-
Ofr ttmoghjttthad grown so dear
overlook th* sUgma upon my ■"
^ ,p ®^ wlth ber
'oons thought
j*f^i »ii« r mint .has hun Bat Valin-
ia
; me with tl
p.—Yews, in va«ret, sad yet fas
"Yauktctc Hotcanv.’’
I «t tho date.
•a written the
hit dsfartnns tbapceviooa •
gSWSftJSBttis
life. lives with them still, though bo l
ist bccominr a handsome
Valentino has seen his lithsr’ twice
>nco his'marriage, h«a nrgsd him to
ootf his days in (hair bemst oat he has
learned to find his <mlv nsalts In the
complete isolation of a stranger among
stranger*. ’
Adelina Patti’s Mother.
. Patti was bom la Spain
great career. “Son’ io la I
ably expecting me to bo i
with awe and *p*wremfnt .. ,
tion of that great agma. Bnt, as I
saW before, I am sorry to say I savor
had heard ths name before, so that
when she said. “Iam la Barili.” I pre
tended to bo very much Impressed, bnt
ia reality sho might have said, “I am
Ching-dhang-Hn,” for all that I knew
of la Barili—it would have boon th*
to me. Anyway, song was tho
• of little She was
5 to k y«« oldwbeu her mother
beam her running np and down stairs
bumming, whistling, singing tho ah*
that bar mother sang* aad continually
exerting ber voice and her memory
mosicaPy.—Tm^tBor.
n* Al* w« Uw I*.
1 aa we bpast of our modera im
provements wo are, most of us. behind
we Ifvo in—that is; behind tbo
BfS/ la 1M MMMf- only faU o
keep wall informed of Uw minor spec
ial inventiooa and improvement* that
boa* whase busi-
J 'Had ho bare
killiar ths most borittu
I wvsc looked apoofahia
jrtL l ffi!SS2 , S?d. , &
bo had eMght that brief
gnSStEu HwmtnSL
, ^ she had done
him this injustice hi her thought*. Aid
wUa at last they bed met, she bed not
received him wMi e smile of friendship,
mad he'had left her again without, the
wwst he had hoped lor.
„(fyg3sfrrSraJ
* to her—the woodland n
wards tho lonely hermitage, wonder-
’■ ith a newly-awakened sweet
; where iu owner is now wan-
mad ponder* for tb# first time
dings muniagled witl ““——
was tb* mystereef l
" , a , D«lSSuSu|?“rluo-lucnnhort
°*' r
ko«. gillopiag down Um fo^J.
SEsSsS!
WhOLOfig*. • >* !
■ a moment she rnarrsU
wfbMbaa again been silent for
i np from the chimney.
I ViaW hardly barter tbo
[ht. ) .*r ’
takas oourago presently,
why she has come to him thus of her
own free will. Ho cannot believe that
it is all mL
'Tell me. Sylvia, dear one—tell me
perfectly evident »#■*
tage of the swifter and surer method,
small as ft foiy wfll'’<fr*«t}y oot-
weigh tbs slight additional «*C Aa
for traveling, why shouldn’t wo, whaa,
as often happens. It Is easier, pleasant
er, safer, and ebaspsr than staying at
' " * — entire
ami
rim of Use wheel as when lam
zpot where I was bora F
No, sir! We have scarcely began to
-*—tend our opportunities, or to
, whttfaclHtias for moving about
•BtafoPflilfolhqjtaqiffs
is. on tbo whole, tho triumphant*
so«x oftbe moon, a bfootHtevoid of m
tlmeuf. If yoa’choosa, but with tho re
freshment of a purer Intellectual light,
the cooler ort> of middle life, who
w'aaytbiag tamatsb that gleam,
divined ,uui seen, which runs
biforeherovw theaupw, a breath of
light, as she rises mil the lefifftta silence
I thioh (he old fellow
scant justice done him
smalt* him the symbol
of old age or death, aad think we have
settled the matter. As if old age were
sever kindly is Weil as froMy, ss it It
* of fw own as
Bismarck haa*a sty on' his ayo. ’ We
ways felt fa oar heart of h4rta that
TW U«Ui> hu
dt*rwd th,t lKiuor .cDitj must
pendsaies between tho hours of ll p.
John Buskin blushes scarlet when he