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[Tor The Sunny South.]
CHAOS.
Old Chaos reigned, a formless mass and void,
And bleak ana chill the sunless earth revolved;
No shoot of life that rigid clasp dissolved—
All system dead I—contusion unalloyed!
O’er the dark deep went forth the breath of God-
Flashed forth the Sun's star-army, file on file;
The timid flowret, with a soft, sweet smile,
Looked heavenward when the billow laved the sod.
’Tie thus, oh, man ! that thou. too. mayest aspire
To life divine, if o'er the surface dim
Of thy dead soul, the breath of love shall swee
And through the ice of self infuse its fire:
With life regenerate shall thy nature gleam.
And watching angels tears of joy shall weep.
[For The Sunny South.1
The Mothers of* Mankind—Eye
and Satina.
THE RIB AND THE MONKEY’S TAIL.
[ Tradition. ]
BY b. m. o.
Much has been lost to the world in the losing
of ancient tradition, and we regret the destruc
tion by the wars of the ancients of the libraries
of Egypt, Babylon, Nineveh and Troy. They
were rich in history and in the philosophy of
their day. However, we have rescued a few tra
ditions that may interest if not enlighten the
reader.
It has been a fruitful source of speculation
among theologians and archaeologists where Cain
got his wife, as no mention is made of her birth
in the Bible after his “bloody-shirt” affair with
Abel. That he had one is not disputed and that
he had a son is also admitted, and that he built
a city with a wife and baby is also recorded; but
how he did it, we are at a loss to divine. But
as to who was and where Cain got bis wife.
When Adam saw that the animals and birds
were mated, his heart went out in the desire to
have some one like himself; as he was no com
panion for the animals and far too earthy to
associate familiarly with angels, he desired an
equal or a mate. Looking one day into the water
he saw his own face and fell in love with it—just
what he wanted, he thought.
His Creator saw that he was troubled about
something and asked him why he was not as
joyous as usual. Adam took him to the water,
and pointing to his own face said “he wanted
something like that to talk with and to be a daily
companion, as the other animals had mates.”
Said his Creator;
“ You shall have something like that but
handsomer and more refined than yourself, and
she shall be to you the best and truest of all
companions, your dog not excepted.”
Soon Adam was asleep and from his side, over
his heart, was taken one of his ribs. The Creator
proceeded to make woman, just as He intended
she should be for all time, and to transmit to her
daughters her peculiar virtues, viz; love, kind
ness, gentleness, patience, an ambition to reign
alone queen over her husband’s heart and to
impress the minds of her children; with no
desire outside of her domestic sphere, leaving
to men the duties of government in every branch.
Such was Eve, and such should be her true
daughters*
The Devil, who by the way, was ever on the
alert and kept his eyes upon the movements of
his Creator and conqueror, bore malice to the
creation of man and was bent upon his injury
and his enslavement, not so much to injure man
as to wound his Creator through him.
Seeing the Creator fashioning a woman from
the rib of Adam—for he was peeping through the
cracks in the fence that surrounded the Garden
of Eden—and being a creature endowed with
great talents but few scruples, and a wonderful
imitator, with the gift of ubiquity, power and
dexterity, conceived the unholy idea of making
a woman himself. As there was no Adam out
side of the garden, he was for a moment at a loss
for a fit subject; but his thoughts were only
equaled by his audacity. Seeing a large size
monkey close by, he conceived the idea of wring
ing off its tail and trying his hand on it to see
if he could not make a woman, for, said he, “a
tail is certainly as good as a rib if not better.”
Having seen the modus operandi how the rib
was manipulated, he caught the secret, and—
strange to tell—from under his cunning and
creative hand, a woman grew, very much like
the one in the Garden of Eden in point of per
sonal and physical resemblance, but very unlike
in point of mind and womanly desires. Like
her Creator, she was bold, daring, able, impa
tient of restraint, wanting to talk in public, to
vote, to hold office, to govern man, and to do
pretty much as she pleased in general; making
immodest and unwomanly displays of herself;
and such has been the character of her daugh
ters down to the present time, “ cutting up such
fantastic tricks before high heaven as to make
make angels weep.” Her sons are readily
known by their dare-devil spirit, recklessness,
blood-thirstiness, a love of riot, turmoil and
mobocracy.
The story is soon told. After Adam sinned
and was driven out of the Garden, Cain was
born, and as he grew to man’s estate he slew
Abel and went towards the land of Nod, he hap
pened to see Satina and married her. Their
children of the present day are rather conspic
uous characters and pretty well known.
Tbe baboon has never told how he came to
inherit his short tail, and never will, though he
may have given a sly wink to Darwinites.
TEXAS.
(From & Fort Worth paper.)
Business in Fort Worth is unusually good.
A few droves of small prairie poneys have been
in town within the past few days.
The pecan trade is becoming almost a specialty
here: they are selling as high as $2.50.
The shipment of cattle is daily increasing. Fort
Worth is beyond doubt shipping more cattle than
any other point in Texas.
Regular mail agents are now running to this
place. Heretofore mail cars came no farther than
Dallas, and at that place the mail for Fort Worth
was taken in charge by the stage company’s agent.
We are glad to notice the welcome reception given
by all our citizens to new comers. The hospitali
ty shown is commendable to the good people com
posing our county.
The character of emigrants that are now arriy
ing are of a class that we are desirous of—monied
men, substantial farmers and those that are de
sirous of raising improved and blooded stock.
They tell us that prairie chickens that were so
plentiful around Fort Worth a few days ago are
being rapidly thinned out. There are a perfect
army of Nimrods in the field daily, and every lit
tle urchin that can borrow a fusee is out with the
earliest bird, cracking away.
Thackery once described a kiss of etiquette as
“a kiss which is like the contact of oysters.”' But
says a fellow whose taste runs in that direction,
“a kiss not of etiquette is like a rip in a yard of
callieo; you can’t tell where it begins or ends.”
We should think that depended a good deal on the
party of tbe second part in the kissing affair.
An American scribbler sketches this pen-picture
of the Queen’s appearance at the opening of Par
liament: “She was a plain center to her brilliant
undings—a sort of soapstone set in dia
monds.”
ENTERTAINING RIPPLES.
A country editor gives the following case of ab
sence of mind: “A girl who was one of our first
loves, was one night lighting us out after having
passed a delightful evening. In bashful trepida
tion she blew us out, and drew the candle behind
the door and kissed it.”
“Parson tells me, sir,” said a British farmer
once, speaking of that extraordinary race of people,
the gypsies, “that their origin is lost in tbe mists
of iniquity: and I’m bound to say I believe him,
for greater rogues don’t live.”
“So,” said a lady recently to an Aberdeen mer
chant, “your pretty daughter has married a rich
husband.” “Well,” slowly replied the father, “I
believe she has married a rich man, but I under
stand he is a very poor husband.”
“Is it not time that you paid me that $5 ?” said
a farmer to hjs neighbor. “’Taint due,” was the
reply. “But,” said the farmer, “you promised to
pay me when you got back from New York. ’
“Well, I hain’t been,” was the reply.
A hundred years ago when you called on a girl
she kissed you good-bye. Now if you suggest any
thing of the sort her father calls you into the li
brary and asks you what you are worth. Are we
a nation ? And is this progress ?
They were talking of a death, when one asked :
“What were his last words?” “Hedidn’t say any
thing,” was the reply. “That’s just like him,’
said the first man with an approving nod. “There
was no gas about him. He was all business.”
The most bitter piece of satire on a man gener
ally affects him the least. It is written and com
posed after his death, and is commonly known as
“an obituary notice.”—San Francisco Post.
The man who owns seven dogs aud can’t affora
to buy shoes for his children, is about this time
making inquiries whether the relief societies are
going to begin soon to dispense charities. He sees
starvation ahead !
A gushing but ungramatical editor says: “We
have received a basket of fine grapes from our
friend , for which he will please accept our
compliments, some of which are nearly an inch in
diameter.”
Nothing makes a young man so happy as to get
around to the Postoffice after it is closed, and see
a letter in his box; to have his heart whisper that
it is from her, to dream sweet tender fancies, hal
lowed with love’s sacredness, all night, and to come
down in the morning and find it a bill of $7.50 for
his last year’s underclothes.—Norwich Bulletin.
New Orleans Bulletin: “There is no more
touching spectacle,” said Potter, “than to see a
full-grown adult struggling with a wet towel in a
bath room vainly endeavoring to dry that one spot
in the middle of his back that is and has always
been beyond the reach of even the most agile.”
A young lady in a neighboring town one day last
week, went into a dry-goods store and thus un
burdened hersilf:
' ‘It is my desire to obtain a pair of circular elas
tic appendages, capable of being contracted or ex
panded by means of oscillated burnished steel ap
pliances, that sparkle like particles of gold leaf set
with Cape May diamonds, and which are utilized
for retaining in proper position the habiliments of
the lower extremities, which innate delicacy for
bids me just now to mention.’
The vender of calicoes was nonplussed, but not
wishing to appear ignorant said that he was just
out.
After herdaparture he ruminated in silence for
a few moments, when a new light broke upon his
distracted brain and he burst forth with—
‘By jupiter ! I’ll bet that woman wanted a pair
of garters.’
“My friend,” said a returned missionary, at one
of the late anniversary meetings, “let us avoid
sectarian bitterness. The inhabitants of Hindos-
tan, where I have been laboring for many years,
have a proverb that, ‘Though you bathe a dog’s
tail in oil and bind it in splints, yet you cannot
get the crook out of it.’ Now a man's sectarian
bias is simply the crook in the dog’s tail, which
cannot be eradicated, and I hold that every one
should be allowed to wag his own peculiarity in
peace.”
A strange breach of promise case is on trial in
San Francisco court, the peculiarity being that a
woman sues a man for refusing to keep a matrimo
nial engagement made with her while she was the
young wife of another man. Mrs. Edwards was
the young wife of an old husband, and she grew
tired of the incongruous relation. Mr. Keating
was nearer her own age and disposition and she
bestowed on him the affection which her husband
could not gain. Mr. Keating gave her his heart,
and promised to give her his hand as soon as she
could be freed from Mr. Edwards. Several years
were occupied in securing that freedom, for Mr.
Edwards’s behavior as a husband was not bad
enough to make a divorce easy to get: but a legal
separation was at length effected. In the mean
time, the courtship between Mr. Keating and Mrs.
Edwards had progressed in a way that, would have
been proper had she not been a wife. Many love
letters were written to each other from time to
time, and preparations were made for marriage.
After the husband was no longer an obstacle, how
ever, Mr. Keating,s ardor cooled gradually until he
no longer desired to marry Mrs. Edwards. There
upon she brought the suit, which the presiding
judge says is unprecedented in the history of law
ENIGMAS, PUZZLES, ETC.
All mail for this department must be addressed to
• Puzzle Department,*’ Sunny South, Atlanta, Georgia.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
All private letters, intended for corre
spondents, must pass through this office, and be
subject to inspection. No address will be pub
lished in this column.
All this week we have been studiously engaged on the
question, “ How shall we introduce ourself to our friends
j next weejt ?’’ but have finally concluded that we did not ,
need much of an introduction, as we were getting pretty Emma J., of Madison, asks: "What books should a
! well acquainted. However, we would like to introduce . young lady read that will interest and instruct, and at the
to our many friends a nice little fellow of the enigmatical i same lime be literary ill their character ?” ... A pretty
; species. His name is
THE ARITHMOREM.
He is a nice little fellow—something on ' e acrostic
[ order. We will give you a likeness of him, a then you
can see how he is constructed; and when youc eacross
j any of bis family, you can detect his componen parts by
a little study.
500 and NAB,
100 and O N E,
1 and 5 and ENG.
Primals and-finals read downward are a marsh and a
cavern.
It is solved thus: D=500; then nab and d placed to
gether and transposed give band. (7=100: then c and one
equal cone—transposed we have once. 1=1 and V=5;
then eng and tr. transposed, gives given. We now notice
that bog and den correspond respectively in meaning with
the words marsh and cavern. Arithmorems can be made
much longer and more complex, but the above serves to
explain the idea.
Now, dear readers, just cast your eyes upon the follow
ing galaxy of puzzles, aud then decide to solve some ot
them, and send the answers to “ yours truly.”
1. —Enigma.
I am composed of sixteen letters.
My 1. 3. 4. 6, 5, 10, 7, 16. is to neglect.
My 2, 3, 11. is something all gentlemen wear.
My 8, 15. 2, 16, 14, 15, 16, is an ex-President of the
United States.
My 1, 2. 6. 10. 14, 12, is the abode of thousands.
Jly 9, 10,11, 12, 13, is a boy’s name.
My whole is the publisher of a magazine.
C. Smith.
2. —Enigma.
I am composed of seven letters.
My 1, 3 2, 5, 6,
Is something that gathers and carries away
The seeds of disease and the signs of decay.
My 2, 5, 4,
Is something of which you are sure to complain;
That giveth unrest and disorder and pain.
My 3, 2, 5, 6,
Is not a fair proof of the adage at all:
“ The higher the climbing, the harder the fall.”
My 4. 5, 6 1,
Was ono of great sweetness in spirit and word,
Who looked like an angel and sang like a bird.
My 5, 6, 6, 5. 6. 7,
Is nothing to frighten, but often reveals
The sturdiest fellow will “take to his heels.”
My C, 2, 5, 4,
Is something insensible, solid and cold,
That's used in this country by millions untold.
My 7, 6, 2, 3, 4.
Is something that’s crooked and twisted and fou ;
A sound of ill-nature—a snarl or a growl.
My whole iB something, beyond any doubt,
That all men and women are wretched without.
A “ cardinal-red ” night-cap to the first old bachelor
who solves this. Address, " Puzzler,” care of Sunny
South.
3.—Word-Square.
Companion of Sbaurmer; a measure used for land; a
metal; to afford for temporary use.
Afkicus Austek.
4.—Chabade.
(Inscribed to A. A. E., Charleston, S. C.)
Eating my all were first and third.
(Now, that's a fact, upon my word.)
First, my second did tell to third—
(Ab, woe is me !—the devil heard !)
And to himself "old Satan ” said;
“ I'll mak e first fourth when first is dead.”
A pen-sketch of the author to the first person sending
correct answer to “Puzzler,” care Sunny South, Puz
zle Department.
We will now give answers to the puzzles which ap
peared four weeks ago.
lo the first, “Puzzler” sends this answer, which is
correct:
ANSWER TO a. A. E.’S CHABADE.
Sal and ma at a table sat.
And they were first and second;
A boy brought in a gun, and that
Was third—I reckoned.
He cocked the gun, and taking aim,
He banged away on Sunday.
Of course, “they fourth”—they die—are slain,
And that makes Salmagundi^).
Now, send along
Tim' book of song
As soon&s e*er'yo'u can, sir;
For, by my soul,
I tbink “ my whole ”
Is quite a proper answer.
The answer to the second is, “ Thou hast wounded the
spirit that loved thee.”
No. 4.—
ADA
NOON
GOING
EKE
K E A K
No. 3.—Linen, line. Pale, pal. Fang, fan. Lade, lad.
Spank, span. Spark, Bpar.
TO PUZZLE CORRESPONDENTS.
“ Sadie,” Madison, Ga.—Your answer to No. 2 is cor
rect. Sorry there was a mistake.
“ Puzzleb.”—Will send them as soon as possible.
A. A. E.—Your solution of No. 4 is nearly correct. Can t
you “ get away with ” Puzzler on No. 4 ?
A. L. Lowry, Mexia, Texas, sends solution to promlem
No. 16, published several weeks ago.
8. B.,Augusta,Ga.—You aud other correspondents wish
ing answers by mail, should send postage. The answer
is, “ On the fence.”
S. E. P., Hampton, Ya„ Bays Miss Blanche Yancey,
Kichmond, Ya., was the successful contestant on his
enigma, No. 63.
Sempeb Idem.— Please send answer to yours last week,
as we cannot find it with your letter.
Other friends must please recollect that the mails are
not always prompt, and that we could by no means answer
every letter we received—it would occupy too much space.
Answers to puzzles in this number will appear in four
weeks. Remember about “ Our Puzzle Laureate.”
DRAMATIC NOTES.
broad question, with the million aud one books that
flood the world. If we knew exactly what kind of knowl
edge you wanted we could answer more direct. If yon
want characters, take Dickens, or works of that character.
If you want human nature iu every Bhade and shape, mas
ter Shakspeare If historical, read Mrs. Muhlbach.
“ Washington Irving” is a delight. “Addison ” is pure,
beautiful English. Read anything bat love trash and non
sense. The works of Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson nre
lull of thought and information, though her characters are
most extraordinary people.
Henry F. G. Macon, asks “ Should a man's love for
hia mother rank that of his wife's ?’’ ... We answer
that the two cannot be classed together, and that there
should bfe no clash. A man cannot love his mother: it
is a misuse of the word. Love is a passion and not a sen
timent. while affection is a sentiment and not a passion.
A man can have no passion towards his mother, or sist' r.
or child, but he can for a wife or sweetheart A man may
be proud of his mother or child, blit he will admire his
wife or sweetheart. Passion makes mad, desperate, while
affection feels sorrow or sadness. Passion goes out of us.
while affection ifi bom in’ ns. Y'onr affection for your
mother ahonld not be so great as to wound the passionate
love of a wife.
Anna S„ of Columbus, asks: “ Should a young lady,
after she is engaged, receive the attentions ol' another
who she has every reason to believe intends o address
her?’. . . . A very nice question to answer, and to an
swer exactly right. It is one in which principle, charac
ter and heart are all deeply interested. Principle would
say no; character would say, Be true to your vow; while
the heart would say, Do no violence to me; marry only
that man who has truly your love. No man or woman
should marry when their hearts reach out to another;
there can be no happiness in such ties. Break off the en
gagement: be honest about it. We are not at all tunes
masters of onr will, hut can be of our word.
Ella J., of Baltimore, Md., asks if the word “bigot”
has an historical origin. We believe it has. It is said
that when Rollo, Duke of Normandy, was married to
, Gisla, the daughter of Charles the Foolish, of France, he
was told to kiss the king's foot, Proud Rollo said, Ne
se. by God uot so, by God; and the French courtiers,
deriding him and trying to repeat his refusal, said,
“Bi Got 1” aud called him bigot as a nick-name. It Is also
Baidtbat it means a worshipper, from the Anglo-Saxon
word "bigan.” whence “be giue,” a religious woman.
It is also raid that it is a Spanish word, and means mus
tache, as the expression, "lunnbrt dt bigote,” meaning a
man of resolution. You can take your choice as to the
origin of the word.
Anna L., of Nashville, Tenn., wants to know if cousins
should marry. That depends a good deal upon tempera-
incuts and lamily likeness. If the nvo cousins are of the
same temperament, and there is a family likeness, and es
pecially if there be any disease in the family, such as
consumption, heart disease, etc., cousins should not
marry. But if the two cousins take after different parents,
the girl alter her mother and the boy after his father, and
the mother and father are not brother and sister, and ot
entirely different temperaments, then if they love each
other, no great harm is done.
Sam K., of Richmond, Va., wants to know if “Black
Friday ” originated under Gen. Grant’s administration.
The expression is not original, though there has been a
good many black days in Grant’s adminstration The ex
pression was first used in the days of the Pretender, on
the 6i h of December, 1745, the day on which the news
arrived in London that the Pretender, James Stuart, had
reached Derby. There is in history a Black Monday,
Black Thursday and a Black Saturday.
Mary P. S., of Montgomery. Ala., wants to know what
constitutes the best qualifications to be a good writer.
We answer: First to have a clear head; second, to un
derstand the English language well, if you are going to
write English; third, to know how to spell aud punctu
ate correctly—all important; fourth, to write a clear,
plain hand ; fifth and last, but not by any means the least,
to know what you are going to say, and to say it in as
few words as possible, aud stop when you are through.
Avoid all your French, German, Latit, etc, If you can
not find words in your own language then don’t attempt
to write.
“ Jacob Squeezemboth,” of Raleigh, N. C„ wants to
know if It is wrong for a man to engage himself to two
ladies at the same time, and thus dud out their characters,
aud then break off the engagement with the one he does
not like so well. Decidedly wrong- outrageously wrong
in principle and policy, Jacob. No. sir—by no means
trifle with a woman’s most sacred emotions that way to
find out her disposition or character. It amounts to an
assassin lover, a sneak-thief stealer of woman s love. It
is too often done, we regret to say. and we are glad you
asked us the question. Gall and Bee a lady as often as you
please; find out her disposition in that way, but never
play false and .declare your love, when you lie in the
throat.
Any young ladies wishing to form the acquaintance of
a Virginian recently located in Atlanta, will please ad
dress H. J. Wilson, care bunny South office.
Tristam Shandy,—Your advertisement in The Sunny
South for a lady coin spoudent, object matrimony, is be
fore me. I will be pleased to hear from you privately,
either for fun or matrimony. As for intellect, I will leave
that for you to judge- I am a lady of twenty-one sum
mers, aud would like to hear from you soon. If you de
sire any references as to my true character, 1 will give
you as muny ar you require, here or elsewhere.
Irene.
A young gentleman recently located in the city of At
lanta would like to form tho acquaintance of a limited
number of voung ladies through the medium of a friendly
correspondence. Address Alpha, care Sunny South
office.
A young man twenty-one years of age, black hair and
dark-brown eyes, medium size and, if you will excuse the
presumplion, good looking, would like to correspond
with a few intelligent young ladies in Texas. Brunettes,
under the age of twenty, preferred. H. A. W.
Ladies, pity a lone heart, and write to Hakby Montague,
care Sunny South.
Please inform Mr. Ralph Randolph that he will find
a correspondent by addressing AIakion Gray.
Please inform Messrs. Percival Dupont and Clarence
Gautier that they will find correspondents by addressing
Misses Cecil Courtney and Irene LeNoir. We are two
belles, and may accept their proposals.
Please inform J. T. Rivers that “ Little Texas Pearl ”
wishes to correedond with him, since his object is matri
mony.
Bashful Bill says: “ Will yon please say to your
youne lady subscribers between sixteen and twenty that
•■Bashful Bill "is in the field lor correspondents, and
will ceriaiuly answer all letters.
Literary Notes.
A new novel of Southern life “Blue Blood,”
said to be from the pen of a member of Congress,
will soon be published.
Mr. John G. Whittier, the poet, has moved from |
Amesbury to Danvers, Mass., and now lives with j
a family of relatives named Johnson, who occupy j
the old home of Colonel Enoch Putnam, an officer
of the Revolutionary war.
Being required to report what novels are most j
popular after those of Scott, Dickens, Bulwer, j
Thackery and George Elliot, the leading booksel
lers give in the following as the most salable books,
in the order named: “Jane Eyre,” St. Elmo,”
“The Wooing O’t,” “One Summer,” “The Scarlet
Letter,” “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” “My Wife and I,”
“The Princess of Thule,” “Infelice” and “The
Count of Monte Cristo.”
Wagner’s opera: “The Walkyre,” was performed
in New York last night for the first time in this
country.
Mrs. Louise Pomeroy made her debut in New
York as Juliet, on Monday evening. The critics
agree in praising her clothes and her beauty, and j coiner off liiThaudkerchiefand saying"to*hen
in the opinion that she is by no means able to play j “ Oh! would yon be my own wifel
tragedy, though some of them consider that she | Then leaning on my breast,
would make a fair commedienne.
Mary Anderson, the young Kentucky actress, i
knocked the skin off her nose in falling dead as
Juliet, in the Louisville theatre, and thus disfig- j
ured was incapacitated from playing that part for
a while. Miss Anderson is versatile, however,and
during the rest of the week, she appeared as Meg
Merriiles, the hurt nose being an advantage rath
er than otherwise in the representation of the old
hag.
Lord Lytton said that he took the plot of the
Col. M. B. DeFaro says: “ In your last Issne, I notice
that ’ Pauline wishes to know what has become of the
Colonel.’. Now, Bir, if it is MisB Pauline Meluotte, I am
happy to inform you that she and yonr writer have ex
changed real names and references’, and I must say that
the Colonel has such a high regard for the lady he has a
notion of visiting the ‘Central City’and biting off' the
You’d dwell in tender joyousness,
A dove within her nest.
Thus hand iu hand together.
We'd fear no griefs nor ills,
While flowers ol joy would greet your steps,
If You’d be Mrs. H sill.”
And if she says yes, I shall never forget the one (The
Sunnt South) who so kindly assisted me iu gaining such
a prize as 1 think Miss Meluotte is. If it is auy other
Miss Pauline, tell her I cannot dance the pea-vine, but I
can elucidate my position on paper if she will drop a line
to me.”
Please let “ tout le Monde ” know, through the medium
of The Sunny South, that Obediah Snagtooth, a young
man of twenty years, dark-orown hair, ditto eyes, would
Doing God’s Errands.
Hester loved to do errands for her mother,
and have her call her a faithful servant when she
did them well. One day she had been talking
with her mother about God, when she quickly
raised her head, with a bright thought in her
eyes, and said:
“Why, mother, then God is sending ns on
errands all the time! I am His little errand-
girl, too.”
“Yes, dear, He has given us errands to do,
and plenty of time to do them, and a book
written full to show ns how. Every day we can
tell Him how we try to do them, and ask Him to
help as, so when He calls ns we can rnn to meet
Him, and give Him our account.”
“I like that.i' the child said, nestling back to
her comfortable seat “I like to be God’s little
errand.girl.”
“One of my errands is to take care of you,”
said her mother.
“And one of mine to honor and obey yon,”
said Hester, quickly. “I think He gives ns
very pleasant errands to do.”—Child's World.
most popular English drama of the present centu- | like to correspond with a few young ladies. Object, en-
ry—The Lady of Lyons—from an indistinct recol- j tertainment.
lection of a pretty little tale called The Bellows! Lucille, a young widow spending the winter in Atlanta,
Mender. It is asserted now, however, that he had j l vou ‘ u . uk . e » gentleman correspondent Widowers and
, . , , , . ’ „ ’ , . bachelors between twenty-eight and lorty-five prelerred.
a recollection tolerably distinct of a comedy by Mrs. „ We are four meD of hlgh eocial BtaDding> very
Behn, called Ihe raise Count, a portion or the in- | well oil'aud matrimonially inclined. We wish to corres-
trigue of which is exactly analagous to that in the pond witn four young laah s. our equals, for ihe purpose
mixtnrp of simners ami scowls which surrounds I of mntual improvement, and perhaps something of a more
mixture ol simpers amt scowls wnten surrounds , erioug nature. They must be pretty and not over twenty-
Claude and the sentimental Pauline. five. Our names ure Maurice, Hal, Frank and Arthur.
With scarcely a single exception the followers of The trofonnw are brunettes, the latter blondes. All
the saw-dust arena, who are now mostly all bring- .. l am de8iron8 of corresponding with several young
ing their tenting season to a close report that such . ladies, and especially with Maggie. As it is leap-year, I
a dull and unremunerative season for circuses and j shall expect a letter from Maggie first. I am twenty-two
mpnacreries has never heen known in the annals of 1 l' ear ~- old - dark-brown hair, dark-blue eyes and a profes-
menagertes has never been known in tne annais or siona , lawyer . Object, miscellaneous. Address Bob
that style of entertainments in this country, those [ Ridly, care Sunny South.
circus managers who have not run behind-hand
this season in their expenses consider that they are
indeed fortunate.
A. B. C. Moore wishes to correspond with Olive Pearce
of Texas.
The absence of a just international copyright
law tells sgainst our own authors as well as those
of England. E. A. McDowell, a Canadian theater-
manager, has heen pirating Mr. Boucicault’s
Shaughraun, and Mr- Wallack’s Rosedale, which
ABOUT WOMEN.
The shop girls of Boston number nearly one-
tenth of the entire population of the city.
i In London there have been established two
have been his main stock in trade for a year or j houses which offer a night home to shopgirls,
more. In answer to a letter from the authors de- 1 The Ladieg . Brags Band of Linooln Neb r as ka,
nouncmg this invasion of their rights, Mr Me- carried awav the premium offered for tbe best
Dowell avdrs that he has paid Mr. Boucicault fcboO, band at the ' ecent State fair .
and will pay more when he can, and that he wrote |
to Mr. Wallack with a view to make arrangements j The great question is at last settled. A Penn-
without eliciting a reply, and that as other Cana- sylvania woman says she can w ilk twenty miles
dians have stolen American plays he has a right to j a tlay in men s clothes and only twelve in female
do the same. I apparel.
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