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DALLAS, GEORGIA, F.
NUMBER 18.
The ancient c% of Pkckaoaaaao was
long, long ago the Meoon of Sooth I—r
lea. The name meana ‘ ‘He who animate*
the Univerae." It «m amMI of pll-
VOLUME IV.
Hie Heart Will Ware Its Wap.
Poor ReMon trie* her tMot to nil*,
Andheej) an honest grip;
Yet men will eometimea play the fool,
And give their wit. the (lip.
Let Judgment caution or condemn,
And'Conscience still cry “Nay,”
Sweet Fancy sings her song to them,
And gives the heart its way—
Its own delightful way—
In spite of *11 that.Thought can do;
In spite of Judgment, tried and true;
And all Experience ever knew—
The heart will have it* way.
So Nature will* it—old and young,
The wisest and tha best,
Have caught the strain from Fusion's tongue,
And felt her s**0t unrest.
’Tis well to be of human kind—
To own dear Nature’s sway;
For, midst the dim, cold realms of mind ,
The heart would lose its way—
Its own delightful way—
In tpito of Wisdom’s happiest rulesi
In spite of sages and of schools;
lu spite of reason we’re but fools—
The heart will have its way.
See yonder child, by Nature led,
No rule of life to guide;
See Prudence with her thoughtful hea
And manhood in its pridea-
All run in pleasure's heedless race.
And after folly stray—
At every age, in every place,
The heart will have its way—
Its own delicious way—
In spite of all the head can do;
In spite-of judgment, tried sail tn
In spite of sad experience, too,
The heart will have it* why
A Iasi for him whom heart is dea
To every generous beat;
No love-light on hi* life is *bed,
No sympathy he’ll meet
’Tis better far to give the prioe
That fools to folly pay—
Be men in everything but vice,
And give the heart its way—
Its own delightful way—
In spite of -Wisdom’s golden rule*;
In spite of sages and of schools,
We’re all but erring, lovs-atcltfoola ■ n
-We give thfe heart its way.
“HER YANKEE,"
AN INCIDENT Or THE WAB.
There is a long lapse of years between
that time and this, but the incident has
lost none of its pathos or beauty, because
of that,
I can see her now as she trips along to
school, a sweet little girl of 7 years, her
sunny curls blown back”, from a fair
forehead, her bright blue eyes glad in
the innocent happiness of childhood.
It was in 1864 that there were a few
prisoners of war brought to G for
incarceration and kept here several
months, well guarded. Little Bailie
passed the prison every morning on her
way to school, and,' with childish curi
osity, though not evincing any fear, she
would look at the gloomy place of con
finement giving a glance of commingled
pity and awe at the prisoners, peering
hopelessly from the small windows of
the forbidding house. The men, weary
of the monotony of captivity, were glad
to see the little sunbeum as it flitted
by, morning and evening, though it left
them in shadow.
There was one, however, pale and sick,
whom the child gazed at in mute sym
pathy,, and he in return would smile at
her until once he called her, saying:
“Come and bid me good morning, and
tell me your name.”
Attracted by his gentle manner and
refined appearance, she approached and
said: '‘My name is Sallie, and what is
your name?”
“Charlie,” he answered; then he said,
“My dear little girl, if you have any
thing in your bucket please give me
something to eat, for I am sick and can
not eat prison fare.”-
“I will give it all to you, but I don’t
know how to get it way up there.”
“Ask the guards to let you pass.”
With childish confidence she went to
the nearest guard, but was courteously
refused, and going back, told the
Yankee. He then bade her ask the
guards to pass the bucket to him. -
Returning to the sentinel, she said so
earnestly, “Please carry this to that
poor man, who is so sick,” that the Con
federate soldier coul/.l not resist the
pleading eyes and manner, or the com
passionate feelings of his own heart,
and taking the lunch passed it as re
quested. So ii continued for a week,
WE
the p
had
his
bad
until ttoBMd WH>Mn coming with
two bBdMHl*: one fit ketaalf, the ether
for “her VuukM.”
She wan Afraid to reveal .her aecret at
home, fadring ah* might be denied the
privileged, of feeding her Yankee, and
when her mother naked her why ahe
carried ttrp buckets and whg ahe choac
the daiMBBt and best of all on the ta
ble, she ifglied: “Oh, mamma, H is for
a pOoF • mmb not able to buy nioe
tliingis lihat.” TV, evasion was par
donable Under the eireiunstancea. Often
did al^'lUprive herself of delicacies to
put inte^he “other” bucket; end so it
went an lor four months, the guards al
lowing her to puss freely, and her mother
encouiUging her in her charitable deed,
but never dreaming who was the recipi
ent. 4/^
At lank Bailie passed one evening and
was empty. Her Yankee and
iona had been exchanged and
their respective cout-
quietly stopped taking
her mother supposed she
Vcome tired of it.
passed in comparative
peace, when the dread cry was heard,
“The Yankees are coming 1” Everybody
tried to bo calm and collected, but very
few UnocMded. Boon the town whs
“blig*” and Bailie’s mother had her
fronVyard and perch full of the blue-
coafpd strangers and among them two
Lieutenant* and one Captain. The lady
had shut til her little children into tho
bedroom With the injunction, “Be per
fectly quitk,"
The OapMi nr Announced that he wonld
Hite to hate for hitnjjgjg, and men.
Pale and solMBB, not afraid,- hut feeling
tliatf (be intrifffcr* were h^renemles, she
left them, and going to her room to see
after t^e children found tl cm “mute os
mice,’’-with the exception otSallie, who
wdnldUrti to thi Window nruT* turn the
blinds. Her mother begged and scolded
in on awful whisper—“Don’t do that,
Sallie 1” “Just a little bit, mamma. I
won’t let them see me,” and suiting the
action to the word, sho turned the blind
very carefully and caught a glimpse of a
face that she and she alone of all the
family, had ever seen before.
“Oh! mamma, there’s my Yankee!”
she exclaimed, forgetting all precautions
and instructions. “Let me go und see
him; I’m not a bit aim'd!” The poor
mother, already in a state of bewilder
ment, thought that her bright and beau
tiful child had suddenly become bereft
of her senses, and cried out, “Hush,
Sallie! You have no Yankee, and they’ll
kill you if you go out there 1” Being
compelled to superintend the dinner, she
locked the door to keep the child safe
und returned to the kitchen.
When dinner was ready Mrs.
went through the room into the hall
where the soldiers were assembled. Sallie
slipped her golden head out and*stood
partly in the door, while the men, slowly
and silently, marched to the dining-room.
When the seventh man passed he glanced
at the child, and in a moment of glad
recognition, caught her up in his arms
und kissed her again and again.
“Mamma, I told you this was my
Yankee 1”
Mrs. stood in a state of amaze
ment bordering on stupefaction, and the
men were as much astonished. “This is
my sweet little Sallie!” the Yankee ex
claimed) and the child wound her arms
around his neck whispering, “Charlie, I
have that Yankee dollar you gave me
yet.” “Madam,” said the soldier, “I
must explain this scene, as you seem to
be in total ignorance of my acquaintance
with your little daughter. While I have
never had the honor of seeing you before
to-day, I am no stranger, as you see, to
this dear child. She saved my life by
feeding me daily for months when I was
sick and feeble for want of proper nour
ishment while a prisoner in this town.”
With tears filling his eyes he continued,
“Ah! you would not be surprised at my
loving her if you only knew, could com
prehend, the dreariness of prison life and
how this little angel brightened it by her
visits and her charity. Do not have any
fears, madam. I would protect your
interests and this child with my life.”
’ I do not know how long the soldiers
remained in G-, hut they left to join in
other battles and Charlie was killed in
one some time niter.
.two beautiful and
«*d Is a ktad neighbor,
Jfetc Orleans jSsayofiC
Gnat t* Mi
In January, 1M$, X w4pt*to Cjftro.
The plans was slough wkhoMJiniire, and
the human elements that wiggled In the
mud-hole were * bad lot. fins regiments
were mostly of newly enftsttd men, dis
cipline had n ° existence, whisky supplied
the place of water and nearer everybody
was drunk) getting on a driinM^.n- get
ting over a drunk. There ojjpcurt^l to be
nobody in particular who was in_ authori
ty. Occasionally mention was made of
Grant, but not exactly as if fee were any
thing more than a rumor,' a myth,* or
something of a wholly intangible' nature.
Soon after my arrival a body of troopa
commenced crossing the Ohio River, and
the mport went forth that it wus a move
against Columbus. I could’ obtain no
horse, aad accompanied the columns bn
foot. The weather was dsyfep and top
pingly cold, the mud deep, abd the route,
which was niainly through, a timbered
country, was obetracted by' logs and fallen
trees. I straggled on through the mire,
apd under the dripping bfanohes, till
about 8 in the afternook, wUsq suddenly
there xraa * lively Commotion njihort dis
tance to the front. I saw A mounted
force approaching on a full fjiilop. The
leader was a short, thiek-aetjAan, slightly
bent in the shoulders, wtt|i ’a reddisfj,
close-trimmed beard, tight-a$t lips, with
eyes that were apparently without expres
sion; He gaxed straight ahead into va
cancy as if he were in a dream, and as he
rushed by splashed gallons of mud from
his horse’s feet ah over me from hat to
heel. Tho leader with the’ tranceliko ex
pression, the firm-set lips, and look fixed
intently UPSP nothing wasi^n, C.'^nt.
It was my first view of the mau who af
terward rose to the leadership of the ar
mies of the republic. His return was the
signal for a countermarch. There was no
fight. Long after midnight, mud-cov
ered, fagged out, and- starving, I re
entered Cairo, and. the move against Col
umbus wnsended.
Many a time and oft after that period
when the future general of the national
armies covered me with Kentucky mud I
saw him. Never during the long period
when I met him almost every day and
night did he in the least vary from the
mysterious, abstracted, tranceliko appari
tion that dashed out from the murky
depth of the timber and then disappeared.
He was always wrapped up in himself.
When he rode through the lines he gazed
stolidly to the front, looking neither to
the right nor left, and seemingly paying
no more attention to the regiments he
was passing than if they were a thousand
miles away. The soldiers would look at
him curiously, wonderingly, never get
ting a suggestion from the immobile face,
the inscrutable features. When he rode
along there was in the event and its en
vironment something of the awe, the
solemnity of a funeral procession.—F.
D. Wilkie in Chicago Times.
Post polled.
“Gentleman,” said a college president
at a meeting of the Fricualty, “we must
take means at once to stop the game of
loot-ball. It is bringing our grand old
institution into disrepute.”
Just then a great noise was heard out
side, and the president demanded the
cause of it.
“News has just been received,” ex
plained one of tho younger professors
apologetically, “that our men have
wrested the foot-ball championship from
Princeton.”
“Good!” shouted the president, flush
ing with excitement, “I didn’t dare hope
it. I think
be too—er—hasty in this matter.”—Life.
firms rrotn rar ana near, via i
burial-place of tens of thousand* of an-
I eient dead, and from a study of many
I mummies found there much light has
been given to old-time customs.
1 Many of these were envalopaA -Jk'jOj
braided network or sack of r.iah4g Mr
ooarse gross, bound closely about the
body by plalted ebrds; just beneath these
coverings were wrappers of stout, plain
cotton cloth, fastened by a gay cord of
llama wool, and about-end next the body
a garment of finer texture; the body it
self revealod a mahogany-colored aur-
facc.
The implements of the person’s trade
flrere inclosed among those many wrap
pings, also s copper coin.
About women mummies were wrap
pings of finer cloth, and always a comb
grasped by one bond; this seemed as It
mode from the rays of fishes’ fins, having
for handle the hard, woody put of the
dwarf palm. In the other hand lay a
cane-handled fan, its ornamentation the
feathers of parrots and humming-birds.
About the neck were three strings'of
shells, nnd, as with the men, domestic
implements luy between the various cov
erings—an ancient spindlo for cotton-
•pinning, half covered with spun thread,
as if death hod surprised the woman busy
With her daily toil.
If a mummy was discovered seated
upon a work-box containing bits of knit
ting-work, weaving implements, skeins
and spools of thread, needles of bone and i
bronae, a comb, knife, fan—the small j
domestic properties given to one opening
to fair sweet womanhood—then was it 1
understood tiiut a maiden in her youth i
and beauty hud been luid away; that the’,
sleep of death had come with unexpected j
summons, for at hand were her cosmetic
tubes—bird bones, theso with a wad of
cotton to close the opening, and with •
tome sort of n little mill for grinding and j
preparing tho pigments. Added to these
was a mirror—a piece of iron pyrites |
shaped like half an egg, the plane side of
it highly polished.
The maiden’s hair was braided; a thin
narrow bracelet encircled one arm; there
was also an ornamental golden butterfly;
and between the feet of the young girl
lay the dried body of a pet bird—often-
est a parrot was thus honored.—Harper's
Bazar.
Cremation In Germany.
It has taken the Germans rather long to
_ pM*—mt current
tn yoan gone by wia <% Mte the ear."
In oM phraseology the word bkmd wm
popularly used for disposition or temper
assent. ’
There are flip* in *«W. Yolk and
collar*.
The Greenlanders bury with a child a
dog to guide it in the other world, say
ing: “A dog eon find his way any
where.”
Various superstitions have at different
times clustered round the band. Thus is
palmistry a moist one ie said to denote an
amorous constitution.
Brawl was tho name of an English
dance. It appears thdt aevenl persons
united hands in a circle, and gave one
another continual shakes, the stepa
changing with the tune.
A husking match in Waubaunsse
county, Kansas, for a purse of $100,
was won by John Tull, who busked
forty-five bushols twelve pounds in thru*
hours, against forty-two bushels five
pounds by his competitor. The contest
took place in a fie^d.
Twenty-five years ago a London dealer
in birds and wild animals - received an
order for a nut-cracker (Nucifmg* cary-
ocatactcs). These birds belong to a
group of ravens and arc' found in Ameiw
ica and on the Himalaya Mountain*.
They are common in Sweden, but rarely’
found in Norway. And yet the dealer
was not able to get u live specimen
until a few days ago, when an agent
forwarded him u pair in apparently'
healthy condition.
' T They Wet h Missed.
Two young Detroiters,' who are ao-
quainted with a country schoolmastet
having a school about twelve miles from
the city, were invited out to a spelling-
school a few nights since, nnd they took
a horse and buggy and drove out. There
was a large gathering of fanners and an
exciting contest was looked for. Juri
previous to the beginning of the exer
cises a young follow, whose head would
have bumped a six-foot mark and whose
weight was about 160 pounds, called one
of the Detroiters aside and asked;
“Are you two fellers going to spell t”
“I guess so.”
“Purty good at it!”
“I think we can down you all.”
“You do, eh! Now you look n-here!
I’ve come here to-night to spell thi*
make up their minds ns to cremation; but | school down. My gal is-here to see too
at present they are beginning to think se
riously about it; and if they adhere to
their favorite' motto of “Slow and sure,"
do it. I hain’t no objections to your
spellin’ along till we come to the word
‘catarrh,’but after that you can’t drop
we may in some future day see the high down any too soon 1 If either one o’ you
An Infallible Plan.
“Well, I declare I could cry my eyes
out with vexation.”
“What’s the matter, my dear?”
“I wore my new bonnet to church, and
I don’t believe a single woman looked at
it.”
“Well, my dear, I can tell you how to
attract attention next Sunday.”
“How?”
“Wear your last year’s bonnet.”—Call.
crematorium chimney rise in every
churchyard of the empire. That the
number of those who have decided in
favor of tlie movement is greatly increas
ing was recently shown when a petition for
the introduction of cremation, containing
23,805 signatures, was laid before the
Reichstag. The following interesting
details about the professions of tho sub
scribers shows in what quarters cremation
finds most favor. The list was signed by
1,942 physicians, 1,040 lawyers and pro
fessors, 849 schoolmasters, 1,015 Govern
ment officials, 10 Protestant clergymen, 3
rabbis, 301 women, and 0,000 working
men, the remaining number being made
up by merchants, manufacturers, trades
men, and others.—Pall Mall Gazette.
Always So.
“I never saw such a man in all my
born days 1” exclaimed Mrs. Crimsonbeak
to her husband, who had been imposed
upon in a purchase she had requested
him io make lor her;”1 never Knew you
yet to get anything without being
cheated.”
“What, never?” said Crimsonbeak
chestnutically,
“No, never!” emphatically replied
Mrs. C.
“Well, I guess you are right. I have
always been suspicious of it since the day
I was married."
And then he opened tfcc window to
see how far he’d have to jump to tlie
ground.—Statesman.
fellows beat me you’d better have the
wings of a dove to fly out o’ this, for I’ll
gin yc both the all-firedest licking two
dudes ever got!”
They stood up with him until all the
others went down, and then at a look full
of deepest meaning both missed and left
him victor. When he had carried off the
honors he came around and said:
“Much obleeged, and I hope you don’t
feel hurt. Shouldn’t have cared about it,
but Susan had her heart set ou it, and
Susan’s got eighty acres of land and a
drove of sheep.”—Detroit Free Press.
Drinks for the Voice.
Tea, coffee and cocoa are three admis
sible drinks, but none in excess. For the
voice cocoa is the most beneficial. It
should never be made too strong, and
those cocoas are the best that have been
deprived of their oil. A cup of thin
cocoa, just warm, is more to be recom-
.th.? .exertions of ringing
than any alcoholic beverage. Tea must
not be taken too strong, nor when it has
drawn too long, for tea then becomes
acrid and has a bad influence on the mu
cous membrane that lines the throat.
There is always a dry sensation after hav
ing taken a cup of tea that has been al
lowed to draw too long. A vocalist had
better do without sugar in tea and only
take milk with it, or if an exhilarating
drink is needed, mix some claret with
the tea, putting in a slice of lemon and
some honey.