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LOUISVILLE, JEFFERSON COUNTY. GA.. FEBRUARY 25,1875.
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AUGUST G*.
November 12, 19T4, 3 s
The BeautituF Gate.
The Beautiful Gate of Sleep is hatred !
O Angel within!
The panels of pearl with diamond starred,
Give back no sound to my feeble knock ;
I have no key that will open the door;
How long must l wait f
O evermore and for ever more,
Must I stand at the Beautiful Gate 7
My garments are thin, my sandals worn,
Sweet Aangel within!
Ho vpiercing the blast, how sharp the storm
The night is cheerless ! the wind is wild !
My bruised heart sobs like a pitiful child.
How long must I waft 7
O evermore and tore ref*Ttjre,
Must I stand at the Beautiful Onte
If I wero a Queen I’d give my crown
O Angel within!
Or famed I’d lay my laurels down ;
Or rich, I would yield thee my treasured gold'
For thy sweet shelter from rain and cold ;
How long must I wait 7
O evermore and forever more,
Would I pass through the Beautiful Gato.
- Humorous.
Do they miss me at home—do they miss me ?
’Twould be an assurance most dear
To know that my name was forgotten,
As though I had never been there.
To know that tho tailor and landlord,'
And the banks whore my paper is due,
And hosts whom I now canngt mention,
Had banished me quite from their view.
Do they miss me at home—do they miss me !
When the market for money is tight,
And collectors in haste are pursuing
Their debtors by day and by night.
Do the friends who once loaned me a “fifty,”
And others who loaned me a ‘ ten,”
Heave a sigh of regret as they miss me,
And wish they could see me again.
Do they miss m3 at home—do they miss me ?
Where no longer I’m seen upon ’Change,
And do those who were wont to assist mo
Say * llis conduct’s most infernally strange?*
Does the Shylock who loaned me his money,
To bear me to regions unknown,
Look in v*\in lor occasion to.dnn ma,
And wish I again were at home ?
But I know that my memory lingers
Around the dear place aa I roam ;
And while I’ve my wits and my creepers
—YAuy~y’ll raU* me at Jiome^
WIT and HUMOR.
Troubles are like dogs—ihe small
er they are ihe more they annoy
you.
An Ohio man has been converted
to temperance ninety-eight limes,
and says he'll go up to a hundred or
die.
A Chicago man has vvriiten a life
of the devil. The last three ciiap
lers cernprise a year’s biography
ol his mother-in-law.
“Do you like novels V' asked Miss
Fitzgerald of her backwoods lover.
“1 cau’i say,’’ he replied—“l never
eat any. But 1 tell you I'm death
on possom.”
A widow was weeping bitiesly for
ihe loss of her husband, and a lriend
tried to console her, ‘*No, no,” said
she, “let me have my cry out, and
then 1 shan’t care any more about
it.’,
A coffin maker was asked whom
he was making a coffin for, and
memtioned the intended. “Why he
is not dead, mail !” said the querist.
“Don’t you troub e yourself,” icp'ied
the other. “Dr. Coe told us to make
his coffin, and I guess he knows what
he gave him.”
A country youth come to town to
s°e his intended wife, end for a long
time could ihink of nothing to say.
At lait, a great snow falling he took
occasion to hrd her that his father 7 s
sheep would be undone. “Well,”
said he, taking hbn by ihe hand, “I
will keep one of'tiiem.
How to Kiss Deliciously.
LADIES SHOULD SEE THAT THESE
ItULES ABE STtiICTLY OBSERVED,
The gem lemon must be taller than
the lady lie intends lo kiss. Take
her right hand in yours, and draw
her gently to you, pass your left arm
over her right sh >ulder, diagonally
djo wn her back, and you'have nothing
to do but to lean a little.forward and
press your lips 10' hers and then the
thing is done. Don’t make a noise
over ii, as if you were shooting crack
ers, not pounce down upon it like
a hungry hawk upon an innocent
dove, but gently fold the damsel in
your arms, without smashing her
standing collar, or spoiling her hair,
and by a sweet pressure upon her
mouth, revel in the blissfulness of
your situation, without smacking
your lips on it ns you would alter iim
bibing the Bacchanalian draught,
but like Venus sipping the honey
from the lips of--Ob ! Siioo Fly.
A LITTLE STORY.
BY SCOTT.
I’m not going to promise any mor
al, neither shill you tin.l anything
-particularly immoral in this lit
tle story, which happened one day
just a little while ago. It is inter
esting to me to think about, and if it
don't piove so in the reading, its my*
fau't in the telling, and not ihe
siory’s, but 1 will try my best, and
will begiu ibis way.
If the earth was beautiful, Agnes
Thorne could not see it; nothing,
it seemed to her, could be*jnpre
dreary arid
open one’s eyes on
more painful to on at
night, this cheerless, blq^^kprld.
I am sure the w.>rld
been amazed, could it have
thoughts this beautiful,
morn, for it had never knowingly
given our Agnes, this little heroine
of mine, a single dark day, indeed, I
am prepared to say, that only sun
and shine, and the warmest love and
care bail surrounded her always !
But hers she sat, right in the haze
and warmth of a ripe, summer day,
wnh pouting, trembling lips, and a
mysteriously damp handkerchief in
her idle hands. The wedding shone
very bright there, but is gilt and
glisten seemed to meet no answering
light in her eyes ; indeed, I’m not
so sure tears were nut between, and
yet tile sun fell through the open
window of their little sitting room,
hers and John’s, and gave yet a
brighter lustra to her sdi, brown
hair, ’Twas very s >tt, pretty hair
but lor the tears, and I’m afraid I
must say the frown, the young trash
face was a pretty one, too, bit the
singing ol the birds, the odor of the
heliotrope just under the window,
the nodding of ihe dear old-fashione I
pinks, up and down each side of the
path, were all unheeded by the tear
dimmed eyes, and even in the midst
ol all ibis beauty, her lips did say the
words that were in ihe heart, ’Tis
a dreary world and l hate it.’ ’Twas
just one of those common cases, on
ly our Agnes was not a common wo
-uv.vr,.smJ .-v abtfirs* .> o .k i.n.rt jt rath
er hard—this getting used to being
snubbed by her husband, I mean,
and was threatening in her heart
this long day alteorts'of awful tilings
to do, unless John did do better,
and here the innocent cans; of all
these tears and anathemas, was hip
py in the conviction of doing
tiling in mortal main’s power to make
home and wife happy, and quite
tho-oughly established in the peace
and comforts the conviction of suc«>
cesk'brought. Os course he had no
time to spend at lioilie, but then ho
was miking his way in the world,
and by rigid econo riy, never a hoU
iday, never a drive, never a concert
or ball, they might some day be
worth s miethirig in the world, and
this lie often said lo Agnes, and
when she hinted how much anew
shawl or some garment in the mode
• would enhance iter appearance, John
assured her that she l inked better
in the palsse she married in than
any other woman could in one ma le
of cloth of gold. This vv .s all very
well, of course, to bd told liovv fine
she looked in his eyes; but it didn’t
make ‘‘ole doe” look as well as new
—and the squeaky little melodeon
in John’s home, was different' from
Steinway, at home. True, Johnnie
the baby was nice enough, but John
never had time to look at him<. and
oh! and oh I well I non’t know ex
actly what was the matter. Poor
little Agnes was weary and dissatis
fied,'and wanted to lie petted and
kissed, and loved‘a little, I guess,
anyhow she felt like many another
woman has before her —and I cer
tainly shall take her part. And so
there she si*, and well, yes —I
might as well tell the worst—and
cried. Yesterd iv she to’d all tins
to her journal (I’m sorry to confess
she kept such a thing) and so now
she just did like any young foolish
ihing, thought' and imagined
herself in deeper despTtr than fate
even dreamed of sending lier. John
came, and she could not find the
answering smile to welcome him,
nor did she try t.o conceal the vexa
tion which crowded in her heart.—
They dined in si puce, and John lelt
again in silence (or ihe office. Again
for tea he came, no words passed be
tween them. Once he essayed to
take her hand, but she felt her fin-
gers diaw up in the shape ol a fist,
and involuntarily turned and said
words she c>uld never forget, nor
yet the look in his mild, astonished
eyes. ’Twas far in the night when
he cam», and then with his right
key*, and pas ed ihe nursery do>r,
where she alwas stayed with baby
till he came, and so on in si'encc to
their roo n. Tncirroom! the very
tbougt was and she felt
she would never saWia'gjam. Thus
far the night had Neen\ spent dis
mantling the nurser * of this and
that pretty little adornment, and
stowing them neatly m this lame
traveling trunk, which -vs,- already
nearly full of hers and baby’s clothes.
She had nut thought of baby, lie
slept so ger.tly, ar.d now, as a hai*sh
congli and cry came to her ears, she
was almost Shocked out of her anger
by amazement, that she had letk him
sleeping under the open win iov\.—
The night had changed—-and a chill
ing rain -was falling. She drew tfV;
c ib with t-remtling hands into tb<\
in 1 re nerr.hered.with a shtid-’
dsr the terrible nights' they hat!\
brought him through, but still the
coughing went on, and finally, in
despair, she fl w io John’s room, to
Jjnd it vacant, and this note on the
Wife ! Ooly this let me sty
itr The two years that have been
bliss to mi, have been torture to
yon—l shall never forget your words
—your young life shall not be wast
ed. May God bless you, and may
you lie It tppy, is tbe heart broken
prayer of (just this once, darling.)
Your Husband.
The tears that can>e : now to our
Agnes’ eyes were oh ! so diderent
from the ones the summer noonday
saw. Now was tho world dark in
deed. The picking was forgotten
in little Jonnnie’s moans and cries
and soon after the gay morning
i-ame,' baby had found a brighter
morning, one that never fades to
night,‘even beyond the suit's rising,
and where it never set-. Oh ! that
terrible day ; the longing that John
should cone and. see the little,
white, cold laCc. that he would only
come; and there in ibis little silent
presence, help her to begin anew,
show her h >w, now that her heart
was desolaie, to take up-the burdens
of life, and thankful for the blessings
God sent. Again she looked through
her tears from the little sitting room
window with a more broken feeling
in-her bre.ist than. had ever Come to
Iter before; she felt tho words, “Oh!
John” fluttering from her.lips when
the little gate opetiedf and some men,
atuYnmieW tfietn Deal -
ing something' between them
’ Twas John, she knew instantly, all
bruised and torn, and dying, or dea l
—from some' accident—’twas her
her John, and he Jid not know ba
by was gone —’twas her John, a'l
gone from her, and not in love.
•Oh ! I cannot, cannot, she said
aloud’ -and opening he eyes,
(ouad her own Joint smiling into
her own, and heard him joyously
say, -‘what'! "cannot kis3 me on our
anniversary, nor thank me lor the
new piano these fine fellows have
brought from the train ? and where’s
sou V Ol course she could not speak
for awhill; and then I’m afraid you
you will think she did not act like a
heroine, t%r she cried a great <3-*al
more, and'kissed big John and little
John nil l thought she’d smother
them both—and there were the men
oil the little porch—she had seen in
her dream, bringing John, only
’twas the piano, and though the sun
was a little lower in the sky, the
woiid 8-emed never so bright before,
nor ihe hel otrope so sweep, and
John, oh! John ! how good h *
seemed, and the baby, how beauti
ful ! Her bitter thoughts had car
ried her to dream land, and there all
this sorrow met her, but after thai
dream she opened her eyes on such
a dilerent world, a.id she told me
herself,-with many a girlish laugh,
what I’m almost ashamed ta tell
you; that John read her journal that
morning before she was awake, and
that accounted for the new piano,
thousands of other sweet, dear things
that happened to her, ’Twas a long,
long time before she told John her
dream—and he did not even then
get courage to tell her he read: her
journal—but she knew it—yoa; see
by a few tears she fould there—
which never came from her eyes—-
I met them to-day in the Park—and
she looked so sweet andhappy—an I
did not have on the weddtn pelisses.
She’s a dear sweet little woman—
and though John didnh metn any
thing—of course, I think its hard to
spend one’s youth getting on in the
world, for— lo ! when you have got 1 -
t nos the world, you have gotten of
age as well—and so what does ii
matter: ’Tis liks waiting to enjoy
a-rose til! the leaves are all fallen—
and th* n you have but the stem—
and poss.by a thorn—too. 1
think even little Johnnie enjoyed the
changed and I’m sure big John did.|
If liappim-ss don’t help to get on in
the world—\vh tt does ?
In all Eiglind, Ireland an I Scot
I land there are on'y 137 and «ily pi
i per*. .
N0.'4l
Facts Upon the Bible.
A prisoner condemned to solitary
confinement obtained a Bible and.by
three years’ careful study obtained
ibe following facts:
The Bible contains 3,585,499 let*,
ters, words. 31,173 versas,
i -1189 chapters and 66 books
Trie word "and’’ occurs 43.277
i times.
| The word Lord occurs I,S»
■ times. .
The word Reverend occur but
once, which is in the 9ib verse o(
the 11th Psalm.
The 21st verse of the 7ih chap ter
of Ezra couth; is ait the letters In the
dt letter
% j^nrfljiPlf^Vtqpv
29th chapter of the Acts o( the Apos
tles.
The I9th edapter of 11 Kings and
the 37th chapter of Isaiah are alike.
The longest verse is the 9Lh vcr.se
cl the Bth chap rof Esther,
The shortest verse is the 35ih
verse of. the llih chapter of St.
John.
The Sth, 15th, 21st, and 31st ver*
st sos the 107th Fsalm are alike.
Each verse of the 13Gth Psalm
ends alike.
There are no words or names of
more than six syllables.
Aim and Purpose.
It is imt to contemplate an aimless
and purposeless exist) nee—Jol iet
youth gnding by, hastening by.
wasting precious opportunites, no
aim, no object in view, just like a
ship under full sail and well manned
but no rudder, only drifting, no har*
hor in view, going with the tide, or
perhaps with rudder in good work
ing order, but no port in view, only
sailing you know not wh ire. Have
an aim in lde, and a noble one. Aim
high and you will hie something
above your level. Are you a student?
Be not satisfi and to get through your
studies or recitations without cen
sure from your teacher, but Btu!,
hard to aeq lit yo irself with honor
but not content to creep along or
the level, but walk, yea, run even
up the rugge 1 hill where honor sit
teih at the pe ik. Are you a mrchan->
7c A lTso, ic,lT. *-■ •■■-->!I jio*
contenting yoirswd with an average
workman, but strive to become mas,
ter of your art, always bearing in
mind the o'd adrge, ‘‘What is worth
doing at all, is wotth doing well.”—
Strive to be a leader, not a follower.
First have a t object, aim high, and
then zetlously labor to accomplish
your object; -success is sure to lollovv
earnest, unceasing- toil. The con*,
ti stints ii the Isthmian races had
an ouj.’ct in view, an l every sinew
and nerve was bent to obtain the ob
ject. It was the crown at the end of
the nee. Life is a race and many
are op the co-ursei’ Ymi must, either
rut\ be trodden under foot; the
multitude is moving on—you must
not look betriud, or defeat is certai i,
Lead off in the train, an l you will
gain the crown at the end. Those
who dally will never rea;h the ob
ject, but will f til at last. Read*r,
have a- noble object in view, and
then with all y >ur might press tor*,
ward un il you reach it, and it is
yours.
Gor.a Oat Forever.
Like drooping, dying stirs, our
dearly love l ones go a.vay from onr
sight. The stars of our hopes, otr
ambitions; our prayers, whose light
ever shines before us, suddenly pale
in the firmamsnt of our hearts, and
their place is empty, old and dark.
A mother's steady, soli, and earnest
light, that beamed through win s
and sorrows :-*i father's strong, quick
light, that kept our feet fro n stum
bling in the dark and treacherous
ways; a sister’s light, s> mild, s>
pure, sj constant and so firm, slim
ing upon us from gentle, loving eyes
and pcrsuadiDgus to grace and good
ness—a brother’s light, forever
sleeping in our soul and illuminating
our goings and comings—-a friend’s
light, true and trusty —gone out lor
ever. No! the light has not gone
out. It is shining beyong the stars,
where there is no .night aytd no dark
ness forever and forever. ' -
Affliction,—- Stiangely do some
people talk of ‘getting over’ a great
sorrow—overleaping it, passing it by*
—thrusting it into oblivion. Not so.
Not one ever does that—at least no
nature which can be touched by the ■
feeling of grief at all. The only way'
is to pass through the ocean of afflic
tion solemnly, s ! ovvly and with Irs
miliiy and faith, as the Israelites
pissed through the sea. Ttien its
very waves of misery will divide and
become to Us a wall on the right,«uj
left side, until the gulf tnrrows' an
I narrows before ourey-s.