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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—H. Whaley.
Couucilmen—Dr. R. F. Lester, E. A. Eler
bee, M. W. Surency, A. B. Purdorn,G. M. T.
Ware.
Clerk and Treasurer—G. M. T. Ware.
Marshal—Wm. M. Austin.
COUNTY OFFCERS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps.
Sheriff—John N. Goodhrtad.
Glerk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton
Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher.
Tax Collector—W. U. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett.
County Treasurer—John Massey.
Coroner—D. McDifclm.
County Commissioners —J. F. King, G.
W. II lines, Janies Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham
Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board
81 Wednesday in January, April, July and
October. Jas. F. King, Chairman.
COURTS.
Stiperiot Court, Wayne County—Jno. L.
Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on secoud Monday
in Mtrch and September.
iMslear, Pieros County Georiia
TOWH DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—lt. G. Riggins.
Councilman—]). P. Patterson,J. M. Downs
J. M. Lee, LI. D. Prant!y.
Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdoin.
'iowfi Treasurer—B. D. Brantly.
Marshal—E. Z. Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Court —Andrew M. Moore.
Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd.
County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson.
County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pur
dom.
Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12 0 Dis
trict, G. M., George T. Moody ; 584 District,
G. M., Charles S. Youinanns; 590 District,
G. M.. D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Pet^ee ,
etc.— Blackshear Precinct. 584 district,G.M.,
Notary Public, J, G. 8. Patterson ; Justice
of the Pe .ce, li. R. James; Ex-oflicio Con
stable E. Z. Byrd.
Dickson?s Mill Precinct 1250 District, G
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of
the Peaee, Geo. T. Moody: Constable, W.
S'. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Not? y Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, 11.
Prescott and A. L. Griner.
Schlattervillc Precinct. 590 District, G. M
Notaiy Public, I). B. McKinnon; Justice o
the Peace, JL T. Jame&; Constable, John \V
Booth.
Courts—. Superior court, Pierce county
John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon*
diy in March and September.
Corporation court, Blackshear, Ga., session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police
court sessions every Monday Morning at 9
o’clock.
JESUP HOUSE,
Corner Broad and Oherrv Streets,
(Near the Depot,;
T. P. LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor.
Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis
faetion guaranteed. Polite waiters will taka
your baggage to and from the house.
BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 ets
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.
The Palatka (Forida) Herald says one
of the best evidences of a heavy Grange
crop next season is the backward spring.
The real estate prices in Atlanta have
been much higher since the determina
tion to make that city the Georgia
capital.
Montgomery, Ala., has purchased fif
teen guns of the most approved pattern
for the use of the police force in cases ol
emergency.
There is fully a car-load of North
Carolina specimens intended for the Paris
exhibition in the hands of the agricultu
ral department at Raleigh.
New Orleans Democrat: Joseph Jef
ferson (Rip) is over on his beautiful
plantation, shooting, fishing and painting
between times. Why does Rip Van
Winkle come so far to spend bis leisure
time ? To get away from the managers,
my good friends; mails irregular, no
telegraph, distance great, can hunt ducks
quietly here, without being hunted by
the managers.
Brunswick(Ga.) Appeal: Capt. Clay,
of the whaling schooner Golden City
captured in our harbor on Monday last
an enormous white whale, measuring
sixty-Sve feet in length, and from which
he feels sure of “ trying out ” one hund
red barrels of oil, and getting between
seven and eight hundred pounds of whale
bone. The tongue ol this monster of the
deep alone produced five barrels of oil.
The captain thinks this leviathan will
net him about $4,000. We have at our
office a small piece of the bone taken
from the mouth of this whale, which we
Will take pleasure in showing to any one
who may call to see it. We are informed
that six more of these monsters have
been recently seen in our harbor.
The Galveston News on mob law:
The logic of the advocates of systematic
jail-breaking and mob execution involves
radical hostility to the whole constitu
tional ground-work of our criminal juris
prudence. But the logicians are not con
sistent in confining their revolutionary
operations to sporadic cases of raiding
upon jails and hanging untried and un
convicted prisoners. According to their
theory, the evil is palpably embodied in
VOL. 11.
courts and lawyers and juries, and the
logical and consistent thing for them to
do, therefore, is to wage war directly
upon courts and lawyers and juries. Let
them pur b e these away by recognized
processes in the art of lynching, and
there will be no more occasion for mask
ing and for midnight executions. A
howiing local communism—or unre
strained mobism, if yen prefer the phrase
—wili rule in place of general laws and
a regular administration of justice.
Foreign Intelligence.
The khedive of Egypt is ruining him
self by extravagance. He sust tins up
wards of twenty palaces, in which he
supports in luxury three “ proper wives”
and three hundred women of the harem.
Each of the grown princes of the blood
also has his separate palace and retinue
of servants, and the horses in the stables
of the father and sons are numbered by
hundreds.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, the widow of
the late President Lincoln, is living a
secluded life in an interior town in France,
and declines to return to America lest she
may again be placed in a iuuatic asylum.
It is said that in France she still indulges,
to a moderate extent,'in her propensity
for buying things for which she has no
use, and filling closets with articles
wholly unnecessary.
The Cuban war seems to have come to
i a close. 11 has lasted now, in a somewhat
! spasmodic manner, for ten years. During
that time Spain has sent over 80,000
| soldiers, and has expended over SBO,-
1 000,000 in the attempt to quell the
revolt. She has finally quelled it, less
by force of arms than by increased wis
dom of administration. The Spanish
government itself has been revolution
ized since the Cuban revolution began,
and reforms have been granted to Cuba,
among which is a promise of representa
tion in the Spanish Cortez. How
substantial these reforms will be remains
to be seen, but not even a Spanish
government will be ready to provoke
another Cuban revolt by acts of palpable
injustice and oppression.
The conditions of the peace between
Russia and Turkey, norv duly signed,
while giving Russia all that she an
nounced she would accomplish last April,
and securing to her many territorial ad
vantages, leave England without the
shadow of a casus belli , except that Russia
exists, and, according to British views,
the existence of Russia is a constant
menace to India. The continued military
preparations of England, and her an
nouncement that she would not fee!
bound by the decisions of the approach
ing congress, make it appear that she will
provoke a conflict by keeping her fleet off
Constantinople, where it has no right to
be. The position of Hornby in the seao!
Marmora is, in fact, England’s declara
tion of war. Finding that she cannot
inveigle Austria into an alliance and that
RussiJ and Turkey prefer to arrange
their business in private, England has
chosc-n to he very sulky and has gone to
cleaning her sword. Of course, it she is
very anxious for a fight, she can secure
one by shelling Constantinople or occu
pying Buyukdere or Yeni-Koi. It will
be seen, however, that her military pre
parations mean that she wiil confess to
having been outmaneuvered by Russia,
and will take the spoils suggested long
ago by Nicholas, viz., Crete and Egypt.
Journal.
All Sorts.
There are nearly 70,000 cases before
the pension bureau at Washington,
awaiting action.
The Gentiles of Utah still have hopes
that they will secure the expulsion of
Delegate Cannon from the house because
of his polygamous practices.
A boy of fifteen and a girl of fourteen
were married with the approval of their
parents in Russellville, Ky. Then they
were sent off to separate schools for three
years.
The house postofSee committee has
agreed to recommend the adoption of a
double stamp return postal card. The
purpose of this is to permit an answer to
be returned on a postal card.
King Allonsohasgiven Queen Mercedes
a crown composed wholly of diamonds;
also gowns costing altogether about $35,-
000 ; also mantillas at $2,000 apiece. A
mantle worn by the queen at the Btate
dinner on the wedding day cost $15,000.
The plates for printing the notes of
nearly three hundred defunct national
banks, which have accumulated at the
treasury department, are to be melted
down in one of the furnaces in the
Washington navv-yard, in the presence
of a commission of prominent gentlemen.
Savannah News: The meeting of citi
zens of Jacksonville, Florida, which has
extended an invitation to Capt. Eads, of
jetty fame, to . visit the St. John’s river
bar, has requested and authorized the
city council to appropriate one thousand
dollars to pay the expenses of Capt. Eads
in the contemplaied visit of inspection.
Sister St. Charles, of the L'rsuline
Convent, in Brown county, Ohio, died
on Saturday. She was a daughter of
Gen. A. S. RosecraLz, one of the most
noted Ohio generals in the late war, who
is now a resident of California. She had
been an inmate of the institution for a
number of years. .
JESl’l'. GEORGIA. V\'KBNKSI) AY, MARCH -27, 1878.
WEARY.
The following poem is from a reprint of a volume
of Mrs. Browning's early poetry, pub ished in
when she waa between bixteen ana seventeen years
c t ago
Mine eyes are weary of conveying
The fullest things, too soon decaying ;
Mine ears are weaiy of receiving
The kindest words—oh, past believing !
Weiry my hope, of ebb and flow;
eary my pulse, of tuneatf woe;
My trusting heait is weariest!
I would—l would I were at rest!
For nie can earth refuse to fade ?
For uie cau words b. j faithful made
Will my embitter’d hope be sweet ?
My pulse forego the human beat ?
No ! Darkness must consume mine eye—
• ilence, mine ear—hope cease - pulse die
Aud o'er miue heart a stone le press and
Or vuin this—“ Would 1 were at rest!’’
Thero is a land of rest dtferr’d :
Nor eve hath seen, n*r ear hath tuard,
Nor Hope hath trod the precinct o’er ;
kor l ope t>eh- Id is hope no morel
There human p.ulse forgets its tone—
There heat ts may know r.s they aro known !
O, for dove’s w ings, thou dwelling blest,
To 11 y to thee, and be at rett!
Hunting for an Ideal.
“ No girl will ever have a chance to
marry me for my money. I’ll take good
care of that. When I wed there ahull
be nothing but the most disinterested
affection thrown into the scales—no ideas
of a graud home and carriages and opera
boxes and fashionable parties and rich
dresses and diamonds, and all that sort of
thing.” And Charley Marshall tossed
his half finished cigar out of the window,
and added, with emphasis: “No! the
girl I make my wife will have to love me
for rnyeelf alone—take me without the
slightest idea of future ease ; be content
with the anticipation of ‘love in a cot
tage/ aud the prospect of having to prove
a 1 help-meet J in fact as well as in name.”
“ That is, cook, sweep, wash dishes,
scrub the floors, aud all other drudgery,”
added Fred Tryan, with a peculiarly ex
pressive whistle.
“Certainly. ThaUsjustwhat 1 mean.” 1
“ And you expect to find such a girl
in this beflounc.ed, bediamond age,
Charley ? ”
“ Why not?”
“ I thought they had all died out with
our grand mothers. Matrimony nowa
days is a very different thing from a
century ago. The homespun age has
given place to one of satin-work and
frivolty. It’s a mighty hazardous un
dertaking to marry. Women are daily
driving poor fellows to bankruptcy nnU
the dogs; and the salary that a few years
since would have been ample for house
hold expenses wouldn’t now' pay the
rent.”
“ You are cynical, Fred.”
“A trifle, pei4iaps; hut that doesn’t
alter the facts of the case. It is different
with you who [have plenty—are one of
the‘bloated bondholders.’ How I wish
I was I But what in the name of com
mon sense would 1 do getting married
with only a couple of thousand a year ? ”
“Do well enough if you marry the
right kind of a woman, and train her
properly in the beginning.”
“ As how' ?” with a dubious smile.
“As I intend to do. I have told you
that no one shall marry me for money.
The girl shall consider me poor—look
upon her future in that light—and after
the ceremony I shall take her to a plain
country home and test her well before
revealing that her lot is to bo otherwise.”
“ What if she rebels?”
“No danger of that. With my fore
thought I shall not be likely to be de
ceived.”
“But if, after your chrysalis puts on
the gorgeous garments of the butterfly,
what if she should spread her wings and
revel in the surrounding splendor? In
other words, what if the uplifting from
poverty to riches should make her giddy
and wild? The change from a country
girl to a city belle is very great, and has
turned the head of many an one.”
“ Granted ; but I shall guard against
such a tiling.”
“Educate her up!” laughed Fred.
“ Well, I wish you success. But where
do you expect to find rich a paragon of
loveliness (for with your ;e it he tic tastes
you would never marry any but a beau
tiful woman) and good sense and pro
nounced character ? Certainly not in
the city?”
“ I can scarcely indorse such a sweep
ing denunciation. Yet I intend to look
about in the country.”
“ Among the green valleys and ‘ forests
primeval’! I wonder how ‘ Priscilla,’ the
meek and loving, would have stood such
an exaltation? and whether- ‘Miles’
would have believed in fyour theory ? ”
And Fred laughed heartily as he thought
of the stem Puritan captain and his
quaint idea of courtship—Lis
Steady, straightforward acd strong, with ir
resistible logic:
Orthodox, flashing conviction right into the
hearts of the heathen.
“ You can make merry as much as
you please,” answered his friend ; “ but
this is no idle whim of mine. I have re
flect and upon it long, perfected my plan,
and intend to carry it out to the very
letter.”
“ Bon voyage, then, and I hope you
will not meet with shipwreck. But
promise me one thing.”
“ If it is within reason.”
“ That you will train your rustic di
vinity to love cigars, so that I may come
and see you sometim'-e, sit with my legs
under your mahogany, have a good old
fashioned smoke, and gaze upon the de
licious wonder of the nineteenth cen
tury
“ You will be welooipa at any time.”
‘ One thing more: Have it one of the
marriage vows, that the di
vinity shall never eat%bnionsAnd
Fred Tryan departed MUghing, though
not until he had promised faithfully to
keep the plans of his friend a profound
secret.
The proposed delusiou'in his marriage
(whenever it should occur) had become
a pet scheme with Marshall, lie had
given it much thought, and flattered
himself there could be Yio miscarriage.
Certainly if a girl loved him as sue
ought, she would be cv>tent to dwell
i with him in an humbte aLode and min
ister to his comfort.
In fact, bis “castle in Spain” was al
ready built —everything perfect except
ing the perfect woman who was to be
come the satin of the inner shrine. She
was yet to be found, and ho resolved to
no longer delay. Had it not been for the
conversation with his friend, he would
have continued dreaming as before, for
be was naturally dilatory. l!ut the only
half hidden sneers of his friend had stung
deeper than he had at first been aware
and roused him to immediate action.
“I will commence my search to-mor
row,” he said resolutely; “ and before a
year has passed will show Mr. Fred Tryan
and the rest of mankind a model wife—
one whose only love is her husband ; who
accepted poverty with him, and when
given riches and position and influence
was "not unduly exalted. He quoted
Miles Standish. So can I, and to the
purpose; for I shall astonish his critical
eyes with
The skv was all blushes, the earth was all
bliss,
And the prayer of each heart: “Be the end
ing like this.”
“ Aha ! Mr. Fred ! I think 1 shall
have you upon the hip then.”
A few days enabled Marshall to finally
arrange all his matters to his satisfaction,
and he disappeared from the city, no one
but his friend knowing whither fie had
gone; even hi.s own family little dream
ing that he had set out upon such a
Quixotic mission had indeed under
taken to find a perfect woman.
Partially disguised, and under an as
sumed name, he journeyed hither and
thither, louring for the thornless rose,
tbo diamond without a (fo—, the pearl
without a Hpcck. But disappointment
met him at every turn. Girls of all
kinds, golden, auburn and raven-haired,
arose before him like daisies in the
meadow —agpcrfect bouquetof loveliness.
But alas! there was an indescribable
something lacking—the rare combination
of mind and physical proportion that was
to insure him happiness, make the humble
and wealthy home alike happy—to stand
the severe test of both poverty and
riches.
Any ordinary mortal would have been
satisfied with the choice offered; could
from out such a bevy of beauty have
selected scores that would indeed have
been “a jewel in the crown of her hus
band.” But he was very hard to please
His ideal was altogether too high for
human nature to fill. At least lie found
none ihat satisfied him, and, after a long
search, was about to return home, rest,
and take anew departure for foreign
lands, when accident caused him to lie
delayed in the picturesque little village
of Ferndell.
'The breaking down of the stage landed
him, in the midst of a violent storm, in
front of a large farmhouse, the surround
ings of which indicated unusual thrift.
“ Who lives heie?” he asked of the
driver, who had informed him that it
would be some hours before they could
proceed.
“ //Tins Partridge, one of the richest
men in the county,” was answered.
“ I shall have to trespass upon his
hospitality. Anything would be better
than remaining in this miserable old
conveyance, through the roof of which
the water passes like a sieve.”
“ Yes, it is a better dry-weather stage,”
laughed the driver. “ But go right in.
’Squire I’artridge will lie glad to see you.
He is one of the most friendly kind of
men. Besides,” and the laugh grew
broader, “there’s the prettiest kind of a
girl in there, and I guess the time won’t
hang very heavy on your hands.”
“ A pretty girl!” and Marshall looked
dismayed at his vet and mud-splashed
wardrobe.
“ That ain’t nothing,” replied the
friendly Jehu, reading the expression of
his face. “ She ain’t one of the stuck
up kind, but just as good and clever as
she is handsome.”
Thinking what a fool he was to have
been standing even thus long in the rairi,
Mar.-.hall made bis way through the
closelv-mowed and clean-kept door-yard,
along the path fringed with flowers, and
knocked at the door. It was opened
with little delay, though his quick ear
caught the rustle of feminine skirts, and
he was satisfied he had already been in
spected, and most probably by the
“pretty girl” herself.
Walk in—walk right in,” was the
welcome be received, and the broad palrn
of Eenas Partridge closed upon his own,
and emphasized the hospitable reception.
“ Thank you sir. I shall be gratefu]
'or shelter for a time— until the stage is
repaired,” replied Marshall.
“ And that won’t be to-night,” said
his host. “ They are slower than mo-
- - -
lasses in a cold cellar on a January morn
ing"
“ But I can not think of treapasing
upon your kindness for so long a time,
sir."
“There, there! Don’t mention it
My wife and Lena will be only too hap
py to have your company.”
“ Lena—your daughter 7”
“ No; haven’t chick or child in the
world. Lena—Eleauor is the right name
—is a neioe, and— Well, you’ll
have a chance to see for youraelf.”
Eleanor Rivington, as she appeared at
was nearer the beau
idea! of Marshall than any he had ever
seen. She was a sparkling beauty, could
not have been called either brunette or
blonde, but partook of the beat charac
teristics of both ; was a happy, medium
type, fair, not tall in height, and of well
rounded proportions/with dainty feet
and hands, the latter just tinged enough
with labor to show that she was not un
familiar with it. Her eyes were of a
peculiar soft grayish hazel; her hair a
mass of golden braids; her lips delicate
cleft, and red as the ripe clover-blossm ;
her nose and chin exquisitely cut, and
there was the charm of perfectly graceful,
lady-like self-possession and culture in
her movements, albeit her dress waa of
the simplest in texture ami fashion.
To say that Marshall was delighted
with the vision was simply less than the
truth. And he found, as Ihe evening
passed, that her mind was well stored by
reading; that she possessed a rich and
trained voice, and played and sang in a
manner he had seldom heard equaled.
In fact she grew in luh dreams to be the
paragon of loveliness and worth he had
so olten pictured ; and when detained
the next day he poured umt (by letter)
to his friend Fred Tryan a glowing de
scription, and predicted that at last the
spotless pearl he had ho long been in
search of had been found.
If Cupid had made especial terms with
Jupiter Pluvius the matter could not
have been better arranged. Such a storm
as raged had not been known even bv
that übiquitous individual, “ the oldest
inhabitant.” Streams were flooded, and
bridges carried away, and all travel stop
ped. The old stage still remained uu
lepnwen by the wayside, and Marshall
was kept within doors, feasting upon
delicacies, and time reading
to Rena, and bearing'her sing, or con
versing with her.
And naturally, as they became ac
quainted, they talked to themselves,
and he hinted at his peculiar ideas with
regard to married life ; that when he
married the beginning would be in a
small way—an humble home; and that,
while be was willing to toil for the
woman be loved, it might be necessary
for her to take up her share of the
burdens.
The beautiful girl met him ball way
—did not seem averse to " love in a cot
tage,” seemed to consider it would 1* a
pleasure to contribute to the making of
a home; and some dainty dishes from
her own fail hands were proof positive
to him that hhe was versed in the cul
inary art.
The storm ceased at last and they
parted. No words of lovo had been
spoken, but the touch of hands and the
glancing of eyes and the tell-tale blood
had given full promise of what would be,
even as the rosy tints of morning tell of
the golden glory of noonday. Of what
Marshall thought, his words to Tryan
told the entire story.
“ She is as beautiful and good as an
angel, Fred. The most perfect being
both in mind and body.”
“And will cook your pork and beans
and do up your shirts with smiles ?” was
the quizzical question.
“ Without doubt. Oh, such dishes as
she can prepare ! They are fo and for the
gods.”
“ Apples of the Hesperides, sweetened
with nectar and ambro-ia! Butof course
she knows ol your wealth ?”
“ Hus not an inkling. In fact she does
not even know my name—thinks it is
Charley Marsh, and that I have to de
pend upon business for a livelihood.”
“ The name of the goddess, Charley 7”
“ Eleanor Riverton.” *
“Ah 1 A romantic name. When is
she to change it ?”
“ That is undecided as yet. I have
not even whispered of my devotion.”
“ But intend to do so very soon ?”
“ At the earliest practicable moment.” j
With such a commencement as had .
been made the growth of love could not j
I iiave been otherwise than rapid. The i
visits of Marshal! to Ferodell grew Ire- I
quent, became more and more lengthy; |
and, one evening when the moon sailed ,
as a silver boat over the slightest waves j
of clouds, the fond vows were whispered, i
and two hearts pledged to beat as one
for all time ; soft hand was clasped in
; broader palm, and burning lips were
| pressed to lips in the first long, passion
ate kiss of betrothal.
Fred Tryan laughed a cynical laugh
when lie heard of the engagement.
Hornetbing in tfce matter seemed to
amuse him very much. Yet hi; con
gratulated his friend warmly upon his
choice,and wished him all the happiness
he anticipated.
And for once love seemed to run a
broad, deep, untroubled river, with noth-
ing to mar the smoothness cf its course
The wedding-day was a glorious
golden will) sunshine, with only rosy
clouds; without even the slightest pre
monition of future storms ; a day of per
feet June, when
“She, the Puritan gill, in the solitude of the
forest,
Making the humble house aud the modest
apparel of homespun
Beautiful with her beauty, and rich with the
wealth of her being.
The wedding feast finished, Marshall
took his bride in the conveyance he had
provided, and carried her to what he led
her to believe was her future home. The
journey ended, they stopped at a small
cottage in the outskirts of a manufactur
ing town. It- was scarcely more than
comfortably furnished, the surroundings
not attaractive, and otdy such as a bride
in tho most humble circumstances would
have been contented with.
But the young wife took up her lot
cheerfully. She went around singing
all the day long, brightening up every
room with tasteful womanly touches—
always had meals ready upon the return
of her husband—ami seemed to enjoy
what well’might have been called “play,
ing at housekeeping ” ; and even objected
when her husband proposed to employ a
girl to do the drudgery.
But if it was fun for her it- was not for
him. He had nothing to do, and soon
grew tired of “loafing ” around the little
village, killing time, so as to make his
wife believe he was hard at work. The
months ho had intended to bo passed in
this manner dwindled into two short
weeks. He could endure it no longer ;
and, having made the necessary prepara
tions (through his friend Fred Tryan),
he determined to move to the 'city and
his true sphere in iifo.
Money smoothes most ways ns it did
his, and a few days later he escorted li in
bride into a “ brown stone front,” exquis
itely furnished, told Lena it waH hers,
and that he had deceived her, as he was
rich.
“ No, Charley,” she answered, with
rippling laughter. “ No, Charley, dear,
you have bccu simply deceiving your
self. 1 knew you all the time. My
cousin, Fred Tryan, had pointed you
out to me, and told me all about you.”
“ TYio Ov-u- —"
“Hush!” and she kissed him into
silence. “ But I won’t make you any
the less a good wife, dear.”
.She hasn’t, though she has cried him
of many foolish notions of mortals being
prefect; and ho has learned to rejoice
that his Quixotic quest resulted so well
and happily, when the chances were as a
thousand to one against anything t> u
disappointment.— | \V. 11. Bushntll.
A Mountain's Tumble.
Nearly every resident of Montana has
either seen or heard of the famous Bear-
Tooth mountain, the most prominent
landmark in northern Montana. It is
visiblo from different points at distances
ranging from forty to sixty miles, and is
in full view from Helena and the sur
rounding country. The mountain is
distant about thirty miles from Helena,
and stands like a grim and mighty senti
nel at the head of the canon known as
the “ Gate of the Mountains,” through
which flows the Missouri river. The
Bear-Tooth was described as a wonderful
landmark of the early explorers, I/owis
and Claik. In all photographs of the
northern country the two tusks, rising
black and grim hundreds of feet above
the mountain, are the prominent ole
jects. The main tusk remains, looking
lonely and isolated in its grandeur.
We are indebted lo Judge Hilger,
who met the hunters referred to be
low, for the following particulars in
reference to the fall of tlie smallest of the
two prongs : “ Rast Monday a party of
hunters who were chasing game several
miles north of the Bear-Tooth, observ- i
ing a rum bling sound and a quaking of
the earth, and supposing it was an earth
quake, and not noticing a repetition of
it, they soon forgot the occurrence, and
continued tlieir chase until they reached
the Bear’s-Tooth. Here they were
astonished by the appearance of the i
eastern tusk. This was a perpendicular
mass of rock and earth, fully five hund
red feet high, three hundred feet in
circumference at its base, and about one i
hundred and fifty feet to the top. This
immense maH had become dislodged,
and coming down with the speed of an
avalanche, bad swept through a forest
of large timber for a quarter of a mile,
entirely leveling it. The country around
is now covered with a great mans of
broken trees and tons upon tons of rocks,
many of them as large as an ordinary
houe.’’-[Helena (Mon.) Independent.
. A minister was once engaged to
preach to his Sunday-school, but after
the little jieople were all plaesd before
him in order, lie told them that some of
them might lie weary and want to eo
out before he had finished, so be would
rather have any who fancied they would
like to go, to do so now, and then no one
would be disturbed. For a moment all
sat still; then one little fellow got bis
hat and went down the aisle; another
and anoth'-r lollowed, until not a ebi and
was left.
The only safe way to keep a diary is
to put it in the stove, and this is the time
to do it.
GRAVE ANI> GAY.
The Opera Box.
Well, wi ’re here In goo-l time, after all, hi* :
Hoiv glad I aei p.i Uok a box I
Sk*e, there a Mrs Jonea, in blue velvet—
Ho handsome; 1 dote on blue lex.
Don’t you think that the troupe must feel flattered?
Ihe house is just crammed tueh a crowd !
Thoro’a the count in the balcony- look, Katel
Just across from ua- quick, dear I—be bowoi.
Throw your cape back, ma, over your aboalder,
Carelewdy, so the lining will show.
There’s Funny Duval with her husband—
They’re newspaper people, you know.
He “ does tho dramatic " or something,
She told me ; th*'y go everywhere;
Thet’u one of her last winter's orcaaea—
Made over—quite well, I declare.
How these singers do dresr ( inv! what !gc<b
Those diamonds are perfectly grand !
Please lend mo jour ope ra-glapses
I left mine at heme on the stand.
Ma, I wish you would shut your libretto;
It’s shoddy to stick to it so
Looks like you w*r n’t used to tho epera ;
Can't you read it at homo when we go?
1 here, Charlie Van Zandt and his cousin,
Young Kuyter, arc coming thin way.
Kiito, shake cut your train, it’s a'l doubled.
Ma, where did you put my bouquet ?
That’s *' Miserere ” they are playing ;
It makes me f-el awfully s.id.
They played It a poor Ned May’s funeral,’
You know. What’s It, ma-Mrs. Ladd V
Oh yes, 1 forgot her reception ;
She’ll expect us. V hat time is it, Kate ?
Half pas: ton ? Very well, there’s no hurry ?
It s stylish, you know, to be late.
NO. 30.
‘ .. Anew stwig in celled “ Always Keep
-a Smile for Mother.” Borne young men
; will drink every drop that is in the
; bottle without giving a thought to their
! paten tn.
.. A doctor's wife tried the persuasive
effect of tears. “ Wife,” said he, “ tears
are useless. I have analyzed them. They
contain a little phosphate of lime, some
chloride of sodium, and water.”
..Colorado giants should bo planted
early in the spring, in rows about two
postoffices apart. They should be trans
planted in August, when colleee profes
sors are on vacation.—[New Orleans Pic
ayune.
“I was not aware that you knew
him,” said Tam Smith to au Irish friend,
the other day. “ Know him,” said ho, in
a tone which comprehended the knowl
edge of more than one life. “ I knew
him when ids father was a boy.”
. A bashful young man applied to his
village paper for information on tho im
portant subject, “ How to win a woman's
love.” Tho reply was, “ Kiss the babies
caress the tomcat, and pay strict atten
tion to the old lady.”
Now tiiat the telephone makes it
possible for sounds to be canned the same
as beef, milk, lobsters, fruit, etc., mis
sionary sermons can ba bottled and sent
to the Houth sea islands ready for tho
table instead of the missionary himself.
Home men marry a mother in-law ;
•oiiic, a father-in-law ; some, a sister-in
law or sisters-in-law ; some, a brother-in
law or brothers'in-law ; some, the doctor;
some, the pastor. The man who really
yets a wife is a rare bird, ami even he
oe-n not Mwnys stny SwcetW
The stre: t-car drivers .f Montreal
! are compelled to advertise their disonesty
j by carrying cash boxes slung around
' their necks. The passenger places the
money on the lid of the box, the con
ductor presses a sprutg, and the money
tails in. If the conductor touches the
money, he is discharged
Writing of those who scrawl the."
names in Egypt, John Russell Young
says: “ The greatt at donkey of thetrilio
—the monumental donkey ol the age—
is ‘ l’owell Tucker,’ o i New York. If
Powell Dicker reads these lines he will
learn that his name is the theme of re
pealed execrations throughout Egypt.
Powell, as the story goes, did not content
himself with carving bis name on the
walls—that, perhaps, would have been
tort much trouble. K > lie carried a sailor
with him, and this sailor had a pot of
black paint and a brush. Whenever
Powell came to a monument the sailor
painted in large black letters, ‘ Powell
Tucker, New York, 1870.' Sometimes it
is only ‘ I*. T.,’ but the tracks are here
and there all over Egypt. The authorities
in charge of the antiquities have tried to
rub out this and other marks of vandal
ism, but Poweile sailor panted deep.”
Tin- Search for tlic, North Pole.
At a recent meeting of the American
geographical society in New York, Capt
Howgslc repeated bis colonization plans
for the complete exploration of the polar
district, and affirmed his determination
to me every aid to be derived from
scientific sources in his expedition. He
will not only establish colonies with
ample supplies of food and clothing,
drugs and apparatus for preserving hu
man lift in a clime in which mercury
freezes, but will connect the colonics
with telegraph wires ami telephones.
More than this, lie will prosecute his
Arctic trip with the assistance,ol balloons,
having an experienced French teronaut,
recommended by the l’aris geographical
society engaged for these serial experi
ments. To save telegraph pole j , he
spoke of the new copper telegraph
wire which carries a current
without insulation, and can be
stretched carelessly on tbe dry snow and
1 ice of the Arctics without support and
• yet be successfully worked, as proved by
I late tests.
This subject o! Arctic exploration, so
interesting to the attendants on the New
York meeting, is equally ascinating to
hundreds of thousands outside, and,
while lew are as sanguine of advanced
results from the newiy organised explor
og expeditions as are the participants
themselves, it is most satisfying to be
remitted to know that so much of earn
nestn'-ns, enterprise and common sense
are associated with the plans.
Jn addition to the Howgate expedi
tion, which will probably receive SSO,O(Ki
from the United States government,
tin re will lie in the Arctic field the com
ing summer government expeditions
from England, Holland, Germany and
Russia, besides a few private enterprises
like the Barry expedition at piesent
forming in the east.