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TWO WATS.
BT LILLIAN HOZELL MESSENGER.
1 ^JR ' nv S aze to the beautiful sky
t «i L 1 * 8 blue lias melted the tears away,
.Lake fleecy drifts where the moon goes by
And stars have circled the night with day.
And 1 think, how sweet is Life—to see.
Its lounts from the highest stars may run;
Or flash through t lie dark of each century.
Or sing with the lark or laugh in the sun.
My eyes looked down on the lonely earth,
Where every song had a heart of pain;
And I heard the grin of despair called mirth.
And the loss of truth and joy called gain.
And I saw that her paths most flower-strewn
Ran crookedly and were lost in strife;
And her thorny ways wete sh-rp hewn-stone—
And I wept for the mournful thing called Life,
Washington, D. C., 1878.
Mankinds Greatest Happiness*
Cupiil and Ids Arrows—What hap
peued to Them.
BY It. M. O.
Jupiter called all the gods and goddesses to
gether after he had created man and held debate
as to what would contribute to his greatest hap
pinesa. Some of the gods thought that man
kind would be satisfied with a fall stomach and
a plenty of ease, and like the brutes, enjoy that
kind of negative existence. Others thought,
that he, being superior^to the brutes in his inclil
nations and desires, would not be happy with
such a life, and that he wonld require something
more exoiting to add to his happiness.
Miheeva, in her deep and penetrating wis
dom spoke up and said: As man was blessed
with an intellect, and could by education be
come a fit associate for the gods, that he was
more than a creature of appetite and desire.
That the divine spark which he invented or
was given him by Jupiter, was to him a greater
source of pleasure when cultivated, than mere
sensual or lempoary pleasures, for as the gods
were happier in their intellectural pleasure, so
man would bo happier—when his mind has
play, and his emotional and s mtimental nature
a field in which his imagination and thoughts
might find pleasure.
What then wonld be the best of all gifts to
man; that gift in which his full nature might be
developed, and he enjoy the most intense pleas
ure, was the question ? Maiis thought that war
would arouse him, and the pleasure of victory
repay him for the toils and scars of battle.
Apollo thought he would erijiythe arls, and
science, music and poetry, Minerva, thought
a love of wisdom, and a search after knowledge
would afford him his greatest pleasure, but
Venus said, that love bad more delights than
all the others put together, for even the gods
tire of every thing save love, and that love was
intellectual and emotional, a desire, and a hope,
and the strongest of all the passions. To love
was to be happy, and she appealed to the gods
and their experience—Diana and Minerva
did not see the force of her arguments, but the
rest of the gods awarded their approbation and
assent to her assertions.
How lo make man love was then the question,
when Vulcan said he could manufacture ar
rows which would touch his heart, and arouse
him to the most intense pleasure. Apollo
wanted to know if he conld manufacture a
better or a sharper arrow than those he shet.
Vulcan said the arrow of love would be made
of different material from his and the points
so sharp that nothing could resist them.
Jupiter gave the order to have them made
and Vulcan to his forge immediately went. In
time they were made and like all the work of
that most wonderfal artificer they were perfec
tion. Venus asked that she might touch the
^points with the oil of love, so that t.rue love
might ever run smooth. She took them and
did as desired, and then gave t tern to her son
Cupid. The little urchin thin started on his
errand, and many were t te hearts he made glad.
He saw that men and women were changed
creatures as soon as they loyed. Every thought
and every art, was how to please, and man and
womenkind were as happy as the gods when in
love with each other.
It so happened on one occasion, as Cupid lay
asleep on a hot summers day in Arcadia, with
his quiver full of arrows, and his bow hanging
to a tree, Zelotypia happened to pass that
way. Sbe belonged to that class of women, who
are never so happy as when they have sown the
seeds of discord, jealousy or suspicion in the
minds of friends and lovers. Tneir tongues are
the arrows which shoot sharp words, and create
discord when there should be peace and happi
ness.
Zelotypia saw her chance and said to herself
‘Ah ! Venus I see has coated these arrows with
the sweet oil of love, and lovers will never dis
agree; no engagement will ever be broken off;
no word or look will ever create jealousy or
suspicion. Man and woman are too happy. I
will give an intensity to their feelings so great,
that as the oil of love shall cheer the heart, the
gall of jealousy shall mingle with it.’
So thinking, Zelotypia touched all of Cupid’s
arrows with the gall of jealousy. The result has
been, since that time, the more intense thblove,
so sure does j ealousy with its green eyeH and
suspicious nature also find a place iu the heart.
Cupid can bat lament the misfortune and his
unfortunate sleep. But he consoles himself,
that life, after all, must have its bitter with its
sweet, and mortals must not look for unalloyed
happiness on earth; that jealousy is really the
truo test of a deep and disinterested love, and
without it, there can be really no true love.
hiB friends in the South, and not being a bour
bon partisan, will stand by measures the best
for the greatest number. Alabama should re
joice in his success.
THE WJMAN SUFFRAGE CONVENTION
has just closed its annual session here, and wis
dom’s children cry in the streets and ask, what
did they come for ? What did they do ? What
did they go away for ?
It is remarkable that the most sensible lbaders
of the movement are so lacking in wisdom and
policy as to conduct their meetings in the man
ner they do. For instance, to savJnothiBgr of ex
ecution measures on their pi itfor n they had
but few representatives and leading ladies; not
a national man, either from the District of Co
lumbia or elsewhere, was among the speakers,
nnless Fred Donglas be termed such. He spoke,
and in fact, was the warm, high coloring* that
relieved the sombre-hues of the picture—hues
that take on colors of dispair. These ladies
shonld know that as long as they permit so ma
ny side issaes and questionable elements to
modify their work, success is afar off. They
most call legislative men to their aid, and show
the world that their wirk is cooperative and not
abnormal in any respect whatever.
If they had such a lady in their staff as
MRS. MYRA CLARK GAINES.
they would have a power that no opposition
conld resist or demolish; for altogether she is
the most remarkable American woman; with the
finest mental indowment, evenly balanced, full of
sublimest sentiment and elevated hope and as
piration for the race, she is incapable of auy-
thing abnormal. A benefaction to her sex, when
her life is written and given to the world, it. will
prove a most valuable contribution to our century
The moral faith of this nation has received a
b'ow* There is a lack of social and moral in
tegrity from this mildew blight of skepticism,
and suspicion.—
The literary and art societies are flourishing
despite the depression of the times. At Madame
Dahigren’s and Mr. Horatio King’s the most de
lightful literary and art people meet weekly for
social and mental attrition. Mrs. Fsssett and
Miss Binsom, two famous artists hold regular
recepuons,, that draw together many charming
people. Mi.-s Hansom had a large com mi si >n
from a gentleman in Florida, for portraits of the
famous el, o orial commission—8 -7 ! !
The Wastiington Art Club held a meeting in
the Corcoran Building last evening, the hour
was chiefly occupied in discussion of a proposed
bill by Congress, that would pay Mr. Corcoran
$175,000 due from Government for rentals,
winch sum be would give for tbe erection and
endowment of a school of Art in Washington.
TRUE PATRIOT.
To do radical work w» must begin with the
young. The hope of the world lies in the cra
dle. The Old Testameut prophets emphasised
this fait. The old Greek philosophers compre
hended it and acted upon it. Piato insisted on
tbe bringing together joung children from three
to six years of ape for purposes of physical and
mental training. Hence the attainment of those
excellencies soliighly prized among the Greeks.
We waste too much strength upon the gnarled
aad twisted tree of mature growth, and all the
while leave the supple twigs to bend to the blait
of untoward ciroumstauoes. Hook after th#
children !
them our fashionable girl goes to her mama or
the seamstress to mend them, for dear me, she
cai‘, sew on a butt >n decently.
My fashionable girl is engaged to be married.
What with her stylish wasp-waist, her white fin
gers, her languishing smile, she has waltzed
herself into the affections of a rather weak but
really deserving young man, who will be the
worst taken down fellow you ever saw when his
eyes are opened by that disenchanter—mar
riage. She has influenced him to spend nearly
six montbs salary already on an engagement
ring, and she pouts if he does not hire a bnggy
and take her to drive at least t wioe a week. They
are to be married in a month. Her father is
groaning over the expensive wedding and out
fit ho will have to give her and the pinching
that will have to be done afterwards in order to
make up for it. Bridget is rejoicing that
she will not have to keep breakfast hot for so
many hours waiting for the fashionable Mis*.
‘Who lies in bed in the morning
Till nearly the hour of noon
Then comes down snapping and snarling
Because she was called too soon
Her hair is still in the papers
Her die ks still daubed with paint
Remains of the last night’s blushes
Before she pretended to faint.’
When she marries, her papa will sniffle hypo
critically as he gives her a kiss,and his blessing
and mama will say ‘Bless you my treasure: how
can I give you up but iu their hearts both will
rejoice th*t they have got this useless and ex-
pensive piece of furniture off their hands and
on to somebody elsVs.
It is a higher exhibition of Christian manli
ness to he able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
Letter From Washing
ton.
To-day, Congress is called to attend the fune
ral of Mr. Gustave Schleicher, member from Tex
as' only a few days ago the same ritfs were per
formed for Mr. Hartridge, of Savannah, Ga.
This fatal and mournful draft of death on the
House of Representatives must make many feel
like shutting up shop and goiDg home. Mr.
Hartridge was especially admired and beloved
by public and private friends. But who of the
Georgia delegation is not? Mr. Stephens es
pecially has enough substantial admiration and
homage, actual homage, to divide around with
several delegations. Manifestly, Mr. Stephens
deserves every heart-throb of pride and grati
tude. Then, our two Senators, Gordon and
Hill are very popular and prominent. I have
had occasion to meet these gentlemen of Geor
gia and have found them clothed with the true
soi’rit of the famous Bayard, sans peur sans re-
proche. I can’t say this of many Representa
tives for there is a strong proclivity among the
majority to as mme a certain ‘air. Of all ‘airs
under heaven, the Congressional air is the most
amusing to one who penetrates to the^core of
facts and can, with solid sense and truth, punc
ture through their veneering to the hollowness
benealh The number of deaths among them
recently mast make the stoutest of these con-
tern piato the possibility of having to lay aside
the vanities and falsities some day. We are
grieved to hear that Mr. L. C. Gause, of Arkan-
f confined to bis bed. He is ever the refin-
ed Co I l d new independent
member from North Alabama, a noble, chival
rous* gentleman who will ever serve faithfully
and especially to American biography. Although
not working in literary fields she ranks with
the great Harriet Martineau. I find in her all the
elements of greatness that we require in the
highest sonls. The first impression she made
was that of a great and dethroned queen, with
out a queen’s despair; or, a veil’d justice going
forth, asking to be recognized that the world
might be better. She has secret power, executive
ability, and the rallying forces of nature that
remind one of the very same in Napoleon. The
sexes are close kin anyhow. This too is en
hanced by a beautiful emotional na nre, ever re
vealing and proving the pure soulfulness of
woman.
Her life has been one of the most thrilling
and interesting in our annals. I sincerely wish
Mary E. Bryan had the writing of her life.
Every lady who shall read that life, will feel
the better for being a woman, and nerved to
go forward for the advancement of her sex.
With your permission I will tell you more of
the wonderful lady another day. Her gener
osity to her foes is unparalleled in any history.
The world to-day, could it hear the truth, would
be surprised at the self-denial, self abnegation
and sublimity of deed, of life, of this little
woman now seventy one years old.
THE UNION LEAGUE OF AMERICA.
meets here on the 20th to devise ways and
means for political measures and the coming
contest. It makes the earth quake and tremble
to think of the scalps that will be taken off heads
that do not bow to Grant, in 1880. Those out
rageous Democrats had better take refuge with
the Nez Perces, before that day of wrath.
Twenty millions of dollars are to put Grant
right in, so the knowing men claim, and Mack
ey is to subscribe; one million of dollars him
self. Perhaps Kate Chase Spragne will get her
neat little gift of $30,000. from Congress and
divest it toward that great movement. Tbe bill
giving this sum,—or refunding it if you choose,
passed the Senate last winter, but has not passed
the Honse.
Mr. Conkling introduced her bill in the Sen
ate.
The $40,000 000 that got leave to sta ; in the
First National Bank of New York has created a
great stir in the political world. The Press,
and general reformer of the times continually
comment on the fearful corruption of politicians,
and officials. When the people elect good men,
men of some other vocation than the law, men
who will not be bonght and sold; then may they
expect better legislation,.wiser laws, and better
days, Not before. More than one half of our
present congress is composed of lawyers. This
shonld not be. Are there no trne, wise men
from any of life’s other taried avocations and
professions ?
I beard a chief offioial declare the other day.
that there is scarcely a law or measure that
cannot be circumvented by money. Think of it!
Alaa, to what have we come as a people of Gov
ernment, when this is forced to be admited.
Genevieve Rogers, tbe Maud Muller of the stage.
THE FASHIONABLE MISS. |
As She Really is, not as She Appears.
BY VIRGINIA ROSALIE.
My friend, Mr. Augustus Sofpate says, he
does like a fashionable girl, she's so ‘noice look
ing’.
I agree with him; she is nice looking when
she is properly befrizzed and fluted, and the re
quisite touches have been given to her complex
ion. She is nice looking, but so is a fancy mat,
lap dog, or any other useless appendage about
the house. And girls cannot afford to be use
less appendages in these earnest, stirring, press
ing times- They must cease to be like the lilies
that toil not, and live to some purpose. I a<n
gla 1 to say that girls, as a general thing, feel
this and promptly put aside the temptation to
waste thf ir young years in objectless indolence.
Bat there are still some girls who are of no use
in their homos except to spend money and make
trouble to the servants and their parents, espe
cially their poor hard worked mothers, whose
hearts they constantly wound by their selfish
exactions, their cross words and their disobe
dience and indifference. These girls appear
well in society. They are all smiles and amia
bility, they dress stylishly and are ‘noice’ look
ing in the eyes of Mr. Sofpate and his peers. I
have one of those girls in-my raiud’s eye at this
moment. She is called the best waltzer ia B.
and her foot and ankle (which she likes to show)
are pronounced the ‘neatest out’ by Mr. Sofpate
and his friends. Lot us look in upon her at
her home and see how she passes the golden
days of her youth.
She rises at ten in the morning, and is eith»r
languid and lumpish or cross and spiteful. If
anybody has out dressed her or had more beaux
than she at the party the evening before, be
sure she will be snappish enough. After eating
a breakfast that has been kept hot for her and
grumbling because the wafflos are not all right,
she seats herself in a rocking chair and reads
a sentimental novel or dawdles over a little use
less fancy work, or teases her young sister, or
reads over her love letters until it is time to
dress to recieve company, to make calls or to go
out shopping. Her evenings are spent either in
talking insipid nonsense to her beaux or in go
ing out to parties, rsceptions or the theatre.
She never thinks of going to bed under twelve,
o'clock. Her whole study is her beauty. She
has a dozen lotions for her complexion, anoints
herself, with glycerine and rose water at night
and has her drawers and toilet table littered
with lily white,rouge, Bloom of Ybuth.switohes,
frizzes and pads. Siie studies the fashion plates
for hours and worries her dress maker by insist
ing on alterations and additions. All her
dresses are made by a fashionable modiste,
whose bills are as long as the trains she puts to
the dresses that come from her hands; when
somebody steps on these a long trains and tears
Personals.
W. II. Vanderbilt invests $500,000 yearly in paint-
Probably the first instance of an Indian seek
ing a divorce is reported from Bangor, Me.,
where a red man wants to be separated from his
squaw.
The Catholic clergymen of Salem, Mass., are
denouncing the use of beer and whiskey as a
waste when so many are suffering for the neces
saries of life, and threaten public exposure of
the dealers and drinkers.
In October and November 1,200.000 bushels
of potatoes were shipped from Prince Edward’s
Island, and it is estimated that Nova Scotia seat
away as many more.
Advices from Kingston, Jamaica, state that the
Government is keeping a sharp lookout, and a
war vessel is under steam watching for a steam
er laden with arms and munitions of war, bound
for Hayti.
The President has received a memorial signed
by all the members of the California State Con
stitutional Convention, which has recently been
in session in Sacramento, asking of the Presi
dent, or the treaty-making power, snch action
as will effectually prevent the farther immigra
tion of Chinese into the American ports of the
Pacific coast.
The whaling fl set at present numbers 18G ves
sels, against 187 a year ago and 172 iu 1877.
The increase daring the past four years has re
sulted in losses to those engaged in the business,
and the average oatch on the different grounds
has been sensibly diminished.
In the Argentine Republic, emmigrants upon
arriving are landed at the public expense, board
ed and lodged for five days, assisted to procure
employment, and then sent to any part of the
country they may select for homes, at the charge
of the Government.
The orange growers of Florida are turning
their attention to the making of wine from or
anges, and several experiments have indicated a
possibility of success in that direction. The
first wine made from oranges in Spain ha i lately
made its appearance in Madrid. There are four
kinds, one sparkling, and all said to be of ‘an
attractive color, perfectly clear, of an agreeable,
sweet, slightly acid flavor, and of an alooholio
strength of about fifteen per cent’
It is more than likely that the Massachusetts
legislature will cut the salaries of officials from
twenty to sixty per cent. The governor’s salary
is to be made $4000 instead of $5000; the lieu-
tenant-governor’s $2000 instead of $2500; sala
ries of members of the council $800 instead of
$1185; the governor's secretory, $1500 instead of
$2500! members of the legislature, $450 instead
of $650.
Diptheria is raging at Vienna and in some dis
tricts of Hnngary. In one town of 20,000 sonls
2,135 cases and 927 deaths are reported.
Mr. Herbert Spencer, whese health has somewhat
improved, lias gone to the south of France.
A convention of all the teachers of Texas is called
to meet at Austin on the 28tli of this month, to sug
gest a better system of public instruction.
Mrs. Burnett, it is understood, lias written anoth
er novel, to he called ‘Louisiana’ which is to ap-
pearin Scribner’s when‘Haworths’ is finished.
In Texas Mr. Swindell has been elected to the
Legislature and Mr. Twaddle lias defaulted. Should
have been just the other way.
The Texan Legislature is asked to provide an in-
iuterpreter for Gen. Benavides, a member of the
House, so that he can understand the debates.
Pope Leo has sold his navy, the ship Immaculato
Conception, stationed at Toulon, and superannu
ated the Admiral and two captains who were on
board of her.
Daniel W. Voorhees has been re-elected United
State's Senator from Indiana. Godlove S. Orth was
the Republican nominee.
Senator Lamar proposes to devote himself ex
clusively to the question of a national quarantine
untill tbe bill passes authorizing i‘.
Wm. C. Coffin, for many years receiving Teller of
the LaFayctte Bank of Cincinnati, has absconded
leaving his cash account from $10,000 to $20,000 dol
lars short. He was accompanied by a woman, not
his wife, in his flight.
Jim Porter, a remarkable negro dwarf, died at Ev
ansville, lnd., recently, leaving his body to the doc
tors for dissection. His head was found to meas
ure twenty-five and one-half inches in circumfer
ence, his liver was twice the usual size and his
thighbone no larger than the cloud seen by the
propiiet.
Mr. Thomas R. Slielor departed tiiis life, Decem
ber 30th 1878, at his residence in Gordon County.
Ga., at seventy years of age. Mr. Slielor was a na-
tiveCarolinian, and came from Pickens District, S
C., to Georgia in 1878. He well deserved to be rank
ed among our self-made men of to-day.
Postmaster, General Key says the number of la
dies appointed to small offices, the compensation of
which range from one hundred dollars, has nearly
doubled in the past four years. iHe speaks highly
of them, and says they are e jnstant aud steady ia
their attention to business.
The Governor of Connecticut,in a recent eommu-
nication to its Legislation recommends a new ad
justment oftlie cost-bills in legal proceedings. ‘Let
them,’says he,‘be fixed in someway so that costs
shall become a spur to diligence and not a premi
um to delay.’
Hon. Jefferson Davis, in a letter on the right of in
struction, says that ‘the co-existence of liberty and
power require the direct responsibility of the repre
sentative to his constituency. This is the charac
teristic and especial merit of our political system,
State and Federal.’
| Lieut. Governor Hull, of Florida, has been indict-
I ed by the United State’s Grand Jury on a charge of
j conspiracy with others in obtaining false election
j returns in Brevard county at the last election. Hull
was the Democratic candidate for Congress at the
late election from the second District, and iiolds a
certificate of election from the Governor.
Albert Pike, the soldier-poet, who was better
known to the last generation than he is now-::-lavs
is organizing the Society of the Cactus,’ to be com
posed of Mexican war veterans, who will bequeath
the order to their male descendants.
Roscoe Cockling is reported to have been so de
lighted ever his re-election to the U. it. Semite that
he got off the following:
I wish 1 had a bafrc-1 of runl,’
And sugar three hundred pounds,
The chapel bell to mix it in,
And the clapper to stir it round;
1 d drink to the health ofOolumbia’s sons,
And her daughter’s far and near,
I or I in a lucky boy of the Empire State,
And a son of a gam holier.’
An editor with nine unmarried daughters was re
cently made justly indignant by the misconstruc
tion his contemporaries put upon his able leader
on ‘The Demand for Men.’
A St. Louis lady sues a reporter for breach! of
promise, putting her damages at $15,000 dollars. We
millionaires are never safe from the rapacious!
When an Austrian cavalryman fills and breaks
his leg during a charge he remains in hospital until
his leg is cured, and he is then sentenced to one
year’s imprisonment, with hard labor for his awk
wardness.
An interest is revived in ‘Porte Crayon’by thean-
nouncement wliicli conics from VVA.sliin^con tLuit
Mr. Hayes has determined to appoint him Cons
General to Mexico.'
STAGE NOfES.
Clara Morris is to furnish six people at the C alifor-
nia Theatre and receive sixty-five per centum of the
nightly recepts.
Mr. Joe Jefferson is reporte 1 as intending to start
in the ‘Parisian Clerk’ instead of‘Rip Van Winkle
which has been well worn. It was written for him
by Boucicauit years ago, and at one time was iu
preparation at the Holliday, Baltim ire.
The wife of Salvini, the great tragedian, is dead
She was only twenty-four and had been married but
two years, she was au English lady of good family
aud very rich.
Rose Eytinge will open at the Olympic New York
with Cyril Se .rle, iu ‘Never Too Late to Mend.’
Miss Pomeroy has improved so much as to leave
no further doubt of her recovery, [’he troupe with
which she is eounected willsoou give a performance
iu Shreveport.
Miss Annie E, Dickinson has written for John
McCullough a play called, ‘Aurelian,’ which that
actor is to bring out next April. Miss Dickinson is
to play with him, taking the first female part of
Queen Zenobia. The scenes of the play are laid iu
Rome and Palmyra.
Mrs. Agues Booth is credited with the best voice
and method for reading blank verse of any actress
in America; and she can m mage a trail gracefully
on the stage or elsewhere, which is a rare accom
plishment. She is the wifeof J. \V. Booth, who used
to act, but now keeps a hotel-
‘Talk about your theatres!’ exclaimed an eld stag
er, riding in a horse-cart,a few evenings since. ‘You
ought to have lived in the good old times wiien the
curtain rose at seveu o’clock, and they gave five
plays in one evening. Going to the theatre meant
solid enjoyment then.’ I’here was silences moment,
when in low tones was heard the remark: ‘Wonder
if he iveut out to see a man every time the cuitain
went down?’
Cyril Searle proposes to sue Kate Claxton for roy
alties which lie claims is due to him for that lady's
performance of the ‘Double Marriage.’
A Western paper is notcomplimentary to Minnie
Hauk's betrothed, Mr. Ernst Wartig. It charged
him with a meddlesom disposition, and as physical
ly and lingually equal to any quantity of theatrical
behind the scenes—tattle. This betrothed, like all
others iu similar happy relations, should be occu
pied with some business which would keep him
clear and independent of dressing-room broils.-;
The Great Diplomacy Combination is announced
as soon to come to Atlanta. From all accounts it is
one of the most stirring, effecti ve and at the same
time brilliant productions now upon the ^American
stage. Thousands of the most competent critics in
the land have so pronounced it, and if our people
desire to witness a play devoid of one single senti
ment that could possibly tinge the most modest
cheek with shame, they should see “Diplomacy.”
The impersonation of Baron Stein, by Mr. H. Reese
Davies, a former citizen of Richmond, Is said to be
a capital rendering.