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JOHS IT. SEALS. Editor and Proprietor.
Will. B. SEALS. Proprietor and Cor. Editor.
BBS. BABY E. BRYAN, (*) Associate Editor
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 23, .879.
China to the Front.—The sleepy-eyed gentle
men with thebag trowsers and the pig tails are wa
king up from their slumber of ages and coming to
the front in military matters with such evident
earnestness as to seriously frighten the Russiau
Bear and the British Lion, whose Easternlj' posses
sions they threaten to invade. China reckons its
population at nearly five hundred millions, and
from these there can easily be culled fifty or sixty
millions of fighting men, and when these are fur
nished with the modern impl“ment,s of wartare
they will be a formidable horde. And China is pro
viding itself with breechloaders, and is buildinga
powerful ironclad navy. The London Timex says
that already ten powerful iron vessels armed with
11 inch-35 ton guns have been built in English
ports to be delivered to the Chinese government. It
may be thought that the Celestials will not be good
fighters, but the Times thinks otherwise. Being fa
talists in religion they fear nothing, and will fight
till death. All they want is good drill sergeants
and competent leaders. *
Sarah Bernhardt—Her Offence Against Bor*
ality.
General Harrisons's Resolution.
A Pennsylvania lady tells that when Gen. Hav-
rison was running for the presidency, he stopped at
the old Washington House, in Chester, for dinner.
, After dinner wine was served. It was no'.iced that
the General pledged his toast in water, and one of
the gentlemen from New York in offering another
said, ‘ General, will you not favor me by drinking
a glass of wine ?” The General declined in a very
gentlemanly manner. Again he was urged to join
them in a glass of wine. This was too much. He
rose from the table, his tall form erect, and in the
most dignified manner replied: “Gentlemen, I have
Sarah, the versatile French wonder, the etherial
compound of nerves and electricity—the actress,
author, painter, sculptor and unmai ried mother of
four ehilden has been taken by the band by London
s ociety and welcomed iuto the drawing rooms of
the nobility as an honored guest, in spite of her
fourteen year old son who accompanies her and
calls her ‘ ‘Madainoiselle ma mam an” in a way the
great ladies pronounce “sweetly pretty.” The
Home Journal sneers at a London newspaper who
disclaims against this countenancing of immorality
in a woman because she is famous and wears dia
monds. and in the last number of this representative
Society Journal we see quoted, without comment,
Moncure Conway's cool condonement of the Bern
hardt’s immorality, “Sarah Bernhardt,” says Mr.
Conway, ‘is a woman of real genius. I believe her
to be a woman of heart, and that she has obeyed
her heart in these matters wherein it is said to be
more holy to obey custom.” The idea that because
a woman has genius and a “heart,” she may set
aside the laws of morality and custom at pleasure,
is a piece of sentimental sophisim as absurd as it is
dangerous. Genius with its ideal intuitions should
make a woman all the more capable of moulding her
life into a purer and finer form. When she does not
do this it is a flaw upon her art and a stain upon her
life that society should never be blind to, because
of the glamor of genius, of notoriety—of assurance
—and diamonds.
It is quite likely that the Home Journal has giv
en us the cue in regard to the sentiments of Madi
son Square on the Bernhardt question, and that if
the versatile lady visits this country, as she pro
poses to do, she will be received with open arms by
the Gothamites w ho will vie with each other in giv
ing her banquets and. bails. *
The Handsome Heart-breaker.
The handsome scamp, who often proves the ser
pent in domestic Edens is thus described by a re'
cent observer of human nature. Dark-haired and
dark-eyed, with something wonderful in the way
of a well-trimmed and gracefully curled mouscac!
standing out in glossy elegance above his lip, dress'
ed in the pink of what he conceives to be the fash
ion. low-browed, white-handed and heavy lipped
Y SOOTH
OU GO ALONG.
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Considering tL ^ e sV testator expects to be pres
ent at the openii »rn8 |s own will, or at the distri
bution of his proiinti^vf ter his demise, it seems
strange that so mJeBr Men should live penuriously,
and belittle theii* o0l ®by a thousand meannesses,
for the sole purp'y^^acquiring fortunes to leave
behind them, T/ picket of such persons is doubt
less posthumous,at 0 f. They take it for granted
that the munifbpeilajif their bequest will astonish
the world, tingnl* a *ewspapers will pay them post
mortem comi * and that they will receive a
retrospectiv^ 0 V r8 }n WQI s hip from generations
yet unborn. ( (j“dull, cold ear of death” can
not be tickle*. f tl tbary puffs, by the “resolu
tions’ of aggf^, vd b. lblic institutions, or the pious
-1 FJhjniy enriched heirs and lega
te epitaph likely to afford the
,to the “food for worms” that
tees; nor is a V-
slightest satisfa'
moulders beneavlj^g Moreover it is questionable
whether the mem ■ of the man, whose generosity
is manifested onlie f rough his executors, is much
respected by tpMecipients of bis wealth. Such
i of
men rarely die<P * enough to please their heirs.
They are considxjf®^—after their wills are made—to
refused twice to partake of the wine cup j j s often in appearance of tlie handsome scamp,
should have been sufficient; though you press the
cup to my lips, not a drop shall pa=s the portals. I
made a resolve when I started in life that I would
avoid strong drink, and I have never broken it. I
am one of a class ot seventeen young men who
graduated, and the other sixteen fill drunkards’
graves—all through the pernicious habit of social
wine drinking. I owe a’l my health, happiness and
prosperity to that resolution. Will you urge me
now?”
The Woman with the Bullet in ITer Brain.
Mrs. Caroline Florrenz, the lovely and romantic i .
Austrian lady who shot herself in Cincinnati, on
the 14th of June, because she was deserted by her
husband, with whom she had eloped from Vienna,
is at last dead. She died on the 10th of August.
Thirty grains of lead had entered her brain, after
being severed into four pieces, probably by contact
with bones. Three of these pieces, weighing nine
teen grains, were removed by surgeons, and the
woman appeared in a fair way to recoVeV. Since?
the shooting she had learned that her husband was
willing to forgive her, and then she appeared anx
ious to live: but during the last few days she sank
rapidly, dying Sunday.
The Cause of llie Brought—A Georgia Farm
er’s Views.
Mr. Ramsey, a fanner living near Athens, Ga.,
writes to the New York World that he is of the
opinion the drought which so nearly ruined our
crops this year is owing directly to the destruction
of our forest timber, and adds: “ Unless the hand
of the axman be checked. Georgia and the South
generally will become one vast desert. Our climate
will become excessively hot and cold, caused by
the destruction of timber. The cry is and ought to
be. preserve and restore. This cut and cover sys
tem will depopulate any country. Rats do not em
igrate to empty barns. Let Georgia and South
Carolina take warning. We need scientific farm
ing, deep ploughing, shallow culture, thorough
working and judicious application of fertilizers and
home made manures. TUe plant too much. Curtail
area and work better wbat lands we have cleared.
Restore them by turning under green pea-vines,
which are nutritive in potash and what food plants
need. Unless this ruthless destruction of our tim
ber be checked, such calamity as hefell some of the
European countries will be our doom. So let us
heed the warning and escape the inevitable doom.”
Speak Kindly to Him,
A farmer once saved a very poor boy from
drowning. After his restoration he said to him:
‘■What can I do for you, my boy ?’
‘Speak a kind word to me sometimes,’ replied
the boy, as the tears gushed from his eyes. ‘I ain’t
got a mother like some of them.’
A kind word ? Think of it ! That farmer had
it in his power to give the boy money, clothes,
plav things, but the poor fellow'craved nothing so
much as a kind word now and then. If the fanner
had ever so little a heart, the boy must certainly
have had the wish gratified.
A kind word ? You have many of them spoken
to vou daily, and you don't think much of their
value, but that poor boy in your village, at whom
everybody langhs, would think he had found a
treasure, if some one would speak a kind word to
him. Suppose you speak it the next time you meet
him. Then watch him and see how he looks. See
if his eyes do not brighten and his lips smile.
Kind words ! They are blessed things. Speak
them every dav.—Scatter them like sunbeams
everywhere. They please others, and they return
to bless your own heart. Kind words forever.
‘It is a curious fact that on the track of knavery
a misplaced switch will be found somewhere, and
it is sure to wreck the train.’
Show me the man who cares no more for one
place than another, and I will show you in that
person one who loves nothing but himself.
Good piciures are great teachers. A fine work
of art hanging in one's house speaks to him con
stantly in language of tender beauty that wins its
way to the heart.
Yet, though he is well favored, most male critic:
distrust and dislike him. his beauty reminding them
of the beauty of the serpent and the tiger. Indeed,
the"mere contemplation of bis-good looks is apt to put
them into a bad temper. A glance at bis debonaire
face indicates to their minds that he is likely to have
great power over women of not very much force of
character and clearness of vision: and they are
haunted by the suspicion that he will not use that
power fairly. It must be confessed that he car:
very little for purity' and the sanctities of home
He would just as soon make love to another man’s
wife as he would to a simple-minded maiden; and
if he succeeds in blasting her reputation, and ren
dering her husband miserable, there is reason to be
lieve that he feels quite proud of the feat which lie
has performed, and has the inclination to repeat it
or indulge in some other of a similar character on
the first opportunity. It is his delight to make con
quests and then to throw them on one side, ami he
seemingly feels no more concern when he discards
an old love than whejs he discards an old glove.
He is always on the lookout for his prey, and
always shin’ng and glossy.from his necktie to
his boots, and smiling. If yduare intimate with
him he will not probably, attempt to disguise
his aims from von. Indeed, lie will, in your pres
ence if vou give him the necessary encouragement,
gloat with an almost inhuman glee over the hide
ous successes w-h ch he has achieved.
He will chuckle at the fact that this little fool,
whom lie has condescended to make enamored of
him, has shed gallons of tears on his behalf, and is
now at the lowest depths of misery because he will
not have anything further to do with her; and he
will glow with self satisfaction as he pours into
vour ears a tale of some other simpleton who is so
much in love with him that she will sacrifice' her
fair name for his sake. It is matter of indifference
to him what becomes of his victims after they have
served his purpose. He calmly leaves them to go
to the devil in their own way. or to be rescued from
their honeless nlieht by social reformers and phi-
lanthopi-ts. Of the mysteries of love in its nobler
and more beautiful forms he has no knowledge, and
he does not pretend to possess any. Women, as a
class, he regards with a magnificent contempt, and
he seems to hold that thev are unworthy of any con
sideration at all, except when they happen to be
beautiful of person anil fascinating and graceful in
manner. Though he is so anxious to charm those
who please liis eyes he never wearies of railing at
the sex. collectively, and of indicating that they
are ali as bad at heart as he is himself, even though
they have indicated no disposition to do wrong in
any way. Yet the silly—and generally giddy—
creatures whom he w-orks so much mischief among
will not be warned against him. but in many in
stances prefer his attentions to those of individuals
who. if less meretriciously attractive than he, fre
quently possess a great deal more brain power, as
feeling and conscience, than has fallen to his share.
Jag superfluous o, n ;he stage, ’ and ‘when removed
to a better worldl^'ie inheritors of their substance
are filled with fie ul resignation. Sometimes a
tough old money ncabber outlives half the legatees
“remembered in liis will,’ who perhaps have died in
poverty, their lives shortened by the privations and
anxieties which atenth of the sum allotted to them
would have relieved.
It is a singular trait in the character of many in
dividuals, who spare no pains to acquire wealth for
their posterity, that they cannot, without pain be
stow a shi.M’ng even on those nearest and dearest to
them during their lifetime. To be cursed with such
a niggardly disposition is a heavy affliction. The
wisely generous^jtch man is he who gives as he goes
along. He under?tands]tbat work done by a deputy
after the death of the principal is likely enough to
be done in a siiyfuly way; he therefore distributes
his surplus we^a among those he designs to bene
fit with Ills owiSnand. < ?. instead of leaving the task
to his executors and trustees.
The Byron Scandal Again.
Some Letters Which Give Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
Theory a Death Blow.
[New York Post.]
The scandal revived some time ago by Mrs. H.
B. Stowe with reference to Lord Bvron and his
sister, has at length received wbat looks very much
like its death blow. In the number of the London
‘Academy’ for the 19th of July appears a series of
letters from t he late Lady B3 r ron to her husband's
sister, Mrs. Leigh, which date from January 16,
1S16. the day after Lady Byron left her husband's
house, to the year 1851, immediately preceding
Mrs. Leigh’s last illness. “All these letters,’ says
the London 'News,’ of the 18th of July, ‘testify to
the constant esteem and affection which Lady Ti\ —
ron entertained toward her sister-in-law. Theex-
presssions of affection they contain entirely dis
countenance the idea that the charges brought
against Mrs. Leigh alter Lady Byron’s death, and
The Demolition of the Tuileries.
said to rest on her direct personal testimony, hail
undation in fact. Writing only ten days
any foundation
aRer she had left her husband, Lady Byron ad
dresses Mrs. Leigh as ‘Mv dearest Augusta,’ and
concludes by saving, ‘Feelings must not now be in
dulged: but whenever I feel at all, it will be as
kindly as you cf uld Independently of malady, I
o*f.ot with any spirit of resent
ment, and with the sense of injury. God
bless h ; m.’ ye was at a later period a serious
dispute betv.W iady Byron and her sister-in-law;
but it arose nil rne appointment of a trustee under
Lady Byron’s settlement. Lad3- B3'ron appointed
Dr- Lushington, to whom Mrs. Leigh objected.
The rupt ire of their intimac3' of twent3 r 3'ears
elearl3' arose out of this quarrel. I11 1S51 a meet
ing was to have taken place between them at Re
igate in the presence of the late Rev. Frederick
Robertou, but it did not happen, and some months
later, when Mrs. Leigh was in her last illness, Lady
Bvron w-rote to her daughter: ‘Whisper to her
from me the words, ‘Dearest Augusta.’ I can’t
think the3" would hurt her;’ and added a postcript
that she was at Esher till Wednesda3', and if she
wa- wanted the3' were not to hesitate to send for
her. The whole of this interesting correspondence,
which throws new light on the relations of Lady
Byron to her sister-in-law in the years after the
separation from her husband, is entirely inconsis
tent with the theory Mrs. Stowe has promulgated
as to the causes of that separation. Evany reader
of the letters will agree with Mr. Thompson that
if the words have am- meaning ‘they dispose of the
whole calumny and banish it into the regions of
after-thought.’
The French Chamber of Deputies has decreed
the demolition of the Palace of the Tuileries, the
ancient and modern habitation of the monarchs
of that country, which was destroyed, nil except
its walls, by the Communists in May, 1871. The
vote in the Chamber was such a decisive one
that it may be assumed for certain that this
palace will soon disappear, and the ground oc
cupied by it be added to the Tuileries Gardens,
which already comprise fifty acres. By this
change the Place du Carrousel will be united to
the de la Concorde, and the west front of the
Louvre will have an uninterrupted and unrival
ed vista of plaza, park and garden, such as is
presented in no other city in the world. The
Tuileries has a strange and not very savory his
tory. It was built—or the present bniiding was
begun, rather—bv Catharine de Medici, the able
»Dd venomous wife of Henry II, who so long
ruled the destinies of France to evil. Strong-
minded woman as she was, the crimes hatched
and done in the Lonvre seemed to make the at
mosphere of that palace siokening to her. That
old palace was begnn, according to Soint Foix,
by Dagobert, who kept his horses and bounds
in it. It was made a State prison by Philip
Augnsius and a palace by Charles Y. and Francis
I. It was from one of the windows of the Louvre
that Charles IX. son of Catharine, fired upon
the Hugnenots. There are legends that Charles
V. oegan the building of the Tuileries (which
derives its name from the lot upon which it is
built having been originally a brick-yard or tile
yard—tuilerie), but it seems certain that the old
est part of the building whose ruins still remain
— the centre Pavillion de l’horloge —was erected
by Catharine de Medici in 1504 She also add
ed the adjoining wings and their pavillions, and
lived in the new palace until death put an end
to her plols and conspiracies. Henry IV next
occupied the palace and enlarged it by extend
ing both wiDgs. It was a favorite palace of the
French monarchs thenceforward until Louis
XIV, piqued at the wars of the Fronde and the
questionable obeisance which the volatile Paris
ians paid to his maxim, “L’Etat e'est moi,” re
moved the court to Versailles. This was in 1072
and after the Grande Monarche had completed
the gallery, begnn by his father, connecting the
palace with the Louvre Louis XIY also got
Mansard to improve the dome of the Pavillion
de l'horloge in his characteristic style, but he
would not live in the place, and it was notag in
occupied by a French King until 1789. when the
populace of Paris marched out to Verstri'l°s and
compelled Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to
remove thither. On the memorable August 10th.
1792, this fame populace, tired of their puppet
king and the hated “Austrian woman,” his wife,
stormed the building, massacred the Swiss
guard, and removed “Louis Capet” and his wife
to prison. Napoleon, as soon fs he became first
consul, moved into the Tuileries and made it
his imperial palace. He also began the Dorth
gallery, along the Rue de Rivoli. which was
completed in 18C7 by Napoleon the Third. This
addition made a connected pile of the Tuileries
and the Lonvre, with the Place de Carrousel for
its quadrangle, one of the largest and most mag
nificent palaces in Enrope. Engravings have
made every one familiar with the front of the
Tuileries, facing the gardens. The interior was
unrivaled in elaboration, and the palace contain
ed so many rooms that it used to be said the at
tendants never could tell how many persors
were surreptitiously harbored there. The old
palace has ever been obnoxions to the French
Democracy, who sacked it in 1890 and again iD
1848, and burned it finally in 1871. There were
many ominous shakings of the head when Louis
Napoleon moved thither from the Palace of the
Ely see in 1852. In 1871 the petrolenrs ihorough-
ly saturated the building with coal oi?Aput ex
plosives in its cellars, and fired it in a hundred
places. It was burnt out effectively, and a part
also of the galleries connecting it with. Lou
vre. The garden, which was destroyed at the
same time, has been restored, bnt the populace
would never permit the restoration of the palace,
the walls and foundations of which are now to
be raz»d in order to increase the breathing room
of the Parisians.
So Nice at Long Branrh,.—Miss Sallie Brock
the Southern authoress, resident for years past in
New York, has bidden adieu to the brick and mor
tar of Gotham, and is luxuriating among the bil
lows and breezes of Long Branch to which she in
dites a raphsody that finds its way into the print of
the Home Journal. The way she sings of the “gay-
bannered barges,” the “tumble and toss” among the
foam-fringed waves
“That lick the white sands at Long Branch” is
tantalizing to Stay-al-homes. Bat what does Miss
Sallie mean by exclliming so raptueously, Oh!
tlie walks and the talks at Long Branch, Oh!
the soft-whispered vows at Long Bracch.” It
sounds suspiciously.
THE KNIGHTS OF JERICHO.
Near Powder Springs.
Editor Sunni/ South:—Your interest in all Tem
perance movements from 3'our youth, shall serve
as my apology for asking space in your valuable
and justly named journal, for the purpose of givs
ingsome temperance items connected with this
place, and the good people of this section.
The Grand Lodge Knights of Jericho of the State
of Georgia convened yesterday morning in the
Hall of Stonewall Lodge K. of J., and was called to
order by Sir Knight Grand chief F. M. Springer
and proceeded to business. The minutes of the last
annual meeting were read by Sir Knight Grand
Secretary R. P. Zimmerman, and adopted. A com
mittee on credentials was appointed, made their re
port, names of delegates enrolled, and the Grand
body, was ih r. by fully organized and in working
order. The Lodge then adjourned for dinner The
ladies were out in full force of course, as thev are
alw ays in the right place on such occasions with
baskets, boxes, etc., which were opened and the
contents spread before an appreciative crowd who
were ready to do justice to just such a dinner as vou
can imagine was before them. I wish you had
been there, for I know you are fond of joining in
on such an occasion. The kind and courteou“at-
tentions of this sober, thrifty, and happy people
made us feel that they were glad to have us with
them. Alter this sumptuous dinner, the Lodo-e
was called to order, and proceeded to business A
more harmonious meeting was never seen. Strange
to tell, we did nod have a single “Big Ike” in the
bod3. A ou know tins animal is often seen in con
vocations of this sort, but there was no room for
him heie. Aftei an effecti ve afternoons work we
were assigned to “homes,” and carried to ju-t such
homes as can only be found where peonie lire in
stead of enduring an existence, as thedenisens of
cities and towns do, surrounded by squalid pover
ty, and enveloped in fumes which rise from gutters
sewers, cess-poo's. and last, from those illuminated
splendidly fitted up dens, tilled with liquid hell,
fire. Oh, that this monster could be banished for-’
ever from the world, then the cities could be made
places of prosperity, virtue and happiness. But
alas! ala-, a 3 aw .'ling perdition will continue to en
gulf that class, vvhoni God , in His holy word, says
shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven.
At Sj 2 o'clock, P. M., we assembled at the Hall,
as announced, for the purpose of having a Public
meeting. File Hall was filled b3'earnest temper
ance workers, G. U. Springer, Presiding, who sta-
ted the object ot the meeting. After which Bro.
H. A. Smith was called for who made a short but
pointed speech; Bro. C. G. Ward was called 011
next and made a telling speech, in which he ur-ed
temperance workers to arouse from their slumbers
and labor earnestly for the cause. According to
previous announcement, Grand Secretary if P
Zimmerman appeared before the audience, and for
about 35 minutes, had the close attention of the as
semblage, urging temperance in all things and
portray iiijs th© power of man s iniluence upon man
foi good 01 foi e\ il. All together, I regard the ef
fort of this Knight a splen i d success.
In the morning the Lodge met and opened as
usual, and proceeded to elect the grand officers for
the ensuing 3-ear, which I give below;
F. M. Springer, of Griffin, Ga., Sir Knt Grand
Chief.
John M. Hewett, Lost Mt. Sir Knt Grand Vice
Chief.
R. P. Zimmerman, Atlanta, Sir Kt. Grand Sec.
and Treas.
W. L. Banks. Atlanta, Sir Kt. Grand Chaplain.
John N.. McEtacheru, Lost Mt. Sir Kt. Grand
Marshal.
R. J. Mnble. Sunn3' Side, Sir Kt. Grand Guard.
J. A. Hunter, Lost .Mt., Sir Kt. Grand Past Chief."
After the installation of the officers, the Lodge
with her new officers in the chairs, finished the re-
I maining business of the session, and closed, and all
Fashionable Weddings.
BY JIBS. E. A. BROYLES.
A BRAVE LITTLE WOMAN.
The Atlanta Female Institute.—We Invite
special attention to Mrs. Ballard’s’announcement
in this issue. She has achieved wonderful success
in establishing an institution of a high order and
thepatronage is steadily increasing. Let parents
read her advertisement.
Commercial Hotel at Nashville—We can
speak from personal knowledge in the highest
terms of this house. It has been lately repaired and
furnished with an outfit of new furniture, carpets,
ware, etc... and is now under the management of
first-class hotel men. The dining room and cooking
department is under the management of Col. Matt
Brown and lady. The office is in charge of Wm. A.
DeBow, late of Gallatin. Tenn.; Win. H. Baird, late
of Lebanon, Tenn., and all under the direction and
control ofS. M. Jones, proprietor, formerly of the
Old City Hotel, of Nashville, and late of the Wor
sham House, Memphis, Tenn. Dont. fail to give
this house a trial when you visit Nashville,
She Follows her Husband From Atlanta, Georgia,
to Fort Assinniboine, Montana And Pre
vails Upon Railroad and Steam
boat Men to Pass Her Free.
How few realize that the strata of love and
hate lie so close together that it takes bat little to
bring the latter uppermost, when under pressure
of unkindness or injustice.
H e smile at the ignorance of the savage who
cuts down the tree in order to reach the fruits;
but the fact is that a blunder ot this description is
made by every person who is over eager and impa
tient inthe pursuit of pleasure.
You are more sure of success in the end if you
regard yourself as a man of ordinary talent, with
plenty of hard work before you, than if you think
vourself a man of genius, and spend too much time
in watching your hair grow long, that you may
convince people that you are not like other folk.
The Jackson Combination.—We are pleased
to learn from our friend and former townsman,
Capt. Jackson, of Cincinnati, Ohio, that he will
bring a splendid theatrical company through the
South in the early fail, and give all our theatre
goers somethiug elegant inthe line of legitimate
drama. He is now in charge of Wood’s Theatre, in
Cincinnati, and the press of that city speaks in high
terms of his management. He will nave a number
of first-class stars in^ liis grand combination and
will have no difficulty under his splendid manage
ment, In drawing fine houses. He will visit all the
leading.Southern cities.
[Sioux City Journal.]
A correspondent from the upper Indian county
sends us the following item of interest: A young
hoy, iS years of age, a member of the Eighteenth
Infrantry band, and a son of the leader of the band,
became enamored of a 3-oung lady early last Win
ter, while the band was posted at Atlanta, Georgia.
The young lady was sweet sixteen, and it was a
case of love at first sight. After a brief engage
ment they were married. Soon after the regiment
was ordered to Fort Assinniboine, Montana. The
soldiers got ready to depart, and the young lady
also prepared to accompany them- and not until
the last moment did the young married couple
learn that no provision had been made for taking
the young lady along. She had to remain behind,
in spite of protestations and tears, and to the infi
nite disgust of the boy husband. It was then ar
ranged that he should send for her just as soon as
he got fairly settled in his new quarters.
But the little Lady had other intentions. She
didn’t propose to rest on downy cushions in Geor
gia while her new found husband was blowing a
horn way out in the wilds of Montana. Not any.
So as soon as the regiment departed sue procured a
pass to Cincinnati. There she succeeded in getting
one to Chicago. At Chicago she presented herself
to Gen. R. Ingalls, Quartermaster—General, and
stated her case to him and at once aroused his sym
pathies. He gave her letters to railroad officials
by which she got to St. Paul. There she intervie wd
the officials of the Northern Pacific and captured a
pass to Bismarck. At Biafnarck she paid her re
spects to the managers of the Coulson line and se
cured passage to Coal Banks and from thence to
Fort Assinniboine, and without warning or notifi
cation, dropped down upon her boy husband at the
fort U r ncn’f it- o n■***. monfinff i WaX\ Tinw mil nan
People who cannot heartily love and hate will
never command the first or know the clearing in
fluence of the latter.
If the loved ones could come back to earth long
enough to be forgiven, it would relieve many a re
morseful heart.
The object of all ambition should be to be happy
at home. If we are not happy there we cannot be
happy elsewhere.
— Wasn’t it a n meeting ? Well, now, you can
well imagine that w 'was better than strawberries
and ice cream. A t * wasn’t she a jewel of a baby
wife for pluck, endurrance, determination ana
love. She is described as being a very pretty lady,
of medium size, with dark hair and eyes, a good
talker, but withal a modest, well-behaved little
lady, who made the trip of 4,000 miles without
danger, although not without fear.
Two gifts are offered to men in this world; they
very seldom can have both. One is success with
weariness; the other failure, with hope. The last
is much the best. The man who succeeds finds
that his success does not amount to a great deal;
the man who fails, but keeps his hope, is a happy
man.
1 that she is educating her
Mrs. Lucy Hooper denii
m .. . , . daughter for the stage.
Tears are the gift which love bestows upon the _
absent, and they will avail to keep the heart from Henry Crisp and W. S. Gilbert have been engaged
auffocation. I to support Ada Cavendish.
The most whimsical of despots, fashion and style
rule the world. When icy winter reigns supreme’
with its chilling blasts and drifting snows, when the
fountains are congealed, and the eartli itself frozen,
the frail, hot-liouse belle adorns herself in airv gos
samers, shouhlei s and arms minus even this flimsy
pretense of covering, and spends the long artic-like
nights in pleasure’s senseless pursuits.
In the torrid da>-s of the summer solstice, when
the fier3' breath of the sun’s fierce rays parches the
dr3- earth, burning out the very germ of life in the
spring’s tender nurselings, the spiritnelle ‘blushing
bride’ a submissive slave to fashion’s latest edicts
clothed in solid colored suffocating silks, parades
the glaring, dusty- streets, at the noontide heat, and
with her fair parterre of lovel3- attendants treads
the flower-strewn isle of the Temple of God, where
marriage bells, horseshoes and colossal monoorants
of the presutnptious pair, deck chancel and church.
Presumptious, we say, for are not these I10I3-
sanctuaries sdemnly dedicated to Deitv-? Is it
then meet or proper that the insignificant mono
grams of purse-proud mortals, and their fanciful or
superstitious designs, albeit wrought with mortali
ty’s purest emblems, sweet flowers, should dese
crate these hallowed walls? Earth holds no fitter
shrine than these sacred precints, at which to re
cord the solemn vows of matrimony, alas, too often
repeatd with thoughtless levity, but that these con
secrated naves should be garlanded to honor any-
save the Divine Being to whom they were raised
we humbly believe to be impious irreverence! ’
After the joyous paean of the wedding march has
sank into the sweetest of dying cadences, returning
home from fashion’s triumphant ovation at Deity's
shrine, another conquest, almost as precious to pam
pered pride awaits the mated pair. An ostenta
tious array of bridal presents, with the donor’s cards
attached, is paradingly displayed for the admiring
guests 4 inspection. Even the wearing apparel of
the modest (?) bride is exposed, that the news re
porter may *interview’ its minutae and publish
abroad its Parisian magnificence! We blush to re-
cord this unwomanly innovation of the decorous re
serve of our chaste mothers.
Would these anticipated, and consequently com
pulsory gifts, could unfold their unwritten h ; story
to condemn this hy-pocntical and oppressive cere
monial. The revelation would often startle the
bride’s dreamy felicity, and stifle the guests’ secret
covetousness. If Edison could only make his pho
nograph record thoughts as wonderfully as they do
words, what complimentary!presents they would
prove for these festive occasions! Could the bride
foresee her small patrimony sacrificed in payment'
of the soltaires presented by the stylish grooms
could she know how reluctantly, nay, grudgingly
that silver-frosted casket was purchased by a par
simonious groomsman; could she see the unsupplied
wants that oppress the household, from whence
came that exquisitely designed ice cream ladle—how
the children were shoeless, and the wife had long
absented herself from church, destitute of decent
apparel—their costly glitter would chill her proud
heart!
We are a young nation and the calamities of a
cruelly devastating war, have bequeathed us an in
heritance of galling poverty, and if we would
break the bonds that bind us to adversity, we must
return to the simple ways and wants of our pion
eering ancestry. These showy, shoddy weddings
aping patrician extravagance, in our country’s
bankrupt condition, are suicidal mockeries.
the delegates left for their respective homes, deter
mined to labor in the cause of tempeiance while
the3 _ live on this earth. A Worker.
Cobb Co., Ga., August 7th 1879.
American Humor A New Edition of Major Jones.
Courtship.
The lovers of genuine American humor will be
pleased to learn that Messrs. T. B. Peterson &
Brother, the well known Philadelphia publishers
have in press and will shortly issue a new and en
larged edition of ’Major Jones’ Courtship,’ a work
that has been universally accorded the reputation
of being one ot the very best humorous books of
the century, as since its publication, more than
thirty years ago, it has held a position at the head
of Peterson’s Humorous Library and has passed
through numerous editious, having had a larger
sale than other American book of its class, While
other books of humor, many of greater pretensions
have had transient popularit3- and passed into
oblivion, the quaint narration of the Georgia ru -
tic’s courtship is as fresh to-day and as
with the present generation of readers asV was
with those who fiast welcomed it to the world of
letters over a quarter of a century ago.
This fact, a most practical evidence of its endu
ring popularity, has induced the Messrs. Peter
son to effect arrangements with its accomplished
author (our worthy and veteran senior) for the
publication of a new, revised and improved edition
embracing new matter, and beautifully illustrated
with twent3'-one full page engravings. When it
is considered that this edition has had the careful
revision of the author, will be rendered most
attractive b3' additional scenes and incidents and
will be printed from new plates, on fine paper it
is reasonable to predict for it an almost unprece
dented sale, surpassing that which greeted its ap
pearance. The new edition will be a handsome
volume, comprising about 300 pages, and will be
bound in cloth and paper. In the latter form the
price wi" be only seventy-five cents.— Sav Mor
News.
DRAMATIC NOTES.
We are told by a Boston manager that Mrs, D. P
Bowers is America’s greatest tragedienne. ' ’
Venie CUncey was the recipient of a large and
handsome stand of flowers in Philadelphia one
night last week.
Wambold. the negro minstrel, who has been re
ported to be dying of consumption, says he has
never enjoyed better health.
Rose Eytinge will appear at the Adelphi Theatre,
London, late in the fall in “The Woman of the
People.” Oliver Twist,” and possibly “Cleopatra.”
Sothern has offered Lizzie Harold $75 a week to
travel with him, which may possibly lead to her
cancelling her California engagement.
During P. S. Chanfrau’s coming engagement at
the Boston Theatre, he will probably bring out a
new comedy on New England life, written for him
by a New York lawyer.
An effort will be made in Chicago without delav
to put a stop to Sunday theatricals.
Mrs. Oates has found it qnite difficult to organize
her company for the coming season.
Another immense company of minstrels is to take
the road. This time it numbers seventy-live per
formers, and is called The Alien, Delehanty and
Hen&ler Mammoth Minstrels. y and
Mrs. Edward Price will resume her maiden name
of Katie Baker. Mr. Price consented to have the
divorce decree go against him, and pay his wife a
sum cash down as alimony, as well as a regular in-
IZl^an^lo« e s. W ° U,d make th ° 8UU CleaD,y l “