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IN THE CLOUDS,
BY CARR IK V. SHAW.
Tn a downward arch of the clouds,
That was rocked on the billowy air,
A Ailver-white star lay alone
Like an innocent little one there.
Like a glorioua soul that la free,
It lay in its bpauty of white.
Asleep in ite cradle of clouds
That was rocked on thp bosom of night.
Lite a enowy-robed infant aaleep,
Or a enul of the gtorioua dead.
In state lay the glifilmorlng star.
All alcne on its boo.
Thin curtains of miaty-iike bine.
Trimmed in uhlte, filmy cloud lace.
Were drawn from the cradle aside,
Where a aephyr just held them in placa.
Then fCow, as the picture dissolved,
A white arm reached out in the blue,
And a beautiful fancy was mine,
As my eyes grew all dim with the dew.
I thought, when our Father shall find
U* silent in death’s chilly sleep,
With strange, smiling eyes looking up
To where the white clouds sway and weep,
He will look on our folly and sin—
Tired children, who will not awake—
And pardon with pitying tears,
For our innocent babyhood’s sake.
And with souls grown spotless as then,
With the laces of mists for our shrouds,
He will take up His poor, weary babea,
Aud rock us to sleep in the clouds.
A Fatal inheritance,
BY LEIGH L. BIIOOKNER.
“Is this artist's blouse becoming to
me?” asked Drusilla Sterling of her
Cousin Lucrece.
“ What matter whether a garment be
comes you or not? Your attitudes are
always graceful and fascinating. If it
■were for this alone it -would be worth
while to be the daughter of a dancer. I
wonder what Maxwell St. Ives would
say if he knew that?”
Drusilla’s anger was at white heat,
but so great was her self-control that to
an ordinary observer she would have
seemed perfectly calm. Her voice was
unusually smooth and low as she replied
to Lucrece’s scornful speech :
“Thank you for your compliment,
though it is not by any means new for
me to be told that lam graceful. As
for St. Ives knowing the story of my
parentage, I mean to tell him as soon as
occasion demands ; at present he is too
little interested in me or my affairs to
care about the story.”
Toor Lu felt that her thrust had been
without effect. It was rarely she al
lowed herself to be so bitter, but surely
she hail occasion. Here was this squint
eyed, pale-faced, ill-bom and ill-bred
creature, who, by some elfish witchery,
had won Lucerce’s handsome lover from
her.
From the first moment Roy Sebert
heard Drusilla’s voice he had been ready
to follow her through the world. Only
two months from England, and already
so unfortunate as to have caused an affi
anced lover to lie unfaithful to liis vows I
It was rumored that a young curate on
the other side of the water had com
mitted suicide for her sake.
When her cousin left the room Dru
silla sat down before the pier-glass' and
looked at herself steadily, sadly.
“My fate follows me. I am doomed
to make trouble wherever I go. Lu is
jealous, and, therefore, unjust. I have
never, by the slightest conscious act,
tried to win her lover. Yet Roy is hand
some, mid the temptation has been very
strong sometimes.”
It was a source of deep humiliation to
Drusilla that her mother had been an
actress, and, when she remembered her
cousin’s taunt, she resolved to try and
make her more unhappy.
“I will deny myself the pleasure of
being amiable'to Roy Sebert no longer.
If Cousin Lu. with those lovely dark
eyes of hers, cannot enchain a lover, we
■will see what the daughter of a dancer
can do ! ”
She lifted a small green-velvet shade
from the toilet tabic and placed it over
her eyes. An intense and unremitting
devotion to philosophical studies had
made her nearly blind. Certainly, her
eyes were not pleasant to look at, and
she said, “ I certainly wish to shock no
one by my hideousness.” Perhaps she'
was also aware that the dark velvet shade
would make her forehead the fairer by
contrast. She was tall and well devel
oped, net’ at all the sort of woman one
would take to be a coquette. This was
what her female friends called her, but
the gentlemen without exception denied
it.
“She is simply a lovable woman, and
wins our interest without effort,” said
her gentleman admirers.
“ She is so artful as to conceal art,
said the bitter and unloved of her own
sex.
One day, as she sat talking to Max
well St. Ives, the door opened and little
5-year-old Floy said, “Mr. Devine is
come. ”
Maxwell’s lip curled, and he remarked :
“ I did not know this was public-recep
tion day. I will call again.”
“ Pray be seated, Mr. St. Ives. I
have something to say to you when my
young friend is gone. Fred is priv
ileged, and comes at any time; you
honor me with your presence more rare
ly.”
The caller had for exerse a pair of
Drusilla’s white kid gloves, that she had
left in the village reading-room. She
took them with thanks for his thought
fulness, and as she talked twisted them
carelessly in her hands. Fred was pained
by thjs seemingly trival incident. lie
was romantic and not a little supersti
tious, for between the palms of the gloves
he had placed a dainty blue violet, say
ing to himself, I will let this blossom lie
the symbol of my fate. If she places it
at her throat or in her hair, if it in any
way receives attention or gives pleasure,
I shall hope. As she tossed the gloves
aside the flower fell broken and un
noticed at her feet. Ah, how different
is our dream from the reality. It was
The North j Georgian.
VOL. 111.
the first violet of the year, as it was the
first love of his life !
As he arose to go she said : "If you
will please take me by the hand I will
accompany you to the head of the stairs.
I want to scold you a little for something
I have heard. With this dreadful shade
that I am obliged to wear I cannot find
my way without stumbling Wffi you
excuse me for the merest moment, Mr.
St. Ives?”
Now, it was not really necessary for
Drusilla to lie led about in a house where
she was perfectly familiar, but she wished
to influence Fred, and knew of no way
more certain.
How her soft, magnetic hand thrilled
him. Why, her lightest touch was like a
caress. She talked very earnestly to
him about his growing fondness for cards
and wine. Said she had heard such
rumors, but would not believe them.
Would he promise that the gossip should
be without foundation ? He would prom
ise anything. He would reform !
Re-entering the parlor, she remarked
to Maxwell: “My college boys are so
much to me like brothers, I can reprove
and admonish them in truly orthodox
style without their resenting it. They
need some one to scold them a little
sometimes.”
Maxwell said, in liis abrupt, argu
mentative way: “ Fred Devine does not
consider himself merely a boy friend ;
he thinks himself a man and comes a
wooing.” #
The color crept into Drusilla's pale
face : “Hush, Maxwell St. Ives, I will
not believe it. My own regard for this
lad is;«o different. I want him to re
gal’d me as a friend ; I want him to look
up te me, and come to me for counsel
and sympathy; I want his esteem;
in short, I want earnest, respectful,
beautiful friendship, instead of fickle,
passionate, fatal love 1”
She was much excited. All the con
trol she had shown when Lu taunted
her was swept away. She had suffered
so much through love that she could
bear no mention of what had darkened
her whole life.
“ Whenever and wherever I try to es
tablish a friendship, it is shortly trans
formed into reckless and despairing
love.”
All that she said was received in utter
silence. Surely he was not man but
marble. All tliis was such deep grief to
her, and he did not care. Any other man
would have expressed some sympathy ;
not so this impassive Northerner, who,
cynical and bitter, thought it a fine bit
of acting. Ho hud been drawn toward
her at first, but an anonymous lettci’ hail
told him to “beware of Drusilla Ster
ling,” that she was an actress by birth,
and by education, and utterly without
heart. From that time he had been on
his guard.
“Pardon my emotion,” she said, after
a moment’s pause. “ Pardon me also if
I go on to say more of myself.
“ I want you to know if there is any
sufficient reason in the past why my
present should be so full of passion and
pain 1 You have before now accused me
of being a coquette 1 Upon my honor I
do not mean to be. What Ido I cannot
help. It is a deep and sad fatality. Let
me tell you the story of my birth that
you may judge for yourself how I came
to inherit my birthright of sorrow.
“ My father was an English artist and
marriee a woman who made her living
by singing and dancing at the theaters.
She was os deceitful as she was beauti
ful. My old nurse Jeanette has often
told me how mother would say to her :
‘ The Englishman is an ogre.’ But to
him she would say: ‘You are grand
like the gods.’ She won him, not be
cause she loved him, but because he
was supposed to be wealthy. He loved
her with his imagination rather than
with his heart. He was very suscepti
ble to beauty and gracefulness, and both
were her’s to a remarkable degree. The
fact that she was married did not pre
vent men loving her. She died when I
was bnt three days old, and father and
Jeanette brought me to England.
“From my tenth year I have been con
scious of possessing my mother’s fatal
fault of fascination. There is nothing I
so much deplore, for I have my father's
honest English heart, and would win love
only where I could return it. Until the
last few months I have never known
what that word meant. You are still si
lent. I have lost your esteem by con
fessing my mother’s profession. Oh,
Maxwell St. Ives, I trusted you I Are
you not still my friend ?”
In her earnestness she laid both her
little caressing hands over lioth of
his. All his reserve and skepticism
were swept away. He pressed her hands
like rose leaves in his own, and an
swered :
“ For life —for death I”
Before they parted they were lietrothed
lovers. Drusilla had some misgivings,
and said:
“ Can you go to your proud mother
and tell her that you have espoused the
daughter of a dancer?”
“Drusilla Sterling, I can say any
thing to anylxidy. If only you are true
to me there is no obstacle to our union
that I will not easily overcome. I have
given myself to you, body and soul, and
God help him who comes between us !”
bhe felt her heart grow cold as he
spoke. Was this love also to prove un
happy? O, it was too sad that in this
first glad hour of lietrothal there should
be a shallow of impending evil. She
loved him so ! It was cruel that she
could not be free from forebodings. At
the moment of farewell she sobbed as if
her heart were breaking, and he had
scarcely reached his home when a note
followed him, saying :
“ Maxwell St. Ives : As I love you
I must never see you again, I would
BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA., NOVEMBER 18, 1880.
only bring yon unhappiness. It is my
sad fate. Forget me and farewell.
“ Yours, with love and regret,
“Drusilla Sterling.”
It was hardly the kind of letter to send
a man the world’s width from his heart’s
desire! No possible combination of
words could have been more certain to
bring him to her side. No pleading, no
tenderness, could have been more potent
than this deeply-despondent dismissal.
What would he not venture for her af
fection I Other men might love her—
they must love her if they but entered
her presence—but as for Drusilla her
self, she should be so sheltered by his
devotion, so hedged about by his atten
tions and tenderness that she could love
no one else.
He would not visit her to- morrow nor
for many days. He- would wait until
her mood had changed and she was sub
dued by a desire to see him. He had
some power over her that he knew. But
his own will was weakest. He must see
her. He must hold her in his arms, if
only for a moment. It was evening,
two weeks from his last visit. That very
afternoon Roy Sebert had returned from
a fishing excursion, and at 8 o'clock he
found Drusilla alone in the brilliantly
lighted parlor. Never had he
seen her so well dressed, she
was careless about her attire in general.
»he had put on her one rich dress, a
myrtle green silk, bought, I think, to
match her emerald ring and necklace,
Drusilla had persuaded herself that Ma
xwell would visit her that evening. Oh,
could she but have known on what a
fatal errand, she would never have let
Roy lift her hand to examine the quaint
device, on her ring. Before she could
prevent it, Roy had pressed her hand to
his lips. She snatched it angrily away,
and at that instant the words flashed
through her brain, “ God help him who
comes between us. ”
At Drusi Ha’s command Boy instantly
left the room. He had been gone but a
moment when she heard the report of a
pistol, and, fearing she knew not what,
she rushed Into the hall only to find her
worst fears confirmed. Roy Sebert ' y
there upon the floor in a last agony, the
blood issuing from a woimd in his
heart.
Swift as Drusilla hail been Lucrece
was there before her. She was down
upon her knees trying to stanch the
blood. Her face was distorted with hor
ror and grief. She was still as death
until she found her efforts vain, and,
when her lover fell a lifeless burden
from her arms, such a shriek echoed
through the house as could never be for
gotten by those who hoard it. Father
and mother knew in that instant that
their beloved only daughter was a hope
less maniac. Glaring -wildly around,
her glance fell upon Drusilla, and, re
garding her cousin as the murderer of
her lover, she sprang toward her with
insane fury. It required the united
strength of Mr. Sterling and his farm
hand to loosen her hold of Drusilla’s
throat! O whatanightef horror was that!
Drusilla lying between life and death,
Lucrece raving of her lover, and accus
ing Drusilla as his murderer.
Only one person knew the truth of
the affair; that was John Miller, the
hired man. He hud been to the village,
and, on his return, he saw Maxwell St.
Ives standing by the gate, looking
toward the house. The man glanced up
to find what attracted his attention, and
there, plain as day, saw Roy Sebert kiss
Drusilla’s hand. The next instant Max
well went rapidly up the walk, entered
the house without announcement, and,
almost immediately afterward, retraced
his steps, mounted his horse, and rode
rapidly away.
All this was elicited the following day
at the Coroner’s inquest, and the fact
that Maxwell St. Ives was missing was
all that was needed to confirm the ver
dict, and free Drusilla irom any sus
picion of direct complicity in the mur
der. Yet when, after weeks of illness,
she came back to reason and life, she
felt that she could no longer remain
under her uncle’s roof.
“I must live by myself,” she said,
sadly ; “I bring sorrow and death into
every household I enter. ”
So it was planned that a cottage
should be bought, and Jeanette should
be sent for as companion and servant.
I was visiting a friend in the country
who told me the story. She said to me,
one afternoon when we were out driving,
“ Would you like to call on Drusilla
Sterling? there is the cottage. ”
It waa a beautiful place. There were
English roses trained about the low
porch. A woman in French cap met us
at the door and conducted us into the
room where her mistress sat reading. A
stately woman, wearing a black dress
and a small black cap, that, with its cor
onet outline marked by tiny pearls,
looked like a small royal crown. The
eyes were clear and dark, but infinitely
sad. Os late years Jeanette had read
to her mistress until Drusilla’s over
taxed eyes had, by rest and carefulness,
become as bright os in youth. Her
mouth was large, but curved and sweet.
She was so grateful to us for coming;
she admitted that her life was lonely at
times.
When my friend said, “ I have told
Miss Brookner your story, and she gives
you her love and sympathy,’’she reached
her right hand out to me. I can never
forget the clasp of those soft, caressing
fingers. By-and-by she was led to talk
of the past and of Maxwell St. Ives. A
man answering to the advertised descrip
tion of him had died of yellow fever in
New Orleans one year after that sum
mer-night tragedy.
The climbing of Mt. Blanc by F. J.
Campbell, a blind man, was a piece of
blind folly.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Hinds is the most populous county in |
Mississippi.
□'here are nine cotton seed oil mills in
Mississippi.
|The cattle drive of Texas this year will
reich 400,000.
(The State Treasury of Texas contains
ne»rly $1,000,000.
'jasjier county, Ala., voted to repeal
the prohibition law.
Western Texas is fast being turned
intp pastures with barbed wire.
Beaufort county, 8. C., has 2,438 white
and 27,752 colored inhabitants.
The State offices at Little Rock are
still heated with blazing pine knots.
There are 2,170 members of the An
cient Order of United Workmen in Ten
nessee.
The new public school building at
Li|tlc Rock will be heated with hot
water pipes.
A gentleman has recently settled at
Niw Smyrna, Fla., with twenty-two
hi es of bees, brought from Ohio.
’reparations are being made to light
ths Eagle and Phoenix Mills at Colum
bia, Ga., with the electric light.
If 122 Greenback newspapers in the
United States only sixteen are published
s»uth of the Ohio river.
\S. H. Cox, of Oglethorpe county, Ga.,
presented the Rev. Mr. Ivey with a
pliintation worth $4,000.
There is but one member of the forty
of the last Georgia Senate returned to
the present Legislature.
There are fourteen thousand six hun
dred and fifty-two more females than
males in South Carolina.
The Pratt coal and coke company, five
miles from Birmingham, Ala., are get
ting out COO tons of coal per day.
The Commissioner of Immigration of
Florida thinks that 18,000 people l ave
immigrated to that State within two
years.
An elegant new steamer is being built
to run on the line between New York,
Port Royal, Fernandina and Jackson
ville, Fla.
In Nicholas county, W. Va., James
Austin, aged thirteen, and George Mas
tin, aged sixteen, killed during a week’s
hunt, four deer.
Notice has been given that a bill will
be introduced into the next legislature
to increase the liquor license of Telfair
county, Ga., to $5,000.
The shipments of cattle and sheep
from Southwestern Virginia arc now so
heavy that it is with difficulty that cars
can be procured for their transportation.
The machinery for a Clement Attach
ment has been received and put in posi
tion at Mt. Pleasant, Gadsden county,
Fla. It took three cars to carry the ma
chinery to that place.
A sale of $20,000 in Tennessee bonds
was made in Nashville at forty-six cents
on the dollar, a heavy advance on the
rates which have ruled for some time
past.
One thousand feet of tubing for the
artesian well has arrived in Little Rock,
and work will be at once resumed in pre
paring the well for further boring. The
directors lielicve that a large volume of
water will be obtained.
A man in Madison county, Tex., gath
ered on his farm 1,000 bushels of pecans
and sold them in Ban Antonio for $3.40
per bushel. Just $25 covered the ex
penses of gathering and marketing, so he
realized a profit of $3,400 on the crop.
In Augusta, Ga., a velocipede tourna
ment for the small boys is held every
year, the merchants of the city contribu
ting the prizes, which consist of knives,
balls and other articles best suited to
boys’ fancy.
There will be five colored men in the
Tennessee Legislature, three from Shelby,
one from Tipton and one from Davidson
county. T. A. Sykes, the colored mem
ber from Davidson, was a member of the
North Carolina Legislature.
The Capitol Commissioners appointed
by the Georgia Legislature to look into
the validity of the title of the city of
Atlanta to the City Hall lot, which was
deeded some time ago to the State for
the site of the State capital, have held a
meeting and decided to accept the City
Hall lot.
At Dallas, Tex., Maj. Penn baptized
thirteen convicts, old men and women,
middle-aged and young people, in the
river. Long before the hour arrived for
the immersion the town commenced pour
ing forth its citizens till the bunks of the
river on either side was a mass of hu
manity. His meetings are the events of
the season.
The hotel-keepers of New Orleans,
who have decided to employ white girls
as waiters, say they have no trouble in
securing them, and say that respectable
families apply almost daily for places
for their daughters. The girls like the
work and give satisfastian, both to em
ployers and their guests.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun
in the list of applicants for legislative
appointments in Georgia are found the
names of leading lawyers—men of years’
standing at the bar. This shows that
the legal business of that State must
be at a very low ebb, and as a rule is not
remunerative.
Three crazy persons, two negro women
and a white man, all of Newnan, Ga.
passed through Macon Thursday, on their
way to the asylum at Milledgeville.
Singular to say, all three went crazy
through jealousy. The negro women on
account of the infidelity of their hus
bands, and the white man from the same
on the part of his wife.
The Knoxville City Council now has
pending before it an ordinance providing
that manufactories hereafter established
in Knoxville with a capital of $5,000 or
more shall be relieved of taxation for
fifteen years. Atlanta, Chattanooga and
other Southern cities long ago adopted
this policy, and now' have their reward
in extensive and paying manufactories
of various kinds.
Judge William Cothran was on his
way to Lexington, Miss., to hold Circuit
Court, when he was suddenly taken sick
at Winona and died in a few hours. He
was seventy-five years old, and had been
Circuit Judge six years before the war.
He was elected by the people since the
war and was removed by Governor
Ames. He was appointed in 1876 by
Governor Stone for six years.
The New Orleans Picayune has some
statistics showing that before the civil
war the South had more taxable property
on her rolls than New England and the
Middle States combined. After thccon
test and five years of peace, she had sunk
$300,000,000 below the New England
States alone. In 1860 forty percent, of
all the real and personal property as
sessed in the United States was in the
Southern States, while now they have
only 'ourteen per cent.
Some English capitalists own 500,000
acres of land in Alabama, on the line of
the Alabama Great Southern railroad,
which are very rich in timber and min
erals and which they intend developing.
For the present chief attention will be
given to developing the mineral resources
of those lands, which are almost bound
less, but the farming interests will not
be neglected. Arrangements arc now |
making to induce immigration of En
lish farmers, and at an early day a num
ber will probably settle on the lands.
Dell ville (Tex.) Times: W. E. Crump,
near his plantation on the Brazos river,
last week discovered an alligator on the
bank, some distance from the w'ater. On
riding up quite close it reared up to at
tack him, when he dextrously threw a
strong rope over its head, and wheeling
his home rode quickly off’. The alliga
tor followed so rapidly that it were fully
a hundred yards before he succeeded in
tightning the rope around his neck. Af
ter a desperate struggle Mr. Crump suc
ceeded in dragging his prize home, where
he dispatched it at his leisure. It
measured over ten feet.
How Tooth-Brushes Are Made.
Although the tooth-brush is not a
a very complicated article, no small de
gree of skill is required in its manufact
ure. In the first place, care must be
exercised in the selection of bone from
which the handle is to be marie. For
this purpose the thigh bone of an ox is
used, and instead of boiling these with
the joints on—the method commonly in
vogue—these joints are sawed off pre
vious to the boiling process. The in
creased heat necessary in the former
method renders the bone unfit for the
purpose of the brush manufacturer.
On arriving at the factory the bones
are first sawed into tne required length
and thickness for brush-handles. They
are next turned with a model in a simi
lar manner to that employed in the man
ufacture of shoe-lasts. Then comes the
polishing process, which is done by
means of a sort of revolving churn.
An ingeniously-contrived machine now
takes the pieces and deftly punctures
holes for the bristles while grooves are
cut in the top by saws. Now being
ready for the bristles, they are intro
duced to the department for this work.
Girls are usually employed for this
branch of the business. After putting
in the bristles, they are backed with
scaling wax to fasten them securely in
place and to fill up the grooves. All
I that remains te be done is to brand the
brushes and pack them for market.
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NO. 46.
PITH AND POINT.
And now Lady Godiva is said to boa
myth—a bare falsehood, as it were.
Actors should be watched closely on
election day. They ora professional re
peaters.
Some one inquires : “ Where have all
the ladies’ bolts gone ?” Gone to waist
long ago.
If a mule had as many legs as a cock
roach this country wouldn’t be so thickly
populated.
The bobtailed horse spends his whole
existence in lamenting his lack of ter
minal facilities.
A compositor who cannot agree with
his wife says he must have taken her
out of the wrong font.
Why is the discovery of the North pole
like an illicit whisky manufactory ? Be
cause it’s a secret still.
It requires but a short time for a
young lady out shopping to learn all the
countersigns of the dry-goods trade.
“ I cannot think,” Bays Dick,
“ What makes my ankles grow so thick.”
“ You do not recollect,” says Harry,
“ How great a .calf they have to carry.”
The Eye says it was a Bloomington
man who nit the nail on the head, but
he mourned the loss of a thumb by the
transaction.
From Adam they took a ribbone to
make fair woman." Fan - woman has
been made up with ribbon ever since.—
Bloomington Eye.
Physicians now say that the telephone
is injurious to the ear. We presume
it’s the strain of listening and hearing
nothing that does the harm.
One of the first requisitions received
from a newly-appointed railway station
agent was : “Send me a gallon of red
oil for the danger lanterns.”
In Texas there is a township called
Gin, and in it a town called Brandy, and
the name of the postofilce is Rummy.
No State could ask for anything better.
A very disagreeable old gentleman
dies. A ilephcw, charged with the duty
of preparing liis epitaph, suggests :
“Deeply regretted by all who never
knew him.”
“Ain’t that a lovely critter, John ?” said
Jerusha, as she stopped opposite the
leopard’s cage. “Wa’al, yes,” said
John, “bnt then he’s dreffully freckled,
ain’t he ? ”
“I think, dear, the dew has com
menced falling,” he said in his softest
accents. “Yes,” she yawned, “I’ve
been hoping to hear adieu for some time.
He didn’t caff the next evening.
The Whitehall Times says the fish in
Lake Champlain have been so long -with
out water that when it began to rain, for
the first time in six weeks, they were
seen running about with umbrellas over
their heads.
A young woman in Denver flung her
self into a cistern, but she was fished
out. A local paragraplier advised her
os follows : “ Cis turn from your evil
ways. ” But he won’t joke that way
when it comes cistern.
A poet asks : “When I am dead and
lowly laid And clods full heavy
from the spade, who’ll think of me ? ”
Don’t worry. Tailors and shoemakers
have retentive memories, and you’ll aot
be forgotten.— Norristown Herald.
Fate of a jilted butcher .
He tried in drink to drown his cares,
And there found no relief;
But daily grew more woe-begone—
You never sausage grief.
At last his weary soul found rest,
His Borrows now are o’er;
No fickle maid now troubles him—
Pork teacher, he’s np more.
One Sunday night we were sitting out
in the moonlight, unusually silent, al
most sad. Suddenly some one—a po
etic-looking man, with a gentle, lovely
face—said, in a low tone, “Did you
ever think of the beautiful lesson the
stars teach us? ” We gave a vague, ap
preciative murmur, but some soulless
clod said, “No; what is it?” “How
to wink,” he answered, with a sad, sweet
voice. _________
Simple Language in Sermons.
In addressing the multitude, simplio
ity of language is always highly desir
able, there being the danger of the un
learned attaching very different (and
sometimes very awkward) meanings to
the grand and uncommon words which
even careful clergymen may be betrayed
into using in the pulpit. One of those,
when in his study and in the act of com
posing a sermon, made use of the term
“ostentations man.” Throwing down
his pen, he wished to satisfy himself,
ere he proceeded, as to whether a great
portion of his congregation might com
prehend the meaning of the said term,
and adopted the following method of
proof. Ringing the bell, his footman
appeared, and was thus addressed by his
master : “ What do you conceive to be
implied by an ostentatious man ?” “An
ostentatious man, sir?” said Thomas.
“ Why, sir, I should say a perfect gen
tleman.” “Very good;” said the Vicar.
“Send Ellis [his coachman] here.’ “El
lis,” asked the Vicar, “ what do you im
agine an ostentatious plan to be?” “An
ostentatious man, si??” replied Ellis.
“ Why, I should say an ostentatious man
meant what we calls—saving your pres
ence—n jolly good fellow.” It need
scarcely lie told that the Vicar substi
tuted a less “ ostentatious ” word.—
Chambers' Journal.
Rare.
A Brooklyn butcher has an intelligent
German clerk who is trying to learn En
glish by looking up in the dictionary
every word he hears but does not under
stand. A lady customer, in her effort to
explain what cut of meat she wanted,
and why she wanted it. mentioned that
she ate her beef cooked rare. “ Rare ?”
he rejieated. “Rare? Vat ish dat?
O, yes;'l know. R-a-r-e—very seldom.”