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Jto Josnp Seine], ■?9ffiee in the Jesup House, fronting on Cnerrj street, two doors from Broad Sfc. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... TANARUS, P LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid,) One year $2 00 Six mouths 1 00 Three mouths 50 ' Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per souarc, eac h subsequent insertion. 75 ;f2£T Special rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. 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.”