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DREAMS.
BY J. W. MORGAN.
In dreams, where not one earthly woe
Its gloomy form had pressed.
My soul hath floated till the glow
Of hope hath called me blest.
But out of fortune’s high estate
The wakening hurletli me,
And the grim hand of ruthless fate
Renews my agony.
Oh! lielit of heaven, veiled afar.
Why in my dreams alone.
Doth thou reveal the passion star
Above the golden throne?
If all that someth is so fair
And all that is so dark—
Take me, oh' sleep within thy care
And nuanch this living spark.
Memi-hls,
The PerkinsesinParis.
An Attempt to BeaHtify tli«* t wm *
plexion an«l the Disasters that ■' al
lowed —A Face Streaked with Royal
Green.
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14 Rue de Rivoli Street, I
Paris. France, June 10, 18 <8. )
Dear Mel visa: Don’t send the rooster,
some body to bring on them 3allieo presses it
you can; but I don’t want nothing else, tor
.. . e It •_ Imnup ftcral
give me for what I did. When I write again.
I’ll toll you more about the INS
Yonrs in despair, AbigailPkrkin^
.P 8 —Don’t yon dare to hint about my face,
a?be sure to spread it around about Janes
Count ...
A Woman’s Revenge.
The Story a detectlvTtrtd of what » woman
will Do when Excited by Jealousy nnd
Thirsting tor Kevenge.
[From the San Francisco Chronicle.]
«I’ll tell yon of an incident I never reflect bn
without regret,’ said a retired old detective th
other day, while reciting some of the stirring
occurrences of the early days of San Francisco.
‘The life of a detective is not one of excitement
merely. It is sometimes o> ossed with events as
wild and startling as ever gave coloring to ro
mance. No emotion, no passion or phase of
character is hidden from us. Welearn topky
upon the feelings, the hates and a ff® ct *°®®.°[
men and women as unerringly as the pianist
on his instrument. While the casuist would
hesitate to take advantage of this °PP°* t ? n * t J
which may lead us to success. I say this be
cause the incident I am about to relate reveals
that a woman will do when excited by jealousy
and thirsting for revenge. ,
We were on the track of a man who bad rob
bed a Havanna jeweller of almost incalculable
wealth He had fled his native island and we
were informed by the Cuban authorities that in
all probability he had made his wa, to *hj
coast. At that time this city was tall of Cubans
and adventurers from all parts of the worl .
, — i One couple, peculiar from all the rest, excited
can’t guess what the atte ntion of the then limited fashionable
the matter is with me. so I’ll tell you; but xe-1 orld> and became ^epeteo^society^their
member, if you ever breathe one single word of i lavish expenditure and almost Eastern magn^^
it, Til never lend you my gold beads again. ] cence ot aparrel and equipag fashionable
Don’t von ever dare to hint it to any of the folks, j ration and e nvy, it may be, of their tasnionan^
and especially to any of the members of our
I
shan't"stir’out of this blessed house again for
many a day. Melvina, I am a sight, a perfect
sight, and it all comes from this miserable F
eign Centennial. Of course yon cai
mutter is with me. so I’ll tell
were Cubans. The
church. I know I’ve committed a sin, but the
Lord knows I’m getting punished for it. iue
girls and I sneaked off to the Centennial alone
the other day, an’ while we was there we saw a
lot ot stuff that they said was a most beautiful
thine for the complexion that ever was 1 J u
wish I had hold of the hair of the man that told
me that yarn-and I, fool like, bought • bottle.
“r. ai ?rs» g T .T.br' r c»u„i.i»«*.
Spaniard, was, in personal appearance, a type
0l Rut T cannot describe to you the woman who
! P r. d »«' , lbVmo S t beautiful •««*■»
i saw—the ideal of the poet when he painted the
dark-eyed maiden Khorassen was realized in her
oar* j * „ iiu some living,
She seemed to me like
me good. I have gotten into sootety »»«b I tbe oli.e wuonjbet fan. . „ h „,
now
that I don’t like to have any of these out- ^rk luminous eyes
fandish people take the shine out of me. J paid | they told, too, of a spirit ^entfulo^injustice,
fora little mean boutafull. though heaven | ^ fierce in ™th as‘the glare of bar native sun.
knows there was enough of it to make me look j By the devious path we pursued when on the
like the zebra that Balam rode.
When we got I Xljfof the crminal we traced ‘our man to this
i 1K6 Ilwdiv lI father*was off with some of the ! 0I W eknew he was here, and we searched in-
iobs he hi gotin wUh,1n’ I thought IM kind ^antly for him. But, as if to balk our exertions
c urVtAn lift ant back, AH I diet. A arx A nnfct
of surprise him when he got back, an .
rubbed the’pesky stuff all over my face, an d I
rubbed it in good. For a few minutes yon d a
thought I was about sixteen. I know it s wick
ed aiF all that* but I couldn’t help feeling proud
of mv looks Well, I got kinder swellm’ with
pride, an' I thought I'd get some of father s hair
dye, an’ jest touch up the gray bairs a little. I d
seen father do it, an’ I took the old tooth-brush
that he used an’ rammed it into the bottle,
s'spose I must have get too much onto the brus ,
for when I went to touch up the hairs in the
carting the stuff run down over my face. Mel
vina. when that hair-dye struck that nasty face
stuff it turned a bright green. As true as I li ,
Melvina,
I’VE GOT FOUR GREEN STRIPES DOWN MX FACE,
wav to the chin, and the tip of my ^ose looks
like a frog’s back. I tried to wash it off, but it
was no us 8 e. I called down the girls and they rub
bed it with fine sand. But the more we rubbed
the greener it grew, till now it’s awfully bright,
an’ is j ust al out the shade of my silk dress. If 1
ever make such a fool of myself again, I hope
some body will knock my head against the wall.
Well when father came he looked at me lor
about a minute, an’then he shrieked: 1 v® 8°
’em’ I've got ’em! an’ fell over on his back. It
took both the girls an’ me to get him into bed,
and then whenever I went where he was he kept
hollerin’ about Murphy, an retormin, an blue
ribbons and all that sort of thing. Ibadtwo
or three French fellers in to see what they cou d
do about it; but all they did was to laugh an
shriek- ‘Ke un bo vert,’ or something that
like that. It’s been an awful time,
Melvina,and if I grow to be as old as the Witch
nf Fndor an’ as homely as Mathusla. 111 never
nut any thing on my face but clean, cold water
P, st T v i n the house till it wears off, an
” oJdtogt“«pp°ar.»ce, I shall h.« •<' «“*
?U1 snow flies Talking of snow, reminds me
that I didn’t go to the party I wrote you about.
How could I with a green nose and four green
^trines down my face? Father told me I coaid
‘ F n the next fancy-dressed ball as a parrot, if
f Tories they tell of it, it must have been
by tl tine affair Jane went with the Span-
LTan’Eliza with little Dodd. They said that
there was ice cream an’ cake till you couldn t
wink and now, Melvina, I’ve got a piece ot news
X yon can startle the folks with:
, JANE HAS CAUGHT A FRENCH COUNT,
„ live one! He looks some like a wax Ag
ger of one of the murderers in the Boston Mu-
seam bat he’s got lots of money, and hes a
count! Count Offnoaccount, that a his name
? =f think of it, Jane, my Jane will be a count-
flee’ there'll be » lot of little counU.
and I shall be grandmother to any quantity of,
and isna k . j doe8 a9 she ought to.
He“hio-t P roV«.'i jet, but I k»ow be will 1.
rLv^r two if he doesn’t get a sight at my face
ad /l Jrred away. Jane is kind of holding
a “ to the Spaniard! so as to fall back on him if
° Q thtng should happen to Mr. Offuoascount,
alvithink she shows sound sense in doing so,
Father has been out two or three evenings with
Father has and eaoh tline ha9
myfl0 h^eso^wfally tight, that I know he
here
spread berself a telling^bout Jane
airs about their g . they try. You can
what our gnls ca dOof , fc fey telling nothing
get a good story ® think you oau improve
- Did ,oa
and put to sname our efforts, this is all we could
learn. The Spaniard was the only one who an
swered the description of the criminal. But what
folly to suspect him ! the petted courtier of so
ciety- the millionaire; he would only laugh our
suspicions to scorn. But still we hung around
him! By a strange, magical influence, it was im
possible to divorce ourselves from the belief that
he was the party we were in search of. Inis
constant attendance at the places be frequented,
this hovering around the sphere in which he
moved, made*us at last acquainted with the fact
that his wife was unhappy and ill-treated by
her husband. . .
He had begun to neglect her and pay assidu
ous court to a fashionable nymph dupave. One
night we saw him enter the theatre with the fair
American, and entering a private box, was paying
her most devout attention. Shortly after, a wo-
tnan, whom we at once perceived was his wife, but
evidently disguised, entered, and passing
aroi n 1 the dress circle took a seat d r ctly fie > g
him Bv a strange concidence she was right by
me Sh*e looked at the couple in the box long
and earnestly; her face which we could see
from our position, gradually changed to an ex-
pressiem of the most fearful and vindictive pas-
sionl ever beheld. Accustomed as I was to every
phase of emotion, it appalled me. At last she
arose and lefl the theatre, followed by an attend
ant. Now was our time. I got up^'l^etly,
and was by her side when she,reached the street.
I was determined on a stroke of policy, which,
if I read her countenance aright, would put the
man in our power. If I was mistaken it could
do no harm. Actuated by the impulse, I placed
myself in front of her and raised my hat.
‘Madame, pardon me!’
‘What do you want sir, and who are you <
•My name is This is my friend, Mr.—
We are detectives and in search of the robber of
the Havanna jeweller. We believe yOu can point
out to ns the man.’
‘I can ! I can !’ , , ...
It was almost a shriek, so fierce and bitter
were the words. .
‘Come with me—come with me !
It is useless to detail what followed. The
next morning the fashinable world was shocked
by the intelligence of the arrest of Don D R
but it was still more surprised to hear
that he was betrayed by his pretty wife. >Ve
tie.
ever
bear of anything that would take the green
bear ot any » j et me know just
off folkes faceo ? I ; n t 0 the ink.
„ qoiok »■£?
The girls 8a y ft looks ever
A & , * Afof flamft
tennial now. ^ ^enVe first came. I
much better than 1 going te be put
di d hear that ^ ^ 8ft ys he
in the American departmen t k - e b ^ r ia the
thinks thatmust b mU ch already that he
touSu’t be h much f o°f a curiosity. Melvina,
THEM GRIGGSES ARE GOING IT
t. Thev DUt on such a lot of f rl H 8
awfully strong^- Th y^P Grigg8 _ 8be 8 fifty if
a ? d . Lv-thinks more of dressing an’ rigging
ahe s a- osy ghe does of her soul. I remem-
herself out than s earning his money
ber when her bua *LT^ms ^“smelling of neo-
by nosing around bar-rooms an s tban 'two
pie’s breaths that she hadn * her
dresses to her bacK, a the three weeks
n .° 'fV^n here 1 am actually ashamed of
fer. h OMGriggs e CO “rhom“ tor
apostle of temperanc red der. I havn’t
I see that bis nose is gew b stripea to fix
recovered nearly $100,000in jewelery and gold.
But to the poor woman the result was terrible.
She was but the victim of his perfidy, b® 1 the
moment she saw him arrested all the old love
that had rained her returned. She clung to his
neck with a wild, frantic despair that was terri
ble to see. The anguish of that^young face will
haunt me to my dying day. The next day she
disappeared—no one knew whither; but a few
days afterward the body of a beautiful, unknown
woman was picked up on the lower coast-a
suicide.’
A Big Snake Story.
A Battle Between Two New York Girls and
an Army of Rattlesnakes.
[From the New York Sun.]
Shohola Falls, Pike County, Pa., June 19.—
Jennie Wurtz, a German girl of New York City,
who is snmmering at Shohola Creek, and her
cousin, Miss Wolf, went trout ing in the Shohola
on Tuesday last. At about 4 o clock in the a.-
terron, having caught nearly one hundred
trout, they started for home by the way of ‘Ball
Hill,’ a place noted for its rattlesnakes. After
they had walked about half a mile Miss Wurtz
stepped upon an object that moved and threw
her down. Regaining her feet she saw two
large rattlesnakes crawling into the rocks and
underbrush. She had stepped upon on* ot
them. With a stick that she had seized Miss
Wolf cut one rattlesnake in two. Miss Wurtz
Btrnok at another, but missed it. The snake
that Miss Wolf killed was five and a hall teet in
length and had thirty-two rattles. They contin
ued on their way to the summit of ‘Ball Hill.
Here while resting they heard frequent and dis
tinct rattles from the foot of the hill. They
walked to the edge of the summit and saw that
the rocks beneath them were covered with rat
tlesnakes. Gathering together a pile of stones,
they threw them in quick succession among tbe
reptiles. Ten minutes later not a live snake
was visible. The girls descended and found
ninety-eight dead snakes, measuring from two
and a half to six feet in length, and with from
three to thirty-seven rattles. Tying a string to
two of the largest and dragging them along, the
girls reached home about dusk. On the follow
ing morning two neighbors brought from the
den the remaining ninety-six.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
By Jno. Stainback Wilson, M. 1).,
J Atlanta Ga.
Infant Niort«*iv-The Relig
ion ot Hsouse.
Extent ot Infani Mortality. Tables
carefully compiled in Lgland, extending over
a long series of years, to w conclusively that,
even in that enlightenec*,nntry in this age of
improvement and progre$more than one fourth
of all the children ushiafl into the world are
cut eff within the first fi\ hears after birth, and
in the large manufacturing towns the mortality
is much greater, one halife children there dy
ing under five years Aj; this is equally true
of all the countries of cilj ze d Europe in this
nineteenth century, withljts boasted advance
ment in science.
In the United States ren a worse state of
things is found. In Philadphia, which is not re
garded as very unhealthynd which is the great
centre of medical sciencefce mortality of chil
dren under five years is c*iderably more than
one half in the sickliest Tiths, and but little
les3 in the healthiest. Ts is doubtless true
of all our large cities, Noi a nd South. In the
country, where children re the advantages of
pure air! more exercise aniore healthful food,
the deaths are less numercthan in cities. Y'et,
even in the country, the n*lity is very great;
and taking city and count together it may be
safely said that from one ftffi to one half of all
the children born, die before age of five years.
This frightful mortality lot the results of
chance or necessity, but sly of infringement
of the conditions on whichd has decreed the
welfare of the various orgBjf the body to de
pend, and the implied rerement to observe
which has therefore been ropriately termed
the organic law. When oonviotions are
fulfilled, health is preser When they are
neglected or infringed, the 0 n of the organ is
impeded or disordered, oiother words, dis
ease begins. Take, for exa e , the lungs, the
organs of respiration. It sent : al for their
healthy action that the chikuld be surround
ed by a pure air, of propemperature and
dryness; that the chest sh< be free and un
compressed so as to admi'the full expan
sion ot the lungs, and thy access of the
vital air into the air-cell^ain, the lungs
must be supplied with healfiood.
If any of these condition^ if the air is
impure, or not of the propeness or temper
ature; if the chest is comprtgo that air can
not freely enter the lungs; iblood is defec
tive in quality from inadeq JU pplies of nu
tritive food, or from impairijestion, the un
failing result is derangemethe great func
tion of respiration, followeddisease of the
lungs, or other organs dlent on their
healthful action. In the sam all the oauses
of disease operate by infringe conditions
of health. If we had it in over to fulfil all
these conditions it is not toefi to say that
almost all diseases could baled, and hu
man life prolonged to the naterm of exis
tence. But on account oflitary defects
visited on us by our ancestn account of
our ignorance and our limit we r over ex
ternal circumstances, we are 3r y far from
making this greatest of alnments, and
probablv never will do so inresent life of
sin and’imperfection. But w fully attain
able or not, the road to bealfibedience to
the laws of health; and the aim in the
preservation of health shoulcascertain the
conditions on which healtl^ds, and to
place ourselves in proper rel* these con
ditions. Mothers, duly mfl with this
great truth, will not be so reiattribute all
their diseases and the diseaseir children
to a direct inilictioir irodi-^* of- ifio Al
mighty; but believing th#e is the result
of causes that are often aV, they will look
for the cause, endeavor tee it, or avoid it
in the future if possible, let disease be
regarded as a “mysteriounsation of Prov
idence’’ for our spiritual-something not
produced by natural andble causes, and
the result is supine subncwhich may pos
sibly conduce to the s health of the
mother, but which will y cases be the
death of herself or the B of her family
from causes that might !h avoidable, in
the exercise of a more ralith.
The truth is, God acts secondary and,
in many cases avoidable in the produc
tion of disease; and it isand destructive
idea that disease is a dilution lor moral
ends. Such afflictions jmade subservi
ent to moral purposes, still the result
of causes that may be a Our health is
made to depend, not oBoral condition,
baton obedience to the led th. _
If health depends oioral condition,
and not on our physioundings, then
cleanliness, temperanoi e i and all such
things have no influence are sick or well
not as we are acted on agencies, but as
our moral condition m'e. Aooording to
this rule, good and bat* not equally ex
posed to sickness; andag to the same
rule, pagans must haV 1 of health, and
Christians another.
But, we all know thtaws are uniform,
nniversal, and uncha.'
A CASE IN-TION
been, and forever will remain the same and the
notion on the human body the same.'
THE RELIGION OF DISEASE.
So long as erroneous views as to the cause of
disease are entertained, so long as disease and
death are regarded as ‘mysterious dispensations’
without natural oauses or fixed laws, j ust so
long will the means of preventiou be negleoted.
But let i* ones be known that disease is the re
sult of causes which can generally be ascertain
ed and avoided, that true religion is not super
stition and blind fatalism, that its highest at
tainments are to be found in parity of heart,
and an intelligent comprehension of the opera
tions of Providence through secondary canses,
and then, and not till then may we expect de
liverance from the premature deaths which
sweep off the great majority of our race before
the noon of life. When this kind of knowledge
is attained, mothers will no longer enter on
their responsible duties in total ignorance of
the infant constitution, and the common causes
of disease; they will seek to preserve health
by right living; they will look more to preven
tive and less to cure, and trust more in a God
of law and order, and in common sense, and
less in drugs and doctors.
SHOPPING.
The Art that is Dear to Every Fem
inine Heart —How it is
Done and How it
Should be
Done.
Never Was There Such Temptatioasfto Shop
as nowadays. For as never before were snob
beautiful things shown, so never before wera
there snoh bargains as the lamented hard times
of the past few seasons have brought about It
is grievous enough, when one considers it, that
bankrupt sales should be so frequent; that
goods should be sold at 'fearful sacrifices,' to
quote from the advertising oolumns—for which
somebody must lose money. But it is difficult
to keep this in mind when snch bargains—and
what does any woman love better than a real
bargain ?—are actually before her. Money is
not too plenty in these times; bat those who are
so fortunate as to have it can certainly do noth
ing better than spend it in stocking their houses
and their wardrobes with staple and alwayB nec
essary articles, which were never so cheap be
fore and will scarcely be so again.
California papers complain that tbe San Francis
co managers are “embarrassing the people with
richness in the way of engaging first-class^ talent.
The arrivals come so close that they are taking the
skin off each other’s heels.”
To show the impo having correct
ideas as to whether dihe result of sec
ondary causes, or a detion from Heav
en, the following oadensed from Dr.
Comb, on the ‘ Mana Infancy:’ ‘Sup
pose, for example, th previously in ex
cellent health, is lpr a few minutes,
that, soon after the rts attendant, it is
taken ill and dies, rent cause of the
sadden transition bo, the events will,
in the one view, tl as simply a dis
pensation of Provid«sbly the chastise
ment of the parents ig their affections
to be too exclusively by the child; and
no precautions agsepetition of such
an occurrence will l of. Every duty
will be considered if the sin wbich
drew down the pun* felt, and the af
fections be thenortered on higher
things. But, on tlinciple, that God
always acts threugieans, attention is
naturally roused toery of the partic
ular cause which W-tion. On careful
inquiry it turns otue momentary ab
sence of the nunld has swallowed
some sugar of leafitly left within its
reach. This disci* the whole com
plexion of the casit regards our con
duct. It may stided as a dispensa
tion, but it is no lpensation of a spe
cial or miraculout one according to
fixed and known dependent on the
known poisonouiof the substance.
We can no longer'Vas a dispensation
unconnected witonduct; for every
one will admit thison had net been
left in reach, tkld have been alive
and well. It is '<■ cases of ordinary
disease. A causiether we can see it
or not. In genflis3dver it by care
ful examination, res we cannot. . . •
If we snoceed iB r y» • and be able to
remove the oanst the unchangeable-
nesB of the great* guarantee that the
safety of the chJhy be infallibly se
cured. Where* on the accident as
a purely spiritl unconnected with
conduct, aud was of future safety,
a second aooidsir as readily as the
first—seeing thirties of the poison
and of all otkabjeots always have
What woman is really and entirely above the
delights of shopping. The strong-minded wo
man may consider the time thus spent as wasted;
the true lady may think most justly that it is
not compatible with her dignity to go shopping
when not intending to purchase; the lady whose
purse is light may think it is too great an ag
gravation to see and long for those fascinating
trifles which she cannot afford to buy; and she
whose purse is long, but whose prudence is lon
ger still, may not dare submit herself to the
temptation of lightening it. Yet they all go
shopping, whatever may be their individual
opinions against it. It is one of the most fas
cinating ways of idling away time that ever fell
to woman’s lot. And shopping as a fine art,
has its advantages, too. Much complaint is
made by clerks of those ladies who persistenly
and repeatedly visit stores for the mere appar
ent purpose of handling and examining the
wares, only to leave them with a slight excuse
about ‘calling again.’ There is
Another Side to the Question.
A complaint of this kind was recently sent to
one of the Sunday papers of this city, which
appeared to come from some dealer in carpets,
although the subject was generalized to trade of
all kinds. A very sensible answer was subjoin
ed by the editor to the effect that in smaller as
in larger bargains or trades, he or she who is
shrewd and business-like will weigh carefully
the relative merits and prices will decide as to
the most advantageous place at which to con
duct the trade before completing it. And that
the clerk’s business is to show the goods com
mitted to him, while it is the customers busi
ness to purchase if he pleases. Now this is the
only sensible and trne solntion of what has been
sometimes regarded as a vexed qnestion. It is
doubtless often very provoking to a clerk, who
is perhaps tired and nervous, to be obliged to
take down and display several varieties of dress
fabrics or other goods, only to have them put
away again, without the satisfaction of making
an entry of sale in his oash book. But what la
bor of life is there which is not often aggravat
ing and tiresome ? Is it not ail child’s play and
delightsome ease to fill a place as salesman or
woman behind a connter, much as some hard
working mechanics and laborers may think so !
And the same rule holds good quite through
the many castes of business life. Every man,
woman and child who takes any place whatever
from the highest to the lowest, in the work-a-
day world, will find very much in his labor, be
it of body or mind, or both, to fatigue or wear
out the body, nerves and spirit Snch is the re
sult of the old time curse laid upon lallen man,
who shall earn his bread only by the sweat of
his brow.’
Nor is Shopping so Easy.
Like other things, it has its delights. It is
charming even to touch and feast one’s eyes np-
on the dainty, lovely, exquisite things which
modern arts of manufacture have brought to
such perfection and placed before unwary wo
man to tempt the money from her purse. Never
before were such altogether beautiful things in
in every line which interests women shown for
selection as now. Every nation in the world
contributes of its best and choicest to fill the
great stores of our merchant princes. Every
taste may find gratification from the endless va
riety, and every possible purpose is equally re
membered. Not only are all imaginable dain
ties and necessities in wearing apparel for wo
men and children provided, (nor are the men
by any means forgotten, as witness the exquis
ite goods in men’s furnishing stores,) but in
farnishings for the house; in fancy work for
the fingers, in ever-fascinating linens and do
mestic goods generally; in books and pictures
and qnaint, lovely bric-a-brac; and in countless
other lines wbich are only aggravations even to
name—well, there may have been as many and
as tempting ways to spend money 100 years
ago, but nobody of this age coaid be made to
believe it
Shop Windows are a Blessing.
Yes, an actual blessing to those who are too
modest and too fearfnl of ‘getting themselves
disliked’ to go into the stores to examine when
they cannot purchase. Nor are the verdants
from tne country the only ones who appreciate
these splendid great windows, which form such
artistic pictures, lining our down town thor
oughfares. It is scarely to be understood why
one of onr leading dur goods houses, whose
spacious windows used to be snch marvels of
beauty and taste, should have closed them to
display of late; it is certainly a great loss to the
public. As was said above, however, shopping
is not always so easy and delightful as is sup
posed. That is, the real, genuine, practical
shopping is not. Strange and paradoxical, as
it may seem, it is just when one goes out with a
full purse to buy, that the charm is very apt to
evaporate from the occupation, leaving only a
dry, hard, and tiresome duty. This is some
thing that perhaps no man can understand—
unless, that is, he should be a Benedick, or the
nephew of some wealthy maiden aunt, whose
little commissions to‘just match this shred of
worsted or bit of cashmere for me, deary,’ he
dare not disobey. Then indeed, man may be
gin to realize some of the
Trials and Tribulations of Shopping,
of which nnquestionably the worst is this same
‘matching’ of impossible colors in articles which
bear no relation to each other. What woman has
not in hex lifetime been reduced almost to a
fainting condition in the coarse of a morning’s
tramp ftom store to store in search of a piece of
braid worth bat a few cents which will really
match her new dress ? It’s not always money
which will bay what one wants, even in dress
braid. But to fall in a match not only in braid,
bat in linings, trimmings, buttons, gloves, rib
bons, etc., etc., woald be tb fall short of the
oneness in dress which stamps her the lady she
is. It is only the slonohy woman who 'will
make anything do.’
Flying Trip to Gainesville and
New Holland Springs.
Though it is always a pleasure to date com
munications from this region of romance, I
might wish (in behalf of your readers) that my
letter related ^ some other portion of our state,
for having exhausted my eloquence npon the de
lights of North Georgia in a former communi
cation, I am, as it were, disarmed for another
picture. The state conventiou of the Young
Men's Christian Association, was the immediate
oauseof my visit to Gainesville this time,though
not the attraction altogether. Recollections of my
sojourn amid those forest shades allured me
back.
I started by the 2 o'clock train on Wednesday
last and reached my destination on ‘rapid tran
sit' schedule.
The Air-Line railway is not surpassed in the
Union for fine coaches, gentlemanly conductors
and lightning speed. Under its present excel
lent administration, it has gone ahead of all
other roads in this country,and being the quick
est and most direct rout North, its traveling
patronage has grown to immense proportions.
The Atlanta Cadets will go this way on their
Richmond excursion.
At New Holland, I found a number of visitors
from Atlanta, Athens and lower Georgia, with
a large number booked ahead. Gainesville and
New Holland, Porter and Gower springs will
lead off this summer. These are resorts which
possess every attraction for pleasure-seekers.
PERSONAL
Dr. H. H. Tucker—Chancellor of State Uni
versity—is here, en routejor Dahlonega, Col.
A. D. Adair, Mr. R. C. Clark and Col. E. Y.
Clark, with their families, are among the visi
tors from Atlanta.
Y. M. C. A.
The State Convention of the Young Men's
Christian Association convened at Gainsville
on the 26th inst., with a large delegation from
all parts of the state. Atlanta was represented
by the following delegates: Wm. A. Haygood,
Chas. G. Eckford, J. P. Field, Walter R. Brown
and A. B. Merriam. In their meeting for per
manent organization, the following officers were
chosen by ballot: J. T. Waterman, President;
H. H. Perry, 1st Vice President; J. H. Nichols,
2d X. Pres ; G. F. Gobar, 3d V. Pres.; W. R.
Brown, Treasurer.
A fraternal spirit pervaded their deliberations,
and excellent speeches were made by the various
delegates. The organization is in the hands of
young men of energy and culture, and is at
taining high prominenoe among the religious
societies of the country.
POLITICAL.
Hon. H. P. Bell is here grinding his campaign
axe with many enthusiastic constituents. Em
ory Spear may also be seen dodging from town
to town, awaking his district to the importance
of changing their congressional representative.
I hear but little of Dr. Carleton, though his
chances for nomination are thought, by many,
to be good.
SOCIETY.
Gainsville is a notably moral place. The young
men are temperate aud high-toned; the young
ladies modest and circumspect: no slang and
nothing fast. The people of this fair region are
mostly upright and industrious citizens, who
toil for an honest livelihood; and the inev
itable little spire that lises beautifully from ev
ery town and hamlet, proves their devotion to
a higher Being.
SUBROSA.
The writer would be derelict to close with
out mention of two pairs of black eyes and two
bright faces that charm the dwellers in the
Piedmont. Their joyous smiles are still in mem
ory and our heartiest toast is for the happiness
of the Misses H. and M. T.
MISCELLANEOUS.
My next letter shall relate to other regions.
I only linger on the beauties of this vicinity, be
cause they possess a wild, sweet charm for me;
the magic waters, within whose crystal drops
lurks rosy health; the enchanting scenery
and pleasant, simple society. The care
worn of all pursuits come here for rest Here
the wan face of the invalid takes on a rudyglow
and all who seek its blessings ere long turn
homeward refreshed and renewed for the strng
gle of life. E
‘A basket of champagne !’ exclaimed a coun
try dame. ‘Why, I declare, now I always thought
champagne was watery stuff, like; I never know-
ed yon could carry it in a basket.
Eyes have they but they see not—potatoes.
Ears have they but they hear not—corn stalks.
Arms have they but they hag not—windmills.
Tongues have they but they talk not—wagons.
Legs have they but they walk nQt—tables.
Heads have they but they think not—cabbages.
Hands have they but they toil not—tramps.
Cheek have they but they blush not—drum
mers. Noses have they but they smell not—
pitchers. Lips have they but they kiss not—
tulips. Teeth have they but they chew not—
buck saws. Wings have they but they fly not
—houses. Feet have they but they walk not—
verses. Fanes have they but they grumble not
—windows. Joints have thfey but they bend
not—grain stalks. Hearts have they but they
love not—trees. Diaphragms have they but
they sneeze not—shellfish. Pulse have they
but it throbs’ not—gardens. Mouths they have
but thep speak not—rivers. Knees have they
but they kneel net—ships. Scnlls have they
bnt they think not—boats. Beards have they
but they shave not—oysters. Sinews have they
but they sin not—newspaper men. Heads have
they bat they go not head first—lobsters.
Khans have they but they can not—Tartars.
Faces have they but they smile not—due bills.
Hips have they but they move not—roofs.
Nipples have they but they snckle not—percus
sion locks. Lights have they bat they breathe
not—skylights. Jaws have they but they jaw
not—vises.
Said a friend to Disraeli last week: 'You will
return from the Congress to bucreated a Duke
and marry the Queen !’ Lord Beaoonsfield
smiled and replied: 'As to the Dukedom, per-
j>s, as to the wife, no. There are several rea
sons against it, among them the prejudice of
two J. B’s.’ ‘Who are they ? asked the friend.
John Bull is one.’ . 'And the other ?’ This time
the Premier smiled without replying.
One hundred and thirty men and fifty women
in all have been arrested in the Paris Exhibition
for pocket-picking, and a band from London
have been arrested at Calais, Boulogne andi
Honfleur on their way in Paris.