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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.