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NORTH GEORGIA TIMES. v
N. KLXU, I 1 proprietor
Cloud and Sunshine.
Waiting in gloom and pain
Weary, oil .'so weary 1
Steadily falls the rain,
Dark the day, and dreary.
Tha bitterest winds are wailing loud,
And the funeral Bky is clothed in cloud;
Will the sun ne’er shine again?
Courage! in heart and brain,
Though the bay he dark’ning;
Waiting is not in vain,
If for God tbou'rt heark’ning.
The dreariest weather will change some day,
Aud never a cloud but will pass away,
And the sun must shine again.
Be still, sad heart, nor mind
The heat of fiery trying,
The mystery entwined
With sorrow nnd with crying.
The costliest gold, by a method slow,
Must lose its dross in the hottest glow,
Rut it cometh forth refined.
— [R. Kelso Carter, in the Observer.
;
A RASH ACT.
“So you’ve been bounced?” said
Mrs. Popover.
Marian Milman winced at the inele¬
gant word; but she understood enough
of the Popover stylo of dialect to know
that no harm was intended. Mrs.
Popover did not gauge her phraseology
by “Webster’s Unabridged,” but she
was a good soul, nevertheless.
“Yes," she answered, meekly; “Pvc
been discharged.”
Mrs. Popover was stout and short,
with no visible waist, a black lace cap
on the side of her head and her feet
thrust into carpet slippers.
Miss Milman was slight and grace¬
ful, with ruddy brown hair and plead¬
ing hazel eyes, aud looked every inch
the lady in her shabby mourning.
“Pity, ain’t it?” said Mrs. Popover.
“This time o’ year, tool”
“Yes,” sighed Marian; “but I am
not the only sufferer. Thirty other
girls have gone, too. Business is so
dull after tho holidays. Mr. Mcrodith
says we shall be re-engaged when the
state of trade warrants it. But I
haven’t much hope.”
“And what ye goin’ to do now?”
asked Mrs. Popover.
Marian drew a long breath.
“I don’t know,” said she, piteously.
Just then the door opened, and a
blooming young girl came in, with a
satchel in her hand.
“Is this Mrs. Popover’s?” said she.
“Does Mis3 Milman— Oh, Marian,
you dear thing, I’ve found you at
last! Oh, how glad I am to see
yon!”
Marian gave a little gasp.
“Juliet Powers I” she cried.
“Yes, it’s I!” beamed Juliet. “I
got tired of teaching school down in
Holbrook Hollow, and tho trustees
wero so exacting, and the children so
dreadful, that I made up my mind to
come to you and see if I couldn’t get
something to do in the city.”
“Well, I declare!” said Mrs. Pop
over. “Here’s Miss Marian herself
just been throwed out o’ business. I’d
like to know how she’s to help any¬
body else?”
Marian gave the good soul an ap¬
pealing glance.
“I will do the best I can,” said
she.
And Juliet, an apple-faced, san¬
guine natured young country lass,
nestled close up to her.
“I knew you would help me,” said
she, “because you know all about the
city. And oh, Marian, dear, I’m
tired and 60 hungry I”
And thus Marian Milman
charged with tlio responsibility of an
another beside herself. And the
went by, nnd situations were
than ever to obtain, and the
common purse was exhausted,
Mrs. Popover’s account became
than ever for the rent of the back bed¬
room, with its hideous green
paper, and its dispiriting outlook
tho roofs and smoky
stacks.
“Marian,” said Juliet, “wliat are
we to do?”
She had come in tired and weary
after a long day’s work at the old bus
iness of looking for employment.
Marian sat gazing sorrowfully at
clumsy parcel that lay on the table be¬
fore her.
“They have sent back my poor
screens and plaques unsold,” said she,
“with a polite note intimating that
market for that sort of thing is
stocked.”
“Oh, Marian I And you worked
hard at thetnl” with a quick burst
sympathy.
“The more fool I! To tell you
truth, Juliet,” said Marian, with
SPRING PLACE., GA.. THURSDAY. APRIL |(i, 1891.
forced smile, “I begin to think that
the market for everything is over¬
stocked—life included.”
Juliet threw both her arms around
the slight young figure.
“Darling, you’re tired and discour¬
aged,” said she. “You’ll feel better
after dinner.”
“But, Juliet, there is no dinner.”
Juliet threw open tire cupboard
doors, and gavo one exhaustive glance
around its empty shelves. There woro
the two china plates, the two cups
and saucers, the neat knives aud forks,
ilio pewter spoons, tho nine-cent pep¬
per nnd salts—but that was all.
“I’ll go out and buy something,”
said she, cheerfully—“a neck of
muttou to boil up for soup, or au end
piece of corned beef.”
“You can’t make bricks without
straw,” said Marian, sadly, “nor buy
soup-meat without money. At least
I’ve never been able to do it.”
“Is the money all gone, Marian?”
“All but five dirty copper conls,
Juliet.”
Juliet clicked her tongue softly
against the roof of her mouth.
“Mrs. Popover will trust us for a
few of yesterday’s rolls or a loaf of
stale bread,” she suggested, cheerfully.
“No, Juliet,” said Miss Milman,
resolutely. “We are already too
much in Mrs. Popover’s debt. I will
ask no more favors from her.”
“Must we starve?” resentfully de¬
manded J uliet.
“I would rather starve than sink
into the quicksands of debt,” Marian
lirmly answered.
Juliet’s cheeks flushed; she bit her
iips.
“There is a pawnbroker on Sixth
avenue,” said she. “And I have got
my mother’s old garnet ring and a
mosiac scarf-pin which my father
brought from Florence when ho was a
sea captain. I’ll go and see wliat 1
can do.”
' But—a pawnbroker!” sobbed Ma¬
rian. “Oh, Juliet, what are we
coming to?”
‘ ‘No worso than many another has
come to,” said Juliet. “Cheer up,
Marian! Remember that it’s always
darkest just before daylight.”
And she kissed the pale girl and
went cheerfully out.
The garnet ring and the mosaic
scarf-pin kept them for a week. Still
they were seeking for work—still tlio
same old answer was returned. For
every vacant placo there was at least
a score of applicants.
They sought from place to place;
they traversed street after 6trcet, but
in vain. And on a dreary February
night, when the snow was turning to
discolored slush on tho pavements and
a dismal fog. hung over the streets,
Marian looked sadly up into her
friend’s face.
“The soles of my sIioob are worn in
holes, Juliet,” said she. “My feet
are soaking wot, and my head aches,
and—I don’t think I can go out any
more. It’s of no use. I think heaven
lias forgotten us.”
Juliet, stronger and more courage¬
ous, brewed her friend a cup of weak
tea, and produced two soda crackers
from the cupboard.
“Eat and drink, Marian, and you
will feel better,” said she. “I have
heard of a woman who wants a book¬
keeper in her business, and 1 must go
there at once, this very evening, be¬
fore any one else has a chance to
crowd me out”
“You won’t get the place, Juliet.”
“IIow do y u know?” cheerily.
“I don’t know it. I feel it.”
“Well, you’ll see. Eat and drink, I
say, dear. Don’t sit so mournfully
there.”
“When you are gone, Juliet.”
But when Juliet was gone, Marian
rose and put tho soda crackers back
into the cupboard.
“She thought I didn’t know they
were the two last,” said she. “Juliet
was always a hearty eater. She is not
so good at starving as I am. But the
end’s come at last!”
She took from the mantle a little
vial of dark liquid, labeled ‘.‘Lauda¬
num” (Juliet had lmd ague in the face
a few days ago, aud had used a little
of it,) and looked at it questioningly.
“I hope it isn’t very wrong,” she
murmured; “but—but it must be so
hard to die by inches! Harder still
to go to the poorhouse on Blackwell's
lslaud! Oh, no, I could not endure
that I”
And removing the cork, she drank
the bitter draught.
Surely this would be a dose strong
enough to silence all the pangs and
woes of a dozen poor souls!
“Will it be painful?’’ she asked her¬
self, nestling down among the pillows
of her bed. “Because lliave not much
strength to endure.”
No,.it was not jmbiful. ^Heaven be
thanked for that!
A sweet drowsine "Ihe breath
of poppies, overapfi : being, and
with a half-munnuB ,yer on her
lips, Marian drifted iuto*%luniber. J*
* * a St’i * *
“Didn’t I tell you ft was always
darkest before daylight? Wako up,
Marian—wako aud rejqk|xvitli me l”
Through a sort of clofiflj Marian
saw Juliet’s radiant face. Mho strug¬
gled iuto a sitting posturefkaud tried
to remember what had pasa
Was it true? or was it on dream?
“Who do you think | fvoman
was who wanted abook-keeper? Why,
my mother’s dearest school friend!
She knew my name at once, and she
says she should have known mo any¬
where from my resemblance of
mother. She is in the perfumery
business—oh, such a nice big store!—
and she manages it all herself. And
I am to be book-keeper, with a nice
salary, aud you are to have a good
placo there, too—right away, Marian,
dear 1 And wc can pay good Mrs.
Popover now, and live like Christians
again; and I’ve brought home such a
nice little supper of cold roast chicken,
and hot potatoes, and a pitcher of
smoking cofleo. A real treat, Manan.
H:>use up, dear, and enjoy it.”
A faint, sad smile flickered into
Marian’s face.
Had all the sunshine come, now that
it was too late? And yet, how good
tho little feast looked—how delicious¬
ly fragrant was the cofleo. i
With a feeble gesture, she pointed ;
to the little vial on tho mantle. Juliet
would know what she meant.
“Why,” cried the girl, “where is
my cough medicine? I got tho bottle^
filled only yesterday, for I knew that
I kept you awake, coughing at night.
Mrs. Popover gave mo some out of
the children’s bottlo; she’s such a kind
old woman. Laudanum? Oh, yes, I
know that’s wliat the label snys, but
the vial- got tipped over long ago, and
all the laudanum leaked out 1 Never
mind, dear—we can easily get more
now. We are not beggars any longer.
Here, sit up. Drink Uiis hot coffee
before it lias time to chill. And cat
die chicken—and taste this dear little
teeny glass of current jelly. You see
I’m getting extravagant, but we have
been starved so long.”
“What a coward I have been I” said
Marian to herself. “Oh, thank God
that lie has saved me from my own
rash will—saved mo to begin life
anew—saved me for new strength and
liope! Ob, I never, never will aban¬
don myself to despair again, no mat¬
er how dark the futuro seems!”
And Juliet never know how near
Marian had come to the solution of all
life’s problems. It was a secret be¬
tween herself and heaven!—[Satur¬
day Night.
California’s Gold Treasure.
Never in any other country lias a
change in the political dominion been
followed so promptly by so marvelous
an increase of wealth aud population,
of productive industry and general in¬
telligence. Never did a province re¬
pay new masters more liberally for
their trouble in its acquisition, nor
did any other conquered territory ever
receive greater benefit from conquest.
Tlio most notable instance in history
of triumphant invasions rewarded
with great sums of precious metal
were those of Babylonia by Cyrus, of
Persia by Alexander, of Mexico by
Cortez, and of Peru by Pizarro—all
populous empires witli wealth accu¬
mulated through centuries of pros¬
perity. Yet not one of them yielded
to its conquerors, within a generation!
so much treasure as did desolate Cali¬
fornia to tho Americans.—[Century.
Tlie Middle Ages.
Tlio ‘ ‘middle ages” is a term of no
definite period, but varying a little
with almost every nation. In France
it was from Clovis to Louis XI. (481
to 1461). In England, from the Hep¬
tarchy to the accession of Henry VII.
(400 to 1485). In universal history
it was from the overthrow of the
Roman empire to the revival of letters
(the fifth to the fifteenth century).—
[Boston Cultivator.
LABOR IN CHILI.
Native Laborers are Muscular,
Strong and Hardy.
Chilian Methods of Working are
Primitive, But Practical.
From Theodore Childs’ article in
Harper’s describing a coasting voyage
in southern latitudes, we make this
interesting extract about tho native
workmen of Chili:
The next day we were anchored in
the hay of Coronol. Tho Osiris was
surrounded by lighters laden with
coal, which was being rapidly shov¬
elled into the hunks by dark-skinned
natives. Tho white mist that hung
over us made the water look like dull
silver; in the foreground wero ships
at anchor and small lighters provided
with winches and nets for dredging
up the bits of coal that fall iuto the
water while the steamers are loading;
in the background were the wind¬
ing wheels of tho coal pits; tho
moles surmounted by trains of coal
trucks; the sickly sulphurous smoke
streams of the inevitable smelting
works; the small town of Coronel
clustered along the sandy black beach;
and behind, the green hills diapered
with mule paths aud patches of red
or yellow earth. Tho meals of the coal
heavers on the foredeck interested
ns. Groat bowls of beans, lumps of
salt beef aud fat, piles of biscuit, and
gallons of coffee were served out to
them. Each man took what he needed
of the solids, chose his coiner on the
rail, over the hatches, or simply on
the bare deck, and ate witli no more
•comfort Ilian a dog. Then each man
produced a large violet mussel shell,
which he used in lieu of a spoon to
.
fcoop up tho beans and drink tho
coffee. Let it be remarked
tll0 * c coal-hoavers earn high
Wages, fts much as I've Chilian dollars,
or say ten shillings gold, a day, and
their food gratis; and yet they remain
little better than good-natured brutes,
taking no strong drinks while they
are at work, but ready for any quan
tity of dissipation after sunset, im¬
provident in the extreme, and willing
to work, and to work well, only when
they have no money left to spend.
While watching those strong muscular
fellows, I liad some conversation with
the Russian timber merchant about bis
experience of men and things in Chili,
tho subject having been led up
tp by my remarking the froquont evi¬
dences of pritnitiveness in Chilian
methods of working. Speaking of
the great strength and hardiness of the
Chilian native laborer, Herr C. said
that this was still more noticeable in
tho more southern forest dis¬
tricts. At Puerto Montt, for
instance, which is one of the
most important timber ports, the
work is done entirely by hand. The
trees are felled with axes, sawn into
planks on the spot by hand, and the
planks carried to the port from a dis¬
tance of ten or twelve miles balanced
on the shoulder of a man, who goes
along under his burden at a run. None
but native Chilians could do such
work, and, given the absence of roads,
and above all the nature of the work¬
men, all attempts to modernize the
methods of getting out the timber
have failed. Experiments have been
made in introducing North American
machinery, but without success. The
innovators have invariably lost their
money, and the natives, accustomed to
do everything wiih their hands,
have iu the end wilfully broken the
machinery, in order to have done
with it. 1 mentioned the fact that
the Chilian government, as I had been
informed, meditated the essay of Nor¬
wegian and Swedish colonists in these
southern forest regions. Herr C. was
of opinion that this scheme was utter¬
ly improbable, for the simple reason
that Scandinavian colonists would re¬
fuse to live like pigs, as the Chiliaus
live. The present primitive methods
are the cheapest and the most practi
cal.
Sir David Brewster, an eminent
Scotch writer and natural pliilospher,
invented the philosophical toy called
the kaleidoscope, in 1816. Tho name
comes from the Greek and means “I
see beautiful images.” Ibis optical
iostruraent- is not only a pleasing toy,
but it is of great use to pattern de
signers and others to whom it supplies
an endless variety of figures.
VoL XL New Series. NO. 11.
The Best Way to Ventilate.
Eight persons out of ten will en¬
deavor to rid a room of its noxious
gases by making an outlet for the air
near the top of the inclosed space. Tho
result is that the room is cooled, but
the impurities remain practically where
they were. The reason is this : As tlio
air of a room is lrcated it rises, but. the
impure gases, being generally heavier
than ordinary air, settle to the bottom
of the room. A great amount of harm
has been done, in schoolrooms particu¬
larly, by lowering the upper sashes in
windows, thus causing cold drafts
upon the overheated heads of the pu¬
pils. A room is best veutilated when
tho heavy and impure air is drawn
gradually away from the lower part
of tho room through an opening into
a chimney, the healed walls of which
cause an upward current. An open
fireplace is thus one of tho best venti¬
lators kuown. When tiiis is not eon
veuient, au opening covered by a grate
should be made in the chimney near
the floor. Low rooms frequently
become so overheated as to re¬
quire au outlet near the top, but
this should be used simply to cool
the room, not to ventilate it. In close
buildings occupied by animals, vonti
lation can be secured by a close shaft
six or more inches square, according
to the size of the room, extending
from within about twelve inches of
the floor up through the roof of the
building. The wind blowing across
tho top of this will cause an upward
current, which will draw oil' the im¬
pure air.
Interesting experiments can be
made by testing the effectiveness of
various kinds of ventilation. Let the
doovs of a room bo closed to keep out
drafis; then with delicate tissue paper
cut in long strips and held by one end,
or with a lighted candle, note the out¬
ward current of air through an open¬
ing near the floor into a heated
chi.nnoy, or from the room into an
»p« «">■ »<*> *>.<.»««
rent of the upper air when a window
is lowered, and at the same time the
downward lu.b of cold .1,- ,o tbedoor
near tho window. If a sleeping room
has beon closed all night, as too many
room. o«. i„»
pure air for fifteen minutes; then go
back into the closed room, and note
the unpleasant change. Tho first
seed of disease are too often sown in
unvontilated bedrooms.—[American
Agriculturist.
How Danny Lost a Coat.
He walked down to tho end of the
pier where tho stpvedores wero work¬
ing, and looked sadly at the water.
“How deep is it hero?” lie asked ono
of tho men.
“I dunno.”
“Do you think it’s deep enough to
drown a man?”
“I guess.” ^
“Well, anyplace is good enough for
me,” ho said, despairingly, as he began
to strip off his coat and vest.
“Are yez goin’ ter jump?” asked one
of the stevedores.
“Yes, I’m tired of life.’’
“Tliot coat an’ wescott will fit my
Danny.”
“It will, hey? Well, your Danny
can have it if some one doesn’t come
along and jerk me out of the water.”
“Jerk ye out, is it? Shure, an’
there’s no danger of that. The last fel
ley that went over there wnz a gnrrul,
aud she Wuz bit in two paces with wan
bite ov a big shark so quick that she
never let a squeak out of her.”
The young man who wanted to die
walked to the edge of the dock and
looked earnestly at the water. Then
he put on his coat and vest and walked
away.
“Ef I had kept me mouth shut I’d
had a foino coat an’ wescott for
Danny. It’s mo mouth that’s always
gettin’ me into tlirubbie. Giv us a
hand wid de bale, Moike.”—[New
York Sun.
A Personal Reflection.
“When I look at our honored
guest,” exclaimed the orator of the
evening, “and remember how he rose
from a humble position to be the pres¬
ident of this vast corporation I realize
forcibly the truth of the saying that
theieis always lw.n at tho top.”
Tho president of the vast corpora¬
tion, a gentleman with a large bald
spot on the top of his head, made a
memorandum in a little notebook,and
the wages of that young orator have
never been raised.—[Chicago Tribuns.
Law of Conjugal Attraction.
Ilermau Pol, one of the most eminent
Nice—the living c-mbiyologists, while staying at
Mecca of honeymooning—had
his attention attracted to the resem¬
blances between young married couples.
Fol has already given convincing proof
of the phenomenal keenness of his ob
servative faculty. He was the first sci¬
entist describe to precisely the notice aud accurately
marvelous processes which
take placo during the fertilization of an
eg g
The popular notion that married people
“end by resembling each other” was
shared by Fol, hut his trained vision de¬
tected amongst crowds of young married
couples characteristics that led him to
suppose a coutrary proposition to he
nearer the truth—they begin by resembl¬
ing eaph other. To put the matter to a
scientific test, he engaged in a series of
observations observa and researches on n the pho
tograpjis of young and old married
couples, the results which lie publishes in
the Revue Fcieritiji^ue. Tho following
table gives his statistical conclusions:
Re- Non-Re
Couples. semblances. Par Cent. senUfianccs. Her Cent. Total
Vounir young Oltt 132. 132, atout about atottt D8.86 W.6 - 80, about 30.33 - - 1M
- - 83, 7U0 - 15, about 28.30 - - 5c
cal The similarities vividly huge between percentage of mivrried physi¬
young
fliat couples is marriages eigphasized made by the random—by calculation
in at
chance—the number of resemblances
would not amount to more than two in a
hundred.
Amongst the non-resemblances were
included some very curious cases, where
man man and and wife, wile, though though quite quite exhibited dissimilar dissimilar in m
every other respect, yet in com¬
mon “certain traits constituting an ugli¬ Sirs
ness more or less ridiculous.” Fol in
from this an argument in favor of the
idea that candidates fox marriage do not
fear which the particular mirror form of ugliness them. to
their accustoms
zation After warning results against hasty comparatively generali¬
from so
meagre, Fol invites other scientists to
modify follow up tho subject, and verify or
the following tentative conclu¬
sion, he draws:
(1) In the immense majority of mar¬
riages of “inclination,” the contracting
parties are attracted by similarities, and
not by dissimilarities.
(2) The resemblances between aged
married couples is not a fact acquired by
conjugal life .—Review of Reviews.
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Only r Bream.
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ever, the young Ionian whs very morose
^*0 breakfast table, and behaved in a
CL
being it* questioned would by him as to the cause
of she not give him satisfaction,
St
at last, “if I dream again that you haw
kissed another woman, I will not speak
to you again as long as I live.”—Wasp.
The Smart Clerk.
gloves?” “Have you any large-sized gentlemen’s
he asked.
“How largo-sized a gentleman?” inqir
ed the salesman, with a smile of frosty,
Boston severity.
“Large enough, moving I think, sir,” replied
the customer, away, “to walk
without any clerks help to some other store
Where the are not so classical.—
Post.
Manners for Boys.
In the street—Hat lifted when saying
“Good-bye” or “How do you do?" Also
when offering a lady a seat or acknowl¬
edging a favor.
Keep step with uny one you walk with.
Always shall precede precede a lady her upstairs, but ask
if you in going through
a crowd or public place.
At the street door—Hat off the moment
you step in a house or private office.
ask’s Let a lady pass first always, unless she
you parlor—Stand to precede her. till
In the every lady in
the room, also older people, are seated.
Rise if a lady and' enters the room after you
arc seated, stand till in she takes a seat.
they Look people speaking straight the face when
are to you.
"Tbs Bible on Wall Coatings.”
“And behold if the plague be in the walls
of the house with hollow streaks, greenish
or reddish, tjien the priest shall go out of the
house to the door of the house and shut up
the house seven days. * * * And he shall
cause the house to be scraped within round
about, and they shall pour out the dust that
they scrape place.” off without the city into an un¬
clean
This matter of looking to the sanitary na¬
ture of wall coatings seems to be considered
of much importance of lath. A supplement
to the Michigan State Board of Health con¬
demns wall paper and kalsomine for walls,
and recommends Alabastine as being sani¬
tary, pure, porous, permanent, economical
and beautiful.
To each of the first five persons in every
city and town, who write the Alabastine
Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, giv¬
ing the chapter containing the above pass¬
age of scripture, will be sent an order on the
Alabastine dealer in tho town for a package
of Alabastine, enough to cover fifty square
yards of wall two coats, tinted or white.
To test a wall coating, take a small quan¬
tity of it, mix in equal quantity of boiling
water, and if it does not set, when left in
the dish over night, and finally form a stone
like cement, without shrinking, it is a kalso
mine, and dependent'upon glue to hold it to
the wall, the feature so strongly objected to
by sanitarians.
Continuing this sanitary wall-ooathig re¬
form tha Tribune offices have been nicely
decorated with Alabastine. The effect it
pleasing, and the rooms are very sweet and
clann .—Detroit IbrihuM