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TW FLOWERS COLLECTION
VOL. IV
J. B. & W. B. SEALS, IkboprhtokS
ATLANTA, GA„ SAURDAY, JULY <>, 1878.
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1 LKM.O, I IN ADVANCE. J
PRE-EXISTENCE.
BY ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH.
Musing, silent and alone—
Listening to the undertone.
Solemn—low.
Of that never ending quest
Of the spirit's weal or rest,
But to know;
Whence,from rolling sun or star,
Came it wandering from afar?
Bearing seed
Of a harvest long foregone,
That shall shape its after-tone.
And its need ?
Something in the eternal past
Lending a benign fore-cast
To our lot ?
Or dint echoes of past crimes
. Staining all our aftej-times
With a blot—
Memories vague of bliss superna 1-
Memories of a past eternal.
Which we hear
Singing inly evermore—
Children singing at the door,
Loud and clear—
Bearing palms and royal gifts,
Never lost adown the rifts
Of the past—
Or, alas ! in milden bright
Half bereft of inward light
Downward east.
Gleams of an eternal day,
Brightning ever, and Mi way
Kainbow hopes.
Visions borne beyond tlie tide,
Where upon the other side
Heaven opes.
WAITING.
When rose-leave
To hide their
All tenderly the
Bow down to
• in long grasses fall
shattered head,
trasses tal!
veil the dead*
And there are heart?
Till those they love, how
Turn there sit last to
content to w
'“V.
ver late,
to the most casual ob-
8 Aver.
What will they do?
What say ?
Tney little suspected
that the last link of the
noblest chain of celes
tial families was so
Dear , a n involuntary
spy upon their move
ments.
A profound silence of
several minutes follow
ed the disembarkment.
It was broken by the
voice of the man.
‘Tnloi,’ he said, fas
tening his gaze upon
the beautiful face that
almost touched his very
own, ‘ Tuloi, ’ as if he
loved the name, • who
arrayed thee in these
costly garments ? Who
spreads, night after
night, for thy matchless
form all these golden
cushions? And who
has rowed with thee be
neath the stars upon the
limpid waves of the
Yaugtsz Xiang, and
talked of everything
save love? Tell me.
Tuloi ? ’
The gpze of the girl
sought the graceful lily
whose fragrant stamens
she was playfully crush
ing between her fingers,
and a scarlet flush lent
a new beauty to her
lace.
‘Thou hast done it
a li all, Loo Chi (i she
at last auswered, in a
tone so sadly musical
that it sounded to th6
watcher like a p'aiut
from heaven.
‘And what hast thou
to give mo in return ?!
to
I ha\
give. 1
nothing else
TXJLOI;
—OR —
The Rival Princes.
TEE FAIREST
FLOWER OF THE CELESTIAL
EIN " D 0 M.
He lilted Tuioi in Id-arm*, and approached tlic water.
He sprang to his feet
and looked down upon
the girl with an undis
guised expression of an
ger which he vainly
tried to conceal. j ing princes in the empire, rowed toward
‘Loo Chi,’ said fciiS astonished beauty, in all palace, muttering plans ot direst vengeance,
the simplicity of woman’s nature, 'I love no one | Yet that night the young prince ot ^ I no Cm
but father, and during his life wiil not deprive ! sent a portion of his private gu ard toJ;h
him of one iota of that holv affection.’ i ing of Tnloi’s father, within sig
Foo Chi's command
was the better disci
plined. In the aggre
gate it numbered twen
ty thousand men who
were expected to ap
pear before the palace
upon a certain day.
Xiangsee , knowing
tLat eTery moment was
precious to him, placed
himself at the head of
his forces in an incred-
i h 1 y short space o f
time, and marched
down into the province
of Hupeh before its
prince had mustered a
single squadron.
Spies, in breathless
accents, and with pal
lid faces, heralded the
unexpected approach of
the invaders, and, hast*
ily collecting ten thous
and troops, the fearless*
Foo Chi marched from
his palace to give battle
to the enemy within
sight of its gilded
domes.
One glorious autumn
afternoon the hostile
princes met, and Carn
age flapped her gory
wings over the fatal
plain. Though outnum
bered three to one, the
young prince maintain
ed the honor of his an
cestors; but as the
shad's if evening de-
iC id d he saw his j
triops retreating with
their faces to the foe,
who were paying dearly
for every inch of par-
chased ground.
At last a panic seized
his veterans. He tried
' M
broke from Lis heart.
But no, the day wis
not lost.
Suddenly the tramp
cf many horses swelled
above Loo Chi’s shouts
of victory and the din
of battle. Nearer and
ed a competence. At the outbreak of the civil
war her home was one of the most delightful in
all Yirginia, and she was enabled to devote a
considerable portion of time to literature. The
war, however, scattered her fortune to the winds,
and left her all hut destitute. She was now a
fully matured woman, over forty years of age,
strong, resolute and energetic. Driven from
her home, she went to Richmond and became a
nurse in the hospitals. The Federal prisoners
who came under her ministration were objects
of her especial care. On the close of the war
she devoted herselft o the education of southern
orphans, and published several works of an
educational character. She dwelt in Washing
ton for a while, ami her home in Pennsylvania
avenue was the resort of some of the most bril
liant men and women in the capital. She occu
pied a position in one of the government officers
for a time, and everywhere commanded rt spect
and admiration. She finally took up’ her resi
dence in Paris. Many years before this, Major
Cass had established himself in the French capi
tal, and had become a Frenchman in his tastes
and methods of life. The two met, and the con
cealed passion of early life rekindled in the
breast of the old gentleman, and led him to
offer Mias Mason his hand and fortune, but she
said that she had resolved never to marry, and
the major asked her to do him the honor of
granting him her friendship. Then until his
death, which occurred rather suddenly, Miss
Mason was his companion in that friendship in
which the French, in the decline of life know
so well how to associate, and she closed his eyes
and took charge of his body. Under the terms
of his will his body was embalmed and brought
to Michigan, A plain tomb, to cost not more
than two hundred dollars, will mark the rest
ing place of Lewis Cass, self-expatriated de
scendant of Michigan’s greatest son. The will
of Mtijor Cass bequeaths to Miss Mason six
thousand dollars, three diamond rings which
the testator dearly prized, and makes her the
joint executrix of the instrument.
of
Iwell-
rince Loo
COMPLETE IN ONE NUMBER.
BY C. C. H.
Row beautiful
soliloquized a solitary
speaker, who continued to gaze enraptured ttp-
Her noble answer—the loftiest that woman
Over gave—served to enrage the proud lover th
more.
‘Tuloi,’ he cried, stepping near the recum
bent one with a frenzied look that raised her
from the couch, and brought them face to fac •
‘Pee not pandered to thy womanish propensitie
without hope of reward. I have arrayed the
j in the productions of the mightiest looms in
j the land; I have decked thy brow with gems of
tdy convey-
on the flood cf silvery^ m ; a, _ 4 -. vei . ol pp. j unparalleled magnificence—for what? To hear
1 thee declare that thou lovest a foolish man on
the pinnicle of his dotage, because he calls thee
daughter. I would blush in very shame, Tuloi
on the lucent waves of the greatest. riv
native land—the winding Yangtsz X ang.
He was in the spring-time of life—not having
vet crossed the boundary of his twenty-fourth
year His prepossessing features and symmetrical
mould stamped him tf princely lineage, hut
nothing upon his person would seem to con-
linn the impression. lie was comtoitab)} hu*
not richly dressed. .
. Glorious river < ’ he cried, stretching forth
his fair-skinned and womanish hand; ‘upon thy
shelly hanks have my ancestors chased glitter
ing sunbeams, and gorgeous palaces and beau
tiful pagodas without number. They have gone,
and I btund where they once stood.
Chi's castle, and the old man v.-ir. s
e'd to his daughter’s embrace
Tuloi was surprised to learn that her preserv
er was a scion of the house ot Foo Chi, and she l f 0 give’way
felt that there was no stronger protector in the j a fieardlf
land.
With grateful tears she thanked him for her
own life and parent’s safety, and the devoted
couple were assigned to the most gorgeous wing
of the palace.
Prince L*io Chi slept not daring the short in-
tival between the balling of schemes nearest his
heart and dawn, for. while the stars yet twink
led in the az ire of space, he was riding, unat-
But girl,' and he clutched her delicate arm, re- j tended, upon his favorite courser towards Foo
vealed by the short laee sleeve, ‘lam not to be
cheated thus. If you w ill not become mine you
shall never belong to, another. Tell me, there
fore that thou art mine, or—or—or by the heart
of Foo ! I’ll—’
Chi.
The gray* streaks of dawn were illumining the
East, as the still angry prince sc .led the spur
of a mountain, and rode towards one
j magnificent porches ol Foo Chi’s model
rupt tue love-blinded Chinese. ‘I will not wed
thee till the stars fall, lor 1 love thee not.’
‘Then to-aight thou wilt sleep upon a couch
the last liv- I fhy limbs never touched before !’ he shouted,-
. , ,, tnniio nf Vno fllii Ac j suddeulv lifting Tuloi above his hea l, as though
ye! I P £S“£S££ \nto no veins the glorious 1^0 were an infant, and stepping nearer the
current that mal “St I "VhVfiSr creature was poized above the wonld-
look about me, . ‘ , after a lone nr use he murderer’s head, when an agile form darted
£VhTh he°Lad'leaned forward and gazed long- | £«>“ «*e «hade of the water iillies and snatched
Ingly down the stream. ‘ Have I been dmsing ^
a ten-light, or have I beheld in vision the celes
tial being that haunts my sight and not in real
ity ? Is it true that 1—’
He suddenly paused, and put his finger to his
lips, for the musical dip of light oars had reach
ed his ears, and a dark object marred the silvery
surface of the waves. . ,
«’Tis not a dream !’ he cried. ‘ She comes !
she comes! the fairest flower of the celestial
kingdom.’
He drew back into the shade of a clump ot
water lilies, and ieasted bis sparkling eyes upon
the boat, the prow of which had unaccountably
been turned iov.ards the very spot he occupied.
‘She could not have seen me,’ he mused.
« The rays of the night queen revealed me not,
yet she comes straight to my hiding-place.
The boat continued to approach the shore, j
and not until it had touched the lilied bank, |
did the watcher discover that the girl who so j
deftly plied the yielding oais had a companion, j
The male occupant of the little vessel moored j
it to the trunk oi a monster water plant, and as- j
sisted his companion to the verdant bank, upon j
which he had previously spread elaborate silken j
cushions of great value.
A fairy \ision, indeed, seemed the girl, as j
she rechued gracefully upon cue of the cush
ions. Her face was an equisite oval, faultless,
in every outline and most minute particular.
The fascinating cerulean eyes contrasted strange
ly. jet beautifully, with tl
tresses that iell upon her sh
their lair skin and rounded shapes
watcher behind the lilies. j
Though quite richly clad it was evident that j
she was not patrician, yet not wholly a plehian, j
in the sense in which the ancient terms arc used j
in China. On the other hand the princely ha
biliments oi her escort did not belie his descent, j
and his attractive person, independently oi his
robes, would have proclaimed him a patrician j
Never !’ she broke forth, impatient to inter- j nese architecture.
■ He was plainly clad; over all he wore an ttn-
Loo Cm turned with a cry of baffled rage,
advanced with clenched hands and flushed
cheeks on his antagonist, who had lain the halt-
unconscious girl upon the cushions, and await
ed his onset.
The moustached Loo Chi laughed with dis
dain at the beardless youth, who confronted
him, and supposing the battle already won by
his commanding presence, stepped forward,
when his enemy’s arm shot out from the shoul
der, and he described a faultless parabola to the
edge of the tortuous stream.
Right had triumphed over might.
The vanquished prince soon recovered, but
made no attempt to renew the struggle. He had
no idea before the forcible demons ration ot the
power that slumbered in his antagonist s arm.
‘Dost know who I am ?' he thundered.
‘Aye,’ answered the other quickly, ‘Thou art
Loo Chi, Prince ofKiangsee; but what care I lor
that? Go! Thy cushions—take them; they
polute the soil of Hupeh,’ and the speaker threw
the silken couches into the boat.; >
‘I will pay thee enormous price for this, hiss
ed Loo Chi. ‘Thy master, the prince ot oo
Chi, shall deliver thee into my hands, and, as
Foo liveth, I’ll drain thee of every drop ot thy
blood !
The other laughed loudly and bitterly, and
Loo Chi stepped into the boat.
s contras tea sLranee- ’Come beautif.il creature,’ said the young
he wealth of ebon mar, to the being he had ^sened from^be^of
oulders, concealing ’ s k' !!s > ‘come with me o j .* . , ■ .
ed shapes from the | L,lt she seemed . reluctant to & o, looking tear-
fuliv down the river.
‘My lather,’ she murmured.
Fear not for him. Ere dawn ho shall he with
thee,’ was the quick response.
Thus assured, she permitted her preserver—
whom she little dreamed of being the prince ol
Foo Chi—to lead her from the exciting spot.
Loo Chi, one of the most powerful and schem-
assuming riding-habit.
When quite near the porch, a figure appeared
therein, and gazed fixedly npou him.
Loo Chi recognized, in the b ardless, boyish
form, his vanquisher of the preceding night,
and drew reign.
What wilt thou so bright and early, Loo Chi
of Kinngsee? ask“d the young prince, inwardly
guessing, and rightly too, Xiangsee’s errand,
•1 will state my wishes to thy master, not to
thee, has- -horn dog ! was the angry re joinder,
which drew a smile to the lips of the prince.
■Do thou summon thy master hither, and bestir
thyself, or it will he the worse for thee when
tl oa hast been delivered i.ito my hands.’
‘Kiangsee’s tyrant,’ answered Loo COL slow
ly as he fixed his piercing eyes upon his /nsul-
ter, ‘art thou iguorant of the fact that thou hast
just addressed one whose blood is mst er than
thine ?’
‘What ?’
‘I am the last scion of Foo Chi’s house.’
Startled at the unexpected revelation, Loo
Chi maintained his composure, and his voice
sank to a respectful tone.
‘Wor hy prince,’ he said, ‘why should Foo
Chi and Kiangsee stand at dagger points? To-
his 1 n ,. a ,., r they came, and all at once ten thousand
of Hupeh’s mountaineer, invincible in battle,
ippearel to retrieve the fortunes of the flay.
The pa lie-stricken troips turned, boo ( hi
thr w himself before the cavalry, and led them
to au inevitable victory. Tue troops of Xiang-
see struggled bravely; but, being assailed on
both flanks by the infantry, they were obliged
‘ The leader of the succoring party,
youth with fiir, womanly features,
performed prodigies ol valor.
Loo Chi sought his enemy, and by dextrous
blows deprived him of his sword.
‘I Lave thee, now, dog!’ he cried, the point
of his vubagalen touching Foo Chi’s throat.
•And I will pay thee for thy obstinacy. 1 erish .
At that moment a steed passed at Loo Chi s
side, and in less time than I have penned a
single word a gory scimitar performed decapi-
The young prince beheld the beardless lead
er of the cavalry in the person of his rescuer.
The deep blue eyes caused him to Iook again,
of the i am | an exclamation parted his lips.
>f Chi- | ‘Tuloi.’ , , „ , .
Blushes swept the beautiful face. Tuloi was
the proservi-r of bis life. . ,, ,
Fearing the result, of the confl ct, the girl had
i messenger to rouse the prince’s
oups, who, having promptly re
sponded to the urgent appeal, had arrived in
time to snatch victory from the grasp o. defeat.
One week Liter, daring the celebrating ot the
si-uiul victory, upon the prince o* Foo Cm were
‘he heart and hand of the lily of tiia
d father willingly relin-
s patch t <1
mountain
bestowe
Yang'z Ki-.ing, her aged father willingly relin
quishing a portion of her love to their chival-
benefactor.
Lewis (ijss's Only Son.
Thu Romance in (lie Life of the Most
Beautiful Woman in Michigan.
Detroit Fif‘ /'re.ss: Emily V. Mason was
reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the
northwest. Her family were patrician and all
her associations were elevated. In 1833, when
her father was secretary of the Territory of
Michigan, she enjoyed a political as well as so
cial distinction, and later when Michigan was
erected into a State, her brother, Stephen T.
day I gaze upon thee for the first time knowing j Mason, became its first governor, and she pre-
thy rank. That blow—that princely blow, so I sided over the household and dispensed a
deftly bestowed,’ be smiled, but ;?o faintly, ‘I liberal and grac D ful hospitality. The guberna-
forgive upon one‘condition.’ j torial mansion w r as the center of the culture and
•Speak on.’ | fashion of the northwest, a»d Miss Mxson was
‘ That thou dost restore to me Tuloi, whom I at the head of thf> society of the Wolverine
thou knowest I love.’ ! metropolis. When Miss Mason was discharging
‘ Xiangsee, ride back to thy palace, and tell I the duties of the first lady of the State, Major
thy people that there are baser men than I.’ ; Lewis Cass was at West Point. During his va-
‘ The condition is refused, then ?’ hissed Loo cation he visited his home and was thrown much
into the society of the brilliant Emily. He was
younger than she, if he was smitten by her
beauty and accomplishments he never summon
ed the courage to propose. The sudden death
of Governor Mason and the breaking up of the
Mason homestead and the reverse that followed,
and the j obliged Miss Mason to look about tor means of
entirely i support. She was a girl oi proud, independent
of
Chi.
‘Emphatically so.’
He turned his charger's head, saying:
‘The wager of battle must decide the fate
the Lily of the i’angDz Xiang.’
‘So be it,’ responded Foo Chi. • Ifthou gain-
est her ’t'-vill be over my dead bolt
ruins of this palac -and calm and
self-possessed, the young prince turned to con- I spirit, and with the remains of her property
verse with an officer of the structure who was ' she purchased a market farm in Fairfax county,
seated in a niche. I Virginia, and began business like a practical
The rival princes lost no time in marshalling ] woman. Siie developed energy and commercial
their forces. I foresight, and soon enjoyed abundant prospen-
Kiangsee could bring the larger force to the ty. She supported hersell and her orphaned __ ,
field of conflict, bat the army attendant; upon j nieces ia elegant styie, worked hard, and acq nr- | ‘warmed over by fashion tlias summer.
A Reminiscence of John Milkes Booth.
(Louisville letter to New Orleans Picayune.)
Close beside me, as I write, is an old worn
almost impish in its beauty, with some .aiut
shadow on if of the tragedy that made its end so
t -rrible. Benea h it, in characters traced by a
girlish hand that is dust and ashes long ago, are
the words ‘immortal Booth.’ It is John Wilkes
Booth. Since young imagination burning with
z-nl for the Southern cause, transformed the
brilliant, misled fanatic into a hero martyr. I
have lately heard a story in connection with this
man, whose events began in Louisville. Some
time’during the war he was playing an enga e-
ment here and winning the applause aDd ho
mage that has ever attended the name.
Amongst his passionate admirers was a beau
tiful young girl of seventeen, the child of^ one
of Louisville's oldest and best families. Night
after night she sat before the foot-lights drink-
in" in e'xery word and look. The tale of her
devoted homage finally reached his ears, and
he sought an introduction. Blase man ot the
world as he was, her fresh young beauty and
ardent hero-worship captivated him. Alas, to
the man who had the fairest women ot the land
at his feet and who could not count his con
quests, the silken thrall was easily broken-the
ftucy very transient. His stay in the city was
prolonged, and he managed to be quite frequent
in the society of the young girl whose infatua
tion was unknown to her friends. Finally he
Xft for New York, and the misguided girl was
his companion. As soon as the elopement was
discovered, her brother, residing in Chicago,
was telegraphed, and started immediately tor
New York, whence the sister was taken to Chi
cago and never returned to her native city. She
developed into a woman of surpassing b»auty,
went into society, and was the gayest among the
gay, to all appearances; finally she was married,
much against her will, to an old gentleman oi
wealth and position, and in a short time she left
his home, and in a strange hotel in Chicago,
away from her friends, took chloroform and died
by her own hand. In the meantime, Booth, flit
ting from flower to flower, had settled upon one
ami was engaged to be married to a Washington
lady, now the wife of a i romineut Republican,
1 when his poor crazed brain imp died him to his
j fearful fate. There are some members of Booth’s
fun ily living in this city, and one, a prominent
j and gifted young lawyer, died here some time
since,
A Contradiction by General Grant.
General Grant was recently reported by a cor
respondent as speaking disparagingly of Stone
wall Jackson while at Constantinople. Colonel
Mosby, of Yirginia, wrote to General Grant, en
quiring if be had used the language attributed
to him. General Grant, writing under date of
Paris, May 20, in reply says:
‘You say I am reported as speakiDg disparag
ingly of Stonewall Jackson by one correspond
ent. I have not seen that. I knew Jackson
when he was a cadet, served with him in the
Mexican war, and know that he enjoyed the
confidence and respect of all who knew him.
He was regarded as a man of great ability’, great
perseverance and great piety. M hatever he did,
he did conscientiously no matter whether it
was right or wrong. I have compared him in
conversation with Cromwell. It is probable
that I have said as much to you about Jackson
as I ever have to any correspondent.’
Pin tliou thy faith upon the calico dress of
the girl who can play ‘Home, Sweet Home.’
Norwich has about 100 divorced couples, two-
thirds of whom are under 30 years of age.
A lady iu Mount Sterling. Ky, eighteen ye^rs
old, has ioeen married six years, and has three
children.
Empress Eugenie desires her son to be called
Prince Louis Napoleon, as his father was iu his
early exile.
Ashes of roses,’ an expired tint, will beV 4 ')
ashion this summer. w£; -'