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About The North Georgian. (Gainesville, Ga.) 1877-18?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1880)
PI’BLISHRB EVERY THURSDAY' BELLTON, GrA. <>BY JOHN BL ATS. ? Ikbms—-sl.ou per annum ;50 cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. Parties away from Bellton are requested n to send their names, with such amounts of z money as they can spare, from 2 je. to sl. One hundred and eighty-one thousand emigrants arrived in New York during the year ending on the first of December, as compared with one hundred and 7 twenty year, -y -y 7 ~ Printing paper is sharing the fate of .bther manufactured articles at the pres ent time in experiencing a very decided , boom. A continuance of the rise in price which has been going on for a few past will seriously contract the profit of publishers, unless invention shall come to their rescue in the mean time with cheaper methods of produc tion and new fields for capital. It is to Ik* regretted that American wine-makers have already begun the ,-j practice of doctoring their wines and £ make no secret of doing so, saying that purchasers prefer the doctored wines to the pure. Spirits, sugar and water are added largely. Last season 1,500,000 gallons of wine were made on the islands at the western end of Lake Erie, and of this only 1,000,000 were pure wine. On these islands theTe are 1.000 acres planted with vines, the yield for the year being 10,000,000 pounds of grapes. A state committee on railroad affair brought out the following facts: The average price of box-cars is S4OO to SSOO. In 1872 they were as high as $1,200. A milk-car costs about SIOO more than an ordinary box-car. A baggage-car truck or a passenger-car varies from $2,- 000 to $2,500. Wagner’s drawing-room cars cost from s<B,ooo to $12,000 —this in cludes all furnishing. Mail-cars from $2,500 to $3,000. New York elevated cars cost from $2,500 to $3,000. The last ordinary passenger-OBr on the Hud ■* son River line cost $5,400, including a heater and some extra fietures Tin F rst National b:nk of New Y< rk, did not neg irate stufir an enor mous amount of t noth ing. Their pi < veer ex < cd anything fis*r in the history of banking. The capital of the bank is half a million and its stock is I eld pi about SI,OOO a s' are and none offered fcr sal a Last year they carried half a mil lion to the surplus account, making it three times as much as the capital and paid out 120 percent in dividends, besides leaving $267,700 undivided. This shows .a profit during the year of over 250 per cent, and much of the credit is due to the manag ment of President Fahne stock. who got his experience in funding while a member pf t’e firm of Jay Cooke at Co. Two men of science, SignorTommassi, of 1 me. and Prof. Kleb, of Prague, af ter spending three weeks in that fever stricken region, the Roman Campagna, experimenting on the soil, its atmosphere :m<l its stagnant waters, “ have succeed ed,” it is said, “in discovering a micro seopic fungus, which, being placed under* the skins of healthy dogs, caused dis tinct and regular paroxysims of inter mittent fever, and produced in the spleens of these animals that peculiar condition which is a recognized part of the pathol ogy of this disease.” Similar results were obtained by investigation by others, among them by .Prof. Salisbury, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Dr. Clements, of Louisville, who announced in 1878 the results of the investigations and experi ments. DURING his journey to MA ico, Gen eral Grant will have an opportunity to vistt the scenes of his first military ex ploit*. He will land at Vera Cruz, which be helped capture in 1846, and go over the ground between the place and the citv of Mexico, which he traversed with • the army of General Scott. Grant was onlv 23 years old, when, as a stripling officer, just out of West Point, he was sent to Texas with his regiment. He fought at Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma and Monterey, and then went to join <cott before Vera Cruz. He missed the battle of Buena Vista by this transfer, but with the exception of that engage ment he took part in every battle of the war. There were few officers who had the luck to be where the fighting wa the hardest from the beginning to th , I of that struggle. Molina del Ray gave bint his promotion to a first lieu tenancy, and his behavior at Chepulta pec earned him a brevet captaincy. ■ = When a young man gets a cutaway eoat that buttons from the watch chain up to the ahirt collar, and can hold an inch stub of a cigar between his teeth and look unconcerned, he's entitled to , quotation, and it’s an ungrateful public ! that fails to notice him. What incen tive has a young man to effort in a world that persistently refuse to recog nize merit? The North Georgian. VOL. 111. SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS. There are 4,000 colored Masons in North Carolina. The Georgia State Lunatic Asylum is full of patients. The Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum has 4000 inmates. Macon, Ga., used $13,000 worth of Christmas fire-works. Senoia, Ga., is to have a Clement at tachment cotton mill. The salarv of the Mayor of Savannah, Ga., ii $2,400 per year. The Unive'sity of Alabama has a li brary if 7,000 volumes. S x per cent, bonds of the City of August*, Ga., are sold at par. Os the 2,000 convicts in the Texas penitentiary only five are women. White shad are already being caught in the Roanoke, in North Carolina. Ninety-three arrests were made on the streets of Macon, Ga., on Christmas. Thousands of orange trees are dying in Florida from some unknown blight. Sherman, Texas, has appropriated sl,- 000 for the construction of an artesian well. Two hundred new buildings were erect ed in Nashville during 1870 at a cost of $900,000. The guava in the near future, will be one of the most prominent exports from Florida. 8 Not a white man was seen drunk in the streets of Baton Rouge, La., on Christmas. The tobacco stamp tax paid in Orange county, N. C., during November, amount ed to $1,092.76, A woman named Sallie Patterson was convicted in Memphis of ''aFlwine con cealed weapons. This fall the mercliants of Abbeville S. C., have had the Ix-sl cash trade ever known in the town. ' It is reported that two extensive cigar factories a e to be removed from Havana to Key West, Fla. •/? The people of Perry, Ga., impose to have one of the finest public libraries in the United States. Hon. John C. Nicholls is trying to get a SIOO,OOO appropriation for the harbor at Brunswick, Ga. The Nashville American published a list <>f colored ladies who were “at home” on New Year’s day. The negroes in southwestern Georgia show a disposition to work exclusively for wages next year. The annexation of Edgefield will make Nashville’s population 60,000 by the next birthday of the city. Nine hundred maimed ex-Confederate soldiers have applied to the state of Georgia for artificial limbs. The Methodist Episcopal Church South has five conferences in Texas, em bracing 79,763 members. They have a colored voting population in Winston, N. C., of 359, only twenty six of whom pay any poll-tax. In Walton county, Ga., a Miss Mcßhea raised this year seventeen bales of cotton and a good crop of corn and wheat. Twenty-three SI,OOO of Madison county, Ala., were sold to S. P. Reed, of Memphis, at six per cent, premium. A stalk of tobacco eight fact high, from Granville county, N. C., is shown in the agricultural museum of that State. It is estimated that Arkansas will pro duce this year6oo,ooo balescotton, which at a low figure, will yield $30,000,000. Thos. S. Miller, a young man in Lan caster county, N. C., drank a pint and a half of rum and died in a few hours. The Good Templars arc flourishing in Georgia. During the past month eight new lodges have been organized in the State. The Georgia Railroad presented eight car loads of old ties to the Mayor of Augusta, for distribution among the poor for fuel. Visitors to the cotton factory at At lanta have become so numerous that or ders have bean issued prohibiting the admission of any. The buildingsnow in courseof erection in Chattanooga are most elegant in class and style, and more costly than were ever before erected in that city. Hon. A. P. Butler of Aiken county, has been elected State Commissioner of Agriculture of South Carolina. He is a practical agriculturist of large experience. The fair grounds at Nashville have been sold for $40,000 to a firm of Nor thern capitalists, who propose erecting thereon furnaces and a merchant iron mill. About twenty farms and twice as many gardens in San Saba connty, Texas, were irrigated last season. In most in stances the water is obtained from springs. Gadsden, Ala., this season will buy 12,000 bales of cotton, sell $1,000,000 of goods, manufacture 20,000,000 feet of lumber and thousands of dollars of fur niture. The Confederate monument in Wilcox county, Ala., will be begun at once, and the contractor promises to have it ready for the dedication services by the 26th ! of April. Owing’ to the reduced appropriations i for the city government of New Orleans , for the ensuing year, a wholesale reduc j tion will be made in the number of the | city employes. I An association for the manufacture of wine, with a capital of SIO,OOO, has lieen .organized in Randolph county, Ga. Grape culture ha- lieen carried to great j perfection in that county. BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY, GA., JANUARY 15. 1880. MKIiTILNO. BT J ENN IB JONM. Drifting on life’s pleasant waters, You and I, Watching all the prouder ▼easels Sailing by. There aro ships with tTeasnre laden Down the bay; See their white sails proudly filling Far away. They are bearing hopes and promise From afar; Some will anchor in the harbor, some ground . On the bar. Pirate vessels, cruising ever In disguise, With their wiles will capture many A rich prize. Wrecks of many a noble teasel Strew the lea, Bearing only freight of love; Natffcht fear we. Storms are on the ocean wrecking Many a bark; Many a gallant ship goes down In the dark. When the storm-tossed ocean billows Madly roar, i Then our bark so lightly laden K Keeps near shore. X\ Drifting on when skies are brighter, j You and I; We’ll not envy prouder vessels mK Sailing by. Cnrions Facts About Memory. A French scientist has been studving the faculty of memory as exhibited by different races, and its relation to the other mental faculties as shown in indi viduals of the same race. His state ments are interesting: The inferior races of mankind, such as negroes, the Chinese, etc., have more memory than those of a higher type of civilzations. Primitive races which were unac quainted with the art of writing had a wonderful memory, and were for ages in the habit of handing down, from one generation toanotfer, hymns as volumin ous as the Bible. Prompters and professors of declama tion know that women have more mem ory than men. French women will learn a foreign language quicker than their husl\pds. YoutUs\have more nmrfl’ory than adults. It is well developed in children, attains its maximum about the four teenth or fifteenth year, and then de creases. Feeble individual of a lymphatic tem perament have more memory than the strong. Students who obtain the prize for memory and recitation chiefly belong to the former class. Perisian studentshave also less mem ory than those who come from the prov inces. At the Ebole Normale and other schools the pupils who have the best memory are not the most intelli geiit. The memory is more developed among the peasantry than among citizens; and among the clergy than among the laity. From a physiological point of view, memory is diminished by over-feeding, by physical exercise, and by education, in thissense, that the illiterate have po tentially more memory than those who know how to read and write. We remember, moreover, better in the morning than in the evening, in the sum mer than in the winter, and better in warm than in cold climates. Stanley, the Explorer. Stanley, the explorer has been heard from. In a letter dated at the mouth of the Congo, September 13, he says that he has done much work, and proposes to do much more, for establishing trade and civilization in Africa. After equip ping one expedition on the East Coast, reconstructing another, exploring sev eral districts, he has come via the Medi terranean, to the West Coast, intrusted with an important mission by the Inter national Society, of which the King of the Belgians is the head. Ho adds: “I am charged to open—and keep open, if possible—all such districts and countries as I may explore for the com mercial world. The mission is supported by a philanthropic society which num bers noble minded men of several na tions. It is not a religious society, but my’ instructions are entirely of that spirit. No violence must be used, and wherever rejected the mission must withdraw to seek another field. We have abundant means, and, therefore, we are to purchase the very atmosphere, if any demands be made upon us, rather than violently oppose them. A year’s trial will demonstrate whether progress can be made and tolerance be granted under this new system. In some regions experience tells me the plan may work wonders. God grant it success every where! I have fifteen Europeans and about two hundred natives with me. It is too early yet to say much of them; but most of the natives seem not worth their rations. However, patience! We shall see what time will make of us all, and how it will mold us all anew for the good work.” With Stanley’s experience and tact, and the large means at his disposal, there is every reason to be hoped that civili zation may soon penetrate some of the most benighted region of the dark con tinent As to Serpents Charming. In imitation of the historical iconoclast a scientific disillusionist, writing for the Popular Science Monthly, says that the belief in the power of a serpent to charm small animals had its origin in super stitious ignorance. The writer contends that a snake has no such power and that what appears to be the result of a “charm” is nothing more or less than the last act of a well played tragedy. The snake’s fangs being thin and retractile he says no effort is made to retain the prey after it is onced seized. Stealthily the serpent creeps up to its victim and inflicts the fatal wound. The sure work ing of the virus, says the disillusionist, constitutes the “charm.” Has the cre dulity of the world been imposed on lor ! centuries, or has the Papula, Srirnce writer just begun to impose on the I world. TRUTH, JUSTICE, LIBERTY. Welding Cards and Stationery. In welding cards there is a fancy for writing the invitation on one of the three divisions of; a folding card and placing the names of the bride and groom ox the other two. Wedding an nouncements, in cases where there is no public teremony, are printed on tv.o cards, one very large, the other veiy small, she first bears the name of ti e married couple, the other that of the bride. The smallest of neat plain script is used in all these printed forms. In stationery, a few novelties have ap peared, ind among them is the butter cup papc-, which is of a pale green, with a buttcrcip stamped upon it in outline, or stamjed and painted on by hard. Other styles of note paperhavero. es, four-leaf clover, violets and lillies of the valley er i bossed upon them, and pietty little botes containing four kinds are made vp for those who like varii ty. The new Christmas cards represent pretty little gifis clad in Oriental fashion play ing with gorgeous fans; plucking roses in waited gardens; coquetting with bright-winged birds; and they are col ored so brilliantly that all other cards look plain beside them. Entirely differ ent in spirit, but almost as attractive, is a set of cards representing the rats ser enading the cat and wooing her with sweet sound? of the fiddle to come forth and havener head chopped offby a bad lit tle rat wlo pitifully lifts a tambourine for alms and vengefully shakes a hatchet behind him. In the next picture the cat is served up on the table, and in the third even his bones have gone and the rats are toasting his memory in old port. The moon brings “compliments of the season” in another series of cards, its round, jolly face beaming out of gray clouds and brigtening up the rooms into which it shines. A set which ought to please everybody who has the rage for pottery represents jars of deep green and violet and of an iridescent glass holding bouquets of flowers. A Brother Marries His Sistei. A young and respectable looking couple, brother and sister, named Fred and Louisa Rauchmann, son and daugh ter of a quiet, respectable farmer, resid ing in Lone Grove township, about twenty miles from Vandalia,. Illinois, boarded thh train a short time ago, went to St. Louis and were made husband and wife. They remained in the city for a day or two, then returned homeward, getting ■,;! the train at Browntown, a station eight miles from Vandalia, and for fear of being detected, wandered off in the woods near town, and remained there till found andvarrested by con stable Joseph Copeland. The man is about twenty-one years of age, and of good appearance, and his sister nineteen, and rather good looking. When asked why he was induced to com mit such an act he said: “My sistei loved me so well that we thought the best thing we could do would be to get married.” He was further asked if he did not know it was wrong and against the law to do so, and also why they hid themselves in the woods and kept away from their parents. This he answered by saying: “We did not know it was wrong, and only hid in the woods for fear of being discovered by our folks, as they were very much opposed to our marrying.” Their parents are very respectable people and are sadly grieved over the unparalleled act of their children. They were tried, found guilty and bound over, the man’s bond being fixed at SSOO, and the woman’s at S3OO, in default of which they were committed to the county jail. The affair has created great excitement in Vandalia. Turned the Tables on Him. {lndianapolis News.) James H. Rice, of the State at large, has recently been in St. Louis. While there he stepped into the postoffice to buy five threc-cent stamps, laying down a naif dollar therefor and licking the stamps while waiting for his change. To him the postoffice clerk said: “ Can’t take that half-dollar; it’s got a hole in it.” “ All right,” said Rice, “ take it out of this quarter.” A bystander here asked the clerk why he wouldn’t take the money with holes in it. The clerk explained that in set tling with the Government the silver was weighed and the office would lose money by short weight. Here he laid down two nickels as change for Rice. One of them had a hole in it. Rice glared at him. “ That nickel has a hole in it, sir, and I shall thank you to give me another. I lost over $500,000 last year by taking mutilated nickels.” “ Wh-wh-what’s your name?” " James H. Rice, purchasing agent of the United States Government, post office address, Mt. Vernon, Posey County Indiana,” said “Jim,” pocketing the two sound nickels and moving off' with great dignity. _ A man whose countenance was homely enough to scare a Quaker, was lounging about a public house, when he was ob served by a Yankee, who asked him if he had not met with an accident when he was young. “ What do you mean, you impertinent scoundrel?” “Why, 1 didn’t mean nothin’, only you’ve got such and all-fired crooked mouth I thought as how you might a’ fall’n in the brook when you was a boy, and your mother hung you up by the mouth to dry. ’ The Frankfort JCxpress says “it is claimed that the Jakes rise and fall regu larly every seven years, and that they are now at their lowest stage,” being eighteen or twenty inches lower than usually. NO. 2. AMERICAN INGENUITY. (Jliroiiolojjilcnl Account of Some Early In vention* and Enterprises. [Manufacturer and Builder.] 1786 The first steam engine built, after the Newcomen type, for the Schuy ler copper mines. 1772—Another similar engine, made for a factory in Philadelphia. 1785 —Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia, introduced steam power to drive a flour mill and a brickyard. 1785—James Rumsey propelled a ves sel on the Potomac River by the reaction of the water. 1787 Perkins invented a nail cutting machine which could make 200,000 nails per day. 1788— John Fitch navigated the Dela ware River with the first steamboat. 1794—Whitney’s cotton gin invented. 1796 Benjamin Thompson, otherwise Count Rumford, discovered that there is no such thing as a caloric fluid, but that heat is a peculiar mode of motion of the material particles of bodies, and thus laid the foundation of the modern theory of the conservation of forces. 1797 —Benjamin Thompson invented a brush-making machine. 1797 Amos Whittemore introduced a machine for making the cards used in cotton and woolen manufacture. 1798 Robert McKean patented the first steam saw-mill. 1799 Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia, made the first high-pressure steam en gine, and built a steam carriage, which, however, was not a success. 1804—Col. John Cox Stevens invented the screw propeller, the model of which is still at the Hoboken (N. J.) Institute for Engineers. 1804 —Oliver Evans built a paddle wheel steamer, to ply on the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, driven by a double-acting high-pressure engine; also adapted for land conveyance. 1806 — Thomas Blanchard, of Massa chusetts, ’ invented a tack-making ma chine, Which made 30,000 tacks per hour. 1807— Thomas Blanchard made an ap paratus adapted for rifling gun barrels. 1807—Robert Fulton traveled with bis first steamboat from New York to Albany. 1807 —Oilcloth for floor carpeting first made in Philadelphia. 1807 —John Redford invented and manufactured metal-bound boots and shoes. 1811—John H. Hall, of Massachusetts, invented Breech-loading muskets. 1612 (ieorge Shoemaker sold in Phil adelphia several truck-loads of anthra cite coal for fuel, and was imprisoned as an imposter for selling stones for coal. 1813—Francis C. Lowell made impor tant improvements in the power loom. 1817—George Clymer produced the first American made printing press. 1818 —Jacob Perkins introduced steel engravings as a substitute for copper. 1819— The Savannah made the first passage across the Atlantic Ocean by steam power driving paddlewheels. 1820 — Henry Burden, of Troy, N. Y., invented the cultivator. 1821 — The same inventor improved rolling mills. 1821— Jordan L. Mott invented utili- small coal for furnaces. 1822 James McDonald, of New York, invented machinery for cleaning flax and hemp. 1823 Jos. Saxon invented a wheel cutting engine, producing epicycloidal teeth. 1824 Ladoc Pratt established his cel ebrated tanneries in the Catskills, New York State. 1824—Completion of the Erie Canal, connecting the large lakes with the Hud son river. 1826—Harrison A. Dyer established the first telegraph line on Long Island, making signals with fractional elec tricity. 1827 —John McClinter, of Pennsyl vania, invented the slotting and shaping m ichinc. 1828—First American patent for im provements in locomotives granted. 1828 hirst locomotive journey made on the Honesdale and C'aibondale rail way, Pennsylvania. 1828— Hay and straw used for the first time to make paper. 1828 - James Bogardus invented the | ring flyer for spinning cotton. 1829 The same invented mills with eccentric grinding surfaces. 1832 —James Bogardus invented a dry gas meter. 1834—Henry Burden invented his nail making machines. 1836-James Bogardus invented a pantograph. 1840 —The same invented the molds to press glass in while blowing. 1841 —The same made improvements in drilling machinery. Since the conventions and patents have succeeded in another at a most astonishing rate. To Our Old Grandfather. A monument having been proposed for our old friend Adam, the New Haven Reyister suggests an epitaph: Erected to the Memory of ADAM, The Grand Father of The Human Race. He rote on morning anil fell before Era Ge thou and de Ukewiue. Anyone who thinks Japan is an il literate country is sadly mistaken. Dur ing last year 47,000,000 articles passed through the Japanese post. Twenty-five million letters were sent, 100,000,000 post cards and 9,500,000 newspapers. In 1870 there were no less than 1,000 post offices in Japan; now there are over 5,000. Published Evbby Thursday at BELLTON, GEORGIA. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year (52 numbers), $1.00; six mont j (26 numbers). 50 cents; three months h« numbers), 25 cents. Office in the Smith building, east of the depot. waifs and whims. It takes a sober man to walk a tight rope We welcome cold weather with warmth. , “ By my trough,” as the male pig said to his sweetheart. If time is really money any man ought to be worth his wait in gold. An American mimed Doyle built ths first paper mill in Japan in 1874. In Milwaukee street cars everybody talks; in Chicngo mum is the word The wool crop of Texas amounts to over twenty-two million pounds a year Acquirements are often mistaken to» abilities. There is a difference in value of silver and plated ware. A glass bracelet, of elegant workman ship, has been found eighty feet beneath the surface of the ground, near Castro ville, Texas. BKXVTiFCt.? T«, but the blush will fade, ; The light grow dim which the blue eyes wear; The gloss will vanish from curl and braid. And the sunbeam die in the waving hair; Turn from the mirror and strive to win Treasures of loveliness still to last; Gather earth's glories and bloom within, Thai the soul may be bright when youth Is past. It is vulgar to tell a man he lies. Just inform him in your sweetest man ner that the prodigality of his assertion is beyond belief.— Hackensack Repub lican. Some errors you are allowed to cor rect, but marriage, is a take “for better or fox worse,” ami young man and young woman, you ought to consider this be fore you allow the orange blossom, to bloom. A dentist in Bristol, Vt., recently received by mail an order for a set of teeth which readas follows: “ My mouth is thre’e inches acros’, five-eighth inches through the jaw. Sum hummocky on the edge. Shuped like a horse-shoe, toe forrard? If you want to be more par tiklar J shall have to come thar.” “ The prudent man seeth the danger afar off and hideth himself,” was the text the village clergyman took before descending the cellar stairs, after catch ing a glimpse of a huge donation party looming up in the distance. A Jersey man was once thrown one hundred and fifty feet by an express train, when he picked himself up, looked around for his hat and remarked; “Well, if I don’t find that hat I’ll make the company pay for it.” fiCFTLT the Rilrery moon shone down In the midnight cold and clear, And the toney of a couple wooing W ere borne to the listening ear. Like the whispered words of some dark plot Ju the stories*to children told, Her voice floated upward through the air, “ Oh, Charlie, but your nose is cold.” ~~SleubenvilU Herald. Young Seward placed a pistol at his head, iu the presence of the girl who had rejected his suit, at Houston, Minn., and said he was going to commit suicide. He counted, “ One, two—” and she cov ered her eyes with her hands. “ Look at me,” he said. She obeyed—“ three!” and into his brain went the fatal bullet. A BOTTLE of wine was <lug out of the ruins of Pompeii the other day, which had been buried eighteen hundred years. It will be opened soon at a banquet, and sampled. If age increases the flavor of wine, as is claimed, that bottle will bo very aromatic, and those who drink much of it will go home in a hack.— PecEs Sun. X has the best kind of a reputation as an unrivaled liar. “ tie is so much at home in lying,” said A, speaking of him, “ that whenever by mistake he tells the truth, he becomes confused and troub led.” “ He’s so great a liar,” said an other of X.’s friends, “ that you can’t even believe the contrary of what he tells yc-u.” “ That passage in your novel doesn’t seem particularly new, you know.” “ Well, maybe it isn’t, but then what does Solomon say? Nothing new under the sun, you know. Take up any book you like, and I defy you to find in it a single word, a single syllable, a single let ter even, that hasn’t been used over and over and over again. A Denver girl, " just for fun,” en gaged herself to marry two men, but appointed the same day, hour and place for a secret wedding with each. The suitors were somewhat disconcerted by each others presence, as well as by the girl’s absence, but tliey finally camo to an amicable understanding to despise her. A Gate Story. [Burlington Hawkey*.] “Serena, darling,” he murmnred; an<!t the old gate scarcely creaked as it swung to and fro beneath her light weight, and the silent stars looked down with ten derer glances, and all South Hill seemed to hold its breath to listen. “Serena, sweet,” he said, and the radiant blushes that kindled over the pearly brow and cheeks, softened the silent lovelight in her lustrous eyes. “Serena, my own, if every glittering star that beams above, if every passing breeze that stops to kiss thy glowing cheeks, if every rustling leaf that whispers to the night were liv ing, burning, loving thoughts; if every —Oh-h-ho-ho! Ow-w! Wow-ow! Aw-w oh, oh, ohl Oh, jimmy peltl Oh, glory! Oh, murder, murder, murder! Oh, dad rang the swizzled old gate to the bow wows!” And she said stiffly, that no gentleman who could use such language in the presence of a lady was an ac quaintance of hers, and she went into the house. And he pushed the gate open and pulled his mangled thumb out of the crack of it, and went down the street sucking the injured member and declaring that, however lightly 105 pounds of girl might sit upon the heart of a man, it wan a little too much pres sure when appliiyl to an impromptu thumbscrew. And the match is drawn, and all side bets declared off.
