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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—j-Dr. It F Lester.
Gnnneiitaen —B'-yent Geo-ge.AB Puvdom,
A Wil'ianps. T H Nntall, O F Littlefield.
’ C.'eikaau Tie;-sore.—O F'Li.i'.efield.
Marsha'! —■> I. Trunt.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinal y—R chard B llopps.
She-ifl-J D Rohinson.
Gterk S tpe ior Com"—BeDi. O Middleton
• Tax Re ;eive:--J C Hdeber.
Tax Col ectai—W R Causey.
County Surveyor —W G Scott.
Coauty Treamrei John Massey.
Coronei -G Kuight.
County Gommi.vior.or— J F King, G W
Haines, Ji t res Knox, J G Rif h, 1‘ ham Red.
di h. Re, rn'ar meetir js n! tne Board vb : and
Wednesday iu .laoua y, Aoi•I Ju'y and Oo
tober. Ja’s F K'ng, cua ,man.
COURTS.
Superioi Court, Wayne county—Martin L
Meisbon, J udge ; S mon W Hitch, Soßcitor-
Gene.a 1 . SesOocs held on fourth Monday
jn Ma: cti i nd September.
’BAXLEY, GEORGIA.
Ai'illing County Officets.
OrdinarJ—'Silsi A. Crosby,
Sherifi -i- H. Cook
Coun.y (pleik—W. W. Graham.
Treasure);— N. Weatherly.
Tax Receiver— J. J. Davie.
Tax Collector —Silas Roberson.
County Coroner —L. Johnson.
County Commissioners —H. McEaehin,
John O Hjrt, Wm. G. S.ewart, James War.
nock, Ishat ll Carter.
Court Calendar.
Eeholr—Second Mondays in March and
September.
Appling-- TnirJ Monday in March and
September.
Wayne—-Fourth Monday in Marsh and
Bep ember'
p ieree first Moidiy in Apr l and
Octoter.
■\Vare—Second Monday in Aprl and Oc
tober.
Clinch—Tuesday e r ter third Monday in
Apiilnnd October.
Coflee—Tuesday aft r fourth Monday in
April and October.
Camden —Tuesday after second Monday in
May and November.
Charlton —Third Monday in May and No
vember.
Glvnn— Fourth Monday in Mty and No
vember.
- OFFICERS OF CHARITuN county.
Ordinal f—Robert Hsteher.
Sheriff- ‘John B.ooUs.
Clerk--J. W. Rea.oj.
PiJSTOFFIOS—Trader.’ Hill.
• Notary fahl'C* and Justices of tbe Peace,
etc. B acL'shea- Precinct. 184 Dibt, ict, G
M, Note <7! Pubhc, J G S PaLe-so" ; Justie*
of the Pe-jc l , R K James; Ex-ofticio Con
a 1 . 1,]e F Bed.
W-iV' *• - .'mail, . ..
, ' '■ ‘ I’nhi'c, Matthew Sweat; Justie*
t Not> ''l'ice, Geo T Moody; Constable, W
of toe Pe
F Dick. A p.eo nct, 1181 Disliict, G M,
I dUc.-Ptm,: c , C WyJly; Justice o i
,7 > Thomas; Constable*;, il
the \ j G/ne .
PfMcoit j ff ;j! e P*eclm, 500 District, G M,
x4jh a * D B McKunon; , T u* Ice of
JNof-y • R T Jcines; Constable, John W
the le^ce
Booth. Supe ior cout, Pierce county,
ju<l 2 e; {Simon W Hitch, so
Jo m Ij r 5Ja ) Sessions held first Monday
heitM-gennfl September,
in a.iAtcn ; on coor | i| Blackshear, Gi., ses
. v -'°j’P < . >^ a secojci Saturday in e*ch month,
sion held j;; tessions every Monday morninv
PoLce coiv J *
at 9 o'doe- —■ •
jtp S IJP HOUSE,
Cr. I Hroad and Cherry Sts.
j (Near the Dapot.)
TP LITTLEFIELD, F.op'l.
Newly renovated and "efurnished. Satif
faeiion gnoauteed. Poliie waiters will tak*
your baggage to and from the house.
Foard. Hi per flay. Single Meats, SO*.
Another way to settle the Indian prob
lem is o have all the white folks killed
off.
The winter garden which the King of
the Belgians has had constructed in the
park of Laeken is the largest structure
of the kind in Europe. The immense
cupola of iron and glass is 200 feet in di
ameter aud 100 feet in height in the cen
ter: It is supported by 36 columns of
white stone, each over three feet in diam
eter.
It is -aid that an investigation of the
New York elevated railroads revealed
that the stock has been “watered” to the
extent of six or seven million dollars.
During the investigation some interesting
statistics were given. The fifteen miles
ef track now in operation cost twelve
millions of dollars, and when the con
struction is thoroughly completed it is
thought that the expense will lie fully a
million dollars to each mile of track. A
car costs $3,400; an engine over $5,000.
A Rtesiax wells are becoming numerous
throughout California, fresh ones being
dug daily, as well for irrigating purposes
in the farming lands, as for general water
purpose*in San Francisco and other cities.
They cost s2ou-upward, and some furnish
250.000 gallon* ~f the purest water daily.
In the rfan Joaquin valley they arc very
numerous,eleven Is-ingiu full flow within
a tract of three miles by a mile and a half
in extent, and yet their proximity to each
other and the digging of new wells does
not diminish their flow at all, a thing I
that is hfit the case everywhere. The I
novel experiment lias been tried of
ing an artificial lake with this water and j
breeding fish in it, and it has l**n found
that the fish thrive a* well in water drawn j
from tht* “iibteraiiean sources as in anv !
other.
VOL. IV.
MKT HERN SEWS ITEMS.
McCoinb City, Miss., is to have a cot
ton factory.
Drummers are relieved of taxation in
Montgomery, Ala.
Last week the -tobacco manufacturers
of Durham, N. C,, bought internal revenue
stamps to the amount of 1117,419 60.
One hundred and fifty tons of railroad
iron for the Florida Central railroad arrived
in Jacksonville Saturday, on the schooner
Andrew Newbinger, from Philadelphia.
The net earnings- of the Houston and
Texas Central Railroad Company for Sep
tember were $212,878 78, an increase of about
eight per cent, over the same month last
year.
The bale of cotton donated for lie
benefit of the orphans of General Hoo as
sold and resold seven times at. Houston,
realizing SI,OOO. Then h war..shipped to
Waco. •"*' *
Memphis Ledger: The Legislature of
Mississippi, Arkansas and Kentucky should
at once be called to meet in special season to
enact laws whereby Holly Springs, Forrest
City, Hopefield and Hickman may be sewered
before next summer.
Augusta Chronicle: We are pleased
to know that our honored and distinguished
Representative, Hon. Alex. 11. Stephens, is
in lair health, He is now enjoying the quiet
and rest of Liberty Hall. He has travelved
extensively North and West since the ad
journment of congress.
Hickory (N. C.) Press: The Catawba
Manufacturing Company, near Catawba Sta
tion, is now putting up fifty-eight new looms
in the factory. These, in addition to the
other machinery, will make a fine display.
This company is now making some very line
plaid goods.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: The
planters of our state are pursuing a very wise
course since the dark days which followed
the close of the war. A large number of
them are buying good blooded cattle, and
will be present on the 10th of next month at
the State fair with the money in hand ready
to make further purchases of this kind.
Little Rock Gazette : Day before yes
terday, a mad dog bit seven persons on the
Perkins place, about fifteen miles from this
city. Tne following named persons were
bitten, and came into town yesterday and
applied to Dr. Wiggs’ drug store for treat
ment: Mr. Reynolds, trading-boat merchant,
a little girl, Sandy Wallers, Sim Serdis and
his wife and a colored man and woman,
names unknown.
Jackson (Tenn.) Tribune-Sun: Mr.
Robert Reaves shot and killed on yesterday,
nearMcClanahan’slevee,V veritable “stormy
patrel,” that had evidently been wafted on
the wings of some storm current from the
ocean to these inhospitable shores. It meas
ured four feet from tip to tip, its wings being
exceedingly long and beautiful. Its color
was bright gray, and the down on its neck
and brgast as soft as a swan’s.
Monroe (Tenn.) Democrat: Large
quantities of soap-stone, brought here by
wagon from Murphy, N. €., is being shipped
to Cincinnati. Two car-loads have beep
shipped in the last two weeks. This stone is
found in great abundance in the mountains,
six miles above Murphy. It is worth about
S4O a ton, delivered on the car at this place,
1 ** /-• -\1 uV A- *• • A “SoKs*
The stone is said to be of extra quality.
Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times : The pop
ulation of Chattanooga has increased in two
years from 11,*88 to 12,879, a gain of 1,891.
Considering all the drawbacks, til's is doing
well. It would double us in ten years. The
increase of whites has been 319, of blacks
1;073. The preponderance of increase of the
latter is of itself an industrial straw of value.
For, while we have added all these strong
hands to the workers, we have less idlers
than ever before.
Columbia (S. C.) Register: A practi
cal test was made yesterday of the utility of
the Georgia brown coal by Dr. Jackson. !!<■
took three or four of the lumps which Prof.
Bibikov had sent him, broke them up and
made a fire out of them in his stove. They
were easily kindled with a little wood, when
first ignited burned with a flame, but after
ward settled down to a nice bed of coals.
The ashes produced was white. The stove
was one made for the purpose of burning
anthracite coal. The burning produced
something of a smell, but this could no doubt
be remedied by having stoves properly con
structed, with a view to prevent the gas
coming into the room. The quantity of
brown coal used was just enough to fill the
fire basket of the stove, and this quantity
continued to burn from 8 o’clock a. m. till
after 12 m.
New Orleans Democrat : Some years
ago the export of cedar from Louisiana was a
large and popular trade. The war and its
consequences diverted the attention of the
people from that branch of industry, and our
cedar trees were left to grow in all their
natural luxuriance. We are glad to note
that the old trade in that article is about to
be reopened. The United States Consul at
Hamburg, in his dispatch to the Department
of State, dated September 24, 1879, reports
the arrival of a vessel laden with cedar wood,
shipped from New Orleans, and cut on the
hanks of the Mississippi. This is believed to
be the first venture of the kind. The Consul
sees no reason why the cedar of America
may not be in great demand in Europe, like
tbe mahogany of Brazil.
Louisville Medical News: There is
only one place where the colored man and
the brother has his particular medical school,
and that happens where of all places it was
most likely to happen, at Nashville, of
the Metrical University, birthplace of journals
thereto. The school is intended for the
education of colored physicians; ami if there
is any faith to be put in circulars, it is in
tended for their very good education. The
standard named is quite up to that of most of
the colleges mftlie country. Three years’
study is required, and the course is graded.
Recitations and monthly written examina
tions form prominent features. Examination
for the degree is also conducted in writing.
Columbus (Alii.) Times: California
and other Pacific States have so long kept
the eyes of the gold-hunting world in that
direction, that the rich veins of the precious
metal, which run in broad and inexhaustible
lines through Alabama, have almost been lost
sight of. We have often been told by old
Californians that, with the same machinery
and effort, more gold eouhl be taken from
some of the Tallapoosa mines than taken
from many of the most popular on the Pacific
coast. In former years we knew something
of the gold veins of old Tallapoosa, especially
of those about the once famous Log Pit
mine, and can say that they, unskillfully
worked, yielded manv thousand dollars’ worth
of gold.
Helena (Ark.) World: Trains are
running now upon three railroads out of
Helena, the Arkansas Midland, Mobile
and Northwestern, and the Iron Moun
tain and Helena, which place us, in
point of railroad enterprise, in advance
of every place in the State but Little
Rock, and we should lx* on a par with
the State capital if these roads had out
side connection 1 which we trust is not in
the distant future.
A Baltimore company ha.* found a
~r Ikukuiz.-i iii the mines ut < Ire
Knob. )-he iouiitv, North I Arolin.i.
where 7*lo men lire i in)ilove<l, and ulxuit
S3*Xi,O<SJ are annually disbursed to the
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1879.
inhabitants for fuel, etc. -V correspon
dent of the Baltimore! American say
six additional furnaces are to bo erected,
and a railroad being built to connect
the mines with Greensboro. The month
ly product of pure copper is 150,000
pounds.
Helena (Ark.) World; As the chan
nel of the Mississippi runs very near the
sand-bar immediately in front of the
city, and as it is becoming more ap
parent daily that our cotton shipping
facilities from below are getting worse
and worse on account of the rapid
change in the river there, it is proposed
by those of our shipping people who have
a great amount of cotton to haul to build
a tramway across the bar to the water’s
edge, and have the steamers receive from
there.
Cfftfrlot* (it (T) Observer ; ’The exit
ton compress has done a big business since
the opening of the cotton season. Up to
date it has compressed 10,(MX) hales,which
is more than it did throughout the whole
of last season. It is still running con
stantly, and is paying the owners hand
somely. When the cotton is compressed
fifty-five bales can be put into a ear,
against twenty-five, tbe limit when the
bales have not been compressed.
Richmond (Va.) Dispatch Man
chester news: Saturday morning a party
of fox-hunters from Richmond, includ
ing several young ladies, passed through
this city to Chesterfield, where they
intend to have a grand fox hunt. They
attracted much attention, and were
elegantly attired for the sport which
they had in view. It is a novel thing
to see ladies indulging in this sport in
Chesterfield, but in the upper counties
it is a frequent occurrence.
Augusta(Ga.) Chronicle: The numer
ous friends and admirers of Dr. Deems
will be glad to learn that he is soon to
enjoy the pleasure of an extensive tour
in Europe and the east. After his long
and arduous labors, both as minister and
editor, this mental rest and refreshment
will no doubt be peculiarly grateful to
him. He is at present in this city on a
visit to his daughter, Mrs. Verdery,
where he will remain for a few days be
fore returning to New York to prepare
for his journey.
San Antonio Herald: A farmer named
Thomas, who came into Terrel yesterday
to see the Great London show paid rather
dear for his sight-seeing. He brought in
two bales of cotton, and hitching his
team, started for the show, perfectly
carried away with the appearance of
things and in he went. While he was
enjoying the sights a reckless sort of an
individual took charge of his cotton,
drove down on the Square and sold it for
sls, which lie pocketed and skipped out
with it.
Memphis Avalanche: Gov. Marks
"V. 1 . 1 fA-.v W.vb' r.fU 'S*t-W." ■ ■>' ■
Legislature when the citizensof Memphis
decide precisely the legislation that i re
quired. If it is a one per. cent, or a
four cent, tax, let that be settled. Or, if
the Legislature is to be asked to donate
the state taxes levied in Memphis for the
next five years for the sanitary improve
ment of the city, the citizens can so say.
The plan once agreed upoh, the Gover
nor can not refuse so reasonable a request
as to assemble t|ie Legislature for the
sal.vation of the chief city of the state.
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: During last
week, attlie First Baptist colored church,
an institute was held for the training of
colored niisisters. They were being in
structed by Rev. Dr. 8. W. Marston, the
agent of the American Baptist Home
Mission Society (North), and by Rev.
Dr. W. 11. Robert, formerly a resident
of this city, now under eommision of the
Southern Baptists to aid Dr. Marston in
this work of holding intitutes. It is an
auspicious omen to see these two minis
ters working harmoniously together,
from different sections of the land.
The Elberton (Ga.) Gazette tells “bow
to double the price of our cotton crops”
as follows: Supposing our crops to reach
8,000 bales, at ten cents, it would bring
to our county $320,000. if this crop was
used up by factories in the county it would
bring,instead of $320,000,a return of ncar
lys7oo,ooo.This being the ease it behooves
every farmer iu the county to use It is
exertions for the establishment of cotton
factories right here at home. With their
crops yielding such handsome amounts,
those who are behind-hand—slaves to
their factors —would soon be able to throw
off the sbacklies of debt and serfdom.
New Orleans Democrat: The owners
of real estate in New Orleans, who have
for many years been compelled to be a r
a heavy burden of taxation on assess
ments based on ideas- -of -valuation
which obtained during prosperous years,
will no doubt be pleased to observe that
the present Board of Assessors have re
duced the city valuation on property to
$91,000,000. or about $20,000,000, below
the previous assessment. This, it will
lie generally conceded, is a very fair val
uation when the extremely depressed
condition of all kinds of business for the
past ten years is taken into consideration.
Columbia (8. C.) Register: The bus
iness of making baskets from osier wil
low twigs is one which seems to lie spec
ially adapted to the south, and we under
stand that it is now being carried on in
this state on a small scale. We have al
so heard of a movement looking to the
extension of this industry. At present
the twigs or rods used for basket making
here are brought from abroad, some of
them from Europe, but the willow tree
grows here very readily, some varieties
growing wild without any cultivation.
If the matter were properly taken hold
of a large and paying industry might lie
built up in [basket making from native
twigs.
Galveston News: The increase in
custom receipts at the port of Galveston,
from July 1 to October 1. 1879, com
pared with the -amp period of time in
1878, is something remarkable. For the
fiscal quarter cn ,_r S-ptemlx-r 30. 1878,
the duties on imjiorted merthandice col
lected at this |s.rt were only $5,078,97.
For the quarter commencing July 1
and ending 8< piemls r 30, 1879. the du
ties collected on biqsirts at Galveston
amount to $42,228 —an incrca-o of
IKKior 1879. 1 1 i- plea-ant to iearn.!.-<>.
that ro-tlv and varied cargo*-are now in
tr:ui-it to* l inl\.--t-n from foo i'.oi land-.
lon which diitn— amountin'/ to 870u*mi
Mr. Fendcl Horn writes to Dr. Mor
eier, of New Orleans, who introduced
the seed of Egytian cotton: ”1 have
!>e?n handed a sample of the Egyptian
cotton raised on the plantation of Col.
Claiborne —Dunbarton plantation —near
Natchez, Miss. He and Gen. Stephen
D. Lee, another experienced planter
livingnear Columbus, Miss., planted the
original seed last year, and luitli report
the plant grow verv tail, rank and with
but few bolls. This year they have
planted about one acre each with seed
taken from the last year’s plant and both
report that it has improved very much.
The plant is not so large, fruits well,
•and they say from the one acre one-half
of cotton and a much better quality is
obtained.”
Sherman ( Texas ) Oourici .Kverlia
ble cloud of negroes, all’ < and
shades of color, passed through Denison
Friday, enrontc for Kansas, where the
people live in mud houses and live on
grasshopper soup. They came from
Grimes county, in this state, and were
filled with exultation over the glittering
future spread out before them. They
got as far as the Nation, but the weather
UMsn’t “ propitious” enough. There was
too much frost in the air. Visions of
icebergs, snow three feet deep and no
wood in the house began to loom up be
fore them,' and they switched off, turned
around and sailed back. They went
through on their homeward journey yes
terday morning, and propose, to-stay in
the sunny south as long as they have a
grip on life.
Charlotte (N. C.) Observer: ('apt.
Jas. O. Moore, chief engineer of the Win
ston anil Salem and Mooresville railroad,
went up the Richmond and Danville
railroad yesterday morning to meet Mr.
Garrett of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road company, and receiver Barbour, of
the Virginia Midland, for the purpose of
conferring with them with a view to in
ducing them to utilize the road lied of
his road, as much thereof as is completed,
in their proposed extension of the Vir
ginia Midland from Danville through
parts of this state. About twenty-two
miles of the Winston and Salem and
Mooresville railroad are already graded,
and Capt. Moore reports having on hand
and attainable a sufficient amount to
grade the road to a point between Moores
ville and Winston —fifty-five miles in all.
MISCELL4ISEOUS.
We shall-soon begin sending wine to
Fiance. The wine product ot California
alone this season is estimated at 10,000,000
gallons. France should put that fact in her
glass and drink it.)
In the two years preceding the
qj 1 S7:> the price of middling upland cotton
iu Liverpool ranged between Od and lUI,
with a million hales more cotton in siglil than
there are at present.
The entrails of sheep' arc now used in
California ior machine belting, iu > lie ■
•hempYWnirii is am to ne imieii ics- -tiuviMc.
A three-fourth inch rope made from it'will
bear a strain of seven tons.
Goldsmith Maid was on the go, in the
cars, for thirteen years, from one end of the
country to (lie other, traveling over ontf hun
dred thousand miles,always biking her regular
rest on the ears as if in her box stall. She
netted to her owner over $75,000, after paying
nil her expenses and giving liudd Doble one
half.
Of the total of 8,431 sets of woolen
machinery in the Fiiitcd States, 1,418 are in
Massachusetts 331 in Maine, 50j in New
Hampshire, 175 iu Vermont, 4811 in Rhode
Island, and 809 in Connecticut—a total for
the New England stales of more than 43 per
cent, of the woolen machinery in the entire
country. -
One gits company supplies all Paris at
a rate of about $1.62 per 1,000 feet. The
last yearly dividend was equal to 31) per
centum on the original price of the
shares.
Dr. R. V. Pierce went to Buffalo in
1866 penniless. In 1872 he spent $150,-
000 in advertising, and now he is worth
a million and is a member of Congress.
Moral.
A little girl who was sent out to look
for eggs came back unsuccessful, and
complained that “there were lots of hens
standing around doing nothing.
Daily bulletins of current events, with
lists of hooks pertinent to the subjects,
arc hung up in the Hartford public li
brary. This is done to encourage the
reading of instructive matter.
Mr. D. I’. Morgan, the banker, has
sold to Mr. D. O. Mills, the California
millionaire, his mansion on Fifth avenue,
opposite tnecathedral, New York, fully
furnished, for $376,000.
Last year there were 17,000 cases of
yellow fever and 5,106 deaths in Mem
phis. This year the number of cases was
1,603 and there were 498 deaths. The
official notice of the end of the yellow
fever epidemic in Memphis comes four
days earlier than the similar one of Oc
tober 29, 1878.
Locomotives are used on canal tow
paths of France. They arc of light
build, not weighing over fouroplrrvc tons,
and are easily managed by one man.
Barges arc thus drawn at a speed of two
miles an hour, about twice the mean rate
of a horse on the tow-path. Any empty
vessel is drawn six miles an hour, hot a
greater speed would damage the hanks
of the canal.
A father never thinks his ten-year-old
son is stronger than a horse until lie em
ploys him to turn the grindstone to
sharpen an old axe that is about as sharp
at one end as the other. The old man
bears on until the lad’s eyes hang out and
his trowsers’ buckle flies off, and just ls
fore he bursts a blood vessel his father
encourages him with the remark, “Does
—it-—turn—hard?” Thousands of Imys
have run away from home and become
pirates and greenbackers in order to es
cape a second siege at the grindstone.—
[Norristown Herald.
The J'roilt in the Bubbles.
A German gentleman who ke< ps a j
seven bv nine lager beer shop at the j
South End, treated himself to a day’s j
vacation recently, leaving his son in
ciiarge of “ ter pizzinesa” and a keg o( I
beer. On his return he found the keg |
empty and addressed his offspring as fob j
lows: “ How is this, Yawcob, dot I
you make me only und dollar and (
dirty cents for dose keg of beer .' .'ho •
me how von draws der peer. ’ Yaiveob
took tiie glass and drew it nearly full
of beer, with but the least margin ot
froth, when the old gentleman, seizing
his hand, said: “You make dose glasses !
■stand higher down from der keg. Yaw- i
cob, der profit iu der js-er pizzinewi is in
der pebble*.”
Wn*T All-. TOP TTORI.Itt
“ What ails (he world?” the poet cried—
“And why docs death walk everywhere?
And why do tears fall anywhere?
And skies have clouds, and souls hare carer*
And thus tho poet sang, and sighed.
For ho would fain have all things glad,
All lives happy, nil hearts bright—
Not a day would end in night,
Not a wrong would vex a right—
And so he sang—aud ho was sad.
Thro*"his very grandest rhyme*
Moved a mournful monotone —
Idkc a shadow eastward thrown
From a sunset— like a moan
Tangled in a Joy-bell's chimes.
“ What ails the world?” he song, and asked
And asked and sang—but all in vain—
No answer came to any strain,
And no reply to his refrain—
The mystery moved ‘round him, masked.
“ Wlmt ails tlu> world?” an echo cam© —
‘‘Ails the world?” The minstrel laml*.
With famous or Uu4Hr,
l,m up their lyres m all the lamia,
And chant alike, ami ask the same—
Fr >m him whose soul first soared in song—
A thousand-thousand years away,
To him who sang hut yesterday,
In dying or in deathless lay—
“ What ails the world?” comes from tho throng.
They fain would sing tho world to rest—
And so they chant in countless key*
As many its the waves of seas,
Ami as the breathings of the breexe,
Yet even when they sing their best—
When o’er the list'ning world there float*
Such melody as 'raptures men—
When all look up entranced—and when
The song of fame flout* forth—e’en then
A discord ereepetli thro* the notes.
Their sweetest harps have broken strings
Their grandest accords have tlieir jars—
Ltko shadows on the light of stars—
And somehow, something over mars
The song the greatest minstrel sings.
And so each song is incomplete,
Aud not a rhyme can ever round
Into the chords of perfect sound,
Tho tones of thought that e’er surround
Tho ways walked by the poet’s feet.
“ What ails tho world?” he slugs and sigh*—
No answer cometh to his cry—
Ho auks tho earth and asks tho sky—
The echoes of his song pass by
Unanswered—and the pool dies.
ANITA, THE DANSEUSE.
Tho prompter’s bell rings, the full
notes ot tho orchestra, crash out on the
perfumed air, tho suppressed hum of
voices and the soft frou-frou of fans
cease, the great green curtain raises
swiftly, there is a sound of castinets in
the air, aud Anita bounds ou the stage
with the grace and beauty of—Anita
alone. For thero is nothing to which I
can compare, her, save her glorious Belf.
Rather above the medium height,
slender, but not thin. A face that at
trae.ts and repels.
An olive skin, clear r.nd colorless,
long, black, almond-shaped eyes, a del
icate, patrician nose, with finely-curved,
, sensitive nostrils, lips always a bright
crimson, the upper short and curved
like the old Greek goddesses, hair black
as night, with a purple bloom in it*
meshes.
iev_ .ni rial- 1 -
block, with a firm, unflinching step, and
a smile on her mouth, to save one she
loved, and you could fancy her driving
tho steel of her poniard home to tho
heart of that same loved one should ho
prove faithless.
As yet Anita had no lovers. Admirers
by tho score. But when they began to
speak of love she curled her lips scorn
fully, and answered them in words to
match tier scornful smile. If that did
not repel them she opened her almond
eyes lull upon them, and in few words
gave them to understand beyond all
doubt that there was no hope, that she
did not wish to marry. And they slunk
away, wondering how it was that Anita,
who was so bright and quick in all else,
could be so dull in affairs o f the heart.
Marriage indeed! liut none had the
temerity to undeceive her.
1 ler mother had been dead a year, and
a little over, when out story opens.
Bright, beautiful Rosa Camacho. Hlie
had not tho high-bred, patrician air of
Anita, but she was a thousand times
more beautiful. A fairer skin, a rounded
dimpled form, and ahead of dusky gold,
over which all Spain went mad.
•She was a (lanscusc, like Anita, and it
was whispered—there was a rumor—
Bah! who that has beauty escapes
slander? And Rosa was very beautiful,
and a danseuse.
Anita’s father died when she was an
infant, so sho was told, and the death of
her mother left her quite alone. To her,
her mother was an angel, and her death
left Anita desolate.
Anita comes before them to-night, her
beautiful limbs bared to tho knees, a
short silken skirt of red, a black velvet
bodice, narrow comb at the hack of her
dusky head, a face vail thrown in true
Spanish fashion over it, one red rose at
her breast. She bends low, and smiles
brightly to their applause, and then her
lithe, form sways gently, gracefully, to
the rhythm of the orchestra.
When the dance is finished, she is
deal in- I with applause, she is showered
with bouquet sof beautiful flowers. Rhe
stoop ; to gather them, when from a
private box on her right, a bouquet all
of l oses, red roses, her favorites, is tossed
to her, striking her lightly on her breast
as it falls;
Bho raise- her eyes and meets tho
earnest gaze of the donor, a fair-liaired,
blue-eyed Englishman.
Anita gathers them all hastily, and
retires, trembling in every limb.
The curtain falls, the orchestra plays,
the people talk of her, for a moment.
What grace! What beauty! They
never ob-erved until to-night just how
b utiful Anita is; she is always so
ciilhl' ■■■ But to-night, when she
gathered her flowers, she was almost as
lovely as [toor Rosa, her mother. And
it was all owing to the bright dash of
crimson that came to her cheeks. Why
does she not rouge? Being a danseuse,
she could do that sort of thing and he
none the worse. What does it mattoi
w hat a danseuse does? And then the
conversation drifts to the play, or a
little bit of scandal.
And Anita! Hhe is pale enough now,
trembling still, and with an angry gleam
in her black eyes.
Is she in her dotage, that a pair of
blue eyes should call the blood to her
chi eks like, that?”
r'ne rises hastily, strips off the gaudy
A:irt and its belongings, and presently
emerges from her dressing-room, a tali,
slender figure, all in somber black.
As she crosses the stage at the back,
her manager speaks to her.
■“ < tne moment, please, allow me: Lord
Erdcine, let me present you to Anil*
(’.i maiii'lio,”
And the donor of the roses bows low
before her:
* * * * # * *
Three months Inter. The voice of
Mrs. Grundy, or rather Mr. Grundy
—and, by the way, whv Mrs. Grundy
should always gain credit for all tllo
smart, bitter things that are said, I can
not imagine. I can assure you I go
through life with my ears wide open,
and Mr. Grundy irlls me more ill-natti red
gossip of my neighbors in a month than
does madam, his spouse, in a year.
First Speaker.— “There goes Lord
1 '.r-kino's turnout. Bang up, isn’t it?
And Anita with him as usual. By Jovel
that girl played her card* well. Bbe
know Iter value, and still held aloof.
The result?’’
Second Speaker. —“Aw, there can ho
bat one, you Jfnow JErskineiwpuld
never think of marrying the girl, and
the Camancho is too sensible to expect
it, I should say.”
First Speaker. —“l think you make
a slight mistake there, old fellow. And
if Erskine makes the same—well, heaven
help him. For Anita lms a sleeping
devil in her that I should not care to
arouse.”
Second Speaker. —“Aw, that’s just it.
As you say, old boy, she lias a sleeping
devil in nor eye; and on one occasion
when 1 attempted to pass my arm j>luy
fnlly around her waist, 1, aw, thought
him remarkably wide-awake. Doocid
absurd for a danseuse, you know. What
do you say to a game ol billiards?” And
tlioy pass on.
A faint echo from Mrs. Grundy.
“Wliy I had uo idea Anita danced to
night, or I assure you, my dear Mrs.
Shallow, I should not have come. Of
course when they all praised her prudence
and all that sort of thing, I never be
lieved a word of it. But ono must be
amused. However, the creature lias
flaunted this a flair so shamelessly in our
faces, •driving and dining in public,
and all that you know, that really
Bah 1 let us go elsewhere.”
Behind the scenes.—“l say, Mordunnt,
whoso coupe is that at the door, and for
whom is it waiting?”
“Don’tyou know? Why, where have
you kept yourself this month of Holi
days? It is Lord Erskine’s carriage, and
it waits—/or Rosa’s own daughter.”
Of such men assassins are made.
The stone flung at Anita would not
suffice. The poor dead mother must
come in for a fling. It was “pure
womanly” according to the world’s
judgment. •
Do not turn away. I do not wonder
you are tired of listening to those
moulll-pieces of the world. I will only
ask you to pay one more visit to-night.
To Anita herself. Here wo arc. Ah!
stejp hack and close the door softly.
In her snowy robe dr. vu.it, t his danseuse,
“ Rosa's own mother,” kneels nt\(,l yruvs.
ye and do likewise.
Bray the good Lord in Ilia mercy to
forgive your evil hearts and slanderous
tongues.
* * * *
“Aniln, most fascinating of women, I
have something I wish to say to you.
1 never thought a woman could allect
mens you have done. Day and night
you are in my thoughts. Ido not seem
to live save when I am with you. You
haunt mein my dreams. lam unhappy
when I am not with you. Is not ibis
love, my Anita? Ami will you not love
me in return?”
“Ah, Ernest, my loved one, have you
not known long e.ro this, that this heart
of mine was all thine own? I could not
drive the glad blood from my cheek as
it leaped there at the sound of your
voice, your footfall, nor the gladness and
joy from my eyes. And 1 would not, if
1 could. Every word, thought, breath
is thine. But, oh, my beloved one, I
need to be an angel to be worthy your
love and your name—and 1 am, alas!
hut a poor little danseuse! What a
necromancer is love. I used to think
that to bo premier danseuse at the Grand
Theater, one- had a right to he proud,
that it was a position to work for, and to
glory in. Now lam ashamed of it.”
lie does not hear her, has heard
nothing since those words, “1 need to lie
an angel to be worthy your love and your
name,” fell on his ear. Gan she be' so
blind?
lleglances at her face. Oh, the bright
halo that love bad flung round it) Yes,
it is clear she thinks so, that be has laid
at her feet the proud old name be bears,
and with that smile on her lips and in
her eyes, be cannot undeceive tier.
*••***
That night, as Anita steps out on her
balcony, at the Palace Hotel, her own
name, in the voice so dear to her, falls
on the listening car.
“Anita you refer to, no doubt. Now,
gee here, old fellow, don’t make any mis
take. There is no better, purer girl in
the world than Anita not among your
people oi my own. I was ho t attracted
by her beauty, which is incomparable.
Then, when I knew her better, by her
own intrinsic merit—and, I confess, were
it not for my father, who would cut nift
oil with a shilling were I to make such
misalliance , f would marry her to-morrow
As it is, it is out of the question to
marry her; quite impossible-equally
impossible to give her up. The crisisP*
Anita gropes her way blindly through
the open window into her apartment,
whispering, softly:
“ Impossible to marry her. He said
that —‘impossible to rnarry her!’ Then
it is time for thee to die, Anita.”
And they find her there the following
day, a poniard up to its hilt in her
young heart, her eyes wide open, and
wearing a look of horror, an awful smile
on the sweet dead mouth.
Thus died Anita, “l’osa’s own
(laughter.”
A lady with a little hoy went into a
well known restaurant the other daj
ami after the two had absorbed 100d #
demurred against paying for what tbs
child had eaten, on the ground that he
was under ten years of age. It was
with some difficulty that she was made
to understand that railroad rules do not
apply in eating saloons.
" Will, you ever be mi no,’ lie a-keil
her rapturously; and whensiieanswered,
“There is one above knows all,” he
thought i amp-meeting had struck in and
clinched; but she oolv referred to the
old mao, who was - lumbering in the
“ front room second. '
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
Eaas come in layers.
A pair off— an eloping couple.
It is spring that brings rc-leaf to the
tree.
Which is the most ancient of trees?
The elder.
T 11 r: Board of Education—a school
master’s shingle.
The flower of the family is generally
found in a sacque.
The man with no teeth is always
looking for a soft thing.
Tub now broom sweeps clean when it
is properly handled.
The trapeze performer is sometimes
heels over head in business.
A Columbus (Ohio) young lady wants
to kiss Joe Jefferson. Let her, Kip.
An undertaker at a wedding is the
rite man in the wrong place.
Falling down stairs gives a fellow*
wonderful insight into the starry king
dom.
A wicked rhiladelphian wants to
know if there are any fire-escapes in the
next world.
“You don’t seem to like mo when I
mould,” the ink replied t<> the angry
scribe.
Love may he blind before marriage,
hut—ah, yes, we forgot—there is no love
after marriage.
“A fraud in silks,” is the startling
headline in an exchange. . Ahl Went
hiu'k.on ym, did she?
.V younq man is apt to think the
t’r.ios aro hard when ho cannot get. o soft
place.
SINCE the decline in cotton one meets
a great many well-developed girls on the
street.
“What’s more sacred than matri
mony?” asks an exchange. Divorces.
Ask us one with a Gordian knot.
The Whitehall Times has learned why
Samson was so strong. Ho never took
tho trouble to bathe in the Jordan.
A Bridgeport grave-yard is used for
tho pasturing of goats. Goats are very
partial to man’s resting place. —Danbury
News.
NO. 11.
General Sciienck can brag of his
skill at poker, but wo know a man who
has never been beaten a game. He never
played.
A itootc entitled “Letters from a Cat”
is announced. It will probably give us
tho other side of the boot-jack and back
yard question.
It is stated that Kobert Bonner is tho
happy possessor of over eighty horses, all
of which have records. Who can boast
of as many fast friends?
Tiik Hackensack Republican speaks of
“a smile as long as a summer day.”
That’s a very delicate way to refor to a
cask of Jersey lightning.
Man wants Dut. little here below.
True, and saleratus in the breakfast
biscuit is no exception to the general
rule.
A wag who had lent a minister a
horse that had run away and thrown tho
clergyman, claimed credit for spreading
tho gospel.
The supreme moment of a loafer’s
life is when a candidate asks for the use
of his influence with the workingmen of
his ward.
A Wikconhin city, in order to avoid
scandals in the girls' schools lias decided
that tin 1 leading teachers shall he
women. They want principals, not men.
The Buflalo' lUpee. is doing its best
firmer -. frv .flT7Tpr'7lH i'ii.i 'A go i iV
of Mr. Dana. The editor of the Kupress
appears to In a man who doesn’t know a
good thing when lie secs it. Why can’t
lie let wi ll enough alone.— Atlanta Con
stitution.
Nowadays a man strolls down to the
corner grocery in tho evening, gets
trusted for an yea::l, cake and samples
every basket of peaches or pears in tlia
store. Value of the yeast cake, two
cents; samples, fifteen cents. And yet
ujrocers accumulate fortunes
They were courting: “What makes
the stars so dim to-night?” she said,
softly. “ Your eyes aro so much
brighter,” he whispered, pressing her
little hand. They are married now:
“ I wonder how many telegraph poles it
would take to reach from hero to the
stars,” she remarked, musingly. “ One,
if it is long enough,” he growled. “ Why
don’t you talk common sense?”
It is etiquette that makes a woman
say, when at an evening review her pet
corn is crushed byAi young Lothario, and
deadly pangs gallop all through her,
“Oh, there’s no harm done 1 assure you;
1 shouldn’t have noticed it hut for your
apology.” But frankness generally gets
the better of etiquette when she reaches
the sacred precincts of home and her
husband joggles the same foot and sho
exclaims, “Ouch! you horrid brute!
you’ll he the death of irio yet; wh>
don’t you look wlicro you are going ”
Lizzie W. Fletgiier asks in poem
“ If I should 'lie to-night what would
you do?” Liz, that’s a very refreshing
conundrum for this season. If you
niiuiild die to-night it would of course
nee" chute a visit of the coroner in the
morning, and then, you know, Liz, we’d
have to hoy you new clothes to wear in
the other place, and a minister with
great lantern jaws would stand over yoU
and say good things. Then we’d have to
hire carriages, you know, and times are
very hard, and money isn’t very plenti
ful. A first ela-s funeral cost* about
IlfiO, Liz; so don’t for the world think
of going off suddenly. Wait until thing*
look a little better for speculation.
A Base Proposition.
A Wilkes-Barre ex-baaker, who has
the reputation of being a hard pay, was
waited upon the other day by a man
who began:
“ Mr. Brown, I hold your noteJ r S7O.
It is 10n,,! past due, ami I w*nte<r to see
what you would do olxvnjlig ’’ J
“Mg note? Ah, yes, th-Ts my note.
For value received 1 promiseVj pay, and
so forth. Have y<*u been to the note
shavers with this?”
“ 1 have, but none of them would have
it.”
“ Wouldn’t eh? And you tried the
banks ! ’
“ Yes, sir, but they wouldn’t look at
it.”
“ Wouldn’t, eh? And you went to a
justice to see about it?”
“ 1 did, but he said a judgment
wouldn’t be worth a dollar.”
Did, cli? Aml now what proposition
do von wish to make?”
“ 1 his is your note for S7O. Give me
f5, and you can have it.”
“ Fire dollars! No sir! Nosir! I have
no money to throwaway, sir.”
“ But it is your own note.”
True, sir; very true, but I’m not
such an idiot as to throwaway money on
worthless securities, no matter who signs
t) m. 1 deal only in firet-class paper,
sir. and when that note has a negotiable
value I will he pleased to discount it.
G aid day, sir looks like settled weather
again.”