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G£OMI * ‘
JOHN H. SEALS,
SERIES, VOLUME 111.
OTHE GEOKGIA'O
TE M P EItA NO E CRUISA DE R.
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dered.
o/jie Qs/oifisy J- C&ncdeiy,
KING & LEWIS, Attorneys at Law, Greenes
boro, Ga. The undersigned, having associated
themselves together in the practice of law, wifi attend
to all business intrusted to their care, with that prompt
ness and efficiency which long experience, united with
industry, can secure. Offices at Greenesbortf and five
miles west of White Plains, Greene county, Ga.
v. f. king. July 1, 1858. m. w. lewis.
WHIT G. JOHNSON, Attorney at Law,
Augusta, Ga. will promptly attend to all business
intrusted to his professional management in Richmond
and the adjoining counties. Office on Mclntosh street,
three doors below Constitutionalist office.
Reference —Thos. Ri R, Cobb, Athens, Ga.
June 14 ly
DOGER L. WHIGIIAM, L ouisville, Jef
■LV ferson county, Georgia, will give prompt attention
to any business intrusted to his care, in the following
counties : Jefferson, Burke, Richmond, Columbia, War
ren, Washington, Emanuel, Montgomery, Tatnall and
Striven. April 26, 1856 ts
LEONARD T. DOTAL, Attorney at Law,
McDonough, Henry county, Ga. will practice Law
in the following counties: Henry, Spaulding, Butts,
Newton, Fayette, Fulton, DeKalb, Pike and Monroe.
Feb 2-4
Dll. SANDERS, Attorney at Law, Albany,
• Ga. will practise in the counties of Dougherty,
Sumter, Lee, Randolph, Calhoun, Early, Baker, Deca
tur and Worth. Jan 1 ly
HT. PERKINS, Attorney at Law,Greenes
* boro, Ga. will practice in the counties of Greene,
Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Hancock,
Wilkes and Warren. Feb ly
,'PIVILLIP B. ROBINSON, Attorney at
J-v - Law, Greenesboro, Ga. will practice in the coun
ties of Greene Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliafer
ro, Hancock. Wilkes and Warren. July 5, ’56-1 v
TAMES BROWN, Attorney at Law, Fancy
Hill, Murray Cos. Ga. April 30, 1857.
7 SIBLEY & BOGGS,
—WHOLESALE and retail dealers in—
Choice Family Groceries, Cigars, &c.
276 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia.
Feb 18, 1858 11
, ML SPo BVOnr
..Warehouse & Commission Merchant,
• ATJCrI tsta, ga.
arf/CONTINUES the business in all its
branches, in his large and commodi
-OUB Eire-Proof Warehouse, on Jackson
street, near the Globe Hotel.
Orders for Goods, &c. promptly and carefully filled.
The usual cash facilities afforded customers.
July 22 Gin-
El & ffiSESMs
Warehouse & Commission Merchants,
_At:m T TA, (tA.
—■ entered into a co-part-
KL ❖ J-lship for the purpose of carrying on
the Storage and Commission Business in
all of its branches, respectfully solicit con
signments of Cotton and other produce; also orders for
Bagging, Rope and family supplies. Their strict, per
sonal attention will be given to the business.
All the facilities due from factors to patrons shall be
granted with a liberal hand.
B • ISAAC T. HEARD,
4 WM. C. DERRY.
July 22d, 1858.
maai&Towiw
WILL continue the WAREHOUSE and COM
MISSION BUSINESS at their old stand on
Jackson street. Will devote their personal attention to
the Storage and sale of Cotton, Bacon, Grain, Ac.
Liberal cash advances made when required; and all
orders for Family Supplies, Bagging, Rope, &c. filled
at the lowest market price.
JOHN C. REES. [Aug 12] SAM’I. D. LINTON.
POULLAIM, JENNINGS & CO.
GROCERS AND COTTON FACTORS, .. j
Opposite the Globe Hotel* Augusta, Georgia.
/CONTINUE, as heretofore, in connection with
their Grocery Business, to attend to the sale ol :
COTTON and other produce.
They will be prepared in the Brick Fireproof Ware- j
house, now in process of erection in the front of their
atore, at the intersection of Jackson and Reynold streets,
to receive on storage all consignments made them.
Liberal cash advances made pn Produce in store,
when requested. ANTOINE PQTJLLAIN,
THOMAS J. JENNINGS,
iMig 19—6 m ISAIAH PURSE.
” djf a
WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
& AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
fpHE undersigned, thankful for the liberal pa
tronaga extended to him for a series of years, would
infornt his friends and the public that he will continue
at his same well known Brick Warehouse on Campbell
street near Bones, Brown & Co’s. Hardware House,
where by strict personal attention to all business en
trusted to his ertre, he hopes he will receive a share of
the public patronage. .C_- „ ,•
Cash Advances, Bagging, Rope and Family Supplies,
will be forwarded to customers as heretofore, when de
sire<i. [Augusta, Ga. Aug 19-6ra
W ANTED by a young lady, a graduate of
_ * a Southern College, a situation as TEACHER
in a Primary and Preparatory School, or to teach H air
Braiding, Oil, Pastille and Grecian Painting*
ferences given if desired. Address L. G. S.,_VYhite
Plains, Greene county, Ga. [Aug 26 It
A Classical Teacher Wanted
take charge of PIN E GROVE ACADEMY ,
A near Double Wells, Warren county. Apply to
either of the undersigned. A
WILLIAM U. BARKSDALE,
MANN AM JONES,
. EDWIN BAKER,
JOHN 11. lII’BERT,
JOHN HEATH,
Aug 26 M. 11. HUBERT.
An Earnest Appeal.
Vs EC ESS IT Y compels me to make an earnest
J.N appeal to those who are indebted to me for 1856
and ’57, for help. I need money to carry on my busi
ness, and a small sum from each one whose account, is
past due, would make me cosy. Shall I appeal in vain ‘!
July 8 W. B. SEALS.
AND
LOVERS OF GOOD THINGS, FRESH AND PURE,
lUST give ‘ Old Mac’ a call- he’s always ready
to supply the wants of those who may favor him
with their patronage. What’ll you have?
A saucer of Cream,
A Lemonade,
Oranges & Bananas,
Peacans & Peanuts,
Candies and Cakes,
Stews, Fries, Bakes,
Col’rado&Ch’roofs,
’Backer & Havanas,
Tnsunorsliade,
‘Old Mac’s’ th’ team
that can furnish just what you may love!
at short notice. Call, examine and eat.
He may still be found at his old place.
Greenesboro, June 10, 1858 D. McDONALD.
CUBES GUARANTEED!
CANCERS AND SCItOFtTIiA CUBED.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN CASES CURED LAST YEAR, 1857.
PAMPHLETS containing testimonials c t the
highest character, as to his success, will be forwar
ded to any that may wish them. Those wishing to test
the efficacy of 1)R. CLOPTON’S WONDERFUL
REMEDIES, must, give a correct description of the
disease, its appearance in its incipient stage, progress,
present condition, location, (See.
A three cent postage stamp must accompany all com
snunications. Address J. A. CLOPTON, M. D.
July 15, 1858 ly Hunts! lie, Ala.
Bowdon Collegiate Institution.
BOWDON, CARROLL COUNTY, GA.
THE Fall Term will open on Second Wednes
day of August, 1858.
Thorough instruction given in the various English
branches, in Latin, Greek and French. Particular at
tention paid to Pure Mathematics, to Surveying and
Civil Engineering. A Military Company will be organ
ized as soon as the term opens.
CHAS. A. McDANIEL, A. M.
Professor An. Languages, Nat. Phil. <fcc.
JOHN M. RICHARDSON, B. S.
Military Instructor, Prof. Mathematics, &c.
July 22-fit i
Selling Off at Cost!
The subscriber, with a view to closing liis busi
ness, is now offering his entire stock of mer
chandise at cost. Any one in want of a bargain, ei
ther in Dry Goods, D:ess Goods, Ready-made Cloth
ing, Hats Caps, Boots, Shoes, Drugs, Medicines, Crock
ery, Hollow and Willow Wares, &e., &c., will do well
to call and examine my Stock, before purchasing.
Penfield, Aug. 5 WM. B. SEALS.
130.000 BRICKS WANTED.
PROPOSALS will be received until Ist September,
by the undersigned, for the delivery to them, in
Penfield, of 130,000 bricks, on or before the 15th ofNo
vember next. Good clay can be had within a quarter
of a mile of the place of delivery.
H. H. TUCKER,
J. E. WILLET,
W. B. SEALS,
Penfield, Green Cos. Ga. N. M. CRAWFORD.
Aug. 12, 1858
RICH HBROIDHRII.
w. have just received a very large assortment
French Worked Collars,
SWISS ANT) JACONET BANDS,
SWISS & JACONET TRIMMINGS,
SWISS & JACONET FLOUNCINGS,
PL’N ftENBR’D LINEN COLLARS,
Lartfc as’>meat pi'a A cml. L. C. lldkfs,
Rich Ch’ly LACE VElLS,ncw'styles.
—also —
Rich Silk and Lace Mantillas,
LINEN DUSTERS ; rich Organdie Muslins,
Low priced LAWNS; white BRILLIANTS,
Plain and checked NAINSOOKS,
“ “ JACONETS,
“ “ CAMBRICS,
“ “ MULLS.
These goods having been recently bought at a great
reduction on the market price, will be sold correspond
ingly low ; and a portion of them having been bought
of the manufacturer about 50 per cent, less than they
could have been bought at any auction sale, they will
be sold lower than the same quality of goods have ever
been offered at in this city. Our stock is otherwise well
assorted, and offers rare inducements in the way of
LOW PRICES. All of which wc will Le pleased to
exhibit atourONEPRICE STORE.
Aug 12 BROOM &, NORRELL.
Dr. W. L. M. HARRIS,
to tho good citizens of Pen
lf i field and vicinity, for the liberal confidence
an “ encouragement given him, respectfully contin
ues a tender of his professional services to them.
Dr. R. J. Massey, his former partner in the practice,
will, with pleasure, attend any call, at any time, that
may be made while Dr. 11. is professionally engaged
and cannot be obtained. March It 1858
PENFIELD AND GREENESBORO
fJ ACKS or any desired accommo
vfFfßlr LL nation, waiting the arrival of each
train. Passengers for Penficld, Scull Shoals, Dr. Dur
ham’s, Walkiusville, Watson’s Springs or any other
point, will be carried thither safely and promptly.
Passengers from any of these points desiring to meet
any of the trains, can find like accommodation. Prices
moderate.
Good horses and conveyances, with or without dri
ver. CASH will be required.
I have Horseß and Buggies for hire at my stable in
Penfield. H. NEESON, Jr.
July 15, 1858
THE fifth of COE Sc LATIMER is this day dis
solved by mutual consent. H. A. COE,
Greenesboro, May Ist, 1858 J. S. LA IIMLR.
The practice will be continued by
Is ‘Sk Q s $
| who will visit
I Oxford, |
■ 9 Penfield, |
‘White Plains, j
Mount Zion,
Warren i on,
Elherton,
DuniHsville
Fort Lamar,
of which due notice will be given inthe Crusader and
Gazette. Permanent office in /. CUNNINGHAMS
\BLOCK, GREENESBORO.
May 13, 1858 tjanl
TH F. ADOPTED ORGAN OF AI L THE TEMPERANCE OfWJAFTIZATIONS IN THK STACK.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1858.
BY MRS. M. E. BRYAN.
THE4UIET HOME.
“W HAT dear, quiet little things Mrs. 1 >ird’s
VV children are!” said a lady to her friend.
“I called to see Mrs. Bird to-day, and found her
in the nursery with her two hoys and two girls,
about the ages of mine. It would have done
your heart good to see how sweetly they behaved.
Perfect little gentlemen and ladies they were. 1
felt really discouraged. Mine! why they are
wild asses’ colts in comparison.”
“ There’s a great difference in children,” re
plied the friend. “ I know some little boys and
girls that Mrs. Bird would not find so easily sub
dued.”
“ I could hardly credit my own eyes; but, as
they say, seeing is believing,” resumed the first
speaker. “ For more than half an hour I sat and
talked with Mrs. Bird, in the nursery, without
once being disturbed by noise or any of the un
pleasant interruptions incident to the presence
of children.”
“ What were they doing?” asked the other, in
some surprise.
“ That was most remarkable of all. Mrs. Bird
has four children. Willy is the oldest—Just in
his tenth year. Meeta is seven, Agnes five, and
the baby, as they call Andrew, nearly four. Just
the ages for thoughtless, mischief-making, trou
blesome, noisy romps. But they were as still as
mice in a cheese. She had them all doing some
thing. Willy she had taught various kinds of
netting and ornamental needle-work. It was a
wonderful resource for the child, she said, keep
ing his thoughts and lingers busy, and both out
of mischief. She showed me a handsome anti
macassar, in crochet, which he had just finished.
I’m sure that I couldn’t have done it better, i
could not help looking upon the delicately
formed, sweet-faced boy, as he sat earnestly eh
gaged at his work—he was embroidering a pair
of slippers in Berlin wool for his father—and
contrasting him with my Tom, a great, rude,
coarse boy, with dirty, rough hands, that are al
ways in better condition for grasping a wheel
barrow than plying a needle. And the compari
son, I can assure you, was not made without a
sigh.”
“ Did the boy look happy ?” inquired the
friend.
“ Perfectly so. He wanted no amusement be
sides his books and his needle-work. You
couldn’t drive him into the street,” his mother
said.
“ Dear little fellow ! What a comfort to have
such a child!”
“ Isn’t it? It really did me good to look into
his sweet, pure face, so girlish and delicate.”
“ I should like to understand Mrs. Bird’s sys
tem, for there must be art in the case. All chil
dren are born romps.”
“‘1 begin early,’ she said to me, ‘and repress
all rudeness and disorder. It is the mind that
governs in children ns well as in men. You must
give this the right dii*ection. Mere noise-making
I never permitted. Boys, it is said, grasp a ham
mer and pound instinctively. I think, in most
cases, they pound because a hammer is given to
them. Try them with the sweet face and fragile
form of a baby doll, and you will rarely see an
inclination to pound. I commenced with the
doll, not the hammer; and you see the result.
Willy as gentle as a girl. He never throws
the house into disorder—never makes discor
dant noises—never quarrels with or teases liis
younger brother or sisters. So with the rest. I
began right, you sec; and upon a right beginning
everything depeds. My husband is a home-lov
ing, order-loving, quiet-loving man ; and I make
it my business to see that home is all he desires.
“ How much I enjoy my home—it is so quiet—so
orderly !” During the first year of our marriage
Mr. Bird often said this. I had seen other homes, j
I was familiar with the way in which young cliil-;
drew were permitted to destroy all comfort in a
household by their noise and disorder; and I
made up my mind to have things different, if
children came to our home. And they are dif
ferent, as you can see. And the children them
selves arc much happier. I keep them busy at
something from morning till night—busy enough
not to think of eating all the while. This gor
mandizing among children is dreadful! It makes
mere gluttons of them—developing the animal,
and repressing the intellectual. It is this raven
ous eating that renders them coarse, rude, and
cruel, like wild beasts.’ ”
“ 1 believe Mrs. Bird is more than half right,”
was remarked upon this. “ I have often said that
children were permitted to eat over-much. Mine
would stuff themselves like Christmas turkeys,
from morning till night, if not restricted.”
“Employment, such as Mrs. Bird provides for
her children, is certainly the best corrector for
this habit of eating.”
“How did she get along with baby Andrew—
the little four-year-old you mentioned ? YV as he
as orderly and silent as the rest?”
“ lie was poring over a picture spelling-book
for most of the time that I was there, and after
ward occupied himself with stringing heads. I
declare it was all a wonder to me. Such a charm
ing family of children I never saw elsewhere.
What a change there would be for the better it
all mothers understood and practised on Mrs-
Bird’s system J”
“ Better for heaven, it may be,” said the friend,
a little equivocally.
“ For heaven ? I don’t just see your mean
ing.”
“Such children arc most too good to live.”
“Oh!”
“ Mrs. Bird’s quiet home may he very pleasant,
and her system of government very beautiful —
but there is danger.”
“Os what?”
“ That her children will not live.”
“Why? Because they are too good for this
earth, as you have just intimated ?”
“ I am not sure that they are really any better
in beart than some less orderly and more boister
ous children. What I mean is, that Mrs. Bird’s
system depresses the animal forces, leaving the
bodies of her children more liable to disease, and
less able to resist an attack when it comes.”
“They are less exposed than other children.”
“Perhaps so. But, for my part, on reflection,
I would rather take the chances of a less orderly
system of home management—-mine, for instance,
a little modified—noisy, and like a bedlam, as
the house often is.”
It was on the. evening cf this very day that Mr,
Bird said to his wife, as if the subject were sud
denly forced upon his observation *.
“ I don’t think our children have strong con
stitutions. Willy’s face is too delicate for the
face of a boy, and his body too slender. I ob
serve, also, that hi; shoulders arc depressed.
Hark!”
Both listened for a few moments.
“ I don’t just like that cough,” said Mr. Bird.
“ A little cold,” remarked liis wife. “Wills
got liis feet wet to-day.”
“ 1 never saw- children with such indifferent
appetites,” said Mr. Bird: “ they don’t eat j
enough to keep pigeons alive.”
“ Most children “eat too much,” was the reply ;
“and more children are made sick from over
feeding than abstemiousness.”
“ But there is a golden mean,” said Mr. Bird.
“To reach which has been my study. Do not i
fear. The children eat quite as much as js good
for them.”
“There it is again ! 1 don’t like that cough at
all.” And Mr. Bird arose and went up to the
room where the children were sleeping. Willy’s i
cheeks were slightly flushed—liis skin was dry, j
and above the natural heat—and his respiration j
just enough obstructed to make it audible. His j
father stood for some moments looking down i
upon his sleeping boy.
“There’s nothing the matter with him.”
Even as Mrs. Bird said this Willy coughed
again, and as lie coughed he raised his hand to
his throat and moaned as if in suffering.
“Willy! Willy, dear.”
“ I wouldn’t disturb him,” said Mrs. Bird.
The father’s voice had penetrated his half- ;
awakened sense, and, opening his eyes, he looked i
up with a wondering glance.
“ Are you sick, Willy ?”
The boy coughed again, and more convulsively,
pressing liis hand on his chest.
“ Does it hurt you to cough ?”
“ Yes.”
“ Where ?”
“ It hurts me right here,” his hand remaining
where he had placed it a moment before.
The panting of the child showed that there was
constriction of the lungs.
“ I’m going for the doctor” —Mr. Bird spoke
aside to his wife.
“I hardly think it necessary,” objected the
mother. “It is only. some slight disturbance
from cold, and will pass away. This sudden wa
king has quickened his heart-beat.”
Usually Mr. Bird deferred to his wife in all
matters relating to the children, though his judg
ment did not always coincide with her discipline.
But he was too well satisfied that Willy required
a physician now to hesitate a moment on the
mother’s objection. So he went away in haste.
The physician was far from treating the case
indifferently. Ilis practised eye recognised the
symptoms of an acute pneumonia, and his treat
ment wa3 such as to fill the hearts of the parents
with sudden fear.
“If the boy had any constitution —” It was on
the fifth day, and the physician was replying to
an anxious inquiry made by tho distressed
mother, all of whose fears were excited. “If the.
hoy ha<l any constitution, I could speak all the
encouragement your heart desires. But he is a
hot-house plant. All the vital forces are but
feebly reactive.”
“His health has always been good, doctor,” in
terposed Mrs. Bird.
“ He has never before had any serious sickness;
but he lacks physical stamina, for all that.”
The doctor’s words sent a shuddering chill to
the mother’s heart; while a faint conviction of
error dawned upon her mind.
Too surely were the physician’s fears realized.
At the end of ten anxious days it was apparent
to every one that Willy’s hours upon tlih earth
were numbered. The disease, preying upon a
body which had been denied pure air and invig
orating sunshine, found scarcely anything to op
pose its destructive advances. There was no
power of resistance in that delicate frame.
Without even a struggle for life the contest en
ded.
In less than a week after the death of Willy
there came another summons for the doctor. He
found the sorrowing parents, in alarm again.
Little Andrew, “ the baby,” was sick. Sore
throat—fever—stupor.
“He hasn’t been out anywhere,” said Mrs.
Bird, “ for two weeks.” Her meaning was, that
having remained shut up in the house during
that period, it was impossible for him to have
contracted any contagious disease.
“ It would have been far better if you had sent
him out every day.”
The doctor’s words were more an utterance of
his own though©; than a remark to Mrs. Bird.
Dear little Andrew ! He was a slender, matured,
beautiful child, who attracted every eye. His
pale, spiritual face almost shadowed by bis broad
forehead, gave promise of an intellectual man
hood—if manhood could ever be reached. But
that was the question which forced itself upon
every one but his unwise parents, who, in secur
ing a quiet household, were providing for the
deeper quiet of death and desolation.
Delicate, orderly, loving, beautiful children
grew up in the stimulating atmosphere of their
home, but without strength for the life-battle.
Andrew, “ the baby,” was carried out by the
mourners in less than a week from the time when
the doctor sat down by the bed on which he lay,
and placed his fingers on the quick, wiry pulse
that sent a warning of death id his heart.
“ Our children have no constitutions,” said Mr.
Bird, sadly, as he gazed with dim eyes upon the
’ two delicate blossoms that 1 emained to shed their
fragrance in his (juiet home.
“They have always been healthy,” answered
the mother, in mournful tones.
“The doctor says that we should give them
more fresh air, and a great, deal of out-door ex
ercise.”
“Jane takes them out walking every day; hut
I don’t see that it does them any good. Agnes
always comes home tired and fretlul: anti Meeta
took cold to-day. Neither of them are as wel 01
as happy after theso walks as when they lcmainec
in the house.”
No wonder they were tired and fretful, or
showed symptoms of cold, .after these ai y
at ion sln the. open air. Holding each a hand of
their attendant, they would walk slowly as nuns,
and orderly as charity children m a procession.
There were no hop, skip and jutnb no impu v
start or merry romp-but a strict observance of
the last maternal injunction, “Now walk a ong
like good, quiet children.
Weariness, after such attempted recreations
in the open air, was an inevitable result; weari
ness, and something worse. ‘ The outside air was
different from the air of their houses. It was
colder and more humid. To meet this, and de
rive a benefit instead of sustaining an injury,
there must be a quicker circulation and increased
| bodily warmth. Mere addition of clothing would
not accomplish the desired object. There must
be quicker movements of the body—vigorous ex
ercise—producing increased vital action.—liar
gcr's Hfuga~ie.
Daily these half-dead-and-alive walks were con
tinued, and daily the children came back from
them wearied and spiritless, and sometimes with
hot hands and feverish breath.
The mother insisted upon it that these daily
walks were not good for children. Mr. Bird, in
doubt, called upon their doctor, and submitted
the question anew.
“Dive them plenty of fresh air and out-of-door
exercise!” was his repeated and very emphatic
injunction. “If yon wish to raise your children,
let them have a chance to acquire strength.”
And so tlie daily goings out were continued,
whether the air was dry or damp, warm or chill
ing. lfit was warm, tho children came back
wearied; if damp, with symptoms of cold; and al
ways in some way showing a loss of, instead of an
increased, vitpl activity. They were too well
trained, at five and seven, to commit the indis
cretion of a romp in the street, and romping in
the quiet house the/ called their home was a
thing never known or heard of hy either of the
little patterns of propriety. As to vocal efforts,
they rarely went beyond a low, humming “ Ilush
a-by-baby,” sung to a waxen-faced doll. No wild,
screaming laughter ever desecrated the temple
like stillness of Mrs. Bird’s dwelling, unless from
the lungs of some badly-trained, visiting child,
upon whose strange doings her own little ones
gazed in half stupid wonder. Narrow chests and
weak lungs were the natural consequence.
As Willy had died, so died—ere the summer’s
greenness had faded from the new-made graves
of the first departed—Meeta, next to him in
years.
Only Agnes was left to the stricken parents
now. She was pure, and white, and delicate as
a lily. That Meeta had been injured by the daily
walks in the open air they were fully convinced:
and, notwithstanding the repeated remonstrances
of the family physician, they refused to let the
fresh breathings of heaven in upon their child.
One day—it was a sunny visitant in the early
spring-time, ere the violet opens its blue eyes
among the fresh-shooting grass —Agnes strayed
from the nursery, and, going beyond the watch
ful eyes of her mother, gained an open chamber
window, and, climbing on a chair, locked out
upon the budding trees and the emerald carpet
which Nature had spread over the small plat of
open ground that lay in front of the dwelling.
The window looked to the south, and the air
came pressing in from that quarter, bathing the
child’s brow with a refreshing coolness. She laid
her slender arms upon the window-sill, and, rest
ing her face upon her arms, looked out, half
dreamily, and with a quiet sense of pleasure.
When her mother found her half an hour after
ward she was asleep.
A robust child might have suffered from some
temporary derangement of tlie system, conse
quent on checked perspiration; but to one of
Agues’ feeble constitution, exposure like this must
always be followed with serious consequences.
When Mrs. Bird caught Agnes in her arms a wild
fear throbbed in her heart. Alas! it was no idle
fear. She soon detected symptoms too well un
derstood, and sent in haste for the doctor.
“Some slight derangement,” he said, evasively,
to the eager questionings of the mother. But his
tones were a death-knell.
Very, very quiet now is the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Bird. There is no wild disorder of children
there, but a stillness that makes the heart ache.
Mrs. Bird resolved, in the beginning, to have a
quiet, orderly home, and she has done her work
well.
YELLOW DRESSES—HOW THEY CAME TO BE FASH
IONABLE.
M. Audibert, in his charming book called “ In
discretions and Confidences,” tells the following
story, exemplifying the power possessed by Mad
emoiselle Mars, the famous French actress, of
imposing her own tastes on the fashionable world
of Paris.
The brilliant Celemene was playing at Lyons.
The day after her first api earance she was not a
little surprised to see arrive, in the morning, at
her hotel, one of the first manufacturers of the
city. “Mademoiselle,” said he, “ this is the ob
ject of my visit, will you pardon me for it? You
can make my fortune.” “I, sir, I should be glad
to do it, but in what way ?” “ Please to accept
this piece of stuff.”
And he displayed upon the table a rich yellow
velvet. Mademoiselle Mars thought herself in
the presence of an insane man. “ Good heavens!”
said she, in an excited tone, “ what do you wish
mo to make of this yellow velvet ?”
“ A dress, Madamoiselle, when you have ap
peared in it, everybody will want one like it, and
so my fortune will be made.” “ But, sir, nobody
his ever worn a yellow dress.” “That is it: I
want to make it fashionable. Do not, I pray
you, refuse me this favor.” “ No, sir, I will not
refuse,” said Madamoiselle Mars.
And she went to her secretary for her purse.
“ Madamoiselle will spare me the insult ot pay
ing. In making my fortune I shall be largely
recompensed. Only Madamoiselle will have the
goodness to give the address ot my manufactory,
which, moreover, is in good credit,”
Madamoiselle promised everything. On her
return to Paris, talking to her dressmaker, she
said: “ I must show you a piece of rich velvet 1
have brought from Lyons. It lias been given me
for a dress.” “ Madame can wear anything.”
A few days after, the “Unexpected Wager”
was to follow “ Nicomede” by Talma, Madam
oiselle Mars went early to her room and dressed
herself in the yellow velvet. The toilet was over.
Nicomede was nearly finished, when looking at’
herself in all ways in her glass, Madamoiselle
Mars cried out: “It is impossible for me to go
on the stage in this dress; Caroline, send for the
manager, and let the Unexpected Wager be
changed for something else—some piece in which
Ido not appear.” ‘* • ‘
These words caused a great excitement, and
soon spread through the theatre. Talma offered
to go and examine this toilet which was putting
the world into a revolution. “ See,” said Madam
oiselle Mars to him, “see how ridiculous lam.
Do I not look like a canary bird?” “ Ridiculous,
my dear friend; say rather ravishing. Your toilet
is in the best taste ; it suits admirably your face,
your black hair; yellow is becoming to a bru
nette. Appear as you are; you never looked
handsomer.”
Mars was decided by the opinion of the great
artist, and went upon the stage. A flattering
murmur received her. All the ladies’ glasses
were turned to her, the house resounded with ap
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plause, and everywhere circulated the words:
“What a delicious toilet!”
The next day all Paris was talking of Madam
oiselle Mars’ yellow dress. Before eight days
passed, there was not a saloon without similar
ones, 1 >ress-makers were overrun with work, and
from that moment yellow has taken its place
among the colors used for dresses.
Some years after, when Madamoiselle Mars re
turned to Lyons, the manufacturer, whose for
tune she had really made, gave her a splendid
fete at tho pretty country house he had purchased
on the borders of the Saone, with the products of
bis yellow velvet, of which the sale had been pro
digious.
NOT AN UNCOMMON CASE.
A traveller from Virginia, as bis blooded horse,
plethoric saddle-bags and haughty insovdance in
dicated, stopped at a comfortable wayside inn In
Kentucky, one night many years ago. The land
lord was a jovial, whole-souled fellow, as land
lords were in those days, and gave the stranger
the best entertainments his table and bar would
afford, as well as his own merry company to make
him glad. Early in the morning the stranger
was up and looking around, when he espied a
rich bed of mint in the garden. lie straightway
sought Boniface, and indignant at what he sup
posed his inhospitality in setting plain whiskey
before him, when the means of brewing nectar
•was so easy of access, he dragged him forth to the
spot, and pointing with his finger at the mint, he
exclaimed:
“ I say, landlord, will you be good enough to
say what that is?”
“ A bed of mint,” said the somewhat astonished
landlord.
“And will you please tell me what is the use
of it?”
“ Well, don’t exactly know, ’cept the old wo
man dries it sometimes with the other “ yarbs.”
The Virginian almost turned pale at the enor
mity of his assertion.
“And do you mean to tell me that you don’t
know what a mint julep is?”
“Not ’cept it’s something like sage tea, stran
ger.”
“ Sage tea ! Go right along to the house, get a
bucket of ice, loaf sugar and your best liquor.”
The landlord obeyed, and the stranger soon
made his appearance with a handful of fragrant,
dewy mint, and then they brewed, and drank,
and brewed and drank again ; breakfast was over,
and the granger's horse was brought out only to
be ordered back. Through the livelong day they
brewed and drank ; one or two neighbors dropped
in, who were partakers, and late in the night
were their orgies kept up; ere they made it bed
time, the landlord and his Virginia guest, who
had initiated him into the pleasant mysteries of
mint julep, were sworn brothers, and when the
latter departed the next morning, Boniface ex
acted a pledge that he would stop on his return
and stay as long as he pleased, free of cost.
The stranger’s business, however, detained him
longer than he expected, and it was the next
summer before he come back. Hiding up late
in the evening, he gave his horse to an old negro
who was at the gate, and at the same time in
quired :
“ Well, Ham, how is your master?”
“ Yonder him come,” said the negro, pointing
to a youth who was approaching.
“ I mean your old master, fool!”
“Old massa! him done dead dis three
months.”
“ Dead! What was the matter with him ? He
was in fine health when 1 left him.”
“ Yes, but you see, Massa Stranger, one of dem
Virginny gemmens come ’long here last year, and
show’d him how to eat green# in his liquor: he like
it so well, he done suck it till it kill him,” said
the old darky, shaking his head.
The stranger passed a less jovial night than on
his previous visit, and was off by daybreak next
morning. lie quieted his conscience, however,
in the end, with the reflection that “ good things
are sometimes misused.”
A_CAT AN HEIRESS.
One of the most exquisite musicians, in her
time, was Madamoiselle Dupuy, of the French
Opera. Her playing on the harp was the wonder
of Paris. She was convinced that she owed her
artistic excellence to her favorite eat! And of
this strange intimacy between a charming woman
and her quadruped favorite, Moncriff, her biogra
pher, gives the following interesting particulars:
“Os course the lovely musician’s practising, at
home, was assiduous and constant. But as soon
as she sat down and began to prelude upon the
instrument, she noticed that her cat assumed an
attitude of intense attention. At the point ot
the instrument’s arriving at any passage of pecu
liar beauty, the excited grimalkin went into a
feline ecstacy, and so well measured \vas this sen
sibility, according to the excellence of the play
ing and the pathos of the composition, that Mad
amoiselle Dupuy washable to judge of tho quality
of the music by the manifest emotions of her cat!
Hhc became a devout Passeite, in fact, believing
that the nervous creature was an exact prophet,
foretelling preci ely how music would affect an
audience. And she was grateful accordingly to
the friend to whom she thought she owed mainly
her artistic success.
In her last illness, at the approach of death,,
M’lle. Dupuy sent for the notary, to make her
will. She had accumulated a fortune by her pro
fession ; and the first clause of her testament was
th & giving of her town, home and her country house to
her cal! She added to this annuity sufficient for
the comfortable support ol the lour-legged metv
sician during its natural liie; and to make sure
that this, her last will and testament, should be
respected, she gave several legacies to friends on
the express condition that they should see to the
fulfillment of her wishes. 11 was also a condition
that they should severally take turns, during the
week in going to see and keep company with the
orphan puss!”
Moncriff adds that the relatives of M’lle. Dupuy
disputed the validity of the will, and a lawsuit
was the consequence—Grimalkin vs. Dupuys.
But the eat gained the cause, and lived out her days
with genteel alternation between her elegant
town house and her charming country house.
The particulars of the final catastrophe are not
given. _
The crowds were coming out of Burton’s theatre
at the close of the prayer-meeting, when one of
the by-standers observed that it looked like a
benefit, there had been so full a house.
“ You are right,” said another; “it is a benefit
lor the soul. All the world’s a stage, and all the
men and women actors—acting for eternity.”
There’s a good thought there: half Shakspeare,
and all true.