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The Sumter Republican. «S333feftE : iT'mW « AjTA.cijj THE WEEILI SSJBEMI Wi . .’1;/ Ml L*T IsLiVelvH l\* . ESTABLISHED IN 1854 ) BY C. W. HANCOCK. { DEMOCRATIC IN POLITICS AND DEVOTED TO 1JEW8, HTERATUBE SCIENCE. ANDOBNKKAt PROGRESS j Terms: SS A YEAR m ABVASCH VOL. 32. AMERIOUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY^ JlfiX 1885. NO 10. Minion type con- Anedvsrtsementaaot eontraetadle* will aged above rates. ’■rfiwaasutsnot apeelfylnc the tenets • for which they are to be Inserted i XtXluual Otmk professional cards. B ; B. AcE.If! Hinton, .lltornct/s at Law, fraction in State end Federal courts far Hawkins Building Ameriem, — B. p. hollTs, .Ifrornc)/ as Law, A3ICUICXH, UA E. G. SIMMONS. Att.orncv at Law, AMKRIOUS OA, office In Hawkins’building, wrath side or fAimr street, in the old office of Port* Simmons. ]gn6tf B. H. WILKINSONT - Atlornev at Law. AmeriouH, (in. All business entrusted to him will receive prompt and careful attention. Money col lected will be immediately remitted. Iterance: J. W. Sheffield A _Co. Ojnc*-I*m»r StreetVeoptea National J- M. R. Westbrook, M. D- Physician and Surgeon. Amor Iouh.Go. Office In Dr. Eld rid Re's Urns: St idence on Church Street, nextdooi u d. r. Prescription Druggists. /VMEBIOUM, GEORGIA We understand this branch of the business and make It a specialty, * drugs in compounding manufacturers. ing and from reliable A REMARKABLE CURE! PHTSiCUHS ui> SDP.GEOHS DECIDED TO USE TEE KKIFE. ^aKerioIw * ofr 3^ t<w ***** * 1, h gggpS&fKi 81im\ •JL’&W&YUOi tabernacle sermons. BV REV. T. S.W1TT TALMA4E ont'i all Ml*r mrans Had been ex- "r l«Wi to urn different throat - before them and pleased Herod.” Following is the eertnon in full: ■It is the anniversary of Herod’a birthday. The palace is lighted. The highways leading thereto are ablaze with the pomp of invited guests. Lords,-captains, merchant princes and w5^erft!j!^'iih(M rapid J^TCfal'n In* vo ate eWrfaily eriim-nd 'l? tTl.U wlil Zw tffliSed with pulmou«rv ilMe, LAMAR, RANKIN, & LAMAR, M ICON, GA. Dr. J. A. FORT, Physician and Surgeon. Offers his professional. se.vice» to the Ur. Eldrldgo’s Drug Store. At night can be found at residence at tho Taylor houM<, Calls will receive prompt attention, mayso-tf E.2. Brow*. FUXMoa* BaowX. Edgerton House, Oppwlm l.mmger Urj.it, MACON, CEORC1A. 3. 3. Stwcc. & 5:i, Prcprir-ort. Or. D. ?. HOLLOWAY, DentisT, Amcilcuft. - - - Georgia Treatssuccessfullyall <lis< a « sof the Den lal organs. Fills teeth oy nm improved method, and Insert* artificial teeth on the best material known to the profession. erOFFICE over Davenport and Son’s Drug Store. marllt PATENTS iy andca._._. ma2i«ar^7«zAmina/uin, iavlatki laUkVlIw f CKargr. FEES IIODEKATK, and I make N< CIIAKOE UNLESS PATENT IS SKUUI ED. Information, advioe nad rperial re ere nee -entoa application. J.u. MTTF.LL, WathlaiiRN.n. v. Near U. S, ratant Office. BROKER AND Commission Merchant soraeof the largest houses, Flour, Meat. Spots and fu- , Ml them staples. He In vites his friends to call at his office on Cot ton Avenue. Hsatl Clock for quotations Prices received every day. j»nl7-tf TUTT f S PILLS 25 YEARsT^^SE^ The GreatestMedical Triumph of the Age! _SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID L.IVER. appriltr, Unrrla tMilu, VlUli Wrartnru, Dizziness, 1-latter! dr at the Heart, 1)m* Mot*Ik* •Kt.llraiach* ovrr the rl«bt eye, Btulrmna, with J 'cONSTIPATioN]"' TITT'S 1’IIAS are especially adapted lo »uch ca*cs, ono dose effects such n 1 h;tn R« of feel In ? as to aatoMabUxmmilerer. They latMtM the /IpptUtM*.''— fsfr^ & 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.” (jOSTETTE^ CREEN CROCERY I have opened next door to l’at Williams a green grocery, and hope my friends will patronize are, when they want fresh meats and vegetables, the very best the market affords 1 will have them constantly on ban 1 JA3. G. EDMUNDSON, feh«-twww-sw Sitters Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters, whlc^ins perfect digestion aud assimilation, and the active performance of their functions by the liver and bowels. As the system ' quires tone through the influence of < benign medicine, the nerves grow stronger tranquil, headaches cease, and 1 peculiarity tactfulness, foundation, use the peerless invigorant. For sale by all Druggists anp Dealers generally. FOR SALE. A desirable house and lot »; acr with flra room bo«Me and kitchen, for sal foreash cheap, within five minutes walk c the boriness part of town. Apply at tb; FORSYTH, OA. '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 *" “* * n will begli school, enu and favor. The Spring t Talullc City PROPERTY. For Sal©. Twenty-Four Beautiful Building Lots 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 right away than anyth in* else . Fortunes await tho workers . -ire. At onco address Tnca ' Co. Augusta. Maine. , mare-iy. IP. B. OLIVER, DRAPER ■USB PURIFIER, Tor Scrotal, »nd Ulu ,jT»lnt, TAILOR. ith side of Court House over Mn. Vied f5&as5r OtMlMlMnjw. b Uw eiilMMOtAmir —■— * XanaMllnJ Tauor, rata* Com- SgMSassras. aavuSNnvsna “-syj ^ aa ForWfcpfcilti ,qj ottar Om+tmt. 1 £5jfSLgC5*“Stfr._»?»IL *» DWRB0E1MUTERE, iXKBemsgM ggragaBs aplltf. 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