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SUMMERVILLE, GEOUGIA. FEBRUARY 28, 1878
Dntll Dath.
Make no vows of constancy, dear friend.
To love me, though 1 die, thy whole life tong
And love no other till thy days shill end—
Nay, It were rash and wrong.
If thou oan*t love another, bo it boj
I would not reach out of my quiet grnvo
To bind thy heart, if it should cliooae to go—
Lovo ehould not boa slave.
M.V plMd ghost, I truat. will vralk serene
In clearer lights than gilds those earthly moms.
Above the jealousies aad envies keen
WrUch sow this li v with thorns.
Thou wotililat not feel my shadowy caress,
If, after death, my soul should linger hero,
Men's hearts crave tangible, close touderness,
Love's presence, warm and noar.
It would not make mo alnop more peacefully
That thou wai t wasting all thy lifo in woe
For my poor sake; what love thou hast for me
Bestow it ere 1 go.
Curve not upon a stone when I am dead
The praiyds which remorseful mourners giva
To women's graves—a tardy recompense—
But apeak them while I live.
Ileapnot the heavy marble on my head
To shut sway theuuahiue and the dew:
Lot small blooms jrow there, and let grasses wavft,
And raindrops filter through
Then wilt meet many fairer and more gay
Than I; but trust me. th -u caus't never find
One who will love and serve thee night and day
With a more single mind.
Forget me when I die. The violets
Abo vs in y rest will blonemn just as bine,
Nor mi--* thy tears; o'en Nature's self lorgeta:
But while 1 live, be true I
i??rv. j l-l_ ■■""-V. l . ""a
COWI’KIt AND JOHN GILPIN.
“Thn Diverting ITMory of .Tohn Gilpin,”
tlia production of a Hinkle wan, to re
poat, writieu Uy a man who lived in por
p:itual dread of eternal punishment; and
while it was being read by !!<?ndurxon ( the
actor, to lai'g’e audiences in its
author was ravin# mad. Southey, in his
fine biography of the poet; ways that llen
rWson read to crowded audiences in Lon
don. all through Lent, John Gilpin, at hi#h
pricey. “The ballad, which had become
the town talk, v.ua reprinted from the
itevMpapers, wherein it had lain thr /,
years dormant. Gilpin, pasain# at full
et.retch by the Bel! at Ldmonton, wae to
be .M*‘*n at all print ahops. One print-seller
sold pix thousand. What had eucr.ee led bo
well in London was repeated with infer ;r
ability,d>ut with equal suecesp, on provin
cial stages, and the ballad became in the
highest decree''popular before the author’s
name became known.* l ' The last reading:
to •’which Cowper listened appears to have
been that of his own works. Beginning
with the first volume, Mr. Johnson wont
through them, and he listened to them in
silence tHI he came to John Gilpin, which
he not to hear. It reminded him
of cheerful days, and of those of whom
he could not bear to think. “The grin
at Jo’an Gilpin,” he said, “little dream
\s hat the author sometimes suffers. How I
hH/tvd myself yesterday for hsving ever
w.-oteitr Gn his death-tad, when the
•clergyman told him to confide in the love
t!i who fl'H)ri'-cl to s:ive ail
uroh, Cowpor fravo pitswonate cry, bog--
gjjnghim riot to giv him such conßolatioiiH.
'fo our Ignorant ys it looks tli. t
t! a author of our ln*st an 1 most popular
■ivmnK SihuM hh'.'o thou .'hi his sins -l:i ;> is
cL iiablsj frimuld Lavs t/olio-'/ci himsolf al
rcw'iy ilamn<l.— A. P. Russdl.
IIAII B v .Z i'.ot ND.
At the City Hall M.trkflt, Boston,rwftutty,
while a Jftfly was purehif iriff a a
man about fifty years oid, anti a stranger to
her, approached and j>mai ked:
•‘Mieeus, I have traveled over Kurope,
Asia, Africa, and tho Holy Land. I have
viewed the pyramids, failed o the Nile,
arid fished in the Tiber. Permit mo to of
fer you a word of ad vice; Don’t cook that
fish with the scales on.”
“I didn’t mean to, sir, M she indignantly
ropliod.
“Very well, missus. I have crossed the
Atlantic Ocean fourtesn times; ascended
the Andes; sailed up the Missouri and
down the Mjasießippi, and tramped across
the Great Desort. Let me say one
word more: Cut the bead olf before you
cook it !*'
*Do you think I’m a heathen?” she re
torted. “I guess I know how to oook a
fish!”
“You may, madam—you may. I have
soldiered for Queen Victoria, fought for
Uncle Ram, drawn a pension, kept a post
office, learned to fiddle, and was never sued
in my life. I beg your pardon, madam,
but let me advise you not to oat the bones
of that fish. Rome folks eat bones and all,
but they sooner or later corns to some dis
reputable end!”
“I'll thank you to mind your own buei
ness!” she said, as she picked up the fish.
“I have traveled over the smooth prai
ries,” he replied with the greatest politeness,
“climbed the Rocky Mountains, killed In
dians, fought grizzles, suffered and starved
and perished, and I leave you w'ith the
kindest and most earnest wishes for your
future welfare. Also cut off the tail before
cooking-!”
* And he went away.
StIICIDAL MANIA.
Sometimes a person determined to de
stroy himself will wait months and years
for an opportunity of executing the deed
in the particular manner he has marked
■ cut for himself, and the very inclination to
1 suicide may be removed by withdrawing the
1 particular objects that woul l awaken tlis
idea. Thus a man who has tried to drown
himself will be under no temptation to cut
tils throat. Example, it is well-known, is a
powerful cause of incßm icnt to the suici
dal act. We were once told by a physician
that a hypochondriacal paliont used to
visit him invariably the day after reading
Die report of asuicklein the daily papers,
possessed by a morbid fear of imitating the
aotof which lie read. Sir Charles Roil,,Sur
geon of Middlesex Hospital, was one day de
scribing to a barber who vas shaving him,
a patient’s unsuccessful attempt to cut his
own throat; and, on tho barber’s request
pointed out the anatomy of the neck, show
iest how easily the act might have been ac
complished. Before the shaving operation
was completed, the barber bad left the
shop and cut liis throat, according to Kir
Charles Bell’s exact instructions. Kome
times there is an epidemic of suicides, as
at Versailles, in 1793, when out of a small
population 1,300 persons destroyed , them
selves in one year; or as in the Hotel des
lavalides in Paris, when six of the inmates
1 anged themselves on a certain crossbar
within a fortnight. Very often this disease
Is hereditary, nnd at a certain age the
members of one family will all in turn
evince the suicidal tendency, while even
children of very tender years have bean
known to end their short lives by their
own act, from force of example. Curious,
too, aro Iho methods of self destruction,
but they are too painful to Irene descrip
tion. A Frenchman mice attempted to
ring his own death-knell, by tying him
self to the clapper of the church-bell which
thereupon began to swing, and alarmed
the villagers by its unwonted tones. All
cases of determined suicide are character
istic of confirmed insanity; whereas in
cases of impulsive insanity, the perpetrator
will often regret the act before it is com
pleted, and endeavor to save his life, as
did Rir Hainuol Romilly, thus demonstrat
ing that Ihe very a'Unnpt may effect the
cure of the disordered beam. The months
of March, June, and July are the favorites
with men; September, November, and
January for women, in which they volun
tarily end their lives. In youth men hang
themselvea; in the prime of life use firearms;
and when old revert to hanging. Women
usually prefer OpViia'fl “muddy death.”
Poisoning is a method adopted by the very
young of both sexes. We have the consoling
reflection that, prevalent as brain disorder
is in our country, at least eighty per cent, of
cases of insanity are curable, if treated at
an early stags; while it is to bo noted that
it is not pleasurable productive brain-work
that does the mischief, but rather the men
tal strain which result* from the high
pressure of our artificial life.— C/taiubcr’
Journal.
Washington stickkt London.
It. Is especially gratifying to Ameri
cans to sec in tho London limes a
suggestion’made to the Metropolitan
Board of Works that the name of tho
new and important thoroughfare bo
tween Charing Cross and Victoria
Embankment shall he “Washington
street or place, in ho* >r of one of the
best and bravest men i hat the English
race has ever produced.”
The writer in the London Timex al
so propones that the corners of that
thoroughfare shall bo aioruud with
that armorial shield of stars and
stripes which, as he says, “from being
for cent urie3 tile bad go of an old Eng
lish family, is now that of a groat na
tion.”— Commcrci if Advertiser,
BUKNED TO Jjga rn UY A MKTKOIt.
An intelligent black boy was trudg
ing along a highway at night in tho
vicinity of Pah stine, Texas. There
was ana ■ o woman riding a horse in
the same direction the boy was going.
The intelligent black boy reappeared
in Palestine that night out of breath
and us pale as lie could get. lie aaid
he saw a ball of fire come out of the
sky and strike tho woman and set her
ablaze. The horse ran one way with
the woman afire on hi* buck ; and lie
ran back to town, to tell the people
what had happend. The people went
to look after further particulars of
this curious incident. They found
the woman lying on tho ground, with
all her clothing- burned off, but with
life enough jn her to tell that she had
been.si ruck in the breast by a ball of
fire. The horse was found with bis
inline signed, and Iho woman died
the next day. The people t hink she
was lilt by a meteor. —A< Jmu'u) He
publican.
When elected President, Washing
ton wass7 ; John Adams was fi2; Jeffer
son si: Madia hi, ill); Monroe, 59; :
John Quincy Adams, 58; Jackson, fil;
Van Huron,Jl; Harrison, 87; Taylor,
64; Polk, cl; Pierce, 48; Buchanan,
60; Lincoln, 51; Grant, 46. j
CaiNli.SU HABITATIONS.
Eastern architects may get some hints
of things to follow or avoid from a de
scription which the Virginia City Chroni
cle gives of the structure erected by tho
Chinamen in that city: “Between lights
the Chinaman is an industrious animal.
Just now he Is turning his energies to
building, and like his fighting, some of it
is contrary to law and also shocking to a
correct architectural taste. On the
Northwest corner of I and Uuion streets
John has created a marvellous affair. It
is built out far enough to occupy a third
of the roadway. The front elevation
(height five feet) is composed of odds and
ends of stone picked up in the neighbor
hood. The one window is formed of
three oil cans—two upright and the
other laid across the top. TUo roof of
this edifice —which has a frontage of
about twenty-five feet and a depth of
thirty or ujore—would make a handsome
playground for a school, as it is perfectly
fiat and composed of earth. The interior,
which the reporter doubled himself up to
enter, is divided into numerous little
dens and one spacious saloon, with
earthen floor aUd one oil-can window.
The place is shortly to be opened as a
restaurant, provided the police don't in
terfere, which they should do. The idea
of utiiiiing oil-cans for building material
has been eagerly seized by other Celes
tials, and the consequence is numerous
fireproof shanties. The cans, filled with
earth and piled one upon another, make
a solid wall, and no bullet can penetrate
them—not a slight consideration these
times. Underground residences are also
popular. A big square hole is dug into
the hillside. Covered in with sti-ks, straw,
and an • occdsional plank. The door is
naturally fitt-riished by the Eastern slope.
Although snch trifles as Jiglit and air are
left out of consideration, the bomb-proof
character of the underground structure
has a charm for the Chinese inhabitant.
The only 1 drawback to srich a house is
the probability that on some rainy night
an enemy may take it iuto liis shaven
head to dig a trench and direct the water
of the street down the chinriiey.”
kgo n.iwcis is Trail.
Tliis G riot, ns on might exp hum flio
name given P, a dace upon these fragile
object.. It is executed ii tliid wi-e*: The
dancer, drece 1 in a core ;c and very
short skirt, cat a wiilo v wheel of mod
erate diameter f.v-t * ' and iiori/. >n! Jiy upon
the top of tier b* and. Around 'this wheel
thread* are fied ne.-]. ue’utly diitr.ut from
each other, and at the end of e-u:h of fire
threads is a idip-iico-e, which h kept open
by a glass loud. Thus equipped, th?
young girl comes toward tho rp*ec'.tori
with a banket full of ege*. which p!'o
passer, around for in p Mom to prove that
they are r-al, and not imila ions. The
music strikes up a jjarky, inonobn- ca
strain, and tiio d-.ncer b J:h to whir! j
around with great rapidity. Then, Hei/, : ug
an eg-g she puts it. in one of the slip-riboees,
and, witti a quick motion, throws ft frjm ,
her iri encii a way ai to dra v the knot tight, j
The swift turning of.the dancer produces
a centrifugal fore, which stretch"* the j
thread out straight like a ray shooting j
from the circ.omfoi’e.iM of the circle. One,
after another the are thrown out
in these epp-noo until they make a her- ,
izontal aureole or halo about the dancr’s
head. Then the dance becomes still more
j rapid —so rapid in fact that it h difficult to
distinguish the features of tho girl; the
j moment! is critifcal; the least f.tlee f.irp,
the li’Vt 1 rreg:ilai'lty fn time, aud the
<-ggs da**ii against each other. But
can the da :c be Mopped? There w l>ut
! one way*—tlmt' in to romove the eggs in the
' •ay in which they bare been put in place.
! Thi;* operation ie by far the more delicate
of the two. It is n-that tho dancer
by a single motion, exact and urieri in,;,
j KhoulJ take hold of the egg, and remove it
from the noose. A single motion of
tho hand, the local i liter fore nco with one of
Ihn threads, and tha gerierul arrangement
. is suddenly broken, and tho whole per
formance disastrously rnd-ul. At lust all
tho egge are successfully ,removod; tho
dancex* suddenly slope, and without soefn
uig in the least di/zied by the danco of
twonty-nve or thirty minute*, *ho ad
vances to the spoctatore with" a firm ste',
and presents th*un tho cvegs, which are irn
'mediately broken in a flat dish to prove
that there is no trick about the perform
ance. — Scribne r a M<mth l y.
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Thb Connecticut room in the Mb Ver- :
non Mansion on the Pot</inac ns the only !
one of the thirteen set .}>. rt for the origi uil
Btatos which is not yet adequately fur- !
nished, and money is to be raised by ut ir- !
tainmente at the B--idgeport Opera Hom e
to fix up irnl buy a set of furniluiyof Con- I
Hsnticut wood in tli ? style of 1776.
A young man whs recently asked
why he did not mu.n-y, when he I
promptly replie 1: “A/y dear sir, I’ve j
been salesman in a dry goods store
for ten year*,”
NUMBER 1).
A NCI I,NT W II It AT.
I have before me sn ysn writer, heads
of wheat, grown on the eastern sido of
the Mississippi, within ten miles of
Memphis, from grains taken from an
ancient Egyptian sarcophagus, sent
some years ago by the American Con
sul at; Alexandria, to the patent office
at Washington. The sialks and
leaves are very like those of Indian
corn, though smaller, and the heads
of grain like that of sorghum or broom
corn. Strange but true it is, that this
wheat, degenerated but perfect in all
its incidents, still gruws among the
weeds and grass that cover mounds in
the lowlands eighteen miles west of
Memphis. How many centuries since
these kindred products of Egyptian
agriculture were separated, the one to
move slowly, perhaps with nomadio
tribes, around the globe, crossing Asia
aiid the Pudlie ; and the other moving
west in our time a-rocs the Atlantic,
and both growing green even here in
the year of our fjord, 1873, beneath
the shadows of an<>l! -r Memphis on
the shores ’of -m her Nile? The
same writer;* r t the* game raoe
of people cud: ,v i the same crop*
and ; ,a> nev. an d,; qt'.n in the game peou
liar manner, rw;:*\ a century ago.
rnmAL v;a£
A contemporary is inclined to bs
severe on tho; ■ ■'•••' vhn use postal
cards I*.** ri" ”■*; of correspondence
with fi iends. v. ;r rurhtsln eourteey
have letter writers vCo do not con
sider their e;. undents of impor
tance cmto, i'e tbdr episyles to
them the poor e* ■ -zi{ limerzt of an en
closure? Hfcw is a communication to
be entertained whori the, writer con
fesses by tne - -nil c* J that it Isn’t
worth a sJc-T oi paper aad a postage
slump? That the posifad card is very
useful for notes, for announce
ment;, for ec'ipii j.-iT- ting any simple
fact that dries n>fi Vn'tfYor a response,
no one can deny. J3u,i vve submit that so
cial custim on, J,t' to establish that a
missive of this kind tailing for a re
sponse, ’excepting on business mat
ters concerning the recipient, is an
impertineuee; and that a postal card
partaking of i in? nn, ure of correspon
dence its ordinarily understood, is
entitled to nu respo t or consideration
whatsoever.
J£Pliopa AN cc.viu.vis.
A Japanese fid it or writes of Euro
pean customs: "if, we. olysorye the
practice of Europeans, it would appear
that tiie power of the wife is greater
than that of the husband, and that
this error has been brought about- by
the want of a correct view of the dic
tates of na! ure. YTc will point out ex
amples of this, in going through a
door the wife ‘pusses .first and
the husband follows her; the wife
takes the bed: c t and tho husband
the next best; in visiting the wife Is
lirst saluted ; in forms of address, the
wife is Un t mentioned. Moreover,
while men art in company with ladies
they are particular hi their conversa
tion, and are not permitted to smoke
without the ladies’ permission being
first obtained. These and like cus
toms are innumerable, and the power
of the women is far greater than that
of the men. ’’
A SOI.tJIICI’.’S lIIJOK.
1 In military history and biography
' tho must uubibiu work tho
has pr-uluceJ is "Momoirs of Gone Val
W. T. Shermap, writteu'by Illinsoif,”
j or, as it might be called, "My'' Deeds
in My Words.” The sharpness, oon
ciyeuoss and arbiUariuess of the ku
tobiographer's style are charaatsrlstlo
of tho man. He is intensely con
scious of hie superiority. The word of
cbmrriauil' U heard ringing in every
page bfcii is two octavos. Nornuij ochild,
without,being laughed at, have writ
ten what he lia* written unless ho
had done what he lias done. Through
out. his autobiography he appear*
self-centered, seif-referring, splf-ab
sorbed, and when 'opposed, prouder
than a ecore of Ki'unish hidalgo*.
Like George Eliot’s inkeeper, he di
vides human thought into two pacts—
namely, “my Idee,” ai.d “humbug.”
There is no middle point; but then
his intelligence is as solid, qu'fck,
broad and full of resources at his will
is defiantly self-reliant. Though there
id suinelhirig bare, bleak, h(trsb,
abrupt in his style, his blunt egbttem
every now and then runs into a rude
humor. He pats on tho back men, os
brave (f not as skillful us himself, and
looks down upon them with a good
natured toleration as long as they
look up to him, but when tiiey do not,
disbelief in Sherman denotes iucom
petency or malignity in the critio.
IJis onmlik'ti are heated and some
times vindictive. The grave has
closed over a man who, in his sphere
did at least as' much as Sherman to
overturn the rebellion, and yet Sher
man spares not Secretary Stanton
dead, any more than no spared Stan
ton living. Still the book is thor
oughly a soldier’s book and must
take rank among the most instructive
and oimtiniug military memoirs ever
written. Harper's.
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A sweet thing in cuiubs—kouey.