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“WHEN' THE BOSES COME AGAIN.”
\rtth the Hhadows, down the meadow,
‘ lie side
leaves on every ;
m t i)» river flowers shiver,
I FadiDfi. dying in their pride.
one’s staymg-loug delaying.
I ^ the parting down the lane ;
I,| I pout leave you," some again." one’s saying,
./fill the roses come
CHORUS,
Wl» n the roses come again,
When the roses come again,
I will meet you, I will greet you,
When the roses come agaiu.
jIs I wander l will ponder
On ft happy by-auJ-bye,
Of» summer ovor yonder, •
Though with joy to you and I.
Do not borrow grief nor sorrow,
In the hours that yet remain,
We sluilJ know a glad to-morrow
••When the rosen come again.
Cbokus “When the roses come again,” etc.
gaushine over crimson clover,
Blossoms on the meadows wide—
Sommer’s fingers sweetly linger,
Everywhere, on every side.
Imieone’N I roaming in the gloaming—
Happy hearts that feel no pain,
I ill their sadness turned to gladness
I How the roses como again."
Cbobis -"When the roses come agaiu," etc.
IDLE HOURS.
BY WEBSTER T. BLAIR
■ Oft I’ve sat me down and pondered,
■ Over hours that I have squandered
I In the days gone by ;
M Ami I’ve thought how very different
■ Should the many hours have loeu spent,
I As they'd fly.
liut they're gon e! and never more
Cma \ Wg them from the shore
Of other years ;
I I c«u onh weep and sorrow,
And trust that each to-morrow
Will dry up my tears.
Mm each golden future hour
Be accomptiuied by a power
From on high ;
That I better may improve them.
Counting each a precious sweet gem;
Till I die.
MISCELLANY.
Tlu* True Wife.
" teiiiimes I have seen a tall ship
some invisible tow-line, with
hundred strung arms pulling it. Her
^ unfilled, her streamers were
'°P' n Di s ho had neither side-wheel
fst^rii.wheel ; still she had moved
stately, in serene triumph, as with
r ° wn life. But I knew that on the
her side of the ship, hidden beneath
l ?reatliull that twain so majestical
tfiere was a little toilsome steam
^'th a heart of fire and arms of
that were tugging it bravely on;
] * knew that if the steam tug un»
tier arms and left the ship, it
wallow and roll about, and drift
“ ,er an, l thither, and go off with the
lleDt tide, no man knows whither.
have known morv than one
^ ‘'Sailed, high-locked, | full-freighted,
hare, gay-pennoned, but that
heating toiling arms, and brave
■ h ear t () f the faithful lit
' w 'fe that nestled close to him so
4 wind or wave could part them,
* ^ iave gone dowu with the
ai1 ^ have been heard of no
^Oliver Wendell Holmes.
bieedote of lien liutler.
3cft, as called on by a person who
'‘ to have a talk with him :
lf I'Utler/ said
Poor’s he, ‘one of my
cows jumped my garden
t n 'ght, and completely de
my flower-beds. The gate
he height required by law, and
^ /‘ tr sed. I obtain Now, I wish to know
can damages ?’
'•assuredly/ replied the widow's
^el| ^r. Butler, how much V
, i
:1 ’about ten dollars/
4
/ [ Sutler, the cow was yours.’
/> said Mr. Butler, thoughtfully ;
^ looked unutterable things out
bad e ye. Then he turned to his
, '' latched
^ off a few lines on a
i ^ paper and handed it to his na¬
an account,
X ' as follows :
*’• Sutler to Mr.__, dr. To
Js :
cau^d by cow, $10 by legal
■\j r ’ Cr >^l5; sa ‘d balance Mr, Butler, due, $5/ softly,
i«, didn’t
hurry about the pay-
iUihmw atmes %
LEADVILLE.
Life; and Incidents in that Flour¬
ishing Town.
Leadville letter to the N. Y. Her¬
ald: The excitement of the hour is
the killing of Jacob M. Grier by F. M.
Ritchie. Grier was the barkeeper of
the merchants restaurant, a man uni¬
versally popular. He may still be re¬
membered by some at the East as the
railway engineer who several years
ago, while hauling an express train
over the Pennsylvania road at the rate
ot forty miles an hour, saw a little
girl on the track before him, rapidly
crawled upon the cowcatcher and
caught her in time to save her life. F.
M. Ritchie, a barkeeper from Arkan¬
sas, had bought an interest in the
Merchants saloon, but had failed to
come to a final understanding with
Eilis, the proprietor who ordered him
to be excluded from the place. On
Friday evening Ritchie came to the
saloonjand was prevented from going
behind the counter by Grier who was
in charge. It was about eight o’clock,
and at that hour the broad avenue on
which the saloon stands is full of men,
partly miners returned from their
prospect holes and partly new comers
just emptied from the stages. A
crowd ot these were standing around
the door when the two men, Grier and
Ritchie, speaking loudly and gesticu¬
lating, appeared on the threshold. In
Leadville a ‘difficulty’ is pretty well
understood, and it is pretty well under¬
stood, too that it generally takes the
form of lead. So the crowd began to
scatter. Iu au instant shots were
heard—some witnesses say two, some
three—and Grier's dead body was
seen on the sidewalk. The physisians
testify that he was shot twice through
the chest and died in ten seconds. A
jury was summoned on the following
day and found a verdict of willful and
felonious murder against Ritchie and
will (probably ?) be duly tried. Ilis
defense is that Grier struck him with
his fist and then fired at him in the
street ; that he only used his pistol in
self-defense. But Grier's popularity
leaves him few apologists in this town.
People are getting s ck of all this bru¬
tality and violence and fraud and de¬
bauchery of all kinds. It is only the
other day that a man was shot dead
for claiming a town lot, and another,
a mining contractor, met the same fate
from a laborer who claimed to be paid
off on Wednesday instead of Satur*
day. As to robberies they are daily
occurrence. Every night some lonely
wayfarer is requested to ‘hold up his
hands* by two or three bunkos with
revolvers in close promimity to his
nose, and punishment hardly ever fol¬
lows the offense. In the rare instan¬
ces in which arrests are made the
bunko ‘8 confederates are always on
hand to prove an alibi. A local news¬
paper desiring to glorify the town
states in a recent article that ‘though
it is scarcely two years since the first
building was put up here it now con¬
tains—beer halls, 19 ; saloons, 120 ;
gambling-houses, 118 ; houses of pros¬
titution, 35. Tnis is a pretty showing,
but the line of argument by which it
is made to gratify any citizei/s pride
is not easily followed. We have im¬
ported our vices from the East as
well as the West. One institution—
known as opium club hails—has been
borrowed from San Francisco. The
main object of the club is, (if course,
the smoking of opium. But the de¬
leterious charms of the drug are
heightened by the presence of female
society, and the meetings of the club
are held in rooms closely shut up and
heated to such an extent that clothing
is unbearable. Here scores of crea¬
tures spend their days and nights in
semi-stupor, unconscious of every¬
thing but the dreamy, senuous languor
which De Quincy so graphically de¬
scribes. No policeman can enter there,
unless, indeed, he desires membership
in the club and has money enough to
pay his share of the cost. But public
rumor is much at fault if on the list of
members you could not find some of
the leading merchants, lawyers and
mine-owners. Lite is very hard here.
The climate is exceedingly trying ; it
snows every month in the year Few
men have their wives with them.
Hence the inordinate number and vast
variety of resorts devoted to what is
called pleasure.
Let a man pull a straw out of a hay
mow at Leadville to pick his teeth
with, and the first thing lie hears is :
“Say, you thief, did you know hay was
worth $2 a ton around here V
EASTMAN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1S79.
THE TEXAS COWBOY.
Some of the Habits of that Rare
Bird.
A Fort Wort (Tex is) correspondent
of the New York Herald writes as fol¬
lows :
The Texas cowboy is a rare bird.—
lie is a sort of happy jack ot the wil¬
derness, a dry land sailor, who takes
hisfuu in large doses whenever he gets
to port—port being to him the nearest
town with a dance-house—his fun pure
deviltry. He can yell louder in an un¬
earthly key, swagger more and swear
harder than any man of his inches on
the continent. Ilis dress is evideMy
intended to ape the Mexican counter¬
feit of the Spanish cavilier, with a
sneaking regard for home convention¬
alities thrown in. Imagine the con¬
glomeration ! Having uo fixity
form it is wholly indiscribable, and va¬
ries with the wliim of the individual.
Yet he is proud of his “make-iip/‘ and
pays particular attention to the style
of bis hat, bools and spurs. The hat is
an elaborate affair. Broad leafed, tas
seled, tiuselied, it spreads its far-reach*
ing shadow over the form of its festive
owner a few acres around. His only
pet is his horse ; his only toy his pistol,
but he would prefer losing his horse
for a day to being severed from his
six-shooter for a moment. All his
strength is in this toy. Like the sav¬
age Indian, when deprived of his wea¬
pon (of offense always, never needed
fordefeuse) his ‘heart is on the ground.'
A small boy could thrSsh him then.—
Give him the pistol and 'the drop 1 on
a man and he will rejoice in his ability
to “bore a hole in him big enough for
a good-sized t dog to crawl through/'
as if the boring process were some¬
thing to be exceedingly proud of. This
is because cowards are not hung often
cuough in Texas, and the reason they
have not been is because they have
been employed and protected by the
cowman, who steals just like the mur¬
derous ward politician might some¬
times be prutecied by the dishonest,
corrupt district attorney in some Nor¬
thern cities. We have had some very
distinguished cowboys iu this part ol
the world. Bill Longley who killed
thirty-seven men in the course of his
brief experience, was a cowboy most
ol his time, as was also J<diu Wesley
Hardin, better known as Wes. Har¬
din, who has been known to kill a man
for snoring in his sleep. These mis¬
creants have had no such word as fair
play iu their lexicon. If they intended
to get up a quarrel up they first “got
the drop“ on their victim, then bullied
him into active resistance, then shot
him ‘'in self-defense / 1 This sort of
cowboy has been more frequently seen
heretofore than at present, but we still
have a few left.
Wliat Things May Come in
Dreams.
The man who wants lo ‘sleep upon*
a project before deciding may be wiser
than he knows, for in that sleep his
mind, unknowu to him, may traverse
the ground again, unhampered by his
wil, uninfluenced by his prejudices and
give him a clearer and better judg¬
ment. Who has not awakened to see
light where all seemed darkness the
night before ? Causeur remembers an
instance in his own experieece, back
in Lis high school days. Good Mr.
Sherwin had given the class a tough
problem, which involved both geome¬
try and algebra in its solution. Cau¬
seur took it home and worked and
worried over it all the evening. He
made diagrams without end and wrote
down equations without number, but
the equation which was to give in
known terms the value of the unknown
x he could not evolve from them.—
Time and again a new start was made,
but with no better result; theie was
still a link missing. Tired and dis¬
heartened he went to bed and was soon
fast asleep. In the early hours of the
morning, wheu il was barely light, he
awoke and the first thing of which lie
was conscious was that he had solved
the problem ; it was as clear as day.
Rising at once he sought a pencil, but
finding none he used a hall-burned
match, and with this, ou the mantle,
noted down two short equations.—
Then he returned to bed to sleep. La¬
ter in the morning he worked out the
equations and carried the result in tri¬
umph to the old school-house ou Bed¬
ford street .—Boston Transcript.
“Don't be an editor," shrieks the
Boston Transcript. It‘s all very well
to say ‘Don’t be an editor,* but when
a man gets too honest for a preacher or
a member of Congress, what is lie to
do?
Sabbath Thoughts.
One has only to die to be praised.
Handsome apples are sometimes
sour.
It is easier to blame than to die bet¬
ter*
Liitle and often makes a heap in
time.
It is not enough to arm ; you must
hit.
Would you be strong, conquer your¬
self.
To change and to be better are two
different things.
Everybody knows good counsel ex¬
cept him that hath need of it.
Better be free in a foreign land than
a slave at home.
Better go supperless to bed than run
in-debt.
There is no good in preaching to the
hungry.
Charity gives itself rich, but covet¬
ousness hoards itself po >r.
Mohomodanism has one hundred
and fifty million followers. In Syrian
universities ten thousand boys study
nothing but the Koran.
Mr. Beecher said in a recent ser¬
mon, in Brooklyn, ‘I uever saw an an¬
gel painted with wings that did not
look like an old hen to me.‘ Great
laughter.
Money can make a man notorious’
but cannot make him respectable ; but
one-half the people do not know the
difference.
The devil ought to have his due ;
he is a good paymaster. He never
forgets a debt, and never pays in
money which is at a discount.
There are people with whom peni¬
tence stands for repentance—people
with whom wearing mourning dispen¬
ses with feeling sorrow.
Truth is a naked and open daylight
that doth not show the masks and
mummeries of the world half so state¬
ly and daintily as candle light.
‘A man/ said one of the fathers,
‘should be prepared for death the day
before ; but as he does not know when
that day is he should always be pre¬
pared/
Don't follow subtifuge Be fair,
square-dealing, candid and honest.
You will find these your largest capi¬
tal in trade, and the only oases of en¬
during fame and prosperity.
Many people who boast of being
.plain’ and ‘blunt' are only coarse and
boorish. Such persons are constantly
inflicting which neither time nor medi¬
cine can ever heal.
We love peace as we abhor pusil¬
lanimity ; but not peace at any price.
There is a peace more destructive of
the manhood of living man than war
is destructive to his mental body.
We are ruined not by what we real¬
ly want, but what we think we do ;
therefore never go abroad in search of
your wants ; if they be really wants
they will come home in search of you ;
for he that buys what he does not
want will soon want what he'can not
buy.
A Child’s Kiss,
[D. L. Moody.]
I remember one day a business man
came into our association and said:
“Mr. Moody, there is a man just
came out of the penitentiary whom I
am very much interested in; he is dis¬
couraged because he can’t get any¬
thing to do. Will you take an inter¬
est in him?'
‘Yes, bring him in/
He brought him m— as fine looking
man us there is in this assembly. 1
shook hands with him and told him I
was glad to see him, I said, ‘Come, go
home with me, and take dinDer with
me/
The tears started iu bis eyes, ne
did not think I/vould invite him to my
house, as lie had been in a peniten*
tiary. I introduced him to my little
child, only three years old, and said:
Emma, this is papa's friend; I wish
you would kiss him.,
She out her armes around his neck
and kiss him. Then the little girl
went out.
The man looked at me with tears
streaming down his face, and said',My
heart is broken; that is the first kiss
I have had since my my mother
died/
It broke his heart to think that a lit¬
tle child had kissed him.
'Well, we helped him, and he went
out into the world, and the last I
heard of him he was being blessed in
publishing the glad tidings of salva¬
tion.
Woman’s Escorts.
New York Times.
Women both young and old who
have no husbands, near kinsmen or
friends whom they feel priviledged to
ask to become their escorts in going
out afternightfall, are now provided
for, as is well known, by a company
in the city in a manner said to be en¬
tirely satisfactory. A lone woman,
possessed of a little money need no
longer be deprived of the pleasure of
attending parties, dinners, or any
other form of social or professional en¬
tertainment. She can inform the
companion that on any named evening
she wishes to go to the house of a
friend, to the theater, the opera, a lec¬
ture, or any place of business or
amusement, and at the required hour
a well-behaved, intelligent, well-dres¬
sed man will appear at her door and
act as her escort. He will accompany
her to the place, and call for her at
any time she names; or, if required,
will sit by her side—as at the theater,
opera, ora concert—during the per*
furmance, and take her home after¬
ward. To others than herself he
seems to be her friend, though it may
be observed that they are on freezing
ly polite terms, as no well-bred wo
man would, under the circumstances
be very likely to keep up a very active
conversation with a man acting in the
capacity servant, though under a
plausible disguise; It might be
thought that there would be very lit¬
tle demand for escorts of this sort, but
we are informed to the contrary. Wo¬
men—strangers in the city—who
want to attend the theater or opera
frequently secure such service; so do
widows, maidens, and other women
unwilling to put themselves under
obligation to any man on whom they
have no claim.
Hilling’s Advice to Joe.
By awl means, Joe, get married if
you have a lair show. Don't stand
shivering on the bank, but pitch in
and stick your head under, and the
shiver is over. There ain’t any more
trick in getting married after you're
ready than there is in eating peanuts.
Menny a man has stood shivering on
the shore till tho river all run dry.—
Don't expect to marry an angel ; them
hev awl been picked up long ago. Re¬
member, Jo/, you ain’t a saint your¬
self. Do not marry for buty exclusive¬
ly ; for it is like iGe, orful sltpery and
thaws dreadfully easy. Don’t marry
for luv neitlier ; luv is like a cooking
stove, good for nothing when the fuel
gives out. But let the mixture be sum
buty becomingly dressed, with about
two hundred aud fifty dollars in her
pocket, a good speller, handy and neat
in her house, plenty of good sense, a
tough constitution and by-laws, small
feet, a light step ; add to this sound
teeth and a warm heart. This mixt¬
ure will keep in any climate. If the
the cork happens to be left off for two
or three minnits, the strength aii/tawl
gone. Joe, don't marry for pedigree ;
thfire isu't much in pedigreeTmless it it
is backed by bank stocks, A family
with nothing but pedigree generally
like sense.
A Louisiana Romance.
He loved, she loved, they loved—
Robert Bascot and Eugenie Delanie,
of one of the parishes suburban to
New Orleans. Robert was a tolerable
young fellow, in the eyes of Eugenie‘s
parents, but for some unknown reason
they opposed the match, and deter¬
mined to take their daughter to Chi¬
cago' where her aunt would direct the
daughter on less romantic things. The
Delanie family embarked at New Or¬
leans for a steamboat trip as far as St
LouD. The lover waved his heart and
sighed his handkerchief at the depart¬
ing boat. Old Delanie saw him and
chuckled in his sleeve. That night the
boat was moored at a town up the
Mississippi. Eugenie rubbed her pret¬
ty little eyes, and, complaining to her
papa and mama that she was sleepv
affectionately (
kissed them good night
and retired to her stateroom. The
gentleman haying paced the deek for
an hour, threw away his cigar to go to
bed. He was not apprehensive, but
thought it would do uo harm to look
into Eugenie's room, and did so, when!
lo, she was n >n est, gone—eloped.
Robert had sped up the river by rail,
aud, according to an understanding,
had claimed his bride. Next morning
the rnnaways returned to the steamer
with a marriage certificate.
You should not exchange calls with
individuals before inviting them to
your house.
The Soda Water Season.
The soda water days have come, the
sweetest of the year ; when all go in
for soda straight, instead of lager beer
Soda water is simply carbonic acid gas
soaked in water. The carbonic gas is
obtained by pouring sulphuric acid
over marble chips or dust. The gas
is passed through several times to free
it from all traces of the su’phuric acid,
aud is then pumped into a strong steel
receptacle, in which is pure water.—
The soda fountain is generally an elab¬
orate marble affair, costing from $50
to $1,000. Generally a soda fountain
in a drug store will pay the rent of the
store, at least, and sometimes much
more. Fountains have from one draft
tube and five syrups to six tubes and
twenty-two syrups. At some places
they have the pure fruit syrups and
at others—they say they have. The
first patent for soda water was taken
out in England in 1801, yet the soda
fountain in all its glory is only to be
seen in America. In this country there
are at least twelve million dollars in¬
vested in soda ,water manufactories,
fountains, etc., and yet you can get a
drink for fire cents. The tariff used to
be ten cents, and then a young man
with a party of young ladies dreaded
the sight of a fountain or the sound of
its sizzle, but hard times had the same
eflect ou soda as on everything else.—
If the price was further lowered to
three cents, there is little doubt but
a great increase of consumption and
profit would result.
The Prime ot .Life.
Between the ages of 45 and 60 a
mail who has properly regulated him¬
self may be consi lered in the prime of
life. His matured strength of consti¬
tution renders him almost impervious
to an attack of disease, and experi¬
ence has given soundness to his judge¬
ment. His mind is resolute, firm and
equal; all Ins functions are in the
brightest order; he assumes mastery
over his business;builds a competence
on the foundation he has laid in early
manhood, and passes through a peri¬
od of life attended by many gratifi¬
cations Having goue over a year or
two over 60 lie arrives at a stand-still.
But athwart this is the viaduct called
the turn of life, which, if crossed in
safety, leads to the valley of ‘old age
round which the river winds and then
beyond, without boat or cause way, to
effects his passage. The bridge is,
howeyer, constructed of fragile mate¬
rial, and it depends how it is trodden
whether it bend or break.
Gout and apoplexy are also in the
vicinity to waylay the traveler aud
thrust him from the pass; but let him
gird up his ioins aud provide himstlf
with a fitter staff, and he may trudge
on in safety, and with perfeet compo¬
sure. To quit metaphor, 'the turn of
life'is a turn either into prolonged
walk or into the grave. The system
and powers having reached the ut¬
most expansion now begin either to
close like a flower at sunset or break
down at once. One injudicious stim¬
ulant—a single fatal excitement; may
force it beyond its strength, while a
careful supply of props ahd the with¬
drawal of all that tends to force a
plant will sustain it in beauty and
vigor until night has entirely set
in.
No Smoking in Here.
‘You can’t smoke in here,' said a
John street conductor to a country¬
man, who was pulling away vigorous¬
ly at a five cent cigar iu a car full of
ladies.
The man didn't seem to hoar.
'I say/ said the man of. the bell
punch, iu a louder key, ‘if you wau't
to smoke come out here ou the plat
f< inn /
‘All right/ returned the passenger,
and he stepped out. ‘Didn't think it
would hurt nothin'/ he said apologeti¬
cally ; seen's there ain't any straw in
the car to catch on fire.’
‘But there’s ladies in there you
know.’
‘Oh yes. Didn't think nothin' ’bout
that. Might got ashes on their
gowns and s; ilo 'em.’
‘It isn't so much that/ explained
the conductor, 'but ladies objt ct to
smoke.’
f Well, I didn’t ask any '< to
on m
smoke did I? They needn't object
before they are invited''
You don't understand, Smoking is
disagreeable to ladies.'
‘Best reason in the world why they
shouldn't practice it. Catch me
smoking if it was disagreeable to
me 1' And he tranquilly puffed away
at his five-center.
SO, 81.
WIT AND RUMOR
Frequently above par—His hat.
A column article—A monument,
Ho lious ever rest on their roars ?
An upstart—Beginning’ to prosper.
The hangman's business is dropping
off
How many feet are there in a School
yard ?
The weather will warm somebody
up yet. ra.*, ;
Does a traveling orator deliver a
rambling discourse ?
The fisherman is a tryangular soil
of fellow.
The knobbiost part of the house is
the door.
Mumps are plant], yet they often
look singular.
A peu may be driven, but the pen¬
cil does best when it is lead.
Brass passes for gwld in Africa, and
by the way, it does here, too.
‘IIow is your stock in trade V as the
drummer said to the hose dealer.
The belie of the Sultan's harem is
named Dhin-Ur. Evidently a dinner
bell.
What makes the Fourth of July es¬
pecially dear to us all is the fact that
jt is scarce.
The earth is flattened at the poles,
and likewise the same is frequently the
case with aspiring politicians.
‘Stage struck !’ remarked the toad
when the wheels of a loaded omnibus
ran over his head.
The Utica Observer thinks that the
eloping young lady of the period is the
lily of the valley.
There isn't much romance in the ex¬
istence of a member of a hose compa¬
ny—his life is too reel.
There is great trouble with Mount
/Etna this season. The Italians cum*
not keep the crater quiet.
Ajax defied the light nog, but it is
worthy of remat k that the Jersey va¬
riety vas not then invented.
A country exchange, in speaking of
in accident to a vaiuable horse, says
the owner had to “shoot her to save
luer life/
A Kansas boy of 15 has been detec¬
ted making arrangements to run away
with a woman 50 years old and liveon
an Island in the Pacific ocean.
The Raflroad Gazette thinks that
Hash Knife, the last new post office in
Texas, may be fairly held to balaucc
Fried Liver, in Arizonia.
In the bright complexion of my
youth, I'll have no such won) as pale/
and she reached for the rogue-box
with the clutch of an angel.
A college orator iu a spike-tailed
coat points the way to true greatness
and then goes and rents himself as a
pitcher for a base-ball club.
The smafi boy may get chilled go¬
ing swimming, these days, but he gets
warmed up when bis mother buds his
shirt on wroug side out.
If you see a bank note on the side¬
walk or crossing, be sure you pause,
stop and pick it up. In not Joing so
you might he guilty of passing a.coum
terleit bill.
Atmospheric air is so heavy that
its weight upon the body is fifteen
pounds to the square inch’ People
can now understand why it Is so hard
to raise the wind.
Nothing exceeds Lba', peaceful calm
winch steals over a young man us he
sits in the shade and watches his moth¬
er maul a clothes-line. II<- p ties her,
but he didn’t inv< lit carpets.