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NORTH GEORGIA TIMES.
NAuVinII Editor. nod Pr.prl.tors,
SONG OF THE PINES,
Oh, song so strange, oh, song so sad,
The pines keep ever chanting.
Why is it when the world is glad
Seems sorrow to be haunting
These dark old woods in Southern land,
Where trees grow tail, unbending,
And solitude beeemetfh grand,
When years have Brought no ending!
Is Nature closer/ to us here?
We think of wise old
Who found her/teachings always clear,
Far back itythoee dim ages.
She sympathised with human woe,
And setto music willing,
The melqdy so sad nnd low
Thesodonely woods is filling.
—ifauellie V. Dudley.
Music and Matrimony.
When a “floating” young man of
thirty years has * sister of eighteen ready
to graduate from the boarding school
which has conveniently swallowed her
mp for the last eight years what is he to
■do with her? This was the question that
P«vled Frank Curtis. He remembered
sister as a very pretty little girl,
though he had not seen her for three
years. There was no help for it. Frank
saw that matrimony for him was immi¬
nent.
About Ihis time he made a trip with
the Cutler family; they were rich and
self-made, worshiping their maker, and
the household consisted of father, moth¬
er, and daughter, still under twenty-five.
Joseph Cutler, of Cutler,Sheffield & Co.,
was reputed worth $5,000,000, of which
one at least tho golden youth hoped
would be settled on his daughter Lizzie
as a bride. Not very clever, not very
pretty, she at least knew that her money
could buy her whatever she wanted in
the way of a husband, and slio was con¬
tent to wait 'until chance should bring
her the mau,vho most nearly resembled
her ideal v
Frank Curtis’ wooing was brief after
he h*a once decided that Lizzie Cutler's
Winey would provide a luxurious homo
for himself and his sister. He had a
small income of his own, and was con
sidered clever in his profession. Con¬
gratulations began to pour in thick and
fast on the pair when a hundred-thou
eand dollar house began to riso at Mr.
Cutler's expense, to be ready for the
young couple on their return from their
bridal trip. They were to take in Clara
Ourtis’ commencement as they traveled,
and bring her home with them.
Frank was agreeably surprised at his
sister’s appearance when he and his bride
arrived at her school. In a vague, mascu¬
line way he felt that she and Lizzie did
not seem very congenial, but he supposed
that would wear off after a little.
“Of course you are coming to-night,”
said Clara. “It’s our concert.” “I play,”
she continued, dimpling and blushing,
“a dfict for violin and piano with Mr.
HptSmann.”
r Frank nodded, He was fond of
mu
sic, and, to sit through a whole evening
of school-girl playing and singing was a
sacrifice on the altar of fraternal affec¬
tion and the proprieties. As for Lizzie
she always frankly avowed that good
music sent her to sleep. But she be¬
came suddenly attentive, and so did
Frank, when Clara appeared with the
violin and the professor took the piano.
Frank heard genius in the moaning and
wailing under her hands of that most
perfect instrument. If she had been
pretty before, she became transfigured
how. He wondered how she felt, stand¬
ing before all those people of whom,
perhaps, not one in ten understood what
she was playing. But the novelty of the
thing, the sweet face lovingly pressed
against the violin, the delicate fingers
dashing over the strings, brought down
the house. She was the success of the
evening, and had her first taste of that,
intoxicating drink—the applause of the
multitude.
“I congratulate you,” said her
brother. “I was proud of you to-night.”
“Clara. Professor Max wants all in the
music-room,” said one of of her com¬
panions, and Mr. and Mrs. Curtis were
left alone, while Clara and her fellow
performers pursued their way to the
presence of the professor of music and
German, a fair-haired, powerfully built
man of one or two and thirty years,
known among his fluttering pupils as
Professor Max, and addressed by them
a* Mr. Heldmann. He congratulated
them on their success, and then dis¬
missed all but Clara.
“Ihave told you many times now al¬
ready, Miss Curtis,” he said. “You have
genius that you should cultivate. I ad¬
vise you that you go • to Europe and
study. ”
“Be a professional player?” said Clara,
with wide eyes. “AYhat would my
brother sav?’’
“Tallf to him about it. He will yield.
Break from your friends, from love; you
were barn to b* great. Mutt you smother
mob a talent) And tor what? That.
SPRING PLACE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27. 1886.
foolish men make love to you In a ball¬
room, and you marry and die like other
women. What for a career is that fot
Yon? I love you. X tell you SO, blit you
must not love me. I give you to art.
You must love some day, otherwise your
playing Will alway lack; then you will
know what I have done in leaving you
free from my love, for I ask nothing
back. All that I can do to help y'ou will
Ido. You must call on me when you
need me, and - when you have the world
at your feet after your triumph, think
once at home of the man who first set free
the fluttering wings of your genius. Re¬
member what I tell you.”
Clara, bewildered and frightened, only
saw the tears dim his bright blue eyes,
only felt two bearded lips on her cold
hands, and she was alone with the
memory of her first love affair. She
went home with her brother and his
wife, was called upon, went to balls, en¬
tered upon a round ol gayeties appropri¬
ate to a girl upon her first season, under
the chaperonage of a sister-in-laW whose
prestige of Wealth cast a glamour over
her. But she was hot altogether a suc¬
cess. Men thought her quiet and trans¬
cendental; Women, shy and uninterest¬
ing. She practiced incessantly, much to
the disgust of Lizzie, who declared to
her husband thnt the scraping of Clara’s
fiddle drove her crazy. Every day only
proved more conclusively that she and
her sister-in law were made of different
clay.
That conversation with Heldmann in
the music-room recurred to Clara again
and again.
Another thing troubled her, and that
was the very evident desire of Frank and
Lizzie to see her married. She had been
at home a year now. She had noticed
that Harry Bennett, a friend of her
brother, was beginning to act toward her
very much as poor Profossor Max had
behaved before his explanation in the
music room. She liked Harry, but what
he saw in her to care for in that way
puzzled her greatly.
He called one afternoon and found
Clara practicing. “Confess that you
don’t really like that stuff,” he said, as
she laid aside the violin. “You only
play it because you think you ought to.”
“It is tho best part of my life,” she
answered gravely; “the only part that I
feel is worth
“I know,” said Harry. “All young
girls think they ought to live for some¬
thing. That’s part of their boarding
school training; bnt I have been hoping
for months that we might try life to¬
gether. You shall do just as you like—
practice all day long if you want to. ”
“Don’t think that I am ungrateful,”
said Clara, in a low voice; “but I can’t,
indeed I can’t. Musicians tell me that
I can, if I will, become a great violinist.
I shall open the subject to my brother
this very evening.”
“Clara, don’t do that, I implore you.
You don’t know anything of that kind
of life; you don’t know what terrible
influences will be brought to bear on
you. Give up the fancy; I wish I could
move you by sayinar, ‘for my sake.’ Give
it up.”
But Clara thought of Professor Max’s
words, and nerved herself for an inter¬
view with her brother. It was more
stormy than she had anticipated. From
his standpoint she was absolutely inex¬
cusable'and equally incomprehensible.
But they were obliged to give way before
her determination. Tho world discov¬
ered that the Curtises had quarreled with
Clara and sent her to Europe, and her
name was dropped from its visiting
books and after a while from its mind.
She sent one letter to her relatives, but
Lizzie returned it unopened, without con¬
sulting Frank, and they received no more
communications. They learned through
an ever-vigilant press that Miss Curtis, a
young American girl had, as Clara An
selmo, made a brilliant debut abroad,
and after that they lost sight of her
for several years. On taking up his
paper oae morning Frank discovered that
the celebrated violinist, Mme. Clara An
selmo, and the great Polish pianist and
composer, Phillippe Noel, who rivaled
Chopin in his delicate fancy and the
strain of French blood that gave him his
name, had been engaged for a series of
concerts.
“It is the worst possible taste for her
to come back here,” said Lizzie. “Of
course, you will take no notice.”
“Most people have forgotten her ex¬
istence by this time,” said Frank, depre
catingly. “I shouldn’t dream of your
going, but think I shall go and hear her
play.”
He went. Across the hall he saw
Harry Bennett and his pretty fiance, un¬
conscious of any interest but music on
Harry’s part, for Glare was years before
her day. Harry seemed excited and
nervous, and, in watching him, Frank
forgot to look for his sister’s entrance
until the welcoming applause of the
audienoe aroused him.
She was the game Clara, simple and
quiet as Over, except added that a close ob¬
server Could see power in her
serene forehead and direct gaze. But
once in the full tide of sound she seemed
to become etherealized with excitement
and delight. Max Heldmann was right.
This was her world, the career for which
Bhb Was borh. The audience was roused
to furor by the violin and pianb duet
composed by Noel and played by him
and Clara. Even Harry could not but
feel tho sympathy and perfect accord
between the two. He turned to the
pretty girl by his side and knew that she
was all his, but he felt that if he had
married Clara she would always have
escaped from him on the wings of music.
When she played she no longer belonged
to earth.
Unknown to Lizzie, Frank went to see
his sister the next morning. Ho met
Harry in the hotel parlor, and they went
together to her rooms, annoyed to find
early as it was, the pianoist Noel was
already there, apparently on an intimate
footing. But perhaps he had only come
to practice. Ho rose with Clara as the
two men camo forward.
“Frank, I am very, very glad to see you.
I didn’t hope for this,” she said, giving
him att affectionate kiss, and holding
out her hand to Harry. “This is my
husband, M. Noel Philippe, my brothef,
Mr. Curtis, and his friend, Mr. Ben¬
nett.”
Frank was startled and Harry dis¬
mayed. Something still stirred in tho
depths Of his heart for her in spite
of the seven years nnd the now love.
Noel excused himself on a plea of an en¬
gagement, murmuring in French to
Clara: “You will dobottor without me,’*
and departed,
“And you never sent me a word of
the change in your life, Claw,” said
Frank, reproachfully.
“I had no encouragement,” she an¬
swered, and blushed a little. “When
my first letter was sent back unopened,'
naturally I did not make a second' at
tempt, considering our parting.”
“Sent back!” began Frank; then re
raembering Harry’s presence, and
jecturing Lizzie’s work, he said hastily!
“Forgive me; tell me about yourself
now,”
“If you care to hear, Mr. Bennett, you
won’t be bored. No? Well, I studied
hard, night and day, as you may sup
pose. My debut was wonderfully sue
cessful. I may tell you that without
conceit. They said I was a full-fledged
artist, and the house fairly rocked with
applause. You cannot imagine the
triumph, the bliss. To know that you
have the power to express to others what
music says to you, and that you sway
them with your emotions; to feel—feel
to your highest and deepest capacity,
and leave it all hero—.” She held out
her hands with a quaint foreign gesture.
“I am happy. Then Philippe”—she
paused a moment and went on—“music
gave us to each other. His first
composition was dedicated to me,
and I never played anything so
well as what he writes. AVe
were married three years ago, and—he is
half of my soul, as I am of his. Don’t
smile, Harry. You cannot feel the
divineness of music, and I cannot tell
you; but the universe is in it, and when
words are too feeble we play together—
he and I. ”
She had risen, and stood before them
with loosely-clasped hands and far-away
eyes. Frank, in his well-fed, placid,
domestic life; Harry, in his struggle for
the almighty dollar and his tranquil en¬
gagement, could- not follow her if they
tried, and they did not try. They
vaguely felt that she lived in an atmos
phere too rare for them; that poets write
of but never find. Then Noel came back
and they rose to go.
“God bless you, Clara, wherever you
may go,” said her brother in farewell.
“God bless you, Clara,” said Harry,
clasping her hands.
But when they were gone she leaned
her head against her husband’s arm, with
the light still in her face, and as sb/; bent
his face above her hair, in her he/.rt she
blessed Max Heldmann, who ba/l given
her to art and to love.
Securing His Notes.
Fitzgay appeared on the street when
the thermometer was eighty-two degrees
in the shade, with a pair of earmuffs
adorning the side of his head.
“HelloP said a friend. “AVhat’s tho
matter? Aren’t afraid of your ears be¬
ing frostbitten, are you?”
“Oh, na-a-w; not at all, thanks. AVent
to the Thomas concert last night. Don’t
want any of the harmony to escape, ye
know.”— Hartford Post.
It is said that a crocodile can bring its
jaws together with a force of over 300
pounds, and a man who had his fingers
caught will tell you that a crocodile is
not a circumstance to a crack of a door,
— Spicer,
/ ■
THE CIVIL SERVICE,
Questions that are Aeked Applicants
for taoverninrnt Positions.
“C. J. S.,” of Toledo, writes: “I am
a young man of nineteen, and am ahxiouSi
to enter the government service. I know
that I must have an examination, under
the civil service rules, but what does that
examination consist of ? Can’t I procure
a list of the questions to be asked arid
post up oh them?”
You cannot. The questions are differ¬
ent at each examination, and even the
Examining Board would not know them
until the very day of the examination.
In previous examinations applicants have
been asked, for instance, to write the
following Words and spell them correctly:
buisnes ■ exeede tfehevement
asperate beauro prescious leekngo reccomendashion
txjleive
chartay ■ emenata* regis errod, 4, ’
storeage oension tonnage
guager prinseple abcanso
In mathematics tho following exam¬
ples were given out:
Question 1. During the "fiscal' year
1884 the exhortation of cotton from cer¬
tain Ameri^n ports was as follows:
New OrleansfTfiS,698,618 pounds; Bal¬
timore, 8t,S20;654 pounds; New York,
278,258,856 pounds; Yorktown, 11,208,-
245 pounds; Galveston, 190,574,067
pounds. What Oras the total number of
pounds exported frdm the ports named?
How long will it take fifty clerks to
Count $1,500,000 in silver coin, one half
of which is in half-dollars and the other
half in.quarter dollars, each Clerk count¬
ing at the rate of fifty nieces a minute?
Write in figures one million one thous¬
and and one dollars and one cent.
The Multiply 057,134 by 3.209, / mail
whole number of pieces of
matter handled at 112 postoffices was 1,-
148,518,880. What was the average num¬
ber of pieces for each office?
In the fourth subject the following
samples arev selected from the many
given out 4 ! 4 |
Express your own language, at
g reil ter longth and in good prose, chang
ing thp ppucipal words, the thoughts
cont aihfed j^Vn^l.nlTtiri^Mgjw. in tho follow verses!
^ifn„ il.r
To sport would be as tedious as to wished work;
But when they seldom come,they for
Ant^nothing pleasetl^but rare accidents.”
c the following 8ent ences and cor
rect (he errors of syntax which they con .
ta ; n .
G f a p ot jj er simpletons he was the
greatest.
‘ ‘Everybody has recollections which
they think worthy of recording.”
Neither James, John or Peter were
present.
Copy the threo following sentences,
changing them so as to remove the am¬
biguities which they contain:
He stood at the window in Paris, where
the crowd was assembled and saw the
conflagation.
Walter told his brother William that
his face was tied up because he mot with
an accident.
Please send to mo at Washington the
Daily Sun , of Baltimore, where I shall
remain ilext winter.
In geography the questions were given
out:
AVhat is a republican form of govern¬
ment?
AVhen did the present constitution of
the United States go into effect?
Which three States extend farthest
north, and which three farthest south?
Describe the course of the following
rivers, giving the source, direction, and
mouth of each: Hudson, Delaware, Po¬
tomac, Missouri, Arkansas?
AVhat States are bounded in part by
the Missouri river?
In what wars did the following bat¬
tles occur: Bunker Hill, Lundy’s Lane,
Eutaw Springs, Gettysburg, Palo Alto,
Lake Erie, Heights of Abraham, Sara¬
toga, Stone River?
Name five principal American generals
and five British generals of the Revolu¬
tionary war?
Give the date and circumstances of
the Louisiana purchase.
Describe the executive branch of the
United Stales government, and name
the several departments belonging to it.
Describe the Senate of the United
States, giving its numbers and functions
peculiar to it, not belonging to the
Hduse of Representatives?
In the modern languages candidates
were required to make translations -in
French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Id chemistry and chemical physics the
following questions were asked:
What is the relation of volume of
gases to pressure?
What is Dalton’s atomic theory?
State what you know of the combin¬
ing volume of gases.
Desoribo speotrum analysis.
Disousa carbon and its compounds. A
Desoribe the structure of flame, and
describe the blow-pipe and its mode of
use.
In the Signal Service examination, un-
VOL. V. New Senes. No. 29.
dcr the head of “Theory of Instruments,"
the fallowing quBstions were asked •
State the sources of errors in thermom¬
eters and in the various methods of
determining the temperature of the air.
Explain a method of calibration and
the calculation of the calibration error of
thermometers.
Explain the method of determining
the tension of ally air that may be pres¬
ent in the vacuum chamber of a mercur¬
ial barometer.
Explain the theory of the optical prin¬
icol ciples involved in the ordinary astronom
sextant.
Explain tho method of determining
the dip of the magnetic needle by tho
use of the dip circle.
Considerable space has been given up
to this subject for the reason that so
many letters have been received of late
from young men making various inqui¬
ries regarding the civii service rules.
Any candidate who falls to answer sixty
per cent, of the questions propounded is
barred out. There is an examination for
every branch of government employ, no
two examinations being Alike, and it
must be quite evident to the reader, from
the samgje questions above quoted, that
a candidate who is not naturally intelli¬
gent, and who has not been at least
fairly educated, will stand a poor show
of securing a place.—if. Quad, its De¬
troit Free Press.
How He Became Rich.
respondent says:
ieson of Lima,
Ohio,,is an old and intimate friend of
Cal Jfelcc, the millionaire, who has'
grownup m A night, like Jack’s heaven
reaching bean stalk. Said he to-night:
“About five years ago B«SBe wasn’t worth
a dollar; now he has made two or three
fortunes, lost enough to build the new
national library, and has $5,000,000 left.
He is under forty, of medium height,
wiry, and, liko Jerusalem, compactly
built together. He has bright eye3, red
whiskers, and a common sense demo¬
cratic air. He began life as a* young
lawyer at Lima, and his first railroad
spqculatioa was wit^ the strip of road
which run from Fremont, to Lima. Ho
thought he saw money in it, mortgaged
his property, went to Europe, interested
some parties in it there, and coming
back, With the aid of Charles Foster,
made a nice little speculation out of it,
He netted, I think, about $60,
000 . His next enterprise was
1 1 ] 10 Ohio Centra!, running down
, into the coal fields. In this he
lost, his $60,000, and whon lie
had finished it he owed Foster $115,
000. Foster had confidence in him,
however, and the two got their heads
together and ran a br; neb of the road
into the Sunday Creek Valley coal
fields. This branch paid so well that it
redeemed the other and the result was
i that Brice paid off Foster and had
about $135,000 left. Then be origi¬
nated the Nickel-Plate, pushed it
through and in connection with several
others made from it $13,000,000. Since
then he has been speculating in railroads
and lost some money, but made more.
He was largely interested in a road
through East Tennessee and Georgia
when the crash of about a year and a
half ago occurred. He was absent in
Europe at the time, and ho found mat¬
ters in a bad way on his return. He
has since been straightening them out
and put tho road into better shapo. Mr.
Brice now lives in New York. He lias
a residence on Murray Hill for which he
paid $250,000. It is filled with furniture
bric-a-brac and pictures which have cost
a fortune. He has a very fine library, is
fond of literature and is a man of con¬
siderable culture, lie has a strong mind,
great speculative ability and never loses
his head.
Peas and Love.
Peas are sacred to Freya, almost vying
with the mistletoe in alleged virtue for
lovers, says an exchange. In one district
of Bohemia the girls go into a field of
peas and make there a garland of live or
seven kinds of flowers, all of different
hues. This garland they must sleep upon,
lying with their right ear upon it, and
then they hear a voice from underground,
which tells what manner of raon they
will have for husbands. Sweet peas
would doubtless prove very effectual in
this kind of divination, and there need
be no difficulty in finding them of dif¬
ferent hbes. If Hertfordshire, England,
girls are lucky enough to find a pod con¬
taining nine peas they iay it under a
gato and believe they will have for hus¬
band the first man that passes through.
On the borders unlucky lads and lasses
in courtship are rubbed down with pea
straw by friends of the opposite sox.
These beliefs connected with peas are
very widespead.
Nearly all the London newspapers buy
their print paper in Germany.
FUN.
A sliver in the bush is worth two tc
the hand.
The silent watches of the night—Those
not. wound up.
The mosquito begins to send in nil
bill as soon as tho plumber leaves off.—
Boston Post.
The woman question—Now, isn’t thb
a pretty time of night tor you to gci
home?— Philadelphia, Call.
“What’s a footlightP “A landing
after her father has kicked >ou out o>
the front door .”—Bolton Budget.
The king of Bavaria pays $40,000 far
an opera seat; but then, as he runs no
chance of sitting behind a woman wear¬
ing a four-story hat,- it is probably ■worth
it .—Boston Post.
A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE.
As they rolled round the rink smile, together.
Ho asked with a winning
“ Will you take my arm, fair maiden I"
Anil she said, “I am not that style.
I have never made an acquaintance,
And I surely will not to-day}
Except That through made In an the introduction regular way.”
is
Just then she falls to the surface,
And a thousand stars she sees,
And she murmurs, demure as please!” a kitten,
" Oh, sir, pick me up, if you
• —Boston Courier.
A Boston millionaire provided in biff
will that bis wife should be annually
paid a sum in gold equal to her own
weight. And now is the only time in
her life that she ever envied a fat woman
in the side show .—Brooklyn Times.
“Waiter!” cried Fogg, “bring me a
quail on toast.” “Sorry, sir,” replied
the waiter, “but we are all out of quail.”
“Well, then, bring me the toast. I’m
notfftte man to make a fuss about such a
little thing as a quail.”— Boston Tran¬
script.
TRUTH AND VOETRY, ■
The delights of early rising
Oft are sung;
Bvery poet seems to have them
. On his tongue.
Still I’ve noticed, and you know I’ve
Often said,
Poets like, ns well as you or I, to
Lie abed.
This induces the reflection,
That do By the always way, just
poets not What mean
they say.
Their enthusiasm oft’ Is
But a hoax,
And their prettiest maxims just apply to
• Qa0r -tnerville Journal.
To Prevent Fires.
The Fireman's Herald condenses into
small compass a vast amount of useful
information having a lendencv to prevent
fires, thus wise:
1. Always buy the best quality of oil.
2. Never make a sudden motion with
a lamp, cither in lifting or setting it
down.
3. Never put a lamp on the edge of a
table or mantel.
4. Never fill a lamp after dark, even if
you should have to go without a light.
5. See that the lamp wick is always
clean and that they work freely in the
tube.
6. Never blow a lamp out from th»
top.
7. Never take a light to a closet where
there are clothes. If necessary to go
to the closet, place the light at a dis¬
tance.
8. Use candles when possible in going
about the house aud in bedrooms. These
are cheaper and can’t explode, and for
many purposes are just as good as lamps.
9. Matches should always be kept in
stone or earthern jars or in tin.
10. They should never be left where
rats and mice can get hold of them.
There is nothing more to the taste of s
rat than phosphorous. They will eat i*
if they can get at it. A bunch of
matches is almost certain to be set fire to
if a rat gets at it.
11. Have perfectly good safes in everj
place where matches are to be used, aud
never let a match bo left on the floor.
12. Never let a match go out of your
hand after lighting it until you are sure
the fire is out, and then it is better to
put it in a stove or earthen dish.
13. It is far better to use the safety
matches, which can only bo lighted
upon the box which contains them.
14. Have your furnaces examinod
carefully in the fall and at least ones
during the winter by a competent por
son. All the pipes and flues should bo
carefully looked to.
15. If there are any closets in tho
house near chimneys or flues, which
there ought not to be, put nothing of a
combustible nature into them. Such
closets will soil silver and crack crock¬
ery and burn bedding. They form •
bad part of any house that contains
them.
16. Never leave any wood near a fur¬
nace, range or stove to dry.
17. Have your stove looked to fre¬
quently to see that there are no boles foi
coal to drop out.
18. Never put any hot ashes or coal3
in a wooden receptacle.
19. Be sure there are no curtains os
shades that can be blown into a gas
light.
20. Never examine a gas meter after
dark.
