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i. Ay. APRIL % 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.