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THE VOLUME IV. DALLAS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. APRIL NUMBER "WMH tertmd, Natklag Gataed.” ftfectal here ■> Idly titling, Walttog for a batter day, While *o fast the hoars are flitting, Flitting rapidly away— Know ye not it is by labor That all blearing* are attained? taarn thou this, and teach thy neighbor: “Nothing ventured, nothing gainedl” Better time than now haa never, Or will never, to thee come! Now’s the time for grand endeavor— Strike the nail, and drive it hornet Strike the blow whoae echoes ringing Shall be beard aomae the land— Blow by blow, that shall be bringing Benefit from oat thy hand! Be deceived not, if thy brother Tell thee of to-morrow's cheer; Do not heed him, for another Day may come and t hou not here. Step by step go on and upward, Day by day now heights attained; Unto him who daros is given— “Nothing ventured, nothing gainedl’, —By Helm A. HanvUU in Our Youth. KEEPING HIS WOKD. A TRUK STORY. Something a little like a romanc- hap pened not long ago in the office of Rus sell Sage the millionaire. Years ago when Mr. Suge lived in Troy and repre sented that district in Congress, before he knew much of Wall street, and before ho was noted for his money, he had in his employ a man with whom he had been a school-fellow and for whom he entertained feelings of warm friendship. But temptation fell in the clerk’s way, and he was not morally strong enough to resist. The ambition to become rich sud denly overcame him and stifling honesty’s instincts, he turned thief. His crime was not detected till, goaded by his shame, he himself made a clean breast of the whole story, and pleading for compassion upon his wife and child, gnve himself wholly up to Mr. Sage. Several thousand dollars had been embezzled and every penny of it was gone,—frittered away in short-sighted speculations. The mercy he asked in the name of wife and child was given. Russell Sage was never called a hard man in those days, and the innocent woman in danger of suffering through this sin had been one of his childhood’s playmates; thus for the sake of the innocent, the thief was forgiven and his wrongdoing never exposed. He promised much in the way ok repa ration ; he would pay back to the very last cent, he said, the money that had been stolen. But his pledges never bore sub stantial fruit. He did seem to struggle hard for a time to regain lost footing, but endeavor brought no satisfactory re sult, and within a year the appetite for strong drink had laid a heavy hold upon him, and from bad to worse he went headlong till the end was a pauper’s grave. Mr. Sage and some others pro- nte McCann, Mr. Bage’s private secretary, was holding his regular matinee in an outer office with a throng of put and call brokers, when a stranger intruded, ask ing to be shown into Mr. Sage’s private office. The put and call army leered; Secretary McCann explained T&at Mr. Sage was busy, but there was an earnest ness in the caller’s manner that induced special consideration, and as he was turn ing away the secretary volunteered to take in his card if it would be a favor. The visitor wrote a name upon a bit of paper. Evidently Mr. Sago did not recognise the name as that of anybody in whom he had the slightest interest, and Mr. McCann was obliged to explain that Mr. Sage had too' much business on hand to permit interruption. At 8 o’clock the millionaire buttoned up his overcoat and made ready to go to his Fifth avenue home; but he had not taken more than a step or two in tho outside hallway when he was brought to a halt. The visitor who had been deniod admittance during business hours had waited to interrupt the magnate homeward bound. “I want to see you for a little while,” said the stranger. “You have forgotten my name, I suppose, but you remember John Blank of Troy, who wns your clerk.” “Yes, yes!" ejaculated the puzzled speculator. “Well,” was the culm remark, “I am John Blank’s son, nnd I’ve come to pay you his debt.” Russell Sage was late at dinner that night. Hours went by as ho sat in his office nnd listened to the story of this man who had sought him on an errand so out of rhyme with the regular order pf things in this world of ours to-duy. It was an entertaining talc that summed up the career of this young man—a career at sea, in western mines, and elsuwbcrc, tinged with adventurous experience. Since he had been old enough to earn n penny he hud hoarded it sacredly, ho said, to obey his mother’s dying injunc tion to pay buck what his father had taken. Once lie hud almost completed the sum required, when bad luck forced its utter loss, but he had not failed to pluck up courage anew, and cent by cent, dollar by dollar, he began a new ac cumulation, and now he was come to New York finally to wipe out the “debt,” principal nnd interest. For some years past he hod been a railway en gineer on a Western roud. A few months ago a bit of bravery—a mere nothing, so ho averred—won him the gratitude of passengers on his express train, who, but for tlie risk he took upon himself, might all have been killed; their appreciation had been shown by a well-filled purse of of money, and later by a handsome watch with an inscription testifying to his bravery and devotion. He had now come Hist bringing the contents of that purse, novelty of it la placing. His Wall- street training haa nokwodad to davalop overmuch generosity {ft his nature; meo have never arraigned him aa a spend thrift; but here once—spasmodically at least—he has acted the part of a man with a henrt—JVno Tided awhile for the support of the widow and orphan left behind, but friendly as- j his own savings, and that watch to give sistance was not long of consequence to | them all to Mr. Sage, asking only that the broken-hearted woman. A fever, | the watch should be held for a little while whose fires were kindled by shame and ! till further savings should bo accumulated sorrow crackling in her proud soul, did j to buy it back. The debt was paid now its work quickly. The husband had not 1 in full. If mothers who are dead can been dead a month ere a grave was need- I still know of the good that their children >Im (Mi Fertility. Even the bluc-graM contends in vail for complete possession of its freehold. One is forced, living in Kentuckey year after year, to note, even though without the least sentiment, the rich pageant of tran sitory wild-bloom that will force a pas- ■age for itself over the landscape: firma ments of golden dandelions in the Ik wns; vast beds of violets, gray and blue, in dimmer bosky glades; patches of flaunt ing sunflowers along the road-sides; pur ple thistles, and, of deeper purple still, ed for her also. And a child, the son of a dishonest father, a waif without a rela tive in the world, wns left behind—left with a burden other than its own support to bear, charged with a duty pointed out by a dying mother, the duty ahead of all other thing:} of repairing the wrong of his erring father. And the child’s word was given as lie wept in his boyish fashion alone with the brave woman who for another’s sin wasovercoine and sacrificed. The lad, scarce in his teens, gave his word soiemlv. One thrice his age could not have realized more fully than he seemed to do tho grave words of the motMfcr as she told the talc of his father’s wavering, his peculations, and their se* quel in his downfall, and when she con- Anlsas Ptektaa. It is curious what an appetite for some thing sour men have w{fo eat a great dsal of fat food. Generally in the lumbering region, a largo quantify of raspberries or blueberries aro picked and put down in j and far denser growth, beautiful Iron- tubs to sour for winter use. But that j weed in the- woods; with many dumps year had been a poor berry year; scarcely { of alder bloom, and fast-extending pateh- any hnd been gathered. “Pickles 1 ■ es of perennial blackberry, and groups Of Pickles I” was the cry, morning, noon and , delicate May-apples, nnd whole fields of night. There were 80 choppers of the dog-fennel and golden-rod. And why camp, all calling for “pickles.” “An’ ef mention coarser things—indomitable ycr can’t git us roz-briz git ants I” So | dock and gigantic poko, burrs and plen- the, cook sent Al Churchill and I—the tcous nightshade, and mullein and plan- youngest two members in the camp—off j tain, with dusty gray-green rag-weed and into the woods after great ants—for pick- thrifty fox-tailsf—an innumerable throng! les. It may seem rather odd, to say the : Maize and pumpkins and beans grow least, that anybody could have the atom- together in a field—a triple crop. Na» ach to eat so ugly an insect as a big, turu perfects them all, yet must do more, black ant. But it is not infrequently Scarcely have tho ploughs left tho long done in the lumbering camps of northern furrows before there springs up a varied Maine and Canada. I did muster courage i wild growth, and a fourth crop, morning- to chow one up once. It had a fine, acid J glories, festoon tho tull tassels of the In flavor, by no means unpleasant, if one diun corn ere the knife can be laid agianst could keep his eyes shut. Rough fellows, the stalk. Harvest fields usually have like tlie lumbermen, are not very fostidi- | their stubblo well hidden by a rich, deep ous. Tho cook gave, us a six quart tin j aftermath. Garden patches, for ull that pail and cover to get tho ants In. Al took persistent hoe and rake con do, common- an old gun which was kept at the camp ly look at least like spots given over to to shoot partridges and other game; and weeds and grasses. Sidewalks quickly I took an ax to cut open tho old logs and lose their borders. Pavements would stumps with. We set off for a tract | Boon disappear from sight; tho win^ipg where the fire had run years before, and of a distant stream through the fields Saw where old pine trunks lay scattered in ( be readily followed by the line commit* decay on the ground ns they fell. Many nistic vegetation that rushes thcr* to of these had colonies of large ants living fight for life, from the minutest creeping in tunnels and gullies which they had vines to forest trees. Every neglected' cut inside. In Sajwcmber it is easy to fence comer becomes an area for a fresh find out which stumps, or logs, have tho , colony. Leave one of these sweet, hu" nests of ants; forny rapping smartly on maulzed WOWnanQ pa*trm» aU— tat a the side, an army of black fellows will abort period of years, it runs wild with a pour out of their holes; and if you pre- dense young natural forest; vines shoot sent your hand they will nttnek it with up to the tallest trees, and then tumble remarkable fierceness. But so late as December the ants are too torpid from tho cold to sally forth. But we were guided by the holes which they had cut for gates, and the heaps of fresh chips, like sawdust, which had been thrown out. A few strokes of the ax sufficed to split, oV knock to pieces, the old stumps, and expose the long tunnels nnd net-work of cross passages inside. Many of these we found puckcd with dormant ants, and had only to scoop them into our pnil. In one log I remember that we scraped out not less than n quart; and a quart of ants must contain at least 10,000, even of these large ones.—American Rural Home. over in green sprays on the heads of oth ers.—Harper's Magazine. do, there was exaltation in one‘angel’ heart that day, ns the two men, soulless millionaire and fatherless engineer, sat nnd talked by the window where tho early falling shadows veiled quickly the harsh, begrimed stones of old Trinity’s churchyard just beneath. “I have u sweetheart,” said the young er man, 1 ‘but till I had paid you whut belonged to you I could never think of marrying.” “Couldn’t you }” said the other, half musingly. “Boy, you had a good mother; for her sake I want to make you a little present.” There was a tremor in the voice of the man whom the world 1ms learned to call hard; there was a fevor almost boyish in the handclasp that he ■4Vv- - ■■virile* ; his purposcs’thc aim to make good the j and then with an air that had resolution - . m « • . , V •111. 1 V I i _ Z A 1,1. A ..,.11 4 k i\4 1,441/t w. ,k 11.. 1. —, J* n ..n M .*] Forelgn*Born Congressmen. There are a couple of dozen of for eign birth in the house and senate. Four were born in England, while Ireland is represented by six; Scotland has two, Germany five, Hungary one, in the per son of Editor Pulitzer. Ireland’s sons ure Lowery of Indiana, Davis and Collins of Massachusetts, McAdoo of New Jer sey, and Tim Campbell, who succeeded the Hon. S. S. Cox,- and Abraham | street was A Gray-haired Yale Student. The present senior class in Yale college, which numbers 180 men, has one among the number whose gray locks are in strik ing contrast with the youthful appear ance of his 120 classmates. Tho veteran^ name is Porter Sherman, and his name also appeared os a senior in the college catalogue of 1804 0, issued just twenty- one years ago. Sherman is about 60 years old, and first entered Yale in the fall of 1801, hailing irom Hillsdale, Mich. For three years he pursued his college course, rooming at No. 74 High street. At the beginning of his senior year he suddenly left college and subsequently experienced a varied career, finally be coming superintendent of schools at Kan sas City. While holding that position he decided to complete hi* course at Yale, and leaving his office duties in the hands of a substitute for a year, he entered the class of ’80. In looking for a lodging place he found that his old room on High for rent,” nnd so ensconced bad record of the past, his “I will" bad tho ring and the truest fervor of manli ness in it. This was many years ago. Russell Sage soon lost sight of the stripling. A farmer near Troy gave him a home for a in it the roll that a little while before had been laid upon his desk ho picked up and jammed down deep into the over coat pocket of his old clerk’s son— jammed it so hard that the cheap and well worn materials of that overcoat time, but in n year or two he drifted 1 seemed almost ready to give way into away. What became of him thereafter j tatters. nobody ever could say. He himself made j It docs me good to write a story of the mystery plain the other day. John- j of this sort of Russell Sage. The very himself for his final college year in the mme quarters occupied by him over twenty years ago. — dIolx-Democrat. Sailor* ns Smugglers. In a talk with a custom house officer l Philadelphia Times reporter elicited tlie following: “All the sailors smuggle. They secrete goods all over the Bilip and derive a profitable trade by bringing in dutiable goods without submitting them to the appraiser. False lockers ure made in the cabins and a thousand odd nooks nnd corners on a ship are ulilized to con ceal smuggled goods. They do not at tempt to remove these while the vessel is discharging her cargo, because a great majority of the inspectors are vigilant and honest nnd the goods would be apt to be confiscated. They wait until the cargo is discharged, and after the inspector has gone over the vessel and certified thut no dutiable goods remain on her they bring out their hidden treasures nnd carry them ashore. All sorts of goods are smuggled, und there are lots of common sailors who ure in league with professional smugglers “Bccarre,” being translated, is “natural” j ant * ' jr *ng in contraband goods on every used in a musical scnsV. trip.” Dowdney of New York. Germany’s con tributions are Hahn of Louisiana, Lehl- boch of New Jersey, Mueller of New York, Romcis of Ohio, aud Guenther of Wisconsin. England sends Crisp of Georgia and West Spriggs of New York. There are of Scotch birth Hen derson of Iowa, and Farquhar of New York. Nelson of Minnesota was born in Norway, Gallagher of New Hampshire in Ontario, Stephenson of Wisconsin in New Brunswick, and Delegate Cain of Utah in Isle of Man.—Memphis Avalanche. The Parisian Dandy. A “beenrre” is the latest title for Par isian dandies, and the term is used to re place the now well-worn expression chic. The “bccarre” must be grave and sedate, after the English model, with short hair, tight high collar, small moustache and whrskcrc, but no beard. He must al ways look thirty years of age, must neither dance nor affect the frivolity of a floral buttonhole^ - 'dr any jewelry, must shake hands limply with ladies, and gravely bend his head to gentlemen. MB FAMILY FIYSICIAIT, VMM mat*. A little aoda water will relieve rick headache caused by indigestion. Powdered rice is said to have a great effect in stopping bleeding from fresh wounds. A good gargle for a sore throat la made of vinegar and a little red pepper mixed with wnter. To keep in good, sound health, one must take a certain amount of exercise. Exercising one part of the body and not another hi about the same degree is wrong. When putting glycerine ou chapped hnnds first wash them thoroughly in soap and wnter, and wiien not quite dry rub in the glycerine. This process will be found much better than the old one. Dr. Von Galihom, who had been great ly troubled with insomnia, tells us of the method which ho lias found effectual for two years in curing it. if consist* in bandaging one leg up to the knee with several layers of wet calico, and covering these with a sheet of waterproof cloth. This procedure dilates the vessels of the leg, and by diminishing the amount of blopd in the head induces sleep. Tlie treatment of chilbinins is both gen* ’ end and local. The health must be moet carefully attended to. Tonic* may be freely administered—cod-liver oil, iron and quinine are all very benificial—corn- timed with a liberal diet. Tlie parte which are the sent of chilblains must be kept, thoroughly warm, and the child ehould also be encouraged to . take oa much exercise aa possible. Tlie stocking! mqst be woolen, an (I tfcc boots Or glove* warns and roomy, so a* • noi tp cantpreto the.hands dr feet. The parte may be fur* thcr stimulated' by rubbing, and it ia often advisable to use some mild stittm-* luting liniment, such as soap liniment, or ammonia liniment. Spirit of any kind, •ach ns brandy or gin, may be employed for rubbing the part. When the chilblains become broken, the parts must be kept at rest, and it may be necessary to apply poultices or warm water dressing for n time until the discharge has oeaeed. The best dressing for them after this period is any mild stipulating ointment spread upon a soft rag. Resin ointment or oint ment of the oxide of zinc are both very useful. _______________ The New Member ef Congress. To be one of 400; to be ignored by the multitude, snubbed by hotel clerks and insulted by cab drivers; to be set down like a convict as “No. 198,” or “816,” to be unknown by the very servants who wait and found only by reference to the House diagram; these are the Congnw- sional honors which fall to many persons who have suffered mentally, physically and pecuniarily to get a scat in the Capi tal. They fail inevitably to a large num ber of very good and very able men. By the very nature of the case, the majority of the members of the House of Represen. tatives must be known only by the num ber of their seats, and heard only by their “yea, yea,” und “uny, nay.” For men of ambition and of sensitive natures this must be very humiliating and aggravat ing. I have seen men chafe and fret un der the restraint of circumstances n good many times. The mere demagogue can* find vurious wnys of satisfying his con stituency of his personal importance and efficiency here; but the honest legislatoi often finds it difficult to satisfy his own conscience. The majority of members of the House of Representatives serve too short a term to be of service to themselves or their constituents. The men who ha?e made their mark in the legislation of the country and left the impress of their per sonality upon the laws of the land have been men who have been developed by long ««rvi™ nnd who have built rmnstatiar and influence upon tlie foundation of ex perience. Pick out the leaders of any Congress nnd you will find them men of long service. If you want to learn the sections of country that have most profit ed by national legislation and, become most powerful in national affairs, pick out the states and sections that have had the ablest and most experienced rep resentatives at the national capital.— Pittsburg Dispatch.